Back with an update on my FOSS calorie tracker!
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Back with an update on my FOSS calorie tracker! - Lemmy.World
Original post: https://lemmy.world/post/23645197
[https://lemmy.world/post/23645197] Hi all! Since my last post I’ve been hard at
work on Manatee Fitness. I polished the core functionality and ended up feature
creeping myself. I wasn’t intending to add weight tracking or goal calculations
but once I got into a groove I just kept going. The most exciting part is that I
finally have a real icon! Beyond that, I figured out how to build an APK via
github actions so now anyone willing to give the app a try is able to easily
download and install it! I welcome any feedback from users. One important thing
to keep in mind before trying it out is that it is currently focused on foods
available in the US. I want to eventually expand the scope to more countries but
I’ll get to that once I have a stable release. I’m also happy to take any
contributions from the community! I have issues written up for all the bugs and
new features on my current roadmap to the first stable release. And finally, I
want to give a shoutout to the 2 existing foss apps in this space that I know
of: Waistline [https://github.com/davidhealey/waistline] Energize
[https://codeberg.org/epinez/Energize/] My competitive drive to one up them is a
huge reason I made as much progress on Manatee Fitness as I have.
I'm building a FOSS calorie tracker!
https://lemmy.world/post/23645197
I'm building a FOSS calorie tracker! - Lemmy.World
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!
