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Calorie Tracker Lab
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Riley Barrett, BS

Junior Tester

About Riley Barrett

Riley Barrett is the lab’s daily-use tester. While Vincent runs the structured weighed-meal benchmark and Yuki crunches the statistics, Riley is the person who actually lives inside the apps. They log every meal they eat in at least three trackers, alternate which is the primary tracker every two weeks, and report on the accumulated friction of long-term use — the kind of finding that does not show up in a 50-meal accuracy battery but that matters enormously to a real user. Their Kinesiology background and ongoing dietitian training give them a credential floor for the food-and-fitness side of the work; their hands-on test exposure makes them the lab’s authoritative voice on what each app actually feels like to use.

Credentials in detail

Editorial focus

Riley owns: beginner-UX testing, free-tier deep-dives, pricing-comparison primary research (extracting current paywalled-feature lists from every app, documenting trial-period mechanics, screen-recording the specific upgrade-prompt flow at first-launch), and the daily-use testing log that anchors the lab’s longevity coverage. They co-author with Cormac on free-tier comparison pieces and contribute primary-research pricing data to migration guides.

Conflicts of interest

Riley has no financial relationships with calorie tracking app companies. They maintain no affiliate accounts. Their income is derived solely from this publication and from a part-time graduate-program teaching-assistantship unrelated to the consumer-app category. They have never received fees from any company whose product is reviewed here.

Recent Work

Articles

App Reviews

Comparisons