Grams Support

A protein tracker that keeps everything on your phone.

Email ntbretschneider@gmail.com and you'll get a reply. Including your iOS version and what you were doing at the time makes it much faster to work out what happened.

Back up before you need to. Grams has no account and no cloud sync, which is why nothing about you leaves your phone. It also means a lost or erased phone loses your history. Settings ▸ Export a backup writes a file you can keep anywhere. It takes ten seconds and it's the only safety net there is.

How do I log more than one of something?

Tapping a food on the Log tab records one serving. Press and hold it and choose Choose amount… to log three eggs, half a shake, or 150 g instead of 100. You can also change the amount afterwards by tapping the entry.

What's the difference between a serving and an amount?

The serving defines the food. Chicken breast is 31 g of protein per 100 g, an egg is 6 g per egg. The amount is just how much you had this time. Set the serving once when you create the food; change the amount whenever you log it.

Can I bring my history over from another app?

If the other app saved to Apple Health, yes. Settings ▸ Import from Apple Health pulls in every protein record written by other apps and files each one under the day it happened. Importing twice is safe. Records already in Grams are updated, not duplicated.

If the import finds nothing but you expected records, check Settings ▸ Health ▸ Data Access & Devices ▸ Grams and make sure reading protein is allowed. Apple deliberately never tells an app whether read permission was refused, so Grams genuinely cannot tell the difference between "denied" and "nothing there".

I logged something on the wrong day.

Tap the entry and change the Day. Both days' totals update. To log directly to a past day, tap that day in the week strip first, and the add sheet will tell you which day it's writing to.

What does skipping a day do?

Press and hold a day in the week strip and choose Skip this day. Skipped days are removed from every average and from the success rate entirely. Not counted as a zero, not counted at all. Use them for days that shouldn't be judged.

I changed a food's protein. Did it rewrite my history?

No, and it never will. Every entry stores what the food was worth at the moment you logged it. Correcting a food affects future entries only.

The widget isn't updating.

Open Grams once. The widget renders from a snapshot the app writes, plus anything logged from the widget since. Opening the app republishes it. If the widget shows zero after a fresh install, it usually means the app hasn't been launched yet.

How do I start completely fresh?

Settings ▸ Erase all data and start over. It deletes everything on the phone and returns to setup. Export first if there's anything you want to keep.

Privacy

Privacy policy. The short version is that Grams collects nothing and has no networking code at all.