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Alba

A calorie counter that keeps everything on your phone

Alba logs a food in a few seconds: open, search, quantity, add, done. It runs local-first, so the diary, the weights and the recipes live in a database on the device and nowhere else. There is no account, no advertising and no analytics.

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Status
In development
Platforms
Version
0.1.0
  1. Alba's home screen for a Wednesday, greeting Giovi above an illustration of a flame character holding a bowl of fruit, with 1,735 calories logged and protein, carbohydrate and fat totals below.

    The day, in one screen.

    Calories and the three macros are the first thing on screen, not something you go looking for. Adding a food takes one tap from here, and the barcode scanner is the same distance away when the label is easier than the name.

  2. The history screen with a bar chart of calories per day and a list of logged days underneath, each showing its total and how it compares with the day before.

    Days, weeks, months, or the whole run.

    The same diary at four zoom levels. Every day carries how it compares with the one before it, so a week reads as a direction rather than a column of numbers, and weight sits on the same page under its own tab.

  3. The weekly planner with a row of days and slots for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, plus buttons to copy a day or a whole week.

    Plan the week before it starts.

    Meals set out for the days ahead, with a whole day or a whole week copied forward in a tap. What you planned becomes what you logged, so a routine week costs almost nothing to record.

  4. Settings, listing the six interface languages, weight tracking frequency and unit, and the privacy and data section.

    Six languages, and the privacy switches in one place.

    Italian, English, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese, each with its own privacy policy and terms. Online search sits here too, off until you turn it on, with the destination of every request named before the first one leaves.

Alba exists because logging a meal usually takes too long. The whole app is built around one path: open, search, set a quantity, add, done.

Keeping it local-first is what makes that possible. There is no sign-in step, no sync spinner and no network round trip between opening the app and writing something down. The trade is deliberate: because there is no copy on a server, nobody can recover the diary for you, so the app puts export and deletion in your own hands instead.

What it does

Nothing leaves the phone
The diary, your weight history and your recipes are stored in a database on the device. There is no account to create, no server holding a copy, and Android backup is switched off so the data is not copied out silently.
Barcodes, when you want them
The camera is used for one thing only, reading a product barcode, and only while that screen is open. Nothing is recorded and no image is kept.
Online search is off until you turn it on
Alba starts by searching only the foods already on your phone. Before the first request ever leaves the device it tells you exactly who will receive it and what will be sent, and it stays off unless you accept.
Six languages
Italian, English, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese, with the privacy policy and terms published in every one of them.

Details

Languages
Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese
Support
info@gioviwankenobi.com