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Finally! I want that app! Hopefully it will make may day more easy!

Well i am one of the weight watchers members that have a iphone. At the moment im using Log it which is a free app and is helping me greatly but i must still add my food items to the program. What really is weight watchers delay? As a member i would be delighted to use the app. And im sure it would attract a lot of new members as well. It can even be very good bussiness for the iphone. Since i’ve load log it my sister is searching the net for a app for her nokia but is coming up empty handed. She is extreamly jelous about my app. So please make a app available to all members free. Any body that has been contemplating to join weight watchers can then get a brief glimp of how easy the diet really is. Thanks

Boy, it really seems like you don’t understand the issue at all. People would not track their daily weight with an iphone app; what they are looking for is a points calculator. There have been earlier ones that work with, for example, the Palm OS — they provide a database of common foods that one can simply look up, or one could put in the fat and fiber content of a serving and the calculator would calc the points value. Some of the better Palm ones even did the daily tracking so that a user could see how many points they had left in a given day or flex points in a week.

All of this requires access to a local database (which is usually OS-specific) as well as a calculator. Many apps have been written for this functionality for various OSs, but they get quashed by WW as violation of copyright.

Because such complex functionality is OS-specific, it’s important to look at what the market wants — there’s a LOT of Iphone users out there who would appreciate such an app. Problem with WW’s version is that one needs to subscribe to their service to get it.

I got sick of waiting for a points calculator in Australia, so I wrote my own for the iPhone. I am also looking at building in a logging feature which talks to eTools. Since there are so many WW members that have iPhones, I can’t understand why WW(Aus) don’t do something official.

anyone who wants to help test please contact me on paul at usher dot net dot au

I am interested in testing this out with you. I have diabetes, and could also use information on carb counting.