Many of my friends use calorie trackers like Lose it! or MyFitnessPal. And I've heard many complaints about them locking basic functionality behind a subscription. The straw that broke the camel's back was not allowing barcode scanning without a sub. I've been looking for a meaty, pun intended, side project to pick up and decided to try to do some good while saving some people money!
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Built using Tauri in order to use Angular for the GUI and get mobile platform support.
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Data is stored on-device using SQLite.
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Initially I'm only targeting Android, I'd love to target iOS too but I don't own any Apple devices to dev+test on.
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I'd say it's a "late alpha" as of right now. It has most but not all functionality, but has only been tested by me so there are likely small bugs that need to be found.
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My wife really likes manatees, hence the name.
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I've commissioned an artist for a logo so that should be coming by February.
Would love to hear people's thoughts! Currently you'd have to build the app yourself, though I do have an item on my to-do list to generate signed APKs via a github action. Mostly I'm just looking to start spreading the word now and hopefully get some good feature requests or bug reports. If you've read this far, thanks for your time!
Edit: I figured out how to generate signed APKs via GitHub so I have a v0.2.0 Pre-Release up. It's already led me to finding out there are some bugs on Samsung phones that don't happen on my Pixel so please submit any issues you encounter! Thank you!
I'd love a good calorie tracker. I'm on the pedantic side and ended up using a fancy spreadsheet because none got as granular as I wanted /shrug
What data do you record, if I may ask, that's not tracked with such apps?
For me it was wanting to put in calories for each food item eaten in a day, the estimated calories burned in a day, then any additional burned calories from exercise, and then display the total of calories still "allowed" for that day, if that makes sense. My spreadsheet also had a whole bunch of stuff taking averages of my daily numbers so I could enter a weight goal and trend my weight loss to see when I could expect to get there, etc. it was a ludicrous spreadsheet, I admit it.