Protein first
Protein Buddy tracks one number by default: the protein you need today. If you also want calories, fiber, carbs or fat, Settings asks what you keep an eye on, gives you a goal for each, and puts those numbers on the foods you log and on every day in your calendar. Choose Just protein and none of them ever appear.
An example day with everything switched on. On Just protein, the four tiles are not there at all.
Just protein, protein and calories, protein and fiber, protein and macros, or everything. It is one row in Settings and you can change it any time.
Drag a ruler per nutrient, or keep the numbers the app suggests from your own answers. Moving one goal never moves another.
The foods you log carry their numbers, the day totals them in your calendar, and protein stays the number on the Home screen.
Most food trackers ask for everything and get abandoned in a week. Protein Buddy asks for one number a day, which takes seconds to log and is the number that matters most if you are eating less than you used to. Everything else is optional on purpose.
Photograph a meal, say what you ate, type it, or scan a barcode, and the estimate carries calories, carbs, fat and fiber along with the protein. They rescale when you change the portion, so a half serving is half the numbers.
Once you watch more than protein, something with no protein in it stops being invisible: a soft drink, a juice, a glass of wine. Anything with calories can be logged with its own numbers, and alcohol is counted in them properly instead of reading as almost nothing.
Just protein is the default, and on that setting the app looks exactly as it always has: one goal, one ring, no calorie score competing for your attention. Nobody gets nudged into counting calories by an update.
Straight answers
Only if you turn it on. Protein is the one number the app is built around and the only one you see by default. In Settings you can choose to keep an eye on calories as well, set a calorie goal and see calories on the foods you log and on each day in your calendar.
Yes. Choose protein and macros, or everything, and carbs, fat and fiber appear alongside protein with a goal for each. When you track everything, the calorie goal adds itself up from your protein, carb and fat goals, so the four always agree.
Yes, once you keep an eye on more than protein. Anything with calories can be logged with its calories, carbs and fat, including alcohol, which is counted at its real energy rather than treated as nothing. Something with no calories at all, like water or black coffee, is still not logged.
No. It is a protein tracker that can show a second number if you want one. The daily goal on Home is protein, the character on Home fills with protein, and choosing Just protein removes every other number from the app.
From the same estimate that reads your food. A photo, a spoken meal, a typed description or a barcode returns protein together with carbs, fat and fiber, and the day sums them. The app tells you when some of a day's entries were logged as plain grams and have no estimate behind them.
No. Setup asks once what you would like to keep an eye on, and Just protein is a perfectly good answer. The row in Settings changes it later, as often as you like, and it never changes your protein goal.
One number, and room for more
Get Protein Buddy, set your daily protein goal, and decide for yourself how much else you want to see.
