A food journal without the calorie count
tadoy's food module is a quiet record of what you ate and how it left you — no calorie totals, no macro percentages, no scoreboard at the bottom of the screen. For people who want to notice food's part in their day without running a calculator in the background.
What's in the food module
- Meal log — what you ate, when, optionally a photo. No gram inputs.
- How it left you — energy, mood, digestion, in a short tap-list.
- Hydration — a simple water count, writes to Apple Health.
- Tags you choose — intolerances, eating windows, specific patterns you're watching.
- Trend view — meals across the week, alongside sleep and mood.
- Body page integration — food sits next to cycle, exercise, sleep on the same page.
- Private by default — entries stay on your device.
Why no calorie counting
Calorie and macro counting is a real practice and the right tool for some goals — body composition work, athletic performance, certain medical regimens. The tools that do it well — MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, Lose It — are built around exhaustive food databases and detailed nutrient logging. tadoy isn't trying to compete with them and would be worse at the job if it tried.
The food module is for a different practice: noticing. A meal you ate that left you flat at 3pm. A pattern of skipped lunches that tracks with worse sleep. A week where the cooking returned. tadoy's position is that this kind of noticing rarely needs a calculator — it needs a calm record next to the rest of the day.
Who this is for
- People exploring intuitive eating — where the point is to step back from numerical control. A calorie-counting app would undermine the work.
- People recovering from a tracking habit — where a clinical food log can be a relapse risk. A photo-and-feeling journal is gentler.
- People with specific intolerances — gluten, dairy, FODMAPs, histamines — who want to notice what correlates with what without running a full nutrition app.
- People who just want to remember — what they cooked, what they liked, what they want again, what didn't work.
How tadoy compares to other food apps
- MyFitnessPal — the dominant calorie tracker with a massive food database. The right tool for counting. tadoy is the opposite end of the spectrum.
- Cronometer — the most nutrient-detailed tracker — micronutrients, vitamins, the whole panel. Excellent for specific clinical regimens. Same comparison as MyFitnessPal.
- Ate — the photo-led mindful eating journal, closest in spirit to tadoy's food module. If a food-only Ate-style app is what you want, use Ate; tadoy is the daily page that sits around it.
- FoodNoms — sits between mindful and clinical — a nicely designed log with optional nutrition data and no social layer. Worth a look if you want optional macros.
- Yazio — calorie tracker with a meal-plan subscription layer. Same comparison as MyFitnessPal.
Food inside the daily page
A meal log is most useful when it sits next to the things that food actually affects — mood, energy, sleep, cycle, digestion. tadoy puts the food log on the body page alongside those, so a heavy lunch shows up next to the afternoon slump, and a week of regular eating shows up next to steadier sleep. You read the cause and the effect on the same page.
Privacy
Food entries — including photos, notes and tags — live on your device. They aren't synced to tadoy's servers, shared with advertisers, or used to train any model. Full detail on the privacy page.
See the daily page Read about the mood module
Common questions about the food module
- Are there calorie counts?
- No. For counting, MyFitnessPal or Cronometer are the right tools.
- Can I track hydration?
- Yes. A simple water count, writes to Apple Health.
- Does it judge what I ate?
- No. No scores, no nutrient ratings, no shame copy.
- What if I want some nutrition data?
- tadoy doesn't show it. FoodNoms is a good middle-ground option.
- Is it private?
- On-device, not synced to our servers.