DQS Mobile app for iPhone and iPad
This is the official Racing Weight Diet Quality Score App, now with the ability to save your DQS data for as long as you want and view graphs of your progress over time!
This app allows you to calculate your daily Diet Quality Score (DQS) as described in Matt Fitzgeralds book, Racing Weight.
The Diet Quality Score is a simple instrument that allows athletes to measure the overall quality of their diet. The DQS Mobile app was designed to make it as easy as possible to calculate a Diet Quality Score each day.
As you eat throughout the day, enter the servings of each category of food that you consume. Tap a box to consume one serving of that category, tap it again and it will become a half serving, and one more tap will set it back to zero for that box. You can tap the category name to view an explanation of what foods fall under that category. Your total DQS score for the day is shown in the upper right corner of the page. DQS data is saved for each day you track it.
You can also log your weight and body fat % on the bottom of the Tracking page. We recommend you log your weight no more than once per week.
The Graphs page lets you see how you are doing with your Diet Quality Score over time. You can view your data over the last week, month or year. When viewing yearly data, it is displayed as 52 week-long averages. You can view graphs showing your total DQS, your weight, or your DQS score by specific category.
You can set a target weight, body fat % and a target DQS score on the Profile page.
Pros and cons of DQS Mobile app for iPhone and iPad
DQS Mobile app good for
Does what it claims. Really needs a simple feature: view a simple calendar with your DQS number in each box. The monthly graph isnt that easy to read.
I love the simple UI, and I love not having to count calories or macronutrients.
There is a good amount of guidance in the app, but it really is best as a companion to Matts book.
I wish there were a vegan version available!
Definitely a great app to accompany the book "Racing weight". Love how easy it is to use!
I have great success with it. Easy & perfectly paired with book. Racing weight, here I come!
Some bad moments
It crashed the first day using it. Drop downs are slow and unreliable.
Save your money, could be way better but just too shallow to be of any value. Not enough categories & sub categories. My fitness pal is a much better option
The original app was great. It definitely needed to be updated to log more than one day worth of progress. I have not been able to try this one. Crashes every time I try to open it. Tried to uninstall and all the usual tricks. Still crashes. Look forward to the next update.
Bought into the concept. Very glad to have an app to aid in the concept. But, um, saving scores and noting trends seems a must. Hope our buying the app helps support a little more development of this obvious feature request. Waiting/hoping
Im happy to finally see this app come to the iphone, but Im not sure its ready to be out of beta. Its hardly useable; the selector for food categories, or quantities keeps getting hung up whenever I try to input my data.
Please fix and Ill happily update my rating.
I like the algorithm this is based on, and I like the concepts in Racing Weight. But the app has bugs. It has lost my data several times in the last 36 hours I’ve tried to use it, continually resets to 0 and erases what I’ve logged on a given day. It also doesn’t appear to save data across multiple days for tracking purposes. Until I can get through at least 24 hours without losing data I can’t endorse it.
