The premise
Most training advice is delivered as a conclusion. We would rather show the arithmetic, because the arithmetic is usually simple and the assumptions inside it are where all the disagreement actually lives.
The same applies to software. A calorie tracker is a measuring instrument, and an instrument whose only calibration certificate was written by its manufacturer is not calibrated. That sentence is most of our editorial position.
What this is not
Not a buying guide, and not an app directory. We publish a review when an app changes a number we were already tracking, and we do not publish roundups of fifty things nobody here has opened.
Nobody on this desk is a dietitian or a physician. Where the question is clinical, the right answer is a clinician, and we will say so rather than pretending otherwise.
Who writes here
Tessa Lindqvist
Contributing writer, nutrition
Writes about intake, adherence and what the self-monitoring literature actually supports. Weighs her own food, which is why she is sceptical of estimates — including the good ones.
Caleb Ostrowski
Editor
Coaches lifters and writes the arithmetic down. Nine years of client logs, most of them unglamorous. Buys every app on this site at retail and cancels most of them. No affiliate links anywhere on this desk.