A Cronometer alternative that keeps the food log at home.
Cronometer has the best micronutrient database in the business and charges about $50 a year for Gold. What it also has is a server-side record of everything you have eaten, weighed and measured.
Diet logs are health data of a particularly intimate kind — they show disordered patterns, medical conditions and habits long before you'd choose to tell anyone. This page is for people who want the log without the ledger being held elsewhere.
Cronometer is better at nutrition science
We're not competing on the database. If you're tracking iron, B12 or a clinical protocol, use Cronometer and pay them.
Where a file wins
Most people log to notice a pattern, for a season, and then stop. For that job you need repeat entries and a running total, not 400 micronutrients — and you very likely don't want the season's log outliving your interest in it on someone else's disk.
How the entry works
You build your own short list of foods you actually eat, with their numbers. After a fortnight logging takes under a minute, because the list is yours rather than a search over two million products.
The refund
Thirty days, one e-mail, money back.
Common questions
Do I have to type in every food?
Once each. Saved entries come back with a click, and your real diet is a short list.
Does it track micronutrients?
No. Calories and macros. If micros matter to you, Cronometer is honestly the better tool.
Where is my data?
In the file, on your disk. There is no network code in it.
Can I export it for a dietitian?
Yes — CSV out, print, or hand them the file.