Budgie Diet

Budgie Diet is a smart diet assistant app for iOS devices, intended to help Apple Watch users budget their calorie intake effectively based on their real-world movement data. It’s intended to require no registration data and no personal data, relying on nothing more than the data you already have on hand from your Watch.

Privacy policy

This is the privacy policy for Budgie Diet, an app written and provided by Joseph Baldwin, a private individual and a resident of the United Kingdom. Summary By design, Budgie Diet does not collect any personal data about you. Period. You do not need to set up an account with any service to use Budgie Diet, provide any contact information or even your name to use any and all of its functionality. ...

Budget setting: a nerdy maths explanation

Average daily resting/basal calories Simple arithmetic mean of your previous week’s burn (the week’s total divided by 7). Basal calories predicted The daily average divided by 1440 times the number of minutes left in the day. Active calories predicted Depends on the setting: Default: (Daily average x 0.875) x (1 - (Minutes into day/1320)^2) Forgiving: Daily average x (1 - (Minutes into day/1440)^6) ** If “Minutes into day” is before 4am, weighted as if 4am. Harsh: (Daily average x 0.75) x (Minutes into day/1320) Left to eat Total budget x (minutes into day/1200) - total eaten ...

Frequently asked questions

The basics Do I need an Apple Watch to use Budgie Diet? Not technically, but you won’t get the best use out of it unless you have either an Apple Watch, or another wearable that contributes resting and active calorie data to Apple Health. How does Budgie Diet differ from a typical calorie counter like MyFitnessPal or FatSecret? Most diet apps work based on fixed calorie targets - so you tell FatSecret that you want to eat 2,000 calories a day, and it will tell you how much of that 2,000 calories you have left after the food you’ve eaten. Cool. ...