By far the biggest reason that I only use Cronometer in spurts averaging about half of all days is because, even though most of my foods are in Favorites, I defer entering servings into the app at the start of the day until I'm too far behind on a day to recall everything. Everything else involved feels faster and easier than actually entering the servings into the app.

I usually don't log my food until mid day, after I have already eaten multiple items. Having to add each food item one at a time, and then have to re-find each item is tedious, especially since the list reorders every time with the last added item at the top of the list.

For example, if I set my macro targets for carbs to be 35% of calories per day, I'd like to see how I'm progressing toward that throughout the day. The current view option at the top of a diary page shows % consumed for each macro independently (i.e. I am at 90% of my daily carb target) but I would like to see it show as a % of total calorie target - so it would show, say, 32%, so I could more easily tell how far off I am from my 35% target.

This breakdown is kind of shown in the daily summary (see screenshot) - although it would be even more helpful if the % target was listed there as well so I can see how far off I am from each macro target - but it is not an option for the day's diary view.

Recommendation, putting a bar on the chart labeled with your current goal total, and a toggle-able feature to adjust the calories consumed to reflect extra calories burned/earned.

Same thing when I want to add a food to the diary - an example:
1. I enter "olive oil" into the search form
2. A lot of entries with good data source (NCCDB) appear
3. I select several from the list to compare nutrition info (macros), but most of them default to different serving sizes. 1g, then 13g, then 14g, then 1/2 spray, ...
4. It is not easy to quickly compare the products. I have to manually select e.g. 100g for every single product

It would be better if all products default to the same weight. I might not be as important for the olive oil example since the macros are very similar.

This could add foods directly to the Uncategorized section to be sorted later. A toggle to allow Cronometer to select previous matches automatically would also be useful in this to reduce human input.

When on the go this would make logging foods quicker and more efficient.

As an optional second change a batch scanning mode that would scan, let you choose from the matching results, then returns to the barcode scanner.

It's pretty simple arithmetic and the ratios are fixed so it seems like that could be baked into the app. The function exists in other apps I've used so I know the option exists. It's annoying to have to use another app to do the math on converting from fluid ounces to milliliters or whatever just to enter the portion size accurately. This would be a HUGE quality of life improvement.

Below illustrates what this feature would entail

Suppose I buy a Jar of Chili sauce that’s 400 grams and costs 3 dollars. I can add in that cost as “3 dollars” for a serving size of “400 grams” (like I would for kcal). So if I happen to use 50 grams of that sauce in my recipe, it’ll automatically calculate the cost of that entry as “0.375 dollars” (similar to how it would automatically calculate the kcal that 50 grams would contain).

The costs of all the entries within a recipe would add up and culminate in the total cost of that recipe (which would be shown in its summary, alongside the macros and micros summary).

The costs of all the custom foods and recipes in your diary entries would also add up and culminate in the total daily cost of your diet.

How it works:
At night, or in the morning, I would click "Plan Tomorrow", or "Plan Today". I add foods just like I normally do, which saves it automatically as I go.

Diary View:
On my phone, I can see the foods I have planned for today with a button on each item that I can press which states mark as eaten. This will also update the timestamp to be the current time.

I want to view both the plan just as before, what my total nutrients are if I eat everything, but also what my total nutrients are so far including only ones marked as eaten. This way as I exercise throughout the day I can still plan filling out my calorific needs.

Add Food:
Easiest will probably be to have a checkbox in the add food window to "Add future food", or "Mark as not eaten". This way we can still plan food during the day as we burn calories.

This also may create the need for "Mark as not eaten" so that if we forget to check the box we can correct it without needing to delete and add again.

Settings:
Allow us to choose "Add Food as not Eaten" to be the default. The default for this setting will keep it as now, "Add Food as Eaten", so this does not effect people who don't want to use it. But in settings, setting this as default can make it easier for those using the feature to always add foods as not eaten.

Previous Entries:
When adding this feature to the database, all previous entries should be marked as Eaten as that is how it was used.

Other Ideas:
With this feature it also brings up the ability to create meal plans, or daily plans that can be saved. Often I eat the same things every day, rotating between a few meals. It would be nice to have something similar to a recipe which is used in the planning stage. From the Diary view I can right click and say "Save as Meal", or right click on a day and say "Save as daily plan". This can be fleshed out in a new discussion.

I’m a gold subscriber. I need the ability to take a picture of a nutrition label. There is not an option and your competitors have this feature.

Please extend Omega 3 to include EPA & DHA sub-levels?

I cook without recipes often, and tends to be my downfall and what makes me stop tracking. It would be much easier for me to scroll through what I've already entered in "My Pantry" while cooking rather than searching each item/scanning them all after the meal or trying to input as I go

1. Allow selection of multiple active recipes and retire them in one click as opposed to the current method of tediously displaying individual recipe and clicking retire one-by-one
2. Allow selection of multiple retired recipes and unretire them in one click
3. Allow searching for the use of a specific recipe (active or retired), displaying the dates used in a list, and allowing selection of that day

In a recipe, I'd love the ability to see what individual ingredients are contributing what to overall calculated totals (like protein, fat, minerals, etc). In the diary, there's the ability to hover your mouse over a vitamin or mineral to see what is contributing how much % to it's total. I think that would be very helpful for recipes!

Right now, my recipe adds up to 15% daily potassium, but I can't see what's contributing to that. So I have to "Explode Recipe" in my diary, but then I can't collapse it back. Also, the individual ingredients add up to 11% in my diary, but 15% in my recipe. A little confusing to say the least!