GitHub - femiaf13/manatee-fitness: Free and open source calorie counter and nutrition tracker
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Free and open source calorie counter and nutrition tracker - femiaf13/manatee-fitness

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!

Edit: I figured out how to generate signed APKs via GitHub so I have a v0.2.0 Pre-Release up. It’s already led me to finding out there are some bugs on Samsung phones that don’t happen on my Pixel so please submit any issues you encounter! Thank you!

  • @grueEnglish
    10•5 days ago

    My wife really likes manatees, hence the name.

    You sure it’s not because it’s meant to be insulting “motivating?” I was audibly shocked when I read it, LOL.

      • @grueEnglish
        8•5 days ago

        He points out that “Manatee Gray” is a color found on many products across a range of categories on the Target website, some of them in women’s regular and even petite sizes.

        In this case, he says, there were two different teams of buyers responsible for the “missy” and plus-size product lines, and the teams didn’t coordinate when they inputted the product information for the site. One team apparently used the color’s official name, while the other eyeballed it.

        “We apologize for any discomfort this might have caused and are working to update the name of the dress to reflect Dark Heather Gray,” Thomas told FORBES.

        They totally should’ve doubled-down and normalized all the sizes to “manatee gray,” LOL.