Hey Dev.to

I'm a solo developer from Australia. I spent the last year building NutriBalance — a free calorie and macro tracker for Android.

The problem I kept running into: I'd download MyFitnessPal, use it for 3 days, and quit. Not because tracking is hard — it takes 30 seconds with a barcode scanner. But there's zero reason to open a boring spreadsheet on a bad day.

So I built gamification into the core of the app:

Daily streaks that cost you something when you break them

XP + levelling system

5-tier daily missions with chest rewards

Weekly leagues (Bronze → Diamond)

Friends leaderboard

The hardest part I built: an AI food label

scanner that reads any nutrition panel — UK, US,

AU, EU, and even handwritten farmers' market labels. No

barcode needed. Point the camera, wait 2 seconds,

done. I don't actually like AI food scanners because they are never accurate.

The app is live on Google Play now:

NutriBalance

I'll be posting about nutrition science, Android

dev, and indie app growth here.…