Health, home and travel

Mahlzait alternatives

1 open-source project that already does this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

simonoppowa/OpenNutriTracker2,289GPL-3.0Open source calorie tracker providing meal logging, nutrition tracking, and weight history.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Polished native iOS UI/UX, widgets and Apple Watch support
In-app purchase plumbing and App Store distribution polish
WhatsApp integration and chat UX
Proprietary AI model or tuned image-recognition accuracy and ongoing model improvements
Ongoing AI web-search integration for missing foods

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Mahlzait, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.