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I'm building a FOSS calorie tracker! (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by hessnake to c/[email protected]

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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!

Built using Tauri in order to use Angular for the GUI and get mobile platform support.
Data is stored on-device using SQLite.
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.
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.
My wife really likes manatees, hence the name.
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!

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[–] RubberElectrons 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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?

[–] hessnake 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The food database is initially loaded with info from the USDA! That covers generic stuff like eggs or milk. Anything new is either added manually or sourced from the Open Food Facts database which is already crowdsourced.

I'm prioritizing Google Play but after that's settled I'm open to f-droid as well. Most of the people I know that'll benefit from this app the most wouldn't know how to even install f-droid.

[–] otterpop 14 points 1 week ago

Throwing the APK out in GitHub with some instructions for Obtainium could be a good thing to do here as well!

[–] RubberElectrons 6 points 1 week ago

Fair enough, whatever's easier or most effective for you. Thanks for doing this!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

There are multiple publicly accessible food databases out there. Waistline uses Open Food Facts and the USDA food database, for instance.