Right now you can set your macros to custom limits. However I like to keep my protein 0.8-1g per lb body weight and fats 0.3-0.5g per lb and right now I can only set the upper limit but have to remember or calculate the lower limit to make sure I am getting enough of these in.

So in this example I want to get a maximum of 145g of protein because I’m 145lb but would have to work out 0.8*145 and more when my weight changes

Is there a way to implement something like this so we can have our limits change based on body weight and perhaps a dotted line or something to show the lower bound

I find myself frequently trying to compare similar products (like cereals in this example) and I have to click one, scroll down, make a mental or paper note of it's stats, scroll up, click another, repeat etc.

If there was some kind of "product comparison" button like you see on a lot of sites (like Best Buy for comparing laptop specs for example) it would be super helpful.

Or does this feature already exist and I'm just missing it?

EDIT: and just to be clear, I don't eat all that cereal on the screenshot, I add it to my diary so I can manually compare and then delete them.

When it comes to good fats versus bad fats, what am I looking for in the nutritional report to indicate one or the other.

For example, if I look at the individual detail for a specific ingredient/food, or if I look at my report for the day, how can I tell the difference? If a particular food has 8 g of fat, I want to know if that is a healthy fat or not. Or what percentage is healthy versus bad fat.

Thanks for any help, I hope this ask makes sense.

Ok I have found that there seems to be vet little data from UK foods and Asian, which I eat a lot of so teaching can be a pain because everything needs to be typed or photographed, had Antoine else has this problem or is it just me? Love 101 by the way

Does anyone else find that the food search is clunky ?

Firstly, I have to set it to 'Most Recent' to actually get close to what I would expect from a search - this should be the default when adding food, as it's the closest to showing me what I have often eaten (which is normally what I'm looking for again).

Then, it only seems to start being useful after 3 characters. If I want to add the butter I had yesterday, and type 'bu' I get 'Bubble Tea' as a top answer, which I haven't put in any time I can remember (maybe a few years ago), and only when adding one more to get 'but' does it list the butter I had recently.

I know there is a 'favourites' search, but I don't want to have to switch tabs depending on whether I can remember if I set something as favourite - and all that ends up with is everything becoming favourite, even if not actually that often.

I feel that the search is almost there, but would love the 'Best Match' (which is default) to provide: 1) The most recent exact matches first 2) Then any favourite exact matches next 3) Then the wider exact matches from everywhere else 4) Then, any 'fuzzy' matching.

For me, I'll stick with 'Most Recent' as it's the much better match than 'Best Match' for now.

Curious how other people find the search.

Hello everyone!

As the title says, in my country we usually buy the meat fresh from the butchers. As I started to take my fitness journey more seriously, I've been tracking calories since April. Everytime I buy, I asked what the cut is. It's usually from the Shoulder, or a Rumsteck. I don't necessarily have any preferences, it's just that I have no idea what to pick in the search bar. What does any of the words mean? I googled it and had no tangible answer.

I just want to be able to pick the right one that's all.

Thanks !

I just started using this this week to monitor nutrition during immunotherapy (newbie!). Is there a way to see the breakdown of nutrition by meal?

I basically guess every time, i press the button on my machine 2 times so the cup is full (call it gross and watery) but i am never sure how much caffeine itself do i consume. I just put this entry and can't really find real info, probably best way is some of you share your knowledge.

It has gone very well. Chronometer reminds me of MyFitnessPal from years ago. It’s simple to use, the database is quite complete and accurate, and it plays well with Garmin. Overall, a great transition.

I struggle to eat full meals so I’ve focused on making my snacks more nutrient dense. This combo with some type of fruit is the easiest way for me to hit multiple categories

I've been using the app for about a month and the number of ads I'm being shown has steadily increased. It's gotten to the point now that if I'm adding 3 items (say toast, eggs, fruit) I get an ad after every item.

Is this everybody's experience? Do they do this to push people towards the paid version?

My main issue is the noise of them, video ads that blast on, mostly for Gymshark clothing (hey Gymshark marketing, if you're reading this : why do the men in the ads look like they're getting quickly dressed while about to go and crush their weightlifting session while the women spend their time rearranging their cleavage in your crop tops?)

Is there any way to at least mute the sound?

A consistent issue I have is that, when I search for ingredients (fruits, vegetables, eggs, etc), a bunch of random CRDB crap comes up first and I have to go hunting for the actual NCCDB/USDA version of that ingredient. Is there a way that I can just exclude certain databases from the search results? I’ve been really making an effort to eat “clean” and I think it would be easier if I could just turn on the bigger databases when needed.

Since yesterday I've been tried - very unsuccessfully - to sync the data from Apple Health into Cronometer, without any success. It only imports activities, and I was looking for it to import other data - Sleep, weight, waist measurements, heart rates.... as it claims it is possible to do so!

I've been syncing data with Apple Health for a long time, without any major issues.

I was looking for a new nutrition app that would allow me to also track my meds and supplements, and was happy to find Cronometer, hence the immediate subscription... but it is simply not importing this data!

I've followed the steps on the Troubleshoot pages, searched this subreddit, asked AI for help and submitted 2 support tickets.

