Every tracker can tell you that 1,676 calories are left. Setpoint tells you that dinner is 298 g of chicken thigh, 21 ml of olive oil and 388 g of mince — and when lunch runs over, it resizes the rest of the day so you still land on the number.
The target underneath it is learnt from your own weight trend and what you actually eat, not guessed from your height and age.
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1,676 kcal left
Now work out what that is in food, weigh it, and hope you got it right.
1,676 kcal left
Ate something that was not in the plan? Log it. The remaining meals resize so the day still lands on your target, protein first, and the new weights are on screen before you have put the phone down. That is the whole product — the rest of this page is how it knows what your target should be.
Setpoint never asks a model to invent a calorie figure. It identifies the food in a photo or a sentence and estimates the portion; every macro number comes from a nutrition database. When nothing matches, the item is flagged as an estimate rather than quietly counted as fact.
Whole foods come from the Food Standards Australia New Zealand database — the cuts sold here, with entries that say raw, baked, fried or casseroled. Weighing cooked chicken against raw figures undercounts you by nearly a fifth, and most apps never say which one you are looking at.
What is left, against a target worked out from your own data rather than a formula.
Not “1,676 left” — 298 g of chicken thigh, 21 ml of olive oil, 388 g of mince. Already adjusted for what you have eaten today.
Meals built to your exact numbers, with a shopping list and a weekly budget.
Your real expenditure, worked out from weight trend against intake — and until there is enough of it, exactly how many weigh-ins are still needed. It tells you when it does not know yet.
Every working set counted per muscle across the week, with assisting muscles counted as half.
Sleep, steps and heart rate from whichever watch you wear. Shown for context, never added to your calorie target.
Nothing here asks you to be disciplined. It asks you to weigh in and log, and it does the arithmetic that people give up on.
Lose, maintain or gain, then pick a pace: gentle, steady, fast or aggressive. Each shows the calorie figure and the rough weekly rate before you commit. Nothing ever drops below what your body burns at rest. Already have a number you trust? Type it in and it uses that.
A plan built to your exact target, respecting allergies, food you dislike and a weekly grocery budget, with a shopping list attached. Every ingredient says whether it is weighed raw or cooked.
One tap from your plan. Or a photo, a sentence, a barcode, a search. Went off-plan? That is the interesting case: the rest of the day resizes so it still lands on target, and tells you the new weights in grams.
After a fortnight it stops trusting the formula and starts trusting your data. Your weight trend against your intake gives your real expenditure, and your target follows it — so a stall gets fixed instead of blamed on you.
Every tracker can add up what you ate. The question is what happens next, and for most of them the answer is nothing — you are handed a number and left to work out dinner yourself.
“603 calories left” is not an instruction. Setpoint says 180 g of chicken, 95 g of rice, and the number moves the moment you log something that was not in the plan. Most apps stop at the first half.
Eat the thing. The remaining meals shrink or grow to absorb it, protein is protected first, and the day still lands on your target. That is the difference between a plan you follow and a plan you abandon by Wednesday.
Whole foods come from the official Food Standards Australia New Zealand database — the cuts sold here, and entries that say raw, baked, fried or casseroled. Weighing cooked chicken against raw figures undercounts you by nearly a fifth, and most apps never mention which one you are looking at.
A model identifies the food and estimates the portion. Every macro figure comes from a nutrition database. If nothing matches, the item is flagged as an estimate rather than quietly counted as fact.
A fall in expenditure caused by being lighter is normal arithmetic. A fall beyond that is worth knowing about, and Setpoint separates the two so you can see which you are looking at rather than assuming the worst.
Last session's reps and weights are already in the boxes. Change one digit to beat it. A rest timer sits under every lift, set to that lift's own rest period.
The Mifflin–St Jeor equation is a population average. For an individual it can be out by several hundred calories a day, which is the difference between losing half a kilo a week and losing nothing at all.
After a couple of weeks, Setpoint has something better than an average: you. It fits a trend line through your weigh-ins, compares it against what you ate, and reads your expenditure straight off the energy balance.
Until there is enough data it says so plainly, and blends toward the figure your data points to as the evidence builds, rather than lurching one morning and quietly changing your targets.
How the estimate settles
A mistyped weight cannot move it. Physically impossible results are rejected, not averaged in.
The app identifies the food. A nutrition database supplies the numbers. Nothing ever invents a calorie count. Alongside the five below, you can log a meal straight from your plan in one tap, re-log anything you have eaten before, or type your own figures for a recipe only you make.
“Two eggs and three rashers of bacon.” Speech is transcribed on your phone, so no audio ever leaves the device. It becomes a list of items with portions you confirm, and the transcript stays editable, so a misheard word is a one-word fix rather than a re-recording.
Point the camera at your plate. Every component comes back separately, each with an honest confidence rating. Got one wrong? Correct it against the food database and the macros change with the name, not just the label.
Barcodes against Open Food Facts and USDA Branded, including Australian supermarket products. Anything missing, save as your own.
