I've been weight training for over 15 years. It started as a way to manage stress and anxiety, and over time became something more. I wanted to look better as well as feel better, which meant thinking about calories and protein just as much as the training itself. Along the way I've tried a lot of apps. Some were good, some weren't, and over the last few years I settled on a spreadsheet before switching to the Notes app. It worked, but it was a compromise. Free apps were too basic, and paid ones would crash mid-workout, refuse to work without Wi-Fi, or lock features behind a paywall.

I'd wanted to build my own for years. Front-end engineering is my day job, but building a side project means wearing a lot of hats: product manager, engineer, designer, marketer. All in evenings and weekends. I'd spend a dedicated weekend on it, then not touch it for a month, then give up for six months. I once again revisited the idea of my own app in November 2025, and this time I stuck with it.

Once I had something that felt reasonable, I took it to the gym and started testing it properly. That turned into a lot of notes, which turned into more improvements. The result is what you see: a workout tracker that gets out of your way. A locker note means no more taking a photo of your locker or wandering around trying to remember which one is yours. The features page has everything.

After getting workouts to a point I was happy with, I started on food tracking. The same frustrations applied: popular apps are slow to load, push ads and paywalls, and even with large food databases the macro data is often wrong or out of date. I wanted to build something more focused, more pragmatic, more minimalist. Most people regularly track around 200 foods, so those come built in. For anything else you can add your own, visible only to you. If the macros for a default food don't match what you buy, you can edit them and your changes are saved for next time. The assumption is that most people have a routine and don't want to check the back of the packaging every time they log chicken breast.

This app aims at people who still use spreadsheets and pen and paper for their workouts, as well as those who find calorie tracking apps simply too bloated and too expensive for what they do. I see plenty of both at the gym, which suggests there's a gap. If a few people find it useful and are kind enough to share some feedback, that's enough. I built something I'm actually proud of and use myself. My hope is that it comes through.