What's new in Intake 2.7.3

New on iOS: recipes by their finished weight

Bread gains weight in the oven, a stew loses it on the stove. So recipes now work with the weight of the finished dish when you give it.

In a recipe, switch off “Use calculated weight” and enter what the finished dish weighs under “Finished weight (total)”. Set the portions separately, as many as you like. Below, you see what one portion weighs.

The nutrients of the ingredients are spread over that weight. A bread made from 1,077 g of ingredients with 3,484 kcal that weighs 1,602 g once baked has 871 kcal and about 400 g per portion in four portions, and 100 g of bread have 217 kcal. Intake uses this everywhere: on the recipe page, in search, when you log in grams or portions, and in the nutrient breakdown on Today. Change the amount of an ingredient while logging and the finished weight grows or shrinks with it.

Recipes where you gave your own weight per portion so far keep their values. Open one in the editor and a note points you to the new field. Entries you have already logged stay as they are.

Share a recipe as a file and the finished weight comes along, also between iOS and Android.

Your total weight change

The weight card on Today has a new row “Total”, for example “−8.3 kg since Jan 3”. It shows how much you have lost or gained in total since your starting weight, next to the trend against your last weight.

Choose the start date under Settings, Body Data, “Starting weight”. Without a choice, Intake starts at the first weight you logged or brought in from Apple Health. That screen also shows which weight counts as the start, and “Reset” takes you back to the first weight. The start date applies to each device on its own.

Your whole weight history

In Stats, weight now has “All” next to week, month and year. It shows your history across all years, one point per month, with your start, current weight, change, lowest and highest weight and the number of days logged. If your weights are already in Apple Health, bring them into Intake under Settings, Apple Health, “Import weight history”.

New on iOS and Android: raw or cooked

If you weigh rice, pasta, quinoa, millet, buckwheat or lentils after cooking while the pack lists the values for the dry product, switch to “Cooked” below the amount. Intake converts with a fixed swell factor, for example 1 g raw ≈ 3 g cooked for brown rice: 135 g of cooked brown rice then have 163 kcal instead of 490. The switch appears for these staples when you log a custom amount in grams or ounces. Intake remembers your choice per product, the entry on Today reads for example “135 g · cooked”, and you can switch it back when you edit it. If the product already describes cooked rice, the switch converts the other way.

New on Android

Recipes by their finished weight. Recipes on Android work with the weight of the finished dish too, just as described above: switch off “Use calculated weight”, enter the “Finished weight (total)”, set the portions freely. The old “Weight per portion” field is gone. Recipes where you used it open with the total weight it gave as their finished weight, their values stay the same, and a note explains the new field.

Your total weight change and your whole history. The weight card on Today shows the “Total” row, and you choose the start date under Settings, Body Data, “Starting weight”. Without a choice, Intake starts at the first weight you logged or brought in from Health Connect. In Stats, weight now has “All”, one point per month across all years.

Bug fixes

iOS

Every entry stays in the list. What you add appears on Today and stays there, also while Intake is syncing with iCloud in the background.
Apple Health with single types switched off. If you have switched off some nutrients for Intake in Apple Health, Intake still writes all the others: calories, macros and everything that is allowed.
Correct totals for the year. The year view in Stats adds up every day. Totals, water and the calorie balance now match the week and the month, and “Highest day” really shows one day.
Averages up to today. Stats counts the days up to today. A Wednesday no longer counts the rest of the week, and meals you have already planned for later days do not change your averages.
The scanner starts on the main camera. The barcode scanner opens on the normal lens and still focuses at short distances.
Deleting weights in Stats. Delete a weight with a long press in the week or month view, where it hits exactly that day.

Android

Correct totals for the year. Totals in the year view of Stats add up every day instead of the monthly averages, and “Maximum” shows your highest single day.
Averages up to today. Days after today no longer count in Stats, neither their targets nor meals you have already planned ahead.
Sharing recipes. A shared recipe file carries the portions you set and the right amounts of fiber, sugar, saturated fat and salt.
Quick add after a recipe change. Change a recipe’s finished weight or portions and “Quick add” logs the new portion, not the amount from last time.
Nutrient breakdown for recipes. The ingredients in the breakdown on Today add up exactly to what the recipe entry booked.

As always, you can find the full changelog here.

Thank you for using Intake.

Tobi