Show HN: An intuitive, no subscription, privacy-first calorie tracker for iPhone

Show HN: An intuitive, no subscription, privacy-first calorie tracker for iPhone(caloree.app)

8 points by mactunes 3 years ago | 7 comments

Hi all,

over the last 2 years I've been on and off building my app for iPhone.

Caloree is basically a freemium calorie tracker/food diary with the ability to only track calories. This sets it apart from the competition which usually allows logging a gazillion macros. This (hopefully) makes it easier for users to log their food. Feedback so far has been great.

The app launched today, which I am quite proud of. It's been 2 years next to raising 2 small kids which meant to often sacrifice the project when it was moving along nicely and spending way less time on it than I would have wanted to. It was a real test on my patience which is usually not that great :)

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback is also greatly appreciated!

- Rudy

thedevtoolsmith 3 years ago |

Congrats on the launch. I was looking for something exactly like this, I really love the offline first aspect and how it doesn't try to do anything except let me track my calories. I'm currently using Loseit and like the other commenter pointed out, the calorie limit seems a bit low. Also, are there plans to add more features such as setting a specific calorie limit and increasing the number of dishes in the database?

quickthrower2 3 years ago |

Thanks and congratulations on the launch. I am giving this app a try. The onboarding is smooth. I don’t think it asked for sex and height but I corrected those in the settings. 1649kcal a day to maintain weight for an average height and weight man seems a bit low though? How is it calculated?

sw104 3 years ago | |

That sounds like the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) as opposed to the TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure).

Some people use BMR as a target for losing weight, but BMR is sort of like how much energy you'd burn being in a coma. TDEE (1.2 x BMR, ish) would include daily activities like walking around, so is generally more appropriate.

mactunes 3 years ago | | |

Apologies for the late reply. Somehow I didn't catch what was going on here :|

Your are indeed correct, it is indeed an BMR calculation, specifically I use a revised Harris-Benedict equation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris–Benedict_equation#Calcu...

Perhaps though I should by default use a TDEE calculation...

mactunes 3 years ago | |

Hi quickthrower2, thanks for the feedback. Glad you like it and apologies for the late reply. I somehow totally missed that there were comments in this thread. I got a lot of feedback on producthunt and apparently that was enough to distract me.

It should have definitely asked for height and sex, I just tried it and it "works on my iPhone". Perhaps you had to scroll down and that wasn't obvious? Good feedback though, I'll see what I can do there!

As for the calculation: the child comment is right (see below), it's a BMR calculation. However, I think I should change it to a TDEE based as that takes daily movement into account. That should make it more realistic. Any thoughts?