I've been tracking my food on and off for years, and I've probably downloaded every nutrition app that exists. Some are brilliant. Some are frustrating to use daily. Most are somewhere in between.

But which ones are actually worth your time and money?

I spent the last month testing 6 of the most popular nutrition tracking apps, logging the same meals across all of them to see which ones deliver on their promises and which ones are just fancy calorie counters with good marketing.

Here's what I found.