Just looking at the github here are my immediate ideas:

• Be able to favorite specific meal combinations (i.e. you eat the same breakfast all the time) for recording
• The meal display uses kcals as the subline, it would be useful if this could be set to protein, or carbs for people trying to hit different non calorie targets.
• Ability to set alerts/reminders if falling behind a target (like 60g of protein every 4 hours, etc)
• allow for food diary photos, i.e. take a snapshot now and fill it in later, or just so a buddy can see what you ate.
• Since so much data is already being tracked, allow for weighins, ketones, gluecose measurements to be tracked as well, or integrate with the android health-connect api
• allow for api access to user data, for those tinkerers / automators

Please think about localization and various labeling standards and such. I live in Japan and bought a subscription to Chronometer when MyFitnessPal decided to enshitify. I was submitting labels with barcodes and information in their appropriate boxes (protein, carbs, etc.) but they rejected it because the image (required picture) had non-English text. Apparently there is (or at least was) a manual review process and they rejected everything not in English. Further, it took either weeks or months (I forget now) for the first response to my submitted data to come so I kept putting all this time into something utterly useless. They lost me as a customer as well.

I used Fitbook on fdroid for a bit. The best feature was support for weighing food to get calories.

My biggest frustration with apps today is the lack of support for home cooking. I cook most all food but it is a pain get nutritional information unless it comes from a box.

Ive been trying to find a tool that will let me dump in all ingredients by volume/weight so I know the caloric value of a meal. CooksIllustrated uses this https://api.edamam.com/ but I can't find an easy way to bring dishes from magazines or cookbooks to it

There's one called Energize on F-Droid already that's decent.

The problem is the food database will never be as good as the commercial versions. MFP is trash but MyNetDiary is very good and doesn't have obtrusive ads. It nags you to upgrade to premium occasionally but it's not too bad.

Unless you solve the database problem magically I don't think there's much point...

I'm down, using a cracked fitness pal to count calories right now. How will you build the food database? Can we crowdsource? Just ideas for now, get the basic app running and I'd love to help further.

Any thoughts on getting this into f-droid?

Best of luck to you! Waiting with anticipation

As a career full-stack dev with over 8 years Angular experience and a former user of MFP and MacroFactor I'm totally interested in helping out.

Will pull stuff down and take a look soon!

My wife really likes manatees, hence the name.

You sure it's not because it's meant to be ~~insulting~~ "motivating?" I was audibly shocked when I read it, LOL.

This is cool! Will it support the Metric system?

Are you aware of Waistline, and are there any points of differentiation you're after?

I hadn’t heard of Tauri, but looks interesting. I’d like to pitch in, even if it’s just for code reviews. I have Apple stuff too to help with iOS builds

Oh dang. I don't calorie track anymore, but back when I used MyFitnessPal I think they let me scan barcodes without a subscription… thanks for making this for those who need it!

This is awesome and I love it!

This is a great idea, I'll definitely give it a go. How do you want to receive feature requests/bug reports?

Sweet. I'll check it out. Thanks!

This sounds amazing! I will also put here there's also chronometer that has a lot of the same functionality as fitnesspal but without the subscription, but you have to use an account.

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

Fitbee is a good MFP alternative on iOS (not FOSS).