I built it because I needed it.
I am the first user of Magic Weight. Every screen in it is something I use on myself every day, and most of what is in it exists because something annoyed me on a Tuesday.
The app started from one complaint. Every tracker I tried handed me a number out of a textbook — a maintenance estimate from my height, weight and age — and then never checked whether that number was right for me. It is usually wrong by a few hundred calories a day, which is the difference between a plan that works and one that quietly stalls for a month.
The second complaint was logging. I eat ma3mool and malfoof and mansaf, and the apps that count them well are the ones you have to argue with. I did not want a database. I wanted to say what I ate and have it counted.
My own numbers
There are no testimonials on this site, because there is nobody to quote yet and I would rather show you nothing than something invented. So here is what there is: my own log, on a day I took a reading off it.
My own log · 17 September
Started 6 September at 195.0 lb. 12 days logged in a row.
Paced at a sustainable 1.5% of bodyweight a week. I am running faster than that right now, and the app says so rather than congratulating me — the early weeks shed water as well as fat.
What I will not do with it
The app tells you when it did not save something. That sounds like a small thing and it is the feature I have spent the most time on: a coach that says “logged” over an empty ledger teaches you not to trust the ledger, and the ledger is the whole product. If a write fails, the reply says so.
Every estimate says what it assumed. You can correct it in a sentence, and the entry changes rather than duplicating.
Your food, your weight and your photos are yours. What happens to them is written out in the privacy policy, in specifics rather than in template language.
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