In addition to tracking my activity using the Jawbone UP, I should also be tracking what I eat. The UP app for Android and iOS provides a way to enter food, but I have found it to be too manual. The UP app does a bar code scan but the back end database is not connected to the food that I eat. The new API Jawbone announced yesterday addresses this problem.
MyFitnessPal is a popular app for tracking activity and food and it has been available for longer than UP. In most cases, when I capture a bar code using MyFitnessPal their backend correctly identifies the food so that all is left is entering the appropriate quantity.
The good news is that MyFitnessPal is also hooked up to the Jawbone API so that you can use it to exchange information back and forth between the two apps. I enter the food details for a meal in MyFitnessPal and it sends the aggregated totals for calories, etc.., to UP. Likewise, UP sends back to MyFitnessPal my activity information.
I’ve just started using MyFitnessPal for tracking food and so far I am finding it to be much better than entering food in UP, therefore I am happy the two are working together to help provide me a consolidated view of my fitness information.
Notes From The Cave 