Tracknburn Has Improved In Performance And Some User Interface Control
January 30, 2011
Tracknburn is an app thoroughly designed to help track the four main categories of weight loss and general fitness. Despite the app already having a lot of features to offer, Healthy U Technologies has tweaked the user interface a bit, adding and changing some options for easier access, and improved some performance aspects significantly.
Tracknburn v2.1 improvements include:
• Super fast food search. Big change.
• Date picker for entry and history
• Improved performance and stability
• Tutorial overlays
• Custom food entry easier
• Minor bug fixes from 2.0 and earlier
• Fixed speed of custom foods, favorites, and meals
• Weekly food updates for registered users
Let’s begin with the “Track,” or food consumption tracking. The app tracks calories, fat, sodium, sugar, and much more. You can choose from basic food combinations, specify a full meal worth of food items, choose from restaurant offerings, and quickly access recent and favorite foods for even quicker input.
At the top, you’ll get calculations for how much you’ve consumed to how much you’ve ‘burned’ and find the remaining calories you’d be allowed to eat the remainder of the day. Want to do the super calories, carb, etc counting? Tap on the flame icon that says “Tap here for more info.” That additional information is a standard “nutrition facts” breakdown of all the food you racked up thus far that day.
The “Burn,” or exercise section, includes categories for sports, strength training, aerobics, and custom entry. Aerobics includes a quite vast range of activities, from actual aerobics to bathing your pet to jogging to “jump rope” to washing your car. Strength training and sports include their own wide range of activities. There are over 620 activities and I couldn’t even imagine how many food products to choose from, plus custom entry is available.
You can access the new help overlay by tapping on the new information toolbar (marked with the inconspicuous "i" symbol) in the at the top of the screen. Tap anywhere on the overlay to hide it.
Tracknburn is designed for iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 3.2 or later, and available in the App Store for $2.99.