A calmer way to track food ✨

Food Journal by SOMOS is a calm, flexible food journal app designed to help you log meals, understand useful nutrition estimates, and notice patterns across hunger, fullness, energy, activity and recovery — without pressure or perfection.

It includes calorie and macro breakdowns, but the goal is not to judge every meal. The goal is to help you understand what supports you over time.

It’s designed for awareness, not obsession.

🤓 Learn more → How Food Journal Works 

Yes.

Food Journal includes calorie and macro breakdowns as part of its meal analysis. The difference is that these numbers are treated as useful estimates — not perfect targets, scores or judgements.

You can use them alongside hunger, fullness, enjoyment, water, activity and recovery, so you get a fuller picture than calories or macros alone.

Think of it as macro-aware, not macro-obsessed.

You can learn more about how Food Journal think about calories here.  

You can log meals in whatever way feels easiest

Use a quick description, upload a photo, reuse a previous meal or add meals through the built-in chat assistant.

Food Journal can estimate calories and macros when helpful, and you can add extra context like hunger, fullness, meal source and how the meal felt.

No weighing, barcode scanning or perfect detail required.

Read the full guide on logging meals.  

No. Food Journal is designed for consistency over perfection.

You do not need to log every meal, every day or every detail. A useful pattern over time is more important than a perfect record.

You can always come back after busy days, travel or disrupted routines and catch up with what you remember.

Food Journal works best when it supports real life, not when it becomes another thing to get right.

We'd recommend taking a look at our article on how to track food without becoming obsessive. 

Hunger signals help you understand how food actually affects you — not just what you ate.

You can optionally log:

• how hungry you felt before eating 
• how full you felt after 
• how full you felt 30 minutes later 

You can also capture how a meal felt — for example whether it was enjoyable, social, mindful, rushed or nourishing.

Over time, this gives you a clearer picture of what “works” for you — which meals keep you satisfied, support your energy, and fit your lifestyle.

Yes — Food Journal can support active people, weight loss, maintenance and performance goals..

It includes calorie and macro breakdowns, so you can understand nutrition data such as protein, carbs, fat and overall energy intake. But it also helps you look beyond numbers by connecting meals with hunger, fullness, enjoyment, activity, recovery and weekly patterns.

People use it for:

• fat loss 
• maintenance 
• strength and endurance training 
• general health and wellbeing 

Rather than strict plans or targets, the journal focuses on awareness, patterns and consistency — so your approach can evolve in a way that feels sustainable.

Food Journal is not a specialist sports nutrition plan or clinical nutrition service. For elite sport, medical conditions, eating disorder recovery or highly personalised performance targets, it is best to work with a qualified professional.

Yes.

Each week, you can download a clear summary report showing your averages, patterns and key context — including meals, nutrition estimates, hunger and fullness signals, water, activity and recovery.

These reports are designed to be easy to share with a coach, PT, dietitian, doctor or other healthcare professional.

The focus is on clarity and insight — not overwhelming data.

You can learn more about weekly reports here. 

Food Journal by SOMOS costs £5.99/month or £59.99/year at the standard UK price.

The annual plan works out at less than 20p a day at the standard UK price and includes a £10 contribution to grassroots social impact work.

To make Food Journal more accessible, we do offer customers in 128 countries up to 30% off the UK pricing. If you're in an eligible country, you'll a discount code on our website!

If you are eligible for country-specific pricing, the discount comes from the SOMOS side. The £10 annual contribution is not reduced.

You can try it for 14 days. If it is not useful, you can get a full refund — no questions asked.

You can learn more about our Impact Fund here.  

Food Journal is paid because we want to keep the experience clean, calm and focused on you.

A free tier often means products need to make money in other ways — through adverts, data-driven targeting, upsells or distractions. That is not the kind of journal we want to build.

To make Food Journal more accessible, we do offer customers in 128 countries up to 30% off the UK pricing. If you're in an eligible country, you'll a discount code on our website!

You can try Food Journal for 14 days. If it is not useful, you can get a full refund — no questions asked.

The biggest difference is the approach.

MyFitnessPal is often used for:

• precision calorie tracking
• daily targets
• barcode scanning
• streaks, compliance and “staying on track”

Food Journal also includes calorie and macro breakdowns but it is designed for:

• reflection and awareness around food
• weekly patterns (not daily perfection)
• flexibility around real life, travel and social eating

There are no red warnings and no pressure to “stay on track”.

The goal isn’t restriction — it’s understanding what actually works for you.

If you'd like a more in depth discussion around the differences in approach, check out our article on Food Journal as a MyFitnessPal alternative.

Yes.

Your data is private by default and only visible to you. SOMOS does not sell user data or use it for advertising.

The journal is built as part of a values-led ecosystem focused on long-term wellbeing and trust.

Food Journal is one of the first paid tools within the wider SOMOS ecosystem.

SOMOS is building a collection of simple tools designed to support sustainable work, health, income and independent lives — especially for people navigating non-traditional or mission-driven careers.

Food Journal sits on the wellbeing side of that ecosystem. You do not need to use anything else in SOMOS to benefit from it.

Many social impact professionals and changemakers struggle to maintain consistent health routines alongside demanding, often unpredictable work.

Travel, irregular schedules, emotional labour and long hours can make traditional “perfect tracking” unrealistic.

The Food Journal was designed with this in mind — to offer a calmer, more flexible way to build awareness and sustainable habits, even when life isn’t structured.

While it works for anyone, it’s especially relevant for people balancing purpose-driven work with their own wellbeing.