Meals

Log your food. Learn your rhythm.

A little food diary, with room to grow. All on your iPod.

Meals diary, with warm paper and a green navigation bar
An oatmeal entry with calories and macros in Meals

5,431 foods. Ready when you are.

Search the built-in USDA catalog without Wi-Fi. Pick a household portion or enter an amount in grams or ounces. Calories, protein, carbs and fat follow along. Daily rings show progress toward each macro target and the share of consumed macro calories.

Your recent foods stay close by. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks each have a place in the diary.

The form for adding a food from its nutrition label

Your label. Your recipe.

Add a packaged food from its label, or build a recipe from ingredients and the number of servings it makes. Save it once and log it again whenever you like.

Tap a diary entry to adjust the portion. Copy yesterday's foods after reviewing a confirmation. Later recipe edits leave past logs as they were.

An example weekly review with learned TDEE and proposed targets

Learns your needs. A little at a time.

Choose your starting targets and a goal to maintain, gain or lose slowly. Finished food logs and a multi-week weight trend inform small calorie adjustments, with your chosen protein target held steady.

Choose automatic weekly updates or review each proposal yourself. Meals estimates daily expenditure from finished food logs and your weight trend, then adjusts calorie and macro targets by at most 100 calories per week. Every applied update is saved in history.

Illustrative test data shown. Meals uses a simple energy-balance estimate, not MacroFactor’s proprietary algorithm or a measured metabolism test.

Meals Targets tab with manual goals, adaptive setup and recent logging

Give it time. See the trend.

Use local Sets weigh-ins or log weight in Meals, and mark a diary day finished once all food and drinks are entered. The first adaptive review needs roughly three weeks: 18 finished days and at least nine weigh-ins, spread across the last 21 days.

Incomplete food logs are kept, but left out of the calculation. A sparse or unsettled trend waits for more data. Review your recent logging and seven-day progress whenever you like.

The offline Meals diary on an iPod touch

Just you and your iPod.

No account, subscription, API key or running Mac. Food search, recipes, weight logs and adaptive reviews all work offline. Your diary stays on the device.

Back it up through iTunes File Sharing. Updates preserve your entries, and Meals makes a database backup before upgrading an older diary.

Download MealsVersion 1.5.1. 560 KB. For jailbroken armv7 devices; tested on iPod touch 4 with iOS 5.1.1, targeting iOS 4.3.
USDA FNDDS 2021–2023 data, CC0. Adaptive mode is for adults 20+; it is not a clinically validated nutrition plan.