Switching calorie counters

From FatSecret to GiFit, without losing your diary

The real question when you look for a FatSecret alternative is not which calorie counter has more foods: it is whether months of diary come with you. With GiFit they do, meal by meal, and before anything is written the app shows you what it is about to import.

Export from FatSecret

In the FatSecret app: Food Diary → Export, and choose PDF or CSV. For the PDF, take the detailed report, the one that lists the foods.

Open GiFit

Settings → Data → Import from FatSecret. Pick the file: GiFit reads it on the phone and shows you how many days it is about to import, from when to when, how many foods and the average calories per day.

Confirm

Nothing is written until you confirm. Then every day is in your diary, in its place, meal by meal.

What actually comes across

What if something does not add up?

Every day is checked against the total FatSecret itself wrote: a day that does not add up is not imported, and the summary says so. A day that already has food in GiFit is left as it is, so no lunch is counted twice. Importing the same file again adds nothing, and future days stay out.

Opened the CSV in Excel?

That is fine: if you saved it as .xlsx, GiFit reads that too.

And adaptive maintenance?

The imported diary counts: days from the last 4 weeks go toward the 14 days of diary that GiFit Pro's adaptive maintenance needs — an adaptive TDEE that learns from your diary and your scale how much you really burn. The import brings the diary, not the weigh-ins, and those are needed too: at least 2 weigh-ins a week, in each of the last 2 weeks. Best to weigh yourself every day, at the same time. How adaptive maintenance works.

Why people switch

FatSecret is a trademark of its respective owner. GiFit is not affiliated.

Your diary, on your own phone

Download GiFit, import the file, and your days are where they were, meal by meal. No account, and no connection.