How
Open the app. Decide what to eat next.
Four buttons and a chat bar. You tap or you type. That's the whole surface.
Built around protein, because protein is the lever. Why that matters →
What you see on open
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What would you like to do?
You can tap an option above or send a message.
Tap Setup once to calibrate. After that, the four buttons are how you navigate the day, and the chat bar is always there for logging — a photo, a sentence, whatever's faster in the moment.
The four buttons
Each one does a specific job. None of them are dashboards.
Setup
A short calibration — target weight, how experienced you are with workouts and how often you do them, goal, and whether you're using a GLP-1 medication — that sets your protein floor: the minimum daily protein that protects muscle while you lose fat.
You tap Setup once. From then on the floor adjusts to your actual day — your workouts, your medication, what you've logged — and Check in and Trends both measure against it. It always stays within medically sensible limits.
The system computes an exact floor for you behind the scenes; the coaching presents it in plain, supportive language rather than as a raw number on a dial. Same floor — just communicated like a coach, not a calculator.
Pantry
What you actually have in the house. Suggestions come from here, not from a generic recipe database — so when Alongside recommends a meal, it's a meal you can actually make tonight.
Update it when things change. The suggestions follow.
Check in
Where you stand right now. Protein so far today, what's left, whether you're on track to clear your floor or behind it — in plain language, not a progress ring.
If you're behind, Check in suggests what to do next. If you're on track, it tells you that too, and gets out of the way.
Trends
The longer view. How consistent your protein has been across the week, where the patterns are, what's working and what isn't.
Useful when you want it. Ignorable when you don't.
Logging is just there
You don't navigate to a logging screen. The chat bar is at the bottom of every screen, always.
Snap a photo of your plate and Alongside identifies the protein and estimates the grams. Or type a sentence — "two eggs and a piece of toast" — and it does the same thing. Whichever is faster in the moment.
after a photo
Two roasted chicken thighs as the main protein, with white beans and roasted cherry tomatoes on the side. The protein here can be estimated confidently.
~40g
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The estimate is approximate and yours to adjust before it's logged.
If something's ambiguous, it asks one clarifying question. Otherwise it logs and moves on.
Still tracking. Just without the spreadsheet.
Four buttons for the day. A chat bar for the moments in between.
That's the whole app.