Squatch - The Ascent

Most trackers hand you a calorie target the minute you finish signing up. Your body has told them nothing. A formula filled it in. Squatch leaves it blank. The Progress screen states the condition in its own words: 3 logged days and 2 weigh-ins, 5 days apart. Until those exist, the burn figure on the home screen reads as a dash. When the evidence arrives, so does the number. THE FOOD DATABASE IS ON YOUR PHONE 8,171 curated USDA foods ship inside the app. Search runs against them with no network call, so typing ribeye on a plane returns twelve real cuts with calories and protein per 100 g. Ask most trackers for an apple and you can get an apple turnover at five times the calories. Squatch is built against a test set of everyday foods with known values, and that test fails the build when the top result is the wrong food rather than merely a plausible number. THE DAY AS A CLIMB Your…