[neilv]

Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker... for Apple iOS.

[BenFranklin100]

Is there a point besides snark? If one chooses to export to Apple Health, HealthKit keeps everything on device or encrypted. Even Apple can’t access the data. I stay away from all 3rd party health trackers since most don’t seem to have any commit to privacy, so this looks like a nice addition to the ecosystem.

[account-5]

I would imagine frustration more than snark. The "... for Apple" clarifications would have saved me clicking on this thread in anticipation of something I could use.

[neilv]

Not snark, but title clarification.

(When I saw "Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker", I thought it would be available for an open source platform, so I clicked. It being for a closed, all-your-data-are-belong-to-us platform wasn't expected. Maybe the comment saved some clicks.)

[maxhille]

> Even Apple can’t access the data.

They own your device 100%. Of course they can access your data...

[BenFranklin100]

Technically yes, but their policy and business value proposition to the end user says they don’t. it would wipe hundreds of billions of dollars of their worth overnight if it were ever shown Apple was secretly, willfully selling individual’s personal health information. Follow the money.

[Moru]

Since they own the device and OS, they don't need to access your data. They have low-level access to all the sensors/gps.

[jefurii]

Not snark, but I have an Android phone so it's irrelevant to me.

[neilv]

Open source related application, for open source desktops like Linux (unfortunately not for open source Android/GrapheneOS currently), there's Alex Harsányi's ActivityLog2 (which is an impressive application in Racket):

https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2/wiki/Just-The-Scree...

Incidentally, I'd love to have an open source, privacy-respecting nutrition tracker that works on open source desktops. (I find my laptop much, much faster than phone for recording this data, at least in the ad hoc way I'm doing it, including things like weights of every ingredient that goes into a dish.)

[ward]

> Open source related application, for open source desktops like Linux (unfortunately not for open source Android/GrapheneOS currently), there's Alex Harsányi's ActivityLog2 (which is an impressive application in Racket): > > https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2/wiki/Just-The-Scree...

In that realm, there is also GoldenCheetah:

- https://www.goldencheetah.org/ - https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah

[hombre_fatal]

The hard part about a nutrition tracker is the data.

The most complete nutrient data for basic foods seems to be http://www.ncc.umn.edu/food-and-nutrient-database/ which you need to pay for, so I wonder how an open source implementation could work.

I use Cronometer daily which shows you the datasource for each food you add, and if it's not NCCDB (the one at the link above) then chances are it's not going to have much info. Yet that extra info is exactly why I'm using a nutrient tracker rather than just a calorie tracker.