Protein Tracker is a health and fitness utility for iOS and Android that enables manual and AI-assisted protein intake logging.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Health & Fitness
Sentiment
4.8
1k reviews
Nemesis
Fastic Weight Loss & Fasting
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app to reduce the cognitive load of nutritional tracking through a distraction-free, ad-free interface that avoids the bloat of general-purpose health platforms.
For Fitness enthusiasts and athletes who require a low-friction method to track daily protein intake.
What does it look like?
Key features
Photo-based protein estimation for meals, removing manual entry requirements.
Customizable shortcuts for frequently consumed protein sources to enable one-tap logging.
At-a-glance visualization of daily protein progress on the iOS home screen.
How much does it cost?
Freemium model gates high-utility automation features behind a subscription to monetize power users.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentShow more...
5 versions in history. Development pace: maintenance.
Who built it?
Kai Oelfke
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What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans excited. Users appreciate simplicity and focus, but report subscription gating.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Simplicity and focus
- Subscription gating
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Competitive landscape for Protein Tracker.
How's the Health & Fitness market?
Protein Tracker maintains a 4.8-star rating across 1,368 reviews on iOS, positioning it as a high-satisfaction niche tool. The lack of Android traction (0 ratings) indicates a significant distribution gap compared to broader health-tracking competitors.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By HealthVida GmbH & Co. KG.
Fastic competes directly by capturing the same health-conscious demographic, shifting the focus from simple protein logging to broader metabolic health and fasting protocols.
- Leverages AI-powered restaurant menu scanning to provide instant nutritional insights for dining out users.
- Gamifies the user experience through a proprietary 'Fastic Score' that tracks long-term metabolic progress.
- Integrates fasting-specific timers and educational content that creates a more comprehensive health ecosystem.
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Key takeaways for Protein Tracker.
Where is it heading?
Casual fitness tracking is consolidating around apps that offer broader metabolic insights, leaving Protein Tracker exposed to rivals with higher retention loops. The current maintenance-mode update cadence leaves the app vulnerable to faster-moving competitors who integrate AI-driven insights more effectively.
- Lack of cloud-save functionality drives user frustration, which compounds the churn risk for power users who switch devices.
- Recent updates focused on stability, no feature expansion, signaling a maintenance-mode posture that leaves the app vulnerable to feature-rich rivals.
The SWOT
- Distraction-free interface sustains high user satisfaction ratings
- Home screen widgets provide immediate utility for daily tracking
- B2B partnerships with fitness influencers could drive organic acquisition
- Wearable integration would expand the utility beyond manual logging
Next best moves
Ship cloud-save functionality because it is the top-requested missing feature → unlock data-loss frustration
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of a massive user base is a strength…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Offline nutrition database (available in Nutrients but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The competitive outlook shifted from declining to mixed, reflecting a more balanced view of the app's niche utility versus its lack of active development.
Bottom line
Protein Tracker succeeds as a focused, ad-free utility, but the lack of cloud-save functionality and the aggressive gating of AI features limit its long-term retention, so the PM should prioritize cloud-save to stabilize the user base.
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- [1] App Store, source
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