Protein Buddy

Feature launch

Protein Buddy 1.3 introduces Protein Scout

For immediate release

Protein Buddy 1.3 is live on the App Store. Its headline feature, Protein Scout, answers the question a protein tracker usually cannot: not what did I eat, but what should I eat next. Photograph a menu, a buffet or the inside of a fridge, and Scout ranks the options in front of you against the protein you have left today.

iOS

Protein Scout results
Protein Scout ranking what to eat next from a photo of a fridge, with the best fit and the protein each option is worth.

At a glance

  • Protein Scout turns a photo of a menu, buffet or fridge into ranked suggestions for what to eat next.
  • Ranking is based on the protein you have left today, your diet style, and whether you take a GLP-1 medication.
  • Three free Scout scans per install, then it is part of the subscription.
  • Version 1.3 also adds a GLP-1 branch in onboarding, in-app support chat, and a reworked history with a week calendar and a day pager.
  • iOS only. Protein Scout is not in the current Android release.

Version 1.3 adds Protein Scout, a feature that changes what the app is asked to do. Instead of recording a meal after the fact, it helps choose the next one.

What Protein Scout does

Point the camera at a restaurant menu, a buffet, a work canteen or an open fridge, and Scout reads what is actually in front of you. It comes back with a short ranked list of the options that best close the gap between what you have eaten today and your target, with a best fit marked and the protein each option is worth.

The ranking is personal rather than generic. It uses the protein you have left today, your diet style, and whether you are taking a GLP-1 medication, so a vegetarian on a smaller appetite does not get handed the same answer as somebody training five days a week.

This is the part of protein tracking that no log solves. Knowing you are 38 g short at 6pm is useful only if you also know which of the six things on the menu in front of you gets you there, and that is a decision people make several times a day, quickly, usually while standing up.

Also in version 1.3

  • A GLP-1 branch in onboarding, so the daily target and the questions asked reflect the medication rather than ignoring it.
  • In-app support chat in Settings, a two-way thread with a person on the other end.
  • A reworked history: a week calendar with a day pager, a 24 hour meal timeline, and a Momentum insight card that compares one week with another.
  • One result card across photo, voice and barcode logging, so a result looks and behaves the same whichever way it was captured.
  • Expanded diet preferences, which feed both the daily target and what Scout suggests.

Availability

Protein Buddy 1.3 is free to download from the App Store and requires iOS 16.4 or later. Protein Scout comes with three free scans per install, after which it is part of the subscription, alongside continued photo and voice analysis. Barcode and manual logging remain free and unlimited. Current prices are shown on the App Store listing.

Protein Scout is an iOS feature at launch. It is not part of the Android release, which is now live on Google Play at version 1.2.0.

About Protein Buddy

Protein Buddy is a protein-only tracker for iPhone, iPad and Android. It asks for one number a day, the grams of protein you have eaten, sets a personal daily target from a short quiz, and makes each log take seconds by photo, voice, barcode or typing. It does not count calories.

The app is built for people protecting muscle while losing weight or ageing, including people taking GLP-1 medication, rather than for competitive athletes. Logging works offline, an account is optional, and the log lives on the device. Protein Buddy is made by Melloway, Inc.

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