Yes, Health Connect is supported on the Android app. As long as Samsung Health is set to write to Health Connect (Samsung Health → Settings → Connections → Health Connect), NutriTrace can read steps, sleep, heart rate, weight, and exercise from it.
Honestly though, this path hasn’t had many testers yet, so if you give it a shot I’d really appreciate a heads-up on what works and what doesn’t. Feedback (positive or bug reports) is welcome on GitHub.
Hey, thanks for trying it out!
For things you don’t measure by weight (eggs being the classic example), the easiest path is to make a local entry once and then reuse it. A few ways to go about it.
The nutrition label on your egg carton is your friend here. It’ll show you the serving size, usually 1 large egg at around 50g, plus the full breakdown (calories, protein, fat, carbs). Tap the + on the Foods page, type those numbers in, set Serving size to 50 and Unit to “grams”. From then on, logging eggs is just typing “Quantity: 2” in the diary and the math takes care of itself.
For irregularly-sized stuff like apples or bananas, a kitchen scale is honestly the easiest path. A medium apple can swing anywhere from 130g to 220g, so weighing it once and typing the gram count gets you accurate numbers without needing a separate per-piece entry for every size.
One thing worth knowing about OFF and USDA results: the “100g” you see is just the per-100g nutrition density. That’s how those databases store everything, it’s a baseline reference, not a forced serving size. So you can either weigh your food and type the grams directly, or edit the entry to change the portion and unit (say to “1 piece” or “1 cup”) and the totals rescale.
Once you’ve dialed in a handful of items you eat regularly, day-to-day logging gets a lot faster. The new Favorites and Most Used sort in rc.19 will float your top items to the top of the Foods page automatically.
Just pushed rc.15 with the fix. Energy unit setting is now respected across the app, and the wizard auto-picks kJ for AU and NZ on first run.
Glad you’re enjoying it.
On the kJ, you’re right. The setting was being respected for goals and storage but a bunch of display spots still had kcal hardcoded. Just pushed the fix to dev and it’ll be in the next public release. Also added auto-detect so if your device locale is en-AU or en-NZ the wizard pre-selects kJ on first run, no toggle needed (but present now in settings).
On AI for coding, yes I utilize it. Claude Code to be specific. It makes me more efficient and helps lift the work I ship.
Will let you know when i push out the update, should be later today.
Glad the workaround clicked. Custom-nutrient “water” plus your own recipes is the cleanest path for comprehensive accounting without waiting on a built-in feature.
The “two lists feels more complicated than one” observation is fair and worth sitting with. Ill add this as a possible future feature
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback.
Thank you! Enjoy the app!
Currently no, there’s no per-food water field in NutriTrace, and food water doesn’t count toward your daily water goal. The water tab tracks drinking water only.
What’s the actual use case for you, comprehensive nutrition accounting, or trying to reduce the explicit drinking water target based on what you ate? They’re different problems and the answer would shape what (if anything) makes sense to add in the future.
Yes, vibe coded and proud of it. This is a labor of love that I genuinely don’t think I could have completed without Claude Code. The first commit is large because I was working out of a private dev repo and synced everything to the public repo just before the 1.0 RC release. Hope you give it a chance and that it suits your needs. Thanks!
Thanks all, really appreciate the kind words. Feedback is welcome on anything: bug reports, missing features, things that feel rough, or just “this works for my setup.” A few features are flagged Experimental right now and I’d like to harden them enough to drop the badge.
Native Android app is in active development. There’s also a sister project in the works called LiftTrace under the same TraceApps umbrella, same self-hosted Docker setup but for workout tracking (sets, reps, programs, PRs). Not public yet but close.
Not directly. NutriTrace doesn’t record steps or GPS itself; it reads them from whatever’s already tracking you (Health Connect on Android, or Fitbit/Garmin/Withings via their cloud APIs). So if Google Fit, Samsung Health, or your watch is counting your steps and logging workouts, NutriTrace will pull those numbers in and chart them alongside your nutrition.