I stumbled on this awesome weight loss app for your phone that's doing something very sneaky

I've been a huge fan of Weight Watchers for years. Of the 65 or so pounds I've lost over the last 5 years, I can credit the program for helping me shed at least 40 of that (the rest is thanks to P90X).

No surprise that it's incredibly popular.

The idea is that you get an allotment of daily "points" to eat along with flexible weekly points. And if you follow along correctly, you shoud lose weight.

The thing is - it costs $19.95 per month. For the basic plan.

This is why an app in the iOS App Store called "iTrackBites" is so sneaky (also available for Android but the app is much worse). It lets you do Weight Watchers without paying that huge monthly price.

I've been using this app for a few months after years using Weight Watchers, and I can say quite plainly that it does nearly everything the official app does. And it's just a one-time cost rather than monthly. It's even built on what seems to be the Weight Watchers plan, complete with "Daily Points," "Weekly Points," "Activity Points," and many other features.

Weight Watchers assigns point values to different foods based on their nutritional information. These same values are used in iTrackBites.

We reached out to Weight Watchers to ask them if they had any comment on the app. They told us that they had no comment at this time.

It's $3.99 in the App Store with additional features inside you can pay for that are not necessary. You may end up shelling out around $10, but when you consider that a Weight Watchers base membership is $19.95 per month, it's a bargain.

Here's how it works.