I built this for myself.
Not as a business plan. Not as a portfolio piece. I had a problem none of the existing tools were solving, and modern dev tools meant I could actually do something about it.
The problem wasn't knowledge.
I've done this enough times. The meal plans, the training splits, the low carb phases. I can write it all out without thinking. Four to five solid sessions a week. Structured eating. I've got it down.
The problem is everything else. Work. Stress. Lunches that weren't in the plan. The days that aren't perfect (and to be fair, they're rarely perfect)
The real enemy isn't one bad meal.
It's what happens after. One off-plan meal and my brain says "there goes that!" — suddenly the whole week's gone. The damage isn't the meal. It's the story you tell yourself afterwards.
I wanted something that made it trivially easy to just log what happened and move on. On plan? Open, log, done. Off plan? Note it, no drama, keep going.
Data doesn't BS.
Log consistently and the patterns become undeniable. The correlation engine connects your habits to your results over time. When you can see — in black and white — that those off-plan stretches stalled your progress, or that a disciplined fortnight moved the needle, there's nothing to argue with.
The scale can lie.
Start a low-carb phase and you'll drop a couple of kilos in the first week. Water weight. Doesn't mean too much. The metric I always come back to is waist measurement. It doesn't lie. When my waist hits a certain number, I know how my clothes fit, how I look, how I feel, how I feel about myself.
That becomes the anchor. That's what Recomp tracks.
What this isn't.
Recomp doesn't replace your macro tracker or your training program app. Those exist and some are excellent. This sits in a different space — the bigger picture. Are you actually moving in the right direction? Can you see what's helping and what's hurting?
No sign-ups. No ads. No data collection.
I don't like signing into apps. I don't like ads in apps. I'm not interested in anyone's fitness data. So I built something that works the way I think it should. Everything stays on your device. That's it.
Not a developer by trade.
I work in tech, but writing code wasn't my day job. The tools available today made it possible to take an idea and ship it. Of course it's taken time and effort. But it exists because I needed it — and I figured I'm probably not the only one.
If you found Recomp, someone probably mentioned it was useful. That's the plan.