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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 

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.

SOMOS 🤝🏾 is is a social enterprise building simple tools to support sustainable, mission-driven work.

We help social impact leaders, founders and consultants sustain their work over time — with tools across wellbeing, direction, and income.

We’re structured with a co-ownership model, sharing value with our community and supporting grassroots organisations through our Impact Fund.
 

You can learn more on our Mission and Impact Fund pages. 

We’re building a small set of tools to support sustainable, mission-driven work — across wellbeing, direction, and income.

Right now, that includes Food Journal for calmer food tracking, Breathe for guided breathing and stress regulation, and Rate Calculator for pricing your work more fairly.

Over time, we’ll add more simple tools to help you think clearly, make decisions and manage your work in a more sustainable way.

Each tool is designed to be practical, lightweight and easy to use.

Watch this space!

Yes! We’re starting to release a small set of free tools alongside our paid ones.

You can try: 

• Breathe, our free guided breathing tool, to slow down, regulate stress and create small moments of pause during busy days.
•  Rate Calculator helps you set a fair hourly or monthly rate based on your work and costs.

Over time, we’ll add more — simple tools designed to help you think clearly, make decisions, and build sustainable work.

For annual plans, £10 from your subscription goes directly to grassroots work.

£5 goes to a project of your choice, and £5 goes to our Impact Fund — supporting a wider network of organisations.