Josh's Food Journal

Faster nutrition tracking

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Josh’s Food Journal is built around the foods you love. It’s fast, works offline, and doesn't have ads.

Dynamic Home Screen

Your favorites, within easy reach

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Save your favorite foods in a dedicated space for each meal. The app opens the most relevant one for the time of day, so your usual choices are ready to go.

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Genmoji

Give each food a recognisable icon. If the perfect emoji doesn't exist yet, try creating a Genmoji or sticker.

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Keypad Buttons

Use keypad buttons to select multiple items and servings without switching screens.

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Precision Buttons

Use precision buttons to enter weights for multiple items without switching screens.

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Bookmarks

Save individual servings, recipes or set menus for easy access. Each bookmark is one less thing you'll need to find, search or scan for each meal.

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Automatic Routing

Jump to a specific meal using onscreen buttons or iOS shortcuts.

On first launch, the app opens to the most relevant custom space for the current time of day. Use the Now button or an iOS Shortcut to jump there if it's already open elsewhere. Precision weight controls and multiple custom spaces per meal are available in Pro. Creating Genmoji requires a device compatible with Apple Intelligence. Genmoji is a registered trademark of Apple.

Whole Foods Database

Find everyday ingredients, offline

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Search a built-in collection of common whole foods and ingredients without an internet connection. It's great for building recipes and logging single-ingredient foods.

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Search Filters

Use intelligent filters to find a specific ingredient.

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Dataset Browser

Explore the dataset by tapping through categories and filters.

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Data Provenance

Open the original dataset and compare it with the values shown in the app.

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Weight Entry

Enter direct weights when logging foods.

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Item Presets

Log using approximate weight presets, where available.

The included database is a curated collection of whole foods and ingredients, designed to fit onto your device for offline use. It won't include community contributions, packaged items or restaurant foods.

Label Scanner

Scan nutrition labels without the barcode

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Scan nutrition labels to add packaged foods. No barcode database or community-submitted entry required.

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Familiar Forms

When you scan a Nutrition Facts label, you can review the results in a form with a similar layout.

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Custom Servings

Split foods in different ways, including by weight, servings, item count, or a share of the container.

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Flexible Entry

Scan a label with the camera, or pick a screenshot from your library.

Label scanning is a Pro feature. Not all label formats are supported. The scanner makes mistakes from time to time. Verify and adjust results before saving.

Meal Prep

Cook in batches, log in batches

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Add the same meal to several days at once, or copy foods you've already logged into the week ahead, so you can spend less time opening the app.

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Meal Prep

Log the same meal across multiple days. This is great if you prepare the same recipes for each meal in batches.

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Copy to Date

If you've already logged a day's worth of food, you can pick and choose the foods you want to copy across to other days.

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Custom Timestamps

Log foods with custom dates and timestamps.

Meal Prep, Copy to Date and Custom Timestamps are available in Pro.

Apple Health Integration

Bring your nutrition data together

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Keep using the health and nutrition apps that work for you. Nutrition recorded through Apple Health can count toward your goals here, while entries from Josh's Food Journal can be saved back to Apple Health.

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Reads from Health

Foods logged to Apple Health from external apps count toward your goals.

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Saves to Health

Data from this app flows into your preferred data analysis platform through Apple Health.

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Data Export

Export daily notes and nutrition logs to CSV.

Apple Health read and write access is required to view external foods and to save data back to Apple Health. Manual CSV exports are also available.

Josh’s Food Journal is built around the foods you love. It’s fast, works offline, and doesn't have ads. Pro unlocks additional features and supports independent development.

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