Does anyone know of a privacy alternative to the fantastic app ‘My Fitness Pal’?
Thanks!
I don’t know about “private”, but I switched to Cronometer when MFP turned to paid only to scan barcodes.
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I don’t know your full use case for ‘My Fitness Pal’, or what OS you’re using; so my reccomendation may be limited or non applicable.
That being said if you are looking for a decent privacy respecting nutrition tracking application i would give Waistline a shot (android only unfortunately). I don’t know about any options for iOS as i haven’t been keeping up with that operating system lately.
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I use graphene OS. I’ll check it out.
Thanks so much!
It’s actually a very good alternative. The only drawbacks I noticed is that it doesn’t have nearly as many foods when I search, nor does it recommend recipes based on what I’m low on (e.g. protein).
But overall it’s a really good alternative. It even lets me search in other languages, including non Latin languages like Hebrew
Thank you so much for the recommendation!
Can you create foods in there? That’s what I do with Cronometer.
You absolutely can, I just don’t really have the patience for that 
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I know this is a pretty old thread. I’m pretty new to privacy still, but I have a need to download a calorie tracking app on iOS. After some searching in the app store, two stood out that claim the don’t track or collect any data - ProTrack AI and Calometric. Both appear to have no membership, don’t collect data according to the app store, and handle AI on-device. Has anyone used either of these options?
One thing to look out for is you can’t trust Apple’s app privacy report thing in the AppStore, especially for smaller apps, I’ve seen apps that totally lie. Even app privacy policies are not indicative, especially for smaller apps, they’ll often put an AI generated privacy policy.
Are they open source, that could indicate trust.
The Apple Health app allows for caloric tracking. You don’t track individual foods, but if you eat a banana you can record 85kcal or so.
Neither of these that I mentioned are open source based on what I can tell. I think I really need some sort of low friction tracking. If I have to look up macros and record them in health, I doubt I will sustain that. That said, I appreciate the suggestion.
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This might be worth a look as more one to one stand in for Waistline on iOS, though I can not say with certainty as I have not tested OpenNutriTracker myself.
Good one - I looked at the tracker I use (LoseIt) and the privacy policy is horrendous, and that’s a paid service.
For me, maybe a spreadsheet is the way to go, with some target parameters. That doesn’t fit the convenience need mentioned though.
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I use Waistline for years and it works perfectly its much better than myfitnesspal the only issue would be that the amount of foods that are in the database (open food facts) is smaller but once you add what you eat to it there is no issue and works perfectly!
Thanks this looks good. Not perfect, App Store still says there’s one tracking ID and I have to keep it quiet because AI controversy but it seems better than the data mining app I just came from at least and the gamification tends to help me.