Frugain
Nutrition tracking with a price tag
Every other tracker counts calories and stops. Frugain gives every food a price too, then solves for the cheapest way to reach your protein, carbs and fat - in real groceries, on your actual budget.
A worked example, not a screenshot. Real prices come from what you tell the app things cost where you shop.
One app for your food and your grocery bill - the two things every other tracker treats as unrelated.
Give it a weekly budget and it solves for the most cost-efficient way to hit protein, carbs and fat. Chicken thighs, oats, eggs, lentils - real groceries, not a supplement stack. It usually pays for itself inside one shop.
Point the camera at a barcode and the food is logged - on any phone, including every iPhone, which most trackers still cannot manage. Paywalling the scanner is the single thing that sent MyFitnessPal users looking elsewhere. It will never sit behind a subscription here.
Cheap, whole foods, or flexible IIFYM - switch between them and watch the same day re-solve at a different price. Vegetarian, pescatarian and allergen exclusions are hard constraints the solver has to obey, not filters bolted on afterwards.
Bulk, cut or maintain. Frugain sets your calories and macros, then adjusts them from the weight trend it actually observes - and every adjustment is a number you can tap to see where it came from. No black box, because a target that moves without explanation is the thing people stop trusting.
The optimiser is the paid part, because it is the part that was genuinely hard to build. Everything you need to track a day costs nothing, for as long as you use it.
A tool about spending less shouldn't be expensive.
Takes about two minutes. Nothing to install - it runs in your browser and adds to your home screen.