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Prepared for Adam P. | Delivered July 16, 2020
UK Food & Calorie Logging Mobile Apps
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Goals
Identify the best mobile applications available in the United Kingdom for logging food and counting calories in order to better understand the landscape of food logging applications and the data sources these apps used to fuel user experiences.
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Early Findings
Most Recommended & Downloaded Apps
According to various
articles
from UK
publications
, the most
recommended
mobile apps for food/calorie counting in the UK are as follows:
1) MyFitnessPal (avg. UK user rating:
4.71, 80.13%
5 stars, 220,310 total ratings)
2) Calorie Counter by MyNetDiary — (avg. UK user rating:
4.71, 80.11%
5 stars, 1,981 total ratings)
3) Calorie Counter+ by MyNetDiary — (avg. UK user rating:
4.69, 81.66%
5 stars, 4,177 total ratings)
The most downloaded digital health apps in the UK by percentage are fitness apps (
30.9
%), medical reference apps (
16.6
%), wellness apps (
15.5
%), and nutrition apps (
7.4
%).
Mobile apps for diet and physical activity tracking are available to approximately
70
% of the UK population.
Reasons for Top Apps
Deloitte
indicates that the most notable features that convince users in the UK to use a health app regularly include:
Reassurance that the app provides trustworthy, accurate information:
69
%
Apps that are easy to use, simple, and well-designed:
66
%
Apps that can guarantee personal data is secure:
62
%
Apps that are free of charge:
56
%
Apps that do not have advertisements:
51
%
Apps that work effectively and consistently over time:
44
%
Apps that are inexpensive and/or provide value for money:
28
%
Apps that permit users to network with people that are important to themselves:
26
%
MyFitnessPal
MyFitnessPal utilizes data that is both
publicly published and user-inputted
to fill their food database.
The app also contains calorie and nutrition data on food from over
500,000
restaurants.
Recipes and their respective nutrition info is typically
uploaded by users
using the ingredients in the recipe, or website links.
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