Guides
We make TrackAI, and we say where something else is the better pick. Every guide is dated.
- Alternatives to Cal AI, MyFitnessPal, Yazio, Lose It! and Lifesum Thinking about switching calorie apps? What you keep and what you lose when you move from each popular app to TrackAI, and how to bring your history with you. · 3 min read
- How Accurate Are Photo Calorie Counting Apps? What an AI can and cannot see in a photo of your meal, where the errors come from, and five habits that make photo logging accurate enough to lose weight with. · 2 min read
- How Many Calories and How Much Protein to Build Muscle Set a small calorie surplus, eat enough protein and watch the weekly trend. The formula, a worked example and how to track it without turning meals into maths. · 2 min read
- How to Calculate a Calorie Deficit (the Formula Apps Use) Work out your maintenance calories with Mifflin-St Jeor, pick a safe weekly pace, turn it into a daily deficit and set protein first. With a worked example and the numbers TrackAI uses. · 3 min read
- How to Track Macros for Home-Cooked Meals Home cooking is the hardest thing to log. Four ways to do it, from a quick photo to describing the whole pot, and the one ingredient that throws most logs off. · 2 min read
- The Best AI Calorie Counter Apps for iPhone in 2026 Cal AI, MyFitnessPal, Lose It!, Yazio, Lifesum, Foodvisor, SnapCalorie and TrackAI compared: how each one logs a meal, what it charges and which to pick. · 4 min read