Hey all, sharing what I’ve been working on. NutriTrace is a self-hosted nutrition and wellness tracker that runs entirely on your own server in a single Docker container.
I built it because every commercial nutrition app has the same shape. You hand them years of food data, body measurements, and biometrics, and your data is held hostage when they pivot or paywall. I wanted to track macros and pull in my Fitbit data without participating in that.
Daily food diary with multi-ingredient meals, recipes, body stats, water tracking, day-level notes. Personal food database, barcode scanner, imports from Open Food Facts and USDA, plus optional Mealie integration. Statistics with trend charts, full backup, exports as CSV / JSON / full ZIP.
Optional wellness device sync from Fitbit, Withings, Garmin, and Android Health Connect. Sleep / readiness / stress scores computed from your data.
Optional AI assistant where you bring your own Claude / OpenAI / Gemini key. It queries your real data via tool use so it can answer things like “what was my average protein this month” without making numbers up. There’s a voice food logger too. Both fully optional, off by default.
Tech: Svelte 4 + Express + better-sqlite3, multi-stage Dockerfile, AGPL-3.0. Native Android app is in active development; PWA installs to home screen on any modern browser today.
Repo and docker-compose example: https://github.com/TraceApps/nutritrace
Happy to answer questions.
This sounds great. How does the device support work? What do you think of GadgetBridge support?
As this is a new project, have you considered hosting your code somewhere other than GitHub? Codeberg and GitLab are similarly user-friendly platforms without the many downsides of supporting Microsoft.
Is there a place where we could help with translation ?
I know a few people that would want an app like that but English is not their primary language and won’t bother checking it out at all without some kind of translation.
On multi user: any thoughts on working with oidc/ldap or the like? I use authentik at home for many other services and it would be great to keep the single login.
List of different types of login types: https://integrations.goauthentik.io/
Yes indeed! On my future to do!
Thanks all, really appreciate the kind words. Feedback is welcome on anything: bug reports, missing features, things that feel rough, or just “this works for my setup.” A few features are flagged Experimental right now and I’d like to harden them enough to drop the badge.
Native Android app is in active development. There’s also a sister project in the works called LiftTrace under the same TraceApps umbrella, same self-hosted Docker setup but for workout tracking (sets, reps, programs, PRs). Not public yet but close.
That sounds cool! Been looking for something like this for a while!
This is perfect, thanks for sharing.
This is wonderful!
Going to set it up tomorrow and give it a go!
Ooh, I’ll definitely give this a try.
Is the docker image public? I’m getting an “unauthorized” error when attempting to pull it. I’m not getting that error for other ghcr.io images. But I’m not docker expert, so I may be doing something wrong.
Is the docker image public? I’m getting an “unauthorized” error when attempting to pull it. I’m not getting that error for other ghcr.io images. But I’m not docker expert, so I may be doing something wrong.
Should be fixed now, package was set to private by default on first push. Just flipped it. docker pull ghcr.io/traceapps/nutritrace:latest works without auth now. Thanks for flagging it.
Looks good, so I’ve got it up and running now. Thanks!
This looks very interesting. I’ll have to load up the container and give it a try at some point in the future. Big fan of the mealie integration since I use that for all my recipes.
