FoodNoms is a nutrition tracker designed to be fast, powerful, and easy to use. Set custom nutrition goals, log your food, and measure your progress.
Available for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and macOS.
Hey everyone! I'm the indie maker of FoodNoms, a nutrition tracking app for iPhone, iPad, and macOS.
The nutrition tracking space on the App Store is extremely competitive. FoodNoms differentiates itself with its focus on design, user experience, and data privacy. It’s also extremely customizable with the ability to track specific goals for calories, macronutrients, and sixteen other nutrients.
Three years ago, I launched the first version of my food tracking app, FoodNoms, and shared it with you all here on PH. Since then, I've been continuously iterating on the product and food database.
Today I'm excited to share with you the biggest update to the app yet – what I have nicknamed "FoodNoms 2". This update delivers many of the top-requested features that the app has received over the years and more.
- New design for the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (Catalyst).
- Sync nutrition data from other apps via Apple Health. FoodNoms 2 implements a robust syncing solution that allows users to pull in data from other apps and devices. e.g. smart water bottles (e.g. HidrateSpark), meal subscription services (e.g. HelloFresh), and other food tracking apps (e.g. Lose It!, MyFitnessPal, etc.)
- iCloud data encryption. FoodNoms now automatically encrypts your food log, library, meal types, and goals before uploading to iCloud. And with Apple’s newly announced Advanced Data Protection for iCloud enabled, this data is also end-to-end encrypted. With this level of security, never worry again about who might have access to what you eat.
- Custom meal types. Configure custom meal types (e.g. “dessert”) to organize your food log and make it easier to log repeated meals.
- New favorites bar. Save your favorite foods, recipes, and meals with custom icons for quick-and-easy logging.
- Nutrition goal recommendations for macros, fiber, saturated fat, sodium, water, and more. These recommendations are based on published dietary guidelines from the USDA, HHS, and CDC.
- More powerful goals. Track your calories with an automatically adjusting goal based on your body profile and energy data from Apple Health. Set percentage-based goals for your macros.
- New database search backend. Find the right foods faster with improved search results.
- And more. The update includes many other various improvements and features, including CSV export and a smarter “Smart Suggestions” algorithm.
All of the above-listed features will be available to all users for free, except the following, which will require a FoodNoms Plus subscription: custom meal types, favorites bar, syncing nutrition data from Apple Health, and using resting energy data from Apple Health. FoodNoms Plus also unlocks other features including drink logging, water tracking, caffeine & alcohol tracking, and more charts and stats.
To celebrate the launch here on Product Hunt, I'm extending a special discount to you all: $19.99 for the first year of new subscriptions (33% off). Use this URL to redeem: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ct...
It's my mission to help others achieve their nutrition goals – whatever that might be: losing weight, gaining weight, improving heart health, managing sugar, etc. I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions about how I can make the app work better for you.
- Ryan Ashcraft
I use FoodNoms every day. The two way Apple Health syncing is the killer feature from v2. Reduces the tracking burden significantly for me. Love the charts too - great for seeing my calorie/macro goals across the week. Great work Ryan!
FoodNoms 2 is sooooo good. I used V1 on and off but could never stick to it for some reason. However, as soon as Ryan allowed me to start beta testing V2, I have nnot looked back.
For me, the killer feature is the 2-way HealthKit sync. This allows me to add my meals via Gousto/HelloFresh apps, and have them appear in FoodNoms instantly. It saves me so much time every day. Plus, my Hidrate Spark water bottle syncs to the app too via this.
The favorites bar also saves me a lot of time every day when i track my 40000 cups of tea per day!
All of this, plus knowing my data is all nicely encrypted in my own iCloud makes FoodNoms 2 the best nutrition tracker app available today by far.
@scott_robertson Thanks so much Scott! You've been an *amazing* beta tester. I'm very grateful for all of your feedback in the past few months. And so glad to hear all of these features are helping you!
I've been using FoodNoms for 2 years and believe it's the best nutrition tracker for me.
The biggest issues with nutrition trackers are 1. being able to stick to using it 2. having the right food nutrition data.
FoodNoms helps me stick to using it by being extremely fast and easy to log my food. It's the closest thing to me thinking of what I ate and logging it magically. I can usually log my food in seconds with less than 3 clicks using their widgets, barcode scanner or repeat logging features.
Their food database is also extensive and constantly improving. All the major restaurants and grocery stores like Trader Joes are covered. I notice that whenever I put in a new food its tracked and see more and more added to their general food library. The best part is that it's really smart about serving sizes, no matter if I know I'm eating one portion, the amount of grams or even the physical size like one chicken breast I can easily enter my nutrition info.
One killer feature I love is the goal tracking. It makes a calorie plan based on my weight and macro goals that adjusts according to every day that i enter my nutrition for.
This app rocks and keeps getting better. I hope more people hear about it so that FoodNoms can teach people about better nutrition and provide a tool that changes their health like it did for me.
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