Popular calorie tracking app FoodNoms gets iOS 14 widgets and more

By Oliver Haslam
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Foodnoms App Store Screenshots
Foodnoms App Store Screenshots (Image credit: iMore)

What you need to know

  • More and more apps are gaining support for iOS 14's widgets.
  • FoodNoms has now been updated and you can put all your food data right onto your Home screen.
  • New notifications have also been added to the app.

Popular calorie and food tracking app FoodNoms has been updated to include support for iOS 14's new Home screen widgets for the first time. Now users can put their calorie and food data right on their Home screen, removing the need to open the app all of the time.

Alongside the new widgets, FoodNoms also gained support for notifications that can be configured to remind people to log meals and more.

That's just the start, too.

What's New

  • Widgets! View the status of your goals, log food, and start common actions right from your device's home screen
  • Notifications! Set up reminders at meal times, when you haven't logged in a while, or when you reach your fasting goal
  • New "Log Drink" Shortcuts action
  • New optional fields to explicitly set the meal type and time for food and drinks in the Shortcuts app
  • New calendar UI for changing dates in the History tab
  • Find frequently asked questions in the Settings tab
  • Other minor usability improvements

Foodnoms iOS 14 Widgets

Foodnoms iOS 14 Widgets (Image credit: FoodNoms)

Users can also look forward to the usual array of bug fixes as well.

Existing users can download the update via the usual mechanism while new users can download FoodNoms direct from the App Store (opens in new tab) right now. It's free with in-app purchases available for the FoodNoms Plus subscription.

Oliver Haslam
Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.

Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.