v0.4.0: text input, merged pages, and an AI chat

v0.4.0 is the release that pulls the app together. Three changes worth talking about.

Text input. Voice is great, but sometimes you are at a desk or on a train and you do not want to talk to your phone. So the same input that takes voice also takes typed text now. Same parsing, same nutrition card, same accept or edit flow. If you can describe a meal in a sentence, that sentence works.

Merged pages. The old layout had a voice page, a food log page, and a recent history page, and you had to bounce between them to get anything done. They are all one page now. Mic at the top, recent items below, the day's nutrition chart in the corner. Logging a meal and seeing the impact happens in one place.

AI chat. This is the new one I am most curious to see how people use. There is a chat panel that has read your food log. You can ask it things like “what did I have for breakfast yesterday,” or “am I under on protein this week,” or “give me a snack idea that fits what I am low on today.” It answers based on your actual data. It uses WebSockets so the responses stream in as the model thinks, which feels much better than waiting for a wall of text to drop.

If you use the app daily, all three of these should remove a step or two from your routine.

by Boyd Thomson