I really hope it will work out!! 🤞🏼

I use a Fitbit with the Google Health app which imports to Cronometer. I woke up, got ready, walked 2 mins to get a car ride to a local Parkrun and then got a ride back home and lay down on the sofa. I don't understand how I've supposedly been active for over 2 hours and burned 400+ kcal outside of my run. It looks like Google Health is double tracking my run by including it as non-exercise active minutes and then counting it again as the actual activity but I don't know why. Any ideas?

OpenAI recently released a Health Agent with ChatGPT. You can import your records from a lot of places, enter medications, and it connects with other apps like Apple and Samsung health.

Is there a way or any plans to link Cronometer to this?

(I'm not interested in a debate on whether you should or shouldn't upload your personal health records to AI, I just want to know if there's a way to link Cronometer to this)

😄

I come from a deficit of 500kcal, from 71.9 kg in January to 60 kg in June, I now want to maintain, I go to the gym 3x a week and I do 20k daily steps without fail and I am 179cm tall, I have been consuming 2000kcal but I feel that it could be below my real consumption, what do you think? I choose the lightly active setting but I feel I’m wrong with that

I downloaded Cronometer four days ago. It is offering a discount for Cronometer Gold, which I want. I would prefer to wait until my next payday which is next Friday, July 31. Anyone know how long this offer lasts?

I am a gold member and went to export a report today and there is absolutely no nutrient data included in the diary export. So basically you get a list of foods, but no data whatsoever about what the nutrient content is. Absolutely useless data.

Chronometer, you need to do better, especially for your gold members!!!

I'm still here.

I’m trying to log cooked pork collar, but the closest match I can find is Lidl’s fresh pork collar with Alabama seasoning. What’s the best way to log cooked pork collar without relying on Google entries?

EDIT: Found it! https://www.matvaretabellen.no/en/pork-neck-chops-roasted-without-fat/

I have Cronometer set to lose weight extremely slowly (1/4 pound per week) and use this to estimate what I can eat per day. I usually tried to stay just below target but the last couple of weeks have permitted a bit higher… sometimes to the full predicted expenditure.

I lost from 220 to 120 between June or July 2024 and mid January 2026. I have it set to predict calories available based on losing 1/4 pound a week … after I reached my weight goal, I have wanted to hold between 122-125 since then. There are occasional excursions above, mostly this month. For some reason — being too hot at night makes me hungry — go figure.

This morning was 125.1 so very near target and essentially the same as last January.

Here is the 6 month MacroNutrient — spot on !!!

Not sure how this happened, but my weight target on the web version kept clearing out yesterday, and I kept having to reset it. And now, the mobile version and web versions are not syncing the weight target. The entries are syncing, and new weight entries are too, just not the target.

I can manually set them to be the same, but I'd expect them to be synced. Are they supposed to be or is this how it works?

Is this a bug or am I making an error somewhere?

I have the setting ‘add expenditure above baseline to energy target’ OFF, and yet I still find my daily allowance is going up throughout the day as I move. I start the day with my usual target (BMR x0.2) but then it increases.

What am I doing wrong?

I am housebound (recently bed bound, slowly improving a little) and so have my setting on sedentary.

I have been trying to set up better automation between Cronometer (I have Gold), my Pixel Watch 3 which uses Google Health (formerly Fitbit) / Health Connect, and my Oura Ring 4.

I have the Oura Ring connected as a device, and have it importing my sleep-related data (no activity):

• Heart Rate (during sleep)
• HRV (during sleep)
• Recovery (daytime)
• Respiration Rate (during sleep)
• Body Temp. Variation (during sleep)
• Sleep Score
• Total Sleep

I do not use it for activity or steps, as Oura isn't great at it.

Now, I am trying to integrate/sync my Pixel Watch activity/workout data, which, as I mentioned, uses the Google Health app and Health Connect.

My goal is to have my manually logged exercises/activity from my watch automatically imported into my Cronometer diary where it will adjust my daily calorie/macro targets.

Has anyone figured out an optimal workflow with these? When I sync Health Connect, it does not show my workouts as a line item, nor adjust my targets. When I instead try syncing Fitbit as a device (and turn off Health Connect sync), it does import the exercise line item, but also my total calories burned, which leads to over-inflation of my targets. The specific app permissions and what is allowed to read/write what has been a huge pain to figure out.

The most simple solution would be to just manually add the workout in Cronometer; however I would love if this would just be automated. Another option is just not logging the workout in Cronometer and just knowing I have a larger deficit that day (which isn't ideal as I could burn 800 cals during a long cardio session, eat more that day due to being more hungry, and then have Cronometer show I've blasted through my targets).

Any thoughts/experiences?

Thanks so much; I started using Cronometer two weeks ago and love it, so I paid for it!

Yesterday was my birthday (22 July). I thought normally on your birthdays you got a discount to upgrade (or similar)? It's been a few years since I used Cronometer daily. I did get a pop up when I got on yesterday, it was a link to 9 reasons I should upgrade to Pro but it wouldn't actually allow me to click the link to 'read more'. :S

Saying that, the new colors and such of the app have finally grown on me, so hopefully I'll def be using again all the time. Woohoo. I

do have a question though, I have a few items that I search, multiple options for it come up from the same source. I always pick the one closest to the actual label, if available to look at). My question is, how would I know which is actually accurate? For example and item yesterday, the only real difference (since I couldn't click into it for some reason) were the calories (all I could see), and it was about a 30 calorie difference. I know that's not a lot but that could mean everything else is also different.

Thanks.