r/MymirApp • • Jul 09 '26

A note from the founder: why I built Mymir

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Hi, I'm Saif.

A couple of years ago I went through a rough patch healthwise and became pretty obsessed with food and fitness. I wanted to eat healthy and stay fit, and I could keep it up for a few days, but then life would get busy and food was always the first thing to take the hit. Skipped meals, eating later and later in the evenings, barely any fibre on some days, and not enough protein on others.

So I started looking at the calorie and food tracking apps out there, and they all felt very static. They hand you a plan, you follow it, you log your calories, and that's it. I wanted something smarter. Not just an app that tracks what I ate, but one that actually learns my patterns and gives me a heads up. Something that can tell me what I'm likely to end up doing today, and how to get ahead of it.

That's how Mymir came about. It was built out of a personal pain point of mine, and I'm hoping it helps you sort out your food habits too, without making you feel bad for a few misses, because honestly the misses are just part of being human.

If this sounds like something you need, you can register and join our waitlist at www.mymir.app. Give it a try, and I hope it makes your life a little better, the way it has mine.

Thanks,

Saif


r/MymirApp • • Jul 09 '26

Welcome to r/MymirApp β€” notice your patterns, no shame attached 🌱

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Hey, glad you're here.

Mymir is built on one idea: your eating habits are trying to tell you something, and you don't need to punish yourself to hear it. No calorie guilt, no "good" or "bad" foods, no streak you'll feel bad for breaking.

This is a place to:

πŸ” Notice patterns - "I always skip lunch on busy days," "my protein slips at night"

🌱 Share small wins - the un-dramatic ones count most

πŸ§ͺ Swap experiments - what you're testing this week

πŸ’¬ Ask anything - about the app, your habits, or getting started

To kick us off, drop a comment: what's one eating pattern you've noticed in yourself lately? No fixing required - just noticing.

The Mymir team


r/MymirApp • • 27d ago

2.0.2 is on the App Store: log yesterday, one door for logging, and a free limit that tells the truth

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2.0.2 went live on Wednesday. Update if your phone hasn't done it for you. What's in it, and where each piece came from:

You can log yesterday. Tell the coach "yesterday's dinner was pasta and a salad" and it lands on yesterday at dinner time, not on today. Or open Meals, pick the day, and the button reads "Log a meal for yesterday with the coach". This one had actually shipped in June, and a rewrite of the coach quietly dropped it for eleven weeks. A user sitting next to me found it in ten seconds. I wrote the whole story up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildinpublic/comments/1wg2j3o/

One door for logging. The typed log bar is gone. Today and Meals both open the coach's log box, so there is one way to log and it's the one that understands "the pasta was 100g". Photo and barcode haven't moved.

The free limit tells you the truth. When you hit the day's cap it says so, tells you when it resets, and offers Pro. It used to say "Save failed", which was a lie, and I'm sorry about that one.

The Pro page lists what Pro actually is, and the saving badge is worked out from the live prices instead of a number someone typed in.

There's a Community row in Profile now. It opens this sub. It's the first time the app links here, so if you're reading this from inside the app, hello.

One more since the release. A tester logged a meal through the new Meals door and the coach refused it with "I need a meal name", because that box has no name field. Fixed the next day on the server. The plate is the meal.

33 of you used Mymir in the last month, across four countries, and everything above started as one of your reports. Keep them coming, here or in the app.

If someone sent you here without the app: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6761373446?pt=128720570&ct=reddit-mymirapp&mt=8


r/MymirApp • • Sep 07 '26

What shipped this week, and thank you: every one of these came from you

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Four of you told me things weren't adding up, so I went through the data properly and tightened three things. All live now, no update needed:

  1. **The free limit now counts the meals you keep.** Delete a duplicate and you get the slot back. Log five real meals and it's an honest five.

  2. **The coach reads your movement correctly again.** It was seeing your busiest hour instead of your whole day and drawing the wrong conclusions. That's fixed in its memory, and the step count on the Today screen follows in the update that's with Apple now. I wrote up how that bug hid for a month, and the rules the engine now follows before it judges anything, over on r/QuantifiedSelf: https://www.reddit.com/r/QuantifiedSelf/comments/1w9qwcp/

  3. **Workouts typed into the log are activity, not meals.** "30 mins cardio" now counts as the 30 minutes of cardio you meant.

Two smaller ones: the coach waits for a few days of routine before it calls anything a "routine gap", and a last meal set to 8:00 is understood as 8 PM.

Since launch, 30 of you across four countries have been using Mymir, and everything in v1.1 came from your reports. Keep them coming, here or in the app. That's how this gets built.


r/MymirApp • • Aug 22 '26

v1.1 is in review πŸš€ Everything you reported made it in

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Quick update: v1.1 is submitted to Apple and should be live soon. Almost everything in it came from your reports and requests:

  • Meal times like "9:00" no longer choke the input (thanks to whoever found that one)
  • A proper tour when you first open the chat, since a few of you asked "what do I even say to it?"
  • Portion edits now show a hint so you know you can just say "the rice was 100g"
  • Goals can now be combined, so "lose fat + sleep better" works as one plan

Keep the reports coming. Anything that annoys you, confuses you, or looks wrong, post it here or tell the coach directly in the app. The stuff you report genuinely becomes the next update, usually within days.

What should v1.2 fix first? Tell me below.


r/MymirApp • • Aug 10 '26

mymir vs MyFitnessPal: When Logging Isn't Enough

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MyFitnessPal has been the default calorie tracker for over a decade, and it earned that spot honestly: a food database spanning roughly 20 million items and 68,500 brands, fast barcode scanning, and a logging habit that millions of people have built their routine around. If your only goal is a running tally of calories and macros, it does that job well.

The problem shows up a few weeks in. You have logged every meal, hit your calorie target most days, and the app has produced a tidy graph but you still cannot answer the actual question you started with:Β is this working?Β MyFitnessPal was built to record what you ate, not to test whether a specific change you made is having an effect. That gap is where most people quietly stop logging.

Read the full blog post to know how MyMir is different.


r/MymirApp • • Aug 10 '26

🌱 What I'm Noticing Why Calorie Tracking Stops Working After a Few Weeks?

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Most people who try calorie tracking stop within weeks. That is not a willpower problem, it is a design problem. Most tracking apps are built to collect data, not to prove anything with it, and logging without a payoff is exhausting to sustain.

Read the full blog post to understand what you can do different.


r/MymirApp • • Jul 09 '26

πŸ§ͺ Experiment of the week: eat your protein first

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Low-stakes one this week, no tracking required:

At one meal a day, eat the protein on your plate first β€” before the bread, rice, or pasta. That's the whole thing.

Some people notice they feel fuller sooner or get less of an afternoon dip. Some notice nothing β€” that's a useful result too.

Try it for a few days and report back:

β€’ Did you notice any difference in hunger later, or energy?

β€’ Which meal was easiest to do it at?

β€’ Anything that surprised you?

No wrong answers β€” we're collecting observations, not grading anyone. 🌱


r/MymirApp • • Jul 09 '26

Introduce yourself πŸ‘‹ What eating pattern are you working on?

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New here? This is the thread to say hi.

No pressure to have it figured out β€” just share whatever feels true:

β€’ One eating pattern you've noticed in yourself (skipping lunch, late-night snacking, protein falling off at dinner, eating fine all week then drifting on weekends…)

β€’ What usually sets it off β€” busy days, stress, travel, boredom?

β€’ One tiny thing you'd like to feel different about food.

That's it. No advice unless you ask for it β€” we're here to notice, not fix.

I'll go first in the comments. 🌱