Many of my friends use calorie trackers like Lose it! or MyFitnessPal. And I’ve heard many complaints about them locking basic functionality behind a subscription. The straw that broke the camel’s back was not allowing barcode scanning without a sub. I’ve been looking for a meaty, pun intended, side project to pick up and decided to try to do some good while saving some people money!

• Built using Tauri in order to use Angular for the GUI and get mobile platform support.

• Data is stored on-device using SQLite.

• Initially I’m only targeting Android, I’d love to target iOS too but I don’t own any Apple devices to dev+test on.

• I’d say it’s a “late alpha” as of right now. It has most but not all functionality, but has only been tested by me so there are likely small bugs that need to be found.

• My wife really likes manatees, hence the name.

• I’ve commissioned an artist for a logo so that should be coming by February.

Would love to hear people’s thoughts! Currently you’d have to build the app yourself, though I do have an item on my to-do list to generate signed APKs via a github action. Mostly I’m just looking to start spreading the word now and hopefully get some good feature requests or bug reports. If you’ve read this far, thanks for your time!