Build a nutrition app — meal tracking, personalized plans, and dietary coaching.
Nutrition apps succeed when they serve a specific dietary approach or audience that general apps don't. Keto tracking, macro-based nutrition coaching, allergen management, or therapeutic nutrition — specific beats general.
Nutrition coach, RD, or health brand that needs a custom nutrition app for a specific dietary methodology or client population — not a generic calorie counter
MyFitnessPal has 200M+ users and a food database of 11M+ foods. You won't beat it at general calorie tracking. Nutrition apps succeed in niches:
- Methodology-specific: Macro-based tracking for physique athletes, FODMAP tracking for IBS, anti-inflammatory protocol
- Coaching-attached: Nutrition coach's app for client meal plans and accountability
- Medical nutrition: Therapeutic nutrition for specific conditions (PCOS, Crohn's, type 2 diabetes)
- Allergen-focused: Multi-allergy family meal planning
Nutrition database: Building a food database from scratch is unnecessary. Nutritionix API (600k+ foods with accurate USDA nutrition data) or Open Food Facts (900k+ packaged foods with barcode scanning). Licensed food data is the right starting point.
Barcode scanning: React Native with expo-barcode-scanner. Lookup barcode in Nutritionix or Open Food Facts API. Returns full nutrition data. Core feature for packaged food logging.
Nutrition app deployed on iOS and Android — meal logging, macro/nutrient tracking, personalized meal plans, and nutrition coaching features
Food database
Nutritionix API integration with barcode scanning
Meal logging
daily food diary with macro breakdown
Custom meal plans
dietitian or coach-created meal plans per user
Nutrition goals
calorie and macro targets per user
Progress tracking
weight, measurements, nutrient trends
Coaching features
coach dashboard, client food log review, messaging
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
Nutrition app deployed on iOS and Android — meal logging, macro/nutrient tracking, personalized meal plans, and nutrition coaching features
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
Nutrition apps have defined food database, logging, and plan delivery patterns. Fixed-price from the spec.
Related engagements.
Questions, answered.
Yes. Apple HealthKit write for nutrition data (calories logged, macros). Read for activity calories to adjust nutrition targets. Google Fit equivalent on Android.
Yes. Coach dashboard with client roster, individual client food log review, plan creation and assignment. Subscription model where coaches pay per seat or per client.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.