MyGymBuddy Fuel turns “two eggs on toast and a flat white” into calories and protein, against targets worked out from you. It all happens on your phone: Fuel has no internet access at all.
“Two eggs on toast and a flat white”
An illustration of one entry. Fuel shows what it heard, and every item can be corrected.
Food logs fail when logging takes longer than eating. Fuel is built to take seconds, and to show you where every number came from.
Say a whole meal in one go. Speech is turned into text on the phone, and only the text is kept. Fix anything it misheard.
The built-in figures come from food databases, never made up: US Department of Agriculture data and Open Food Facts. Anything missing, add with your own figures or read off the label. Searching never leaves the phone.
For packaged food, take a photo of the nutrition table. The figures are read on the phone for you to check, and the photo is deleted.
Calorie and protein targets worked out from your height, weight, age and how active you are, with protein set per kilogram for building muscle.
Log your weight and Fuel follows the trend, not the day-to-day noise, so one salty dinner doesn’t move your targets.
No account, no server, no ads, no analytics, and no internet permission. Your log stays on your phone; save a backup file when you want a copy.
Fuel works on its own. With MyGymBuddy Pro on the same phone, the two connect directly, with no internet involved.
You switch it on in MyGymBuddy (Settings → Connected apps), and you can switch it off at any time.
The details are in both privacy policies: Fuel’s and MyGymBuddy’s.
Fuel is free: no Pro tier, no subscription and no ads. Connecting it to MyGymBuddy needs MyGymBuddy Pro, a one-time unlock in MyGymBuddy.
See MyGymBuddy ProNo. Fuel is a complete food log on its own, with its own weigh-ins. MyGymBuddy Pro adds the connection: one shared look and one weight log, with training days to follow.
Not by default. Fuel asks Android to recognise speech on the phone, and if it can’t, Fuel says so and you can type instead. You can choose Google’s online recognition in Settings if you prefer it; then Google’s own app handles the audio. Recordings are never kept.
The figures come from the databases, never guessed by the app. The biggest error in any food log is portion size, so Fuel shows what it assumed and lets you change it in a tap. When a food isn’t in the database, add it with your own figures, or read them from the label.
Save a backup file from Settings, to wherever you keep files (your own cloud drive, for example), and restore it on the new phone. Fuel is left out of Android’s automatic device backup, so a backup file is the way to keep a copy.