Expert Guide To Make A Calorie Counter Ios App

By Author: Johan Smith
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According to many studies, 35-45% of respondents aged between 18-29 regularly used apps to track their calories and as well as nutrition. In Australia, 58% of smartphone users have downloaded a health-related app. The total market value of fitness app reach 197 million US dollar and the revenue growth is expected to reach 225 million US dollar by 2023. So, this is the high time to deepen your knowledge about a particular type of fitness application – diet and nutrition apps.
 
There are many iOS apps are present in the App Store and they cater to different target audiences and hence have different functionality and feature sets. Below given some of them.
 
 

Meal Planning: This type of iOS app helps users track calories even before they eat. 

Calorie Counter: The main objective of this popular app to measure calories consumed and burned by the user in a day.

Marketplace: This type of apps connects users with diet coaches to provide them ...
... with personalised recommendations and nutrition tips.

Special Diet App: Particularly, this type of app is user-specific or user-centric, e.g. pregnancy nutrition app or diabetes monitoring app.

Diet Betting App:  This kind of Nutrition app is very interesting. In this case, a person bets a certain amount of money that they’ll lose a certain amount of weight within a certain amount of time. If found that, they achieve their goal right on time, they get their money back.

 
 
Now, let’s see what the core features of a nutrition app must offer to meet the needs of most customers. 



 

User registration and login page with mandatory physical information: The first and foremost objective of a diet app should be to gather and analyse user data: age, weight, food preferences, preferred diet, allergies, goals, level of activity, and so on.

Dashboard and Food Register: A well-catered diet and nutrition app should consist of a huge food dictionary, a diary, and some input fields. You need to think through ingredients that should be available offline. 

 
 
The app should be equipped with a beautifully and systematically designed dashboard that contains the most important information about the user’s progress and useful nutrition tips.
 
 

Push Notification: Push notification can motivate users to keep going by sending calls to action or information about current goals. It can show your concern for each user, reminding them about meals and other things as well. 

Fitness Trackers Integration:  As we discussed earlier in this article, it’s so important to add fitness tracker support, especially when the primary goal of your iOS app is to count calories. With this support, information about some types of activities (jogging, cycling, etc.) can be added automatically. 

Help:  Make your app onboarding process simple. You may include beautifully animated tutorials to help users quickly figure out how your app works.

 
With the help of recognised iOS app development company, you have to include some basic features as mentioned above. Apart from these, you may include some additional features. Below given some of them:

Dietary recommendations

Healthy food search

Strong community

Recipe book

Shopping list

 
 
Conclusion: 
Hope you can understand what features you need to include in your iOS app. But before going for the development process, keep in mind that People don’t want to waste their precious time entering data about the food they’ve eaten. So, you also have to create the easiest possible way to log meals. To do more with your app idea, you have to consult with a recognised iOS app development company. They can guide you through their proven experience-driven planning and solution.
 
Johan Smith, with yearslong proven experience in the field of iOS app development, is gaining immense popularity and also known as an expert technical speaker. Presently he is working with GetAprogrammer, a leading iOS app development company in Australia, delivers top-notch quality and unique iOS apps for ROI drive and revenue generation.