What's new

The number you check most — calories left today — no longer requires opening the app. Gauge now ships three iPhone home-screen widgets, and they stay current with every meal you log.

The widgets

• Today's Calories (small) — your calories remaining over a tick-mark gauge, with a needle at exactly where your day stands.
• Today's Calories (medium) — the big number plus your goal, food logged, and a progress bar, with a Log button that drops you straight into the food input, keyboard ready.
• Today's Macros (medium) — labeled bars for carbs, fat, and protein against today's targets, just like the summary inside the app.

They show today's targets, not static ones — a rest day, a long-run day, and a race day all read differently on your home screen, exactly as the engine set them.

Adding one

Press and hold an empty spot on your home screen, tap Edit → Add Widget, and search for Gauge. Swipe to the design you want and tap Add Widget. The full walkthrough — and what to do if a widget looks stale — is in Home-screen widgets.

Widgets need iOS 17 or later and this update (1.0.2) from the App Store. Android widgets are on the roadmap.

Until today, Gauge computed your targets from a formula — a good formula, but a formula. Real metabolisms drift from formulas: cuts plateau, gain phases stall, and the honest answer has always been to adjust. Now Gauge does that adjusting for you.

How it works

Keep logging and weighing in like normal. Every day, Gauge compares two weeks of evidence: what it predicted your maintenance calories were, versus what your logged food and your weight trend say they actually were. When the two disagree, your maintenance estimate moves toward the evidence — a little at a time, never more than 300 calories in total — and every target built on it moves with it.

That means a plateau on a cut gets a genuinely deeper push, a stalled gain phase gets more food, and loss that's running too hot gets reined in. All at the pace you chose in Weight Goal — the adjustment changes what Gauge believes your body burns, not how aggressive your plan is.

Built-in honesty

• No adjustment happens from thin evidence. It takes about ten well-logged days and a few weigh-ins in each week — if the data is spotty, Gauge holds steady and your coach will suggest logging or weighing in instead.
• Your calorie floor is untouchable. No plateau can push your targets below it.
• Nothing is silent. Adjusted days say so right in the day's explanation ("results-adjusted −150 kcal"), and your morning digest can tell you why.

What you'll notice

For the first couple of weeks: nothing — Gauge is gathering its evidence. After that, if your results and the formula disagree, you'll see the adjustment appear in your day's rationale and your targets shift by small steps. If they agree, nothing changes, which is its own kind of answer.

Read the full story in How Gauge sets your targets.

A big day for getting answers — and for logging breakfast faster.

Help & Guides, in the app and on the web

Seventeen guides covering everything from your first day to troubleshooting sync, organized by topic. Find them in Settings → Help & Guides, or at ongauge.app/help. Articles update continuously — no app update needed.

Contact support, properly

The new contact form replaces the old email link. Send a message and you'll get an instant confirmation; a real person replies, usually within a day or two. Reaching out from inside the app automatically includes your app version, so we can help faster.

One-tap meals

Your usual breakfast is now one tap: long-press a meal's header on Home to save it as a meal group, then log the whole thing from your Library whenever you eat it again. Each item still logs individually, so everything stays editable.

Also in this update

• Your app version now shows at the bottom of Settings.
• Sharper social previews and better search visibility for the website.

Point your camera at the plate and Gauge does the rest.

Photo logging is live for Gauge Pro: snap a meal (or pick one from your library), optionally note anything the photo can't show — cooking oil, hidden ingredients, how many eggs — and Gauge identifies the foods and estimates portion-aware macros.

Photos are analyzed and immediately discarded; they're never stored. As always, every estimate stays editable — portions, multipliers, and the Ask Gauge correction path all work on photo-logged entries.