A Yazio alternative, without the streaks.

What the people leaving are writing.

These are public App Store reviews, quoted as they were written and dated. Under each one is what Kove does instead.

It has an opinion about your lunch

“I don't need cartoons cheering me on every time I log a meal. I need a tool. A tracker should be simple and lean, not gamified to death.”

“Meal tips after every submission are more likely to promote an unhealthy relationship with food […] I don't want the snarky little creature suggesting I substitute the carbs for more veg.”

Kove keeps no streak, hands out no badges, and never turns a number red. Nothing cheers you on and nothing has an opinion about your lunch. A skipped day is an empty row, not a failure. Kove tells you what your record says, and then it stops.

The AI is not optional

“Your most recent update is forcing me to use AI to quick add an item. It doesn't allow me to manually add the macros anymore for an item. I cannot stand this absolute push for AI where it makes no sense.”

In Kove the hand-written path is not a fallback. Your raw data is always there as a spreadsheet to read and edit, at the gym you tick sets as you go, and every number Kove estimates is editable where it sits. An estimate says it is one: you read “about 160 g”, never a figure dressed as a fact. The amount you give always wins, and totals and averages are added up by Kove rather than guessed.

Where the data goes

“this app starts to ask for information about your family conditions! so be careful and think about it, for a simple calorie counting demand, is it worth it to giveaway so much about your personal information”

Kove runs on one server in the European Union, run by Kove, and the search that reads your journal runs on that same machine. What you write in chat, and any picture you send, goes to one AI provider, and the nightly backup goes to a store in the EU. Export the whole record as ordinary files whenever you like, free, whether you are paying or not, and delete one photo or the entire account without asking anyone.

It only holds food

That one needs no quotation: a calorie counter counts calories, and most of what you would want to notice about a week is not a macro. Kove starts with the fields most people want, calories and macros, weight, sleep, mood, coffee, steps, and then follows you. Mention a headache, a cycle, a swim or how sore your knees are and Kove offers a field to keep it in. Anything that doesn't have a field is still kept, written into that day's journal note.

9:41

A meal is one message.

“you search ‘chicken rice’ and scroll through 50 entries from a database that hasnt been updated since obama was president. half the entries are user submitted and completely wrong. you spend 5 mins logging a single meal. nobody has time for that”

The figures in this example are made up, like every figure on this page. Kove estimates them and leaves them yours to correct.

No form, no database to search. Dictate it instead, or photograph the plate, the label or the kitchen scale. What you log every day becomes a one-tap quick-add template.