Editorial Team

Who Writes Best Calorie Counter App

A three-person editorial team: a lead editor who owns the ranking decision, a senior reviewer who tests the apps, and a medical reviewer who screens every clinical claim before publication.

Lena Markovic

Lead Editor

NASM-CPT

Lena Markovic is the lead editor of Best Calorie Counter App. She spent eight years as a consumer-app reporter at outlets including TechRadar and Lifewire, covering the period when fitness and nutrition tracking shifted from desktop dashboards to phone-first workflows. She is NASM-CPT certified (National Academy of Sports Medicine — Certified Personal Trainer) and built the 60-day adoption-cohort framework that powers our rankings. Lena owns the decision: which app gets ranked #1 each cycle, and what it would take for that to change. She tests every app on the iPhone she actually uses, in the kitchen she actually cooks in, with no special test conditions. If the app falls out of her phone's active-use list inside 60 days, it cannot rank in the top three. That rule is the centerpiece of how this site evaluates apps.

Daniel Voss

Senior Reviewer

Precision Nutrition Level 1 (PN1)

Daniel Voss is our senior reviewer. He is a Precision Nutrition Level 1 certified coach with five years of freelance review writing across fitness, nutrition, and consumer health categories. Disclosure that matters: Daniel was a long-time MyFitnessPal user and a volunteer community moderator on the MyFitnessPal forums between 2018 and 2021. He has no current relationship with MyFitnessPal, Under Armour, or any current owner of the product. We disclose this for two reasons. First, he is one of the most informed reviewers in the category on the actual feel of using MyFitnessPal day after day. Second, that history makes his current ranking of MyFitnessPal at #4 in our 2026 list meaningful — he is not a MyFitnessPal-skeptic by disposition, and his conclusion that the May 2026 paywall expansion broke the free-tier value proposition reflects a careful read of what changed, not a posture.

Dr. Aisha Bemba, RDN

Medical Reviewer

RDN, CDN

Dr. Aisha Bemba is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) in private practice with a doctorate in nutritional sciences. She runs a small clinical practice focused on medical weight management, GLP-1 patient nutritional support, and evidence-based macro coaching. She holds a Certified Dietitian Nutritionist (CDN) state license. Aisha medical-reviews every claim on this site that touches clinical practice, including statements about GLP-1 titration nutrition, micronutrient adequacy, and accuracy methodology citations. She is not affiliated with any of the apps we review. If a clinical claim cannot be supported by primary literature or published methodology, she removes it before publication.