Introducing Nourish: A Simple Calorie Tracker

Calorie counting fails most people for simple reasons. Calorie tracking apps have too many options and adding a meal takes five clicks and multi navigation screens to add calories instead of being able to add calories with a single click. People need an app that they will actually use, an app where calorie tracking is as simple as possible. Nourish was built to fix exactly this issue.

You open the app and click a single button to add 50, 100, or 500 calories, or quickly tap it multiple times times to more calories. For example, you can rapidly tap the 100 button twice and the 50 button once to add 250 calories. The app logs these calories at the current time, and both the time and calorie count can be edited later if desired. This is the core feature. Open the app, tap to add calories, and move on with your day.

Calories are then tracked day by day on a monthly calendar view so you can see how many calories you are eating. You can go back to past days, add meals that you forgot to add if necessary, so the historical data is all editable and easy to view at a glance.

You can also add meals with preset calorie counts. If you know your normal breakfast is 370 calories, then you can add that as a meal with a title, description, and calorie count. Then, on the home page of the app, you tap the meals button to see a context menu open with your me

als listed and then tap the meal you want to add. In this way, selecting meals is as simple as two taps on the home page of the app.

You can optionally set one daily calorie goal. The progress bar at the top uses a seven-day weighted average. Today counts the most, and each day further back counts a little less. One cheat day where you were over your calories but a few hundred calories might still show green, but then the next day the app will inform you to try to eat a bit less.

You can also create an account and login so that you can take your data between your phone, computer, and other devices. Along with this, you can install the web app to your phone like any other app, so it is both a website you can visit from any device and an app you can install.

Nourish does one thing well: quickly track how many calories you are eating and how it fits your goal.