No Polished Self-Hosted Workout and Meal Planning App
Privacy-conscious users who want to self-host their fitness and nutrition data find existing open-source solutions like wger have poor mobile UX that kills motivation to use them. The backend capabilities exist but the frontend experience is a deal-breaker. There is no well-polished self-hosted alternative combining workout tracking and meal planning with a good API.
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