Tanya Reeves — Health & Wellness Apps Editor

Tanya Reeves edits everything health-related on Apps Tested: calorie counters, fitness trackers, sleep and meditation apps. She came to app reviewing from the clinical side. After a doctorate in health informatics she spent eight years putting health technology into clinical use, which is why her reviews judge an app against clinical standards and not only against what consumers expect from a nice interface.

How she tests

Every app she ranks gets at least two weeks of daily use before it is scored. For calorie counters she runs the same routine in each app: log every meal for fourteen days in a row with the app's main input method, time a normal entry with a stopwatch, and go through the real pricing to see what the free plan covers. Where an article quotes an accuracy figure she did not measure herself, it says where the number comes from.

In a calorie counter she weighs three things above the rest: how fast an ordinary day can be logged, how far the food data can be trusted, and what the free plan really includes once the upgrade screens are out of the way. A handsome dashboard counts for less than an entry you can finish in seconds.

Her diet-tracking guides are checked by our nutrition reviewer, Dr. Fernando Giulio, before they publish.

Areas she covers

Nutrition and diet tracking
Fitness
Mental health
Sleep
Meditation

Her guides

Read how Apps Tested scores apps. For questions about her calorie-counter testing, write to tanya@appstested.com.