[hungrigekatze]

This seems like Cronometer? I've been using Cronometer for a decade plus. It was built for folks who were following the CRON way of eating: Caloric Restriction Optimum Nutrition. So undereating by 20 - 30% of your recommended caloric needs for your height, weight, fat-to-muscle ratio, and activity level was the aim, but to do so while eating nutrient-rich foods, getting most or all of your nutrients from non-supplement form, etc. https://cronometer.com/

I continue to use Cronometer as I have a few genetic mutations that lead to my body burning through certain vitamins and other substances more quickly than folks without the mutations. There's a very handy feature called "The Oracle" which will suggest to you a food or a recipe (you can then view the recipe's ingredients so you're not just told "Omelette with dark leafy greens" and left to wonder what the hell that contains). The Oracle's recommendation is made based on how many calories and various macros that you 'have left' for the day.

Cronometer only has branded US and Canadian foods (and a few EU foods) along with 'regular' foods like "egg, boiled" or "avocado, Hass" at the moment, but I'm hoping that they expand to have more branded EU and Asian foods in their database!

[daedalus_j]

Cronometer is pretty great. However...

It's multi-user support is... entirely non-existent. And they seem rather uninterested in feedback. I'd happily pay them for a feature where I could easily make dinner, and split it between multiple users. But no, I have to save a "recipe" (which stays in the DB forever) and then add a portion of that recipe from the other user's account.

So a family-based offering is definitely an interesting idea!

[hungrigekatze]

Oh, yeah! The 'shared recipe' feature - or even just 'Let me easily export ALL of my recipes' (for my own records or to share with a spouse or someone else that I'm cooking/preparing meals with) would be awesome!

While I appreciate the data privacy stance of Cronometer immensely there are a few 'collaborative use' features that I wish I could opt into on Cronometer like the shared recipe feature that you mention. Shared exercise info would be great too! Let's say we go on a bike ride together: I can kick over the Exercise activity to your Cronometer account too. Great for parents inputting their kids info too. Not a parent but if I wanted to log my kids' nutrient intake and make sure that they were getting X minutes of sustained bike-riding, swimming, whatever each week it would be great to do some fitness activities together and then kick the activity log over to the kids profile. So as not to cause eating disorders or whatnot I obviously wouldn't make kids log their food intake. My grandmother had me do that as a (mildly chubby) child and go to TOPS with her and it was ... weird.

[prepend]

I tried to use chronometer but they wouldn’t allow me to sign up with an email address of [e-mail]. They would accept it but never send the validation email. It was annoying so I used a few other apps.

I ended up just using a spreadsheet as all these apps seem oddly expensive for a food log.

[artichikin]

Founder of cronometer here. Sounds like a email delivery issue — I assume you already checked for it accidentally going to junk filter, etc. if you email our [e-mail] they can get you going.

[prepend]

Thanks, I’ll try contacting your help people.

I’m able to send email to [e-mail] without any problems. And nothing shows up in my spam folder.

[umangsh]

"The Oracle" sounds like a cool feature!

[fancymcpoopoo]

it sucks though. it could be good but nobody cares

[hungrigekatze]

I've found it to be pretty unimaginative, yes! :) It often suggests organ meats to me or omelettes with dark leafy greens.

You know how there's the checkbox to exclude "My recipes" from the Oracles suggestions? I was debating making a recipe to act as one catch-all for all the foods that I don't like or can't tolerate and then tell the Oracle "exclude nuts, shellfish [I have allergies to those] and My Recipes" and see what it suggests. I find it frustrating that there's no "globally forget" option for the Oracle, so the other day I thought of the "My Recipes" as a hack to exclude foods that I don't like from the Oracle (but I haven't yet had a chance to implement this / try this out).

I fully agree that the Oracle is the most rudimentary 'suggestion robot' out there. (I can't even bring myself to call it a recommender system.) I wish that I could overweight some ingredients moreso than others: if I'm short on Mg AND selenium and only have 200 cal left in my day make sure I get the selenium, Oracle! Or over- or underweight, say, protein over total calories or something. With a little bit of rudimentary ML the Cronometer folks could make the Oracle tremendously useful, but I am unsure as to why they don't do this? Lack of expertise in recsys? Cronometer folks, if you want assistance in this space I'd be happy to help; just tell me what email address to email you at and we can chat.