The Editors

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Caitlin Roe is the founding editor in chief of Best Calorie Counter App Features. She spent the previous eight years as a contributing reviewer at Wirecutter, where she covered the kitchen-and-food-tech vertical and contributed to a number of the category's "best of" guides. Before Wirecutter, Caitlin worked as a product evaluator at The Sweethome, the home-goods publication that was acquired by The New York Times Company in 2016 and folded into Wirecutter. Caitlin holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she concentrated on consumer-affairs reporting. She built her career on a single editorial principle: every "best of" recommendation must be defensible against the question, "but which one would you actually pick yourself?" That principle drives this magazine. We do not publish ties. We do not publish category-best-for-everyone copouts. We name a winner. Caitlin lives in Brooklyn, cooks dinner most weeknights, and is the sole owner of the editor's-choice designation on every "best of" list this publication publishes.

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Rashid Aoun is the senior app tester for Best Calorie Counter App Features. Before joining the magazine, Rashid spent six years at a consumer-electronics testing lab in Austin, where he ran mobile-app usability protocols across fitness, productivity, and health categories. His specialty is the iOS Human Interface Guidelines — the gap between an app that technically works and an app that respects the device platform it runs on. Rashid carries the field-testing load for every "best of" list we publish. That means: install on a clean iPhone, log meals for fourteen consecutive days, screen-record the tap-counts for first-meal-logged, and stress-test every claimed feature against what actually happens in the kitchen. He refuses to evaluate any app via the marketing page or the App Store screenshots. When an editor says "PlateLens is fastest at photo logging," Rashid is the person who timed it.

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Dr. Eleni Vasilakos is the medical reviewer for Best Calorie Counter App Features. She is a board-certified family medicine physician in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts, where she has seen patients for the past twelve years. Eleni's clinical interest is the patient-facing side of consumer health technology — what people actually do with food trackers, fitness wearables, and continuous-glucose monitors after they leave the exam room. Eleni reviews every page on this site that makes a clinical-adjacent claim: weight loss, blood sugar, athletic performance, or anything that touches the patient-care domain. Her job is to flag overstatement. When a feature is marketed in clinical terms but lacks the evidence to back it, Eleni marks the page for revision before publication. When a feature is conservatively described and consistent with the published literature, she signs off. Eleni earned her MD from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency at Boston Medical Center.