Stop eating blind

You wouldn't drive with your eyes closed

Yet most of us eat that way every day — a rough guess, a number off a chart, no way to check any of it. Fork Ally itemizes what you actually ate, builds your targets from your own body, and shows the arithmetic behind every one. Your goal, with the lights on.

iPhone · iOS 26 or later · free to start

Fork Ally after logging a spoken meal: scrambled eggs 144 kcal, sourdough bread 130 kcal and butter 50 kcal, totalling 324 kcal with 16 g protein, and 1,846 kcal left for the day.

An actual meal, actually logged. Nothing here is a mock-up.

How it works

Three seconds, not three minutes

The reason people quit trackers is the search-scroll-tap-repeat of entering a meal. Say it once instead.

Say it, type it, or shoot it

Describe the plate in your own words, or photograph it. Speech is transcribed on your iPhone itself — the audio never leaves the device.

It comes back itemized

Every food separated out with calories, protein, carbs, fat, fibre and eight micronutrients. Common foods resolve instantly from a database built into the app, with no network round trip at all.

You check it, then it saves

Nothing is logged until you say so. Wrong portion? Tell it — “make that three eggs” — and it restates the whole meal instead of quietly editing one line.

Why it's different

A tracker that shows its work

Your numbers, not a table's

Targets are computed from your own height, weight and measurements — and if you have a DEXA scan, from your actual lean mass. Then they are re-checked against what the scale and your log really did.

The budget moves with your day

Sat still all day? The number reflects it. Walked 15,000 steps? You earned the food, and it says so. Apple Health supplies the burn; the maths is recomputed, not fudged.

Every number names its source

One screen lists the arithmetic behind every target, each line citing the published paper it came from, linked to PubMed. If you disagree with a number, you can go read why it's there.

The receipts

Ask it “says who?”
and it answers

Nutrition apps are full of confident round numbers with no provenance. Fork Ally treats that as a bug. Open How your numbers are calculated and every figure is reproduced with your own values, alongside the study it came from.

These are references for arithmetic the app performs — descriptions of what researchers measured in groups of people, not conclusions about you.

Why that protein target? Set from your fat-free mass in grams per kilogram, not a flat number per pound of bodyweight. Helms et al. — protein for lean athletes · PubMed
Why warn above 0.7% a week? Past that rate, the athletes in Garthe's trial stopped keeping the muscle they were cutting to keep. Garthe et al. — rate of weight loss in elite athletes · PubMed
Where do the body-fat bands come from? Population reference ranges by age and sex — a description of a group, not an assessment of any individual. Gallagher et al. — body-fat reference ranges · PubMed

Privacy

Your food diary is nobody else's business

A log of everything you eat, plus your weight, is about as personal as data gets. It is treated that way.

Never sold, never shared. Your data is not sold, rented, or handed to advertisers or data brokers. There are no ads in the app and no third-party trackers on this page.

Dictation is for that one request. What you say is sent to be transcribed, turned into text, and not kept — nobody stores the audio.

Apple Health is read-only. Fork Ally reads your weight, body fat and active energy to do the maths. It never writes anything back to Health.

Leave whenever you like. Delete your account from inside the app and everything on the server goes with it. Export a full copy of your data to your phone at any time.

Get started

Start with today's lunch

Free to start, with the whole tracker — logging, targets, charts, the evidence screen — included. No ads, ever.

Requires iPhone on iOS 26 or later.