Hi Product Hunt! My name is Michael and I'm the designer and developer of Fuel. This has been _the_ definition of a passion project. Name any calorie tracker and I've probably used it. And yet after fifteen years of health and fitness tracking, I still hadn't found the right app. So I made my own. Fuel is calorie tracking with reliable data and a purposeful design. Every food is verified. And your goal is a range, not a fixed number. I wanted something that could teach people how to eat their favorite foods and still be healthy. That being mindful of what you eat doesn't have to be stressful. I avoided this project for a long time even though I knew it would become essential for me. Building a food library alway felt like too big a challenge. Cut to today. I've invested over four months (and counting) towards building my library. I now have a solid foundation of 20,000 foods. This includes most major US brands and fast food chains. And I've created a feature I call Universal Foods. You can skip the brand for staples like yogurt, peanut butter and produce. This helps offset the lack of local store brands while actually offering better data. Fuel has plenty of room to grow here, but I'm going to be diligent about keeping search results meaningful. If the first half of Fuel is food tracking, the other half is your dashboard. You can turn Fuel into your own personal health companion. If you're like me and care about weight lifting, you can focus on workout activity and macros. If you're pre-diabetic you can keep an eye on your sugar and saturated fat. The combinations are entirely up to you. I designed Fuel to be flexible and reflect your needs and goals, whatever they might be. Finally, some people might want to have a conversation about this, which I welcome! But this is going to be my first time using subscriptions. I've been resistant in the past, but I felt now was appropriate. Fuel has much more infrastructure and meat behind it than my first app Doo. And the best experience comes from having all the pieces talk to each other. I believe that the feature-set proves its value, so I've set up a free trial to give people a chance to see for themselves. --- Since I started working on Fuel in February, it's been full steam ahead. Beta testing started in April and I've continued to iterate while building out the food library. I love this app so much and am so excited to be sharing it with the world! Despite my decade+ of experience, I've been able to find a better balance with my own diet. I'm in the best shape I've ever been, I make progress at the gym weekly, and I still get to eat carrot cake. I know Fuel can do the same for you. Thanks for reading! 😃 - Michael PS: I'm happy to talk design, dev, future updates, etc. I'll be checking this page regularly!

Love the philosophy behind this! Specifically: • Universal foods I used to use MyFitnessPal back in the day and while the library was huge it was super annoying to type “peanut butter” and be expected to choose among hundreds of brands when the nutritional values are virtually the same across them. • Calorie goal as a range instead of a fixed number More realistic. What does a “goal” of 1500 cal/day mean? That you need to eat exactly 1500 cal every day? That you need to eat less than that or at least that? It’s hard to tell, it’s not intuitive, while a range is. • Customizable dashboard I hate the rigidity of calorie trackers. Like, what you eat and why is very personal yet calorie trackers assume we all care about the same stats they care about. I might only care about total calories + carbs, or I might only care about how consistent I am etc. Letting people create their own dashboards out of cards solves that. Bets of luck! I have an Android phone so sadly couldn’t use this for real, but I could give it a go on my iPad. Any plans for an Android version? Although TBH I haven’t tracked my calories in years and am in as good a shape as ever, so I might not need it at all. 😅

Finally a calorie tracker I can use! I've unsuccessfully tried to build my food routine with other apps, but I always get lost in the features set, usually they do too much of what you don't need and not enough of what you need. This feels different! Also, amazing plan recommendation logic, seems so smart and yet so simple. Nice work @mciarlo, I'm a big fan! P.S. I love the awards badges 😍

Do you think this app may be helpful if you need to lose considerable weight in short time?

Wow, Amazing idea

Cool feature!! Love it

Nice concept. Best of luck.

Great product, I track calories and macros myself and I will definitely try it out as I'm not entirely happy with the one I'm using right now. Good luck!

Great design....very clean.

I love the flexibility of the app and basically it might help to solve the problem when you just want to track the calories and not to freak out about the number itself.

Awesome that you've experienced the problem yourself and built it from that place. Best wishes for the launch mate!