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Nutrition tracking

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Nutrition Tracking Apps powered by Open Food Facts

Looking for more ways to use Open Food Facts? Check out our main Reuse page for a list of over 200 applications and projects!

Tracking your nutritional intake is a powerful way to understand your diet, make healthier choices, and achieve your personal health goals. The applications listed here leverage the power of Open Food Facts' massive, open, and collaborative database of food products from around the world.

By choosing an app connected to Open Food Facts, you benefit from:

  • A Transparent, Non-Profit Database: Our data is collected by volunteers and is free from commercial influence. What you see is what you get.
  • A Massive & Growing Food Catalog: With millions of products, you can easily find what you're eating by a simple barcode scan.
  • Rich, Actionable Information: Get more than just calories. Access nutritional data, ingredients lists, allergen information, and scores like the Nutri-Score and NOVA for ultra-processed foods.
  • A Collaborative Ecosystem: If a product is missing, you can add it! By contributing, you help make the database better for millions of users worldwide.

Featured Nutrition Tracking Apps

Here is a selection of applications that use Open Food Facts for nutrition tracking. Some of these apps also contribute new or updated product data back to the database, strengthening the entire ecosystem.

Apps that Contribute Data Back

These apps are not only great tools for your personal use but also active contributors to our common knowledge base. By using them, you're supporting a virtuous cycle of data sharing!

Apps Contributing to Open Food Facts
App Description Platforms License
File:Foodvisor logo.png FoodVisor A comprehensive nutrition coach that provides personalized plans and allows you to track your meals by taking a photo. FoodVisor is a major contributor of product data to Open Food Facts. File:Google Play Store badge.svg File:Apple App Store badge.svg Proprietary
File:MacroFactor Logo.png MacroFactor A science-based diet coach and macro tracker that uses a sophisticated algorithm to adapt your calorie and macro targets based on your metabolism. MacroFactor contributes data to Open Food Facts. File:Google Play Store badge.svg File:Apple App Store badge.svg Proprietary
Waistline A privacy-friendly calorie and weight management app. It allows for tracking of consumed calories and body weight, helping users to reach their goals. It contributes data back. File:F-Droid badge.png Open Source (GPLv3)
Municorn Calorie Counter A calorie counting app that contributes data to the project. File:Google Play Store badge.svg Proprietary

Open Source & Privacy-Focused Apps

For users who prioritize privacy and open-source software, these apps are excellent choices. They are often available on alternative app stores like F-Droid.

Open Source & Privacy-Focused Apps
App Description Platforms License
Energize A straightforward, open-source calorie and nutrient tracking app that uses the Open Food Facts API for product data. Codeberg, File:F-Droid badge.png Open Source (GPLv3)
Waistline A privacy-friendly calorie and weight management app. It allows for tracking of consumed calories and body weight, helping users to reach their goals. It contributes data back. File:F-Droid badge.png Open Source (GPLv3)
Privacy Friendly Food Tracker Developed by the SECUSO research group, this app focuses on providing nutrition tracking with maximum privacy protection. It does not require an internet connection for many of its features. File:F-Droid badge.png Open Source (GPLv3)

For Developers: Build Your Own App!

Are you a developer inspired to create the next great nutrition app? You can! The Open Food Facts API is free, open, and available for anyone to use.

By building on Open Food Facts, you get a head start with a database of millions of products and join a global movement for food transparency.