DailyRation

Track your food on your terms. 350+ ingredients on day one, barcode and label scanning, recipes that compute their own nutrition.

DAILYRATION

A nutrition tracker for people who cook and don't want another account or subscription.

If you make most of your food from real ingredients and you've spent ten minutes inside a mainstream nutrition app wondering where the recipe button is, this is for you. DailyRation treats recipes as the main thing — not a premium upsell — and gets out of your way.

WHAT IT DOES

• Over 350 ingredients on day one. Eggs, olive oil, black beans, oats, tofu — the stuff you actually cook with is already there with full USDA nutrition data. • Scan a barcode. Point your camera at a product barcode and the app looks it up instantly. • Scan a nutrition label. No barcode? Photograph the nutrition facts panel and the app reads it. • Search two databases. The full USDA FoodData Central catalog for whole foods, plus Open Food Facts for the branded and packaged products USDA doesn't carry. One tap switches between them. • Enter it yourself. For anything else, add an ingredient manually with your own nutrition data. • Cook a recipe once, log it forever. Build a recipe from ingredients. Every time you eat it, log it with one tap. • See your day at a glance. Calories, protein, carbs, fat, plus the micronutrients you care about — all on one screen. • Trends across days and weeks. Tap any nutrient to see a 7-day chart with your target line. • iCloud sync, on by default. Recipes, ingredients, and meals follow you across devices. No account, no signup, no password. Turn it off in Settings if you'd rather stay device-only.

FOUR TABS

Log. Your day. A chart header shows macros, calories vs. target, micronutrients, and limits. Below that, the meals you've logged. Swipe left or right to walk through previous days. Tap any nutrient on the chart to open a 7-day trend popup.

Trends. The 7-day view. Line charts for calories, macros, limits, and micronutrients, each with a target line. Navigate week by week to see how your week shaped up.

Recipes. Your cookbook. Each recipe is a list of ingredients with quantities. Nutrition is computed from the ingredients. When you log a recipe, it captures a snapshot — tweaking the recipe later won't change your history.

Ingredients. Your pantry. Every ingredient from a barcode scan, label scan, USDA or Open Food Facts search, or manual entry, with its full nutrition breakdown.

READING THE CHART HEADER

• Macro donut on the left: protein, carbs, fat. Tap a wedge for that nutrient's trend. • Calorie ring in the center: progress toward your calorie target. Past target it shifts toward red. • Active energy ring (optional, via Apple Health): how much you've burned, scaled against the same target. • Limit bars on the right — Sodium / Saturated Fat / Cholesterol / Added Sugar / Alcohol: green to amber to red as you approach your daily limit. Toggle each independently in Settings. • Micro rings below — Iron / Calcium / Magnesium / Potassium / Fiber: small rings that fill toward your daily target. Each toggleable in Settings.

APPLE HEALTH

Off by default. Show active calories reads your active energy burned from Apple Health and renders a green ring inside the calorie ring, scaled to your calorie target. The app only reads from Health; it doesn't write anything back.

PRIVACY

There is no DailyRation server. Your data lives on your device. With iCloud sync on (default), it also lives in your private iCloud database — accessible only by you. You can turn sync off in Settings. Ingredient search and barcode lookups query USDA and Open Food Facts directly from your device; nothing personal is sent. Nothing is collected, sold, or transmitted.

REQUIREMENTS

• iPhone or iPad running iOS 17+ • Mac running macOS 14+