EDIT 2026-05-03: v1.0.0-rc.14 is out and adds a native Android app.
Full announcement: https://lemmy.world/post/46382994
(original post below)
Hey all, sharing what I’ve been working on. NutriTrace is a self-hosted nutrition and wellness tracker that runs entirely on your own server in a single Docker container.
I built it because every commercial nutrition app has the same shape. You hand them years of food data, body measurements, and biometrics, and your data is held hostage when they pivot or paywall. I wanted to track macros and pull in my Fitbit data without participating in that.
Daily food diary with multi-ingredient meals, recipes, body stats, water tracking, day-level notes. Personal food database, barcode scanner, imports from Open Food Facts and USDA, plus optional Mealie integration. Statistics with trend charts, full backup, exports as CSV / JSON / full ZIP.
Optional wellness device sync from Fitbit, Withings, Garmin, and Android Health Connect. Sleep / readiness / stress scores computed from your data.
Optional AI assistant where you bring your own Claude / OpenAI / Gemini key. It queries your real data via tool use so it can answer things like “what was my average protein this month” without making numbers up. There’s a voice food logger too. Both fully optional, off by default.
Tech: Svelte 4 + Express + better-sqlite3, multi-stage Dockerfile, AGPL-3.0. Native Android app is in active development; PWA installs to home screen on any modern browser today.
Repo and docker-compose example: https://github.com/TraceApps/nutritrace
Happy to answer questions.
Hey OP, I opened a PR to add an entry point supporting
_FILEsecret environment variablesPR tested and merged! Thank you!
Hey, can you make a much simpler version of this? Just a static site of the USDA data?
The USDA nutrition site went down at some point during Trump’s term. and I was afraid that information was lost forever.
I wish we just had a simple way for folks to clone this website. Literally just that. It would be much simpler than what you’ve already done, and extremely useful.
This looks very interesting. I’ll have to load up the container and give it a try at some point in the future. Big fan of the mealie integration since I use that for all my recipes.
Vibe coded, innit?
Yeah, the first commit is 47k SLoC, and Claude is mentioned as a “co-author”.
Yes, vibe coded and proud of it. This is a labor of love that I genuinely don’t think I could have completed without Claude Code. The first commit is large because I was working out of a private dev repo and synced everything to the public repo just before the 1.0 RC release. Hope you give it a chance and that it suits your needs. Thanks!
This sounds great. How does the device support work? What do you think of GadgetBridge support?
This is wonderful!
Going to set it up tomorrow and give it a go!
Is the docker image public? I’m getting an “unauthorized” error when attempting to pull it. I’m not getting that error for other ghcr.io images. But I’m not docker expert, so I may be doing something wrong.
Is the docker image public? I’m getting an “unauthorized” error when attempting to pull it. I’m not getting that error for other ghcr.io images. But I’m not docker expert, so I may be doing something wrong.
Should be fixed now, package was set to private by default on first push. Just flipped it. docker pull ghcr.io/traceapps/nutritrace:latest works without auth now. Thanks for flagging it.
Looks good, so I’ve got it up and running now. Thanks!
What all did you do to get it working? I’m stuck with this issue.
That sounds cool! Been looking for something like this for a while!
Thanks all, really appreciate the kind words. Feedback is welcome on anything: bug reports, missing features, things that feel rough, or just “this works for my setup.” A few features are flagged Experimental right now and I’d like to harden them enough to drop the badge.
Native Android app is in active development. There’s also a sister project in the works called LiftTrace under the same TraceApps umbrella, same self-hosted Docker setup but for workout tracking (sets, reps, programs, PRs). Not public yet but close.
This is perfect, thanks for sharing.
Great project. Looks like a lot of time went into it. I may give it a spin later on this evening. You included screenshots. Thank you for that.
As this is a new project, have you considered hosting your code somewhere other than GitHub? Codeberg and GitLab are similarly user-friendly platforms without the many downsides of supporting Microsoft.
At least a clone. GitHub is authwalled even for GET requests more and more these days
Thanks for sharing! I’m so annoyed of Yazio, that I was close to start developing a simple calories tracker myself. Glad I can just use this instead.
