Targets & day types
Your weekly review
Gauge is mostly a "today" app, but training runs in weeks. This week is the one screen that steps back.
Tap the date at the top of Home and choose This week.
The week, Monday to Sunday
Every day from Monday through Sunday, each showing what you ate against that day's target, with a tick marking where the target sat. Days still to come show what's planned.
The week runs Monday to Sunday because that's the week Gauge's own deficit budgeting uses. If the screen showed you a rolling seven days it would disagree with the maths behind your targets, which is worse than useless.
At the top: how far under or over target you ran on average, and on how many days.
What counts as a logged day
A day only enters that average if it was genuinely logged — at least two entries and at least 1,000 calories. Days below that bar are marked partly logged and left out.
This matters more than it sounds. One coffee logged against a 2,900 target is not a 2,600-calorie shortfall; it's a day you didn't open the app. Counting it would tell you that you starved when you simply forgot, and it would drag your weekly average into fiction. Today is excluded for the same reason — scored against a full-day target, every morning looks like a disaster.
Weight
Your weigh-ins over the last two weeks, with the latest reading and the change across the window. Individual weigh-ins bounce for reasons that have nothing to do with fat — salt, sleep, when you last ate — so read the shape, not the last dot.
Learning your metabolism
The card at the bottom is the one worth understanding. Gauge adjusts your maintenance estimate toward what your own results say, but it refuses to do that on thin evidence. This card shows how close it is:
Learning your metabolism — Log most of your food on more days and your targets start tuning to your results. About 3 days to go. 7 / 10 days of targets
It needs roughly ten well-logged days inside a fourteen-day window, plus weigh-ins spread across it. Until then it holds steady and says so, rather than chasing noise.
Once there's enough, the card changes to tell you what it did — including "Your results match what the targets predicted, so nothing needed changing," which is a real answer and not a failure.
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Last updated July 29, 2026