MacFormat UK – September 2019

Never forget your shopping list

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alory keeps track

of your calorie

intake. It uses

age, height and weight to

calculate a daily calorie

target based on your weight

loss or gain goals, and you

then enter your calorie

intake into the app to

monitor your progress.

You can do that on iPad,

iPhone or Apple Watch; the

app supports Siri Shortcuts

and can send and receive

data to and from Apple

Health. It provides a range

of feedback tools including

daily, weekly, monthly and

annual reports.

Free (Premium from £13.49) FROM Funn Media, calory.app

NEEDS iOS 11 or later

Free (Premium £7.49) FROM Conrad Stoll,

conradstoll.com NEEDS iOS 11 or later

VERDICT

Calory is an effective

calorie tracker, but it’s

basic against rivals.

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Apple Health

integration

Subscription required

for premium features

VERDICT

Originally Calory was

£2.99. The basic app is now

free, but the developer has

since introduced premium

features – such as barcode

scanning for food logging,

a large database of branded

foods, a Today widget and

custom reminders – that

require a subscription from

£13.49/year. That’s cheaper

Calory

A simple way to track calories

than MyFitnessPal, but that

service offers more detailed

reporting, fitness tracker

and fitness app integration.

It also puts Calory head to

head with other big hitters

such as Calorie Counter+,

Lose It! and Cron-o-meter.

In that company Calory feels

a little, ahem, lightweight.

CARRIE MARSHALL

Grocery 2.0

iOS software APPLE CHOICE

The main screen shows how close

you are to today’s calorie target.

The food database is smaller than

many other rival apps.

Create recipes and keep all the

ingredients together in a group.

Lists are shop-based, and you can

be reminded of a list on arrival.

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with Reminders. The app

also uses Reminders’

geofencing tools, so you can

set the location of a shop in

Grocery, and be reminded of

your list when you get there.

Lists are shop-based, and

Grocery remembers what

you add to a list and uses that

to make suggestions. If you

prefer to keep apps separate,

and don’t allow Grocery

access to Reminders, you

won’t get the syncing or

geofencing benefits.

We found Grocery tricky

to navigate. Adding and

checking off items is fine, but

adding a new shop is clumsy.

If the idea of a dedicated

grocery list app appeals, give

Grocery a try but, for many,

Reminders itself is fine.

KENNY HEMPHILL

T

his grocery-

dedicated list app

now has a Recipes

section that allows you to

create recipes and store

ingredients. Recipes don’t

have to be recipes – you

could create a group of items

for your weekly shop, and

add them to a list in one go.

There’s a timer to help you

keep track as you cook, and

an Apple Watch app so you

can check off items on a list.

Grocery is closely tied

to Reminders. If you allow

access, when you create a

Store or add an item to a list

in Grocery, it syncs your list

Solid new features;

not quite enough

beyond Reminders

to justify using it.

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Geofencing

reminders for lists

Navigating app

can be confusing