You asked for feature ideas in a comment. How about OIDC support? My wife is good at forgetting (to add) her passwords (to a password manager). So instead of resetting password xyz each week, i installed pocketid and integrated it to every app I host, that supports OIDC.
OIDC has been planned, but since now i have had multiple requests, i have started working on it. Will be implemented most likely in next RC release. Keep an eye out!
Awesome! Thanks
OIDC feature has been added to app in latest build (1.0.0-rc9). Please test and let me know how it works for you. I successfully tested with Authentik.
Thanks for implementing it that fast! Unfortunately I wasn’t able to test it.
I found the new section in the readme. So I followed it. I created an admin account (which confused me a bit - my user already had admin permissions. So why is it necessary to create another admin user?). Then I wanted to logout and login with the admin again. But I wasn’t able to figure out how to log out. So I just deleted the cookies and local storage.
After that I was greeted by the login page. So I logged in as admin, entered the User Management - and found an interface to manage users. Ok, sounds logic to find a user management tool in the “user management” menu entry. But the readme said, that there should be oidc settings. Maybe they got lost in a merge conflict or something like that. I was testing on rc12.
Anyways I would prefer an env variable to configure oidc. I like to separate the technical configuration (like credentials, etc) from the user space configuration.
This comment may sound super negative, but I’m actually very grateful you addressed this feature. Thanks!
Thanks for implementing it that fast! Unfortunately I wasn’t able to test it.
I found the new section in the readme. So I followed it. I created an admin account (which confused me a bit - my user already had admin permissions. So why is it necessary to create another admin user?). Then I wanted to logout and login with the admin again. But I wasn’t able to figure out how to log out. So I just deleted the cookies and local storage.
After that I was greeted by the login page. So I logged in as admin, entered the User Management - and found an interface to manage users. Ok, sounds logic to find a user management tool in the “user management” menu entry. But the readme said, that there should be oidc settings. Maybe they got lost in a merge conflict or something like that. I was testing on rc12.
Anyways I would prefer an env variable to configure oidc. I like to separate the technical configuration (like credentials, etc) from the user space configuration.
This comment may sound super negative, but I’m actually very grateful you addressed this feature. Thanks!
Thanks for the detailed walkthrough. A few of the rough edges you ran into are fixed in the latest release:
The admin-account confusion makes sense in hindsight. If you were already running NutriTrace single-user, you genuinely didn’t need an admin account, that step exists because OIDC requires user management to be on. The README now spells that out as a prerequisite up front so it doesn’t feel like surprise paperwork.
Logout has a real home now. Profile lives at the very top of Settings as a card showing your name and photo, and Log Out is right there inside it. No more digging through the cookie jar.
The “where are the OIDC settings” question was on me. They were buried inside User Management. They’re now their own top-level section called Authentication, sitting right under User Management, with presets for Authentik, Keycloak, Authelia, Pocket ID, Auth0, Google, and a generic OIDC option for anything else.
And on your env-var preference, that’s in too. You can configure providers entirely from .env or docker-compose.yml. Single-provider shorthand:
OIDC_ISSUER=https://auth.example.com/ OIDC_CLIENT_ID=nutritrace OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET=… OIDC_DISPLAY_NAME=Authentik OIDC_REDIRECT_URIS=https://nutritrace.example.com/api/auth/oidc/callback/1
Multi-provider works with OIDC_PROVIDER_2_, OIDC_PROVIDER_3_, etc. Anything you define this way shows up in the Settings UI with a lock badge and is read-only there, so it’s clear where the source of truth lives. Full doc in .env.example and the README.
Pull the latest and give it another shot when you have a minute. Please confirm the env-var path actually works for your IdP when you have a chance.
Thanks again.
On multi user: any thoughts on working with oidc/ldap or the like? I use authentik at home for many other services and it would be great to keep the single login.
List of different types of login types: https://integrations.goauthentik.io/
Yes indeed! On my future to do!
What does the mealie integration enable? I assume it’s providing foods that can be logged, but can you also pull stuff from mealies meal planning section & populate it into the diary?
Mealie integration allows you to pull in your Meal/Recipe from your self hosted instance of Mealie via api. If you have nutrition facts set there by the recipes total weight, it will pull in that data and then you can set your serving size accordingly so it calculates properly. It also pulls in the recipe pic if set in Mealie.
