Food logging, macro targets & meal plans

Open the Nutrition tab and tap LOG FOOD. There are five ways in, as tabs across the top:

• SEARCH — your own frequent foods first, then the wider database.
• PLAN — today's meals from your meal plan, one tap to log.
• AI — describe the meal in plain language (“two eggs, toast and a banana”) and it's broken into items with macros. You can adjust the serving size before it's saved.
• SCAN — point the camera at a barcode.
• MANUAL — type the numbers yourself when you know them.

Food logging is free, on every tier. Pick the meal slot (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack) at the top and everything lands on the daily ring alongside your training.

In Nutrition → Daily Targets, enter your bodyweight, pick a diet style, a goal and an activity level, then tap Calculate my macros. SwoleX estimates your maintenance calories, applies your goal, and splits the result according to the style you chose:

• Balanced — an even split. A solid default.
• High Protein — protein-forward, for building or holding muscle in a deficit.
• Keto — carbohydrate is pinned to a hard daily ceiling and the remaining calories go to fat.
• Low Carb — reduced carbohydrate without the strictness of keto.
• Mediterranean — moderate carbohydrate, higher unsaturated fat.
• Endurance — carbohydrate-loaded for training volume.
• Zone — a fixed 40/30/30 style split.

This is why the style matters rather than being cosmetic: a marathon runner and a bodybuilder at the same bodyweight get genuinely different targets. Every calculated number is still editable — type over any field and hit Save if you'd rather set your own.

Meal plans are a Pro feature. From Nutrition → Meal Plans → New meal plan, tell Kevin how many days you want, which meals to plan, and the foods you actually eat. He builds the plan around the macro targets you set.

• Plan only the meals you want. You don't have to plan the whole day — ask for dinner only and that's all you'll get.
• It's a guideline, not a quota. A day won't always add up to your full calorie target, deliberately — it leaves headroom for coffee, snacks and real life. The notes suggest a few snack ideas to close the gap if you want to.
• Common foods only. Kevin sticks to things you can buy in a normal supermarket. If you list something broad like “cheese” or “fish”, he picks a common member of it.

Yes — nothing is all-or-nothing. Every item in the plan has a −/+ stepper. Change a portion and the item, meal and day totals all follow.

Then log at whatever size suits you:

• A single item — the small + beside the row.
• A whole meal — log meal beside the meal name.
• The entire day — the button at the bottom of the day.

Anything you log from a plan goes into your normal food log for today, so it counts toward the daily ring like any other entry.

Every plan includes a grocery list, aggregated across all the days and — this is the point — in the units a shop actually sells. A dozen eggs. 3.5 lb of chicken breast. A pint of berries. A bag of rice. Not “1,588 g chicken”.

Items are grouped by category, so you walk the shop once instead of doubling back.

Yes. Open a plan and tap the share icon in the top right to export it as a PDF — every day, every meal, with per-item macros and the grocery list included. From there you can print it, save it to Files, or send it to someone.

Optionally, yes — and it's off until you turn it on. It's a separate toggle from workout syncing, so enabling one doesn't enable the other.

When it's on, the calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat you log are written to Apple Health (iOS) or Health Connect (Android). It is write-only — SwoleX doesn't read your dietary data back out.

Barcode lookups hit a large open food database first. If that's slow or unavailable, SwoleX automatically falls back to the USDA food database, so a scan that used to fail outright now usually still resolves.

If a product genuinely isn't in either, use MANUAL to enter it from the label — it'll then show up in your frequent foods for next time.

If you connect Google Drive, yes — your nutrition log is included alongside your workouts. Backups run automatically after you log, and SwoleX keeps a rotating set of recent snapshots in your own Drive.

SwoleX can only see the files it creates in your Drive, not the rest of your Drive. Cloud backup is available on the free tier. See Data export & backup for the full detail.