Australian whole foods from the official Food Standards Australia New Zealand database — where every second entry says whether it is raw, baked, fried or casseroled, because chicken carries half again as much protein per 100 g once it leaves the pan. Plus USDA, branded products from Open Food Facts, and every food you have saved.
Alcohol counted as standard drinks, not just calories, because the number that matters for a night out is not kilojoules.
Coach answers questions about your own numbers — why your target moved, whether a plateau is real. SET is the other one: ask it how anything in the app works and it walks you through it, step by step, instead of sending you to a support inbox.
Four speeds — gentle, steady, fast, aggressive — layered on top of your goal rather than replacing it, so a cut always sits below steady fat loss at whichever pace you pick. You see the calorie figure and the rough weekly rate for each before you commit, not after a fortnight of wondering. Already have a number you trust from somewhere else? Put it in and Setpoint will use that instead. Nothing drops below what your body burns at rest, whatever you choose.
Hit your targets exactly, respect allergies and a weekly grocery budget, and arrive with a shopping list attached. Every ingredient says whether it is weighed raw or cooked, because chicken is a fifth lighter on the way out of the pan.
Not just how many calories are left — how many grams of each thing, across the meals you have not eaten yet, adjusted for the ones you have. Lunch ran over? Dinner's numbers have already moved.
Somewhere around week six, a lot of diets slow down. Most people conclude they have lost discipline, eat less, and stall harder. Often what has changed is their expenditure — partly because a lighter body costs less to run, and sometimes by more than that alone explains.
Setpoint works out your expenditure twice, once at the start and once now, then subtracts the part explained by simply being lighter. A smaller body costs less to run. That is arithmetic, not adaptation. What is left over is a change worth knowing about, and it is one no app built on a formula can see, because a formula only moves when your weight does.
Seeing it is the point. A stall you can name is a different problem from a stall you blame yourself for.
WEEK 9
Your expenditure has fallen further than expected
Your expenditure has fallen 130 kcal beyond what losing 5.4 kg accounts for. A drop like this can reflect training, daily movement, stress, sleep or how closely the logging matched the eating — not only metabolic adaptation. Setpoint shows you the change and what it is not explained by; what to do about it is a conversation for you and, if it persists, someone qualified.
Needs about eight weeks of logging before it can compare two windows.
A programme is a list of exercises until you ask the only question that matters: am I doing enough of everything, and too much of anything?
Setpoint adds up your working sets across the whole week and attributes them to the muscles that did the work. Assisting muscles count as half a set, because a row is not a biceps exercise but your biceps did not sit it out either.
Twenty-two sets of chest next to four of hamstrings is obvious in a glance.
Open any exercise and the same figure shows that lift on its own — what it trains, and what merely assists.
Open a lift and last session's reps and weights are already in the boxes. Tap the set number to record the same again, or change one digit to beat it. That is progressive overload, and it is most of the reason to write anything down at all.
A rest timer sits under every exercise, already set to that lift's own rest period. Tap the minutes or the seconds to change them.
Nothing is guessed on your behalf: a prefilled row is only saved once you confirm it, so a session you skipped never quietly records last week's work as this week's.
Every day takes a note, and so does every session — whether a meal was worth repeating, whether a knee complained on the second set. Two boxes, because they are two different questions.
Mistyped a weigh-in? Correct it. Logged a session before you remembered your numbers? Edit it, or delete it. One fat-fingered weight drags a trend line for a fortnight, so it has no business being permanent.
Sleep stages, steps and heart rate from Apple Health and Health Connect, so Garmin, Fitbit, Samsung Health and Google Fit all land in one place. HRV, blood oxygen and respiration show up too, on the devices that share them — not every watch does.
Activity is shown for context and deliberately never added to your calorie target. Wearables overestimate calorie burn by 20–50%, and adding that to your allowance is how people eat back a deficit they never had.
Your food log, weight and plans are visible only to you. That is enforced at the database level, not by the app being polite about it.
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Three things. Your calorie target adapts to what your body actually does, rather than staying wherever a sign-up formula put it on day one. There are no ads and no upsells, just one subscription with everything in it. And no number in the app is invented: a model may identify food from a photo or a sentence, but every macro figure comes from a nutrition database or from a food you entered yourself.
Not yet. Setpoint is Android only at the moment. It is built from a single codebase that already targets both, so an iOS release is a matter of finishing store requirements rather than rewriting the app.
Around two weeks of weigh-ins and food logging gets a first blended estimate; four weeks of reasonably consistent logging gets a figure that no longer leans on the formula at all. Until then the app tells you exactly what it is working from and what it still needs.
No, but you do have to log consistently. The expenditure figure is derived from what you record, so it inherits any systematic under-logging. Being roughly right every day beats being exactly right three days a week.
Never. A model is used to identify food from a photo or a sentence and to estimate portion size. Every macro figure comes from the Australian Food Composition Database, USDA or Open Food Facts, or from a food you entered yourself. If nothing matches, the item is flagged as estimated so you know.
No. Setpoint is a tracking tool. If you have a health condition, are pregnant, or are recovering from an eating disorder, talk to a GP or an accredited practising dietitian.
Two weeks of honest logging is all it takes to start replacing a formula with your own data.