Chow
A food diary aligned with your goals
Try Chow Now“…14 ads to log 2 foods?”
“Why do I have to pay premium to export MY OWN weight data?”
“I am sad about losing my decade of data…”
Most food diary apps are not aligned with your goals. They are designed to maximize revenue. If they weren't, they would not bombard you with ads. Their website would not be slow and stuck in 2013 to push you to the mobile app which monetizes better. They would not charge for features that used to be free. They would make logging food quick. Instead, they add tricks to increase time and engagement in the app: more taps, an activity feed, news articles, and notifications.“I literally only need a list with a total.”
Imagine a food diary whose goals align with yours, whether you want to eat healthy, lose weight, or just feel good. It would help you do that without ads, tracking, noisy activity feeds, uninspired news articles, pesky notifications, or flashes of ripped model athletes making you feel inadequate.
Chow just logs your food and then gets out of the way.
Sync the first 200 entries free
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Features
- Distraction-free. No AI, no ads, no tracking, no activity/news feed. It logs food and gets out of the way.
- All features except sync work without a subscription.
- An optional subscription enables sync.
- Sync is local-first. You can still log food e.g. in an airplane. The app syncs up when you go back online.
- If you stop the subscription, the app keeps working without sync
- Your data is plain text files on your device. When SparkPeople shut down in 2021, its users could only download their daily totals. They lost everything else. That can't happen with Chow.
- It uses public food data, not proprietary
- Free and open source (FOSS), self-hostable