FAQ

A nutrition and body-recomposition tracker. You log meals — by photo, plain text, barcode, or search — and Makuro learns your real energy needs to set calorie and macro targets that adapt as your body changes.

No. You can log your first meal in seconds and start tracking right away.

Makuro is free to download and start using. Any premium features will be clearly described in the app.

Use the App Store download link on this site to check current availability, supported devices and the latest released version.

Makuro estimates calorie needs from your food and weight records alongside a formula baseline. Complete, consistent records can help refine the estimate, but logging errors and water-weight changes still matter. We have not clinically validated its individual accuracy.

It starts with a resting-energy equation and an activity estimate, then combines that baseline with an estimate from your food intake and weight changes when enough usable records exist, weighting each by how uncertain it is. Goals and calorie limits determine the target. This estimates expenditure; it does not measure metabolism. The methodology page explains the method, its evidence and its limits.

Weight, activity and logging patterns can change the estimate. Targets normally update weekly; explicit goal edits or manual recalculation can update them sooner. A change in the estimate is not proof that your metabolism changed.

Yes, optionally. Turn on Import sleep (Me → Apple Health) and Makuro reads your nightly sleep from any app that writes to Apple Health — Apple Watch, Garmin, Oura, Samsung Health, and others — then shows how your sleep tracks with your appetite in the Sleep & Appetite insight.

No. Sleep records are used for a separate insight, not as a calorie adjustment in the expenditure formula. A correlation in your records does not establish cause and effect or tell us how many calories to add or subtract.

Makuro combines calorie-target review with flexible logging: photos, plain text, nutrition labels and barcodes. You can review food estimates before saving and use your food and weight history to inform expenditure estimates.

A fasting day means no energy intake for the whole day. Mark a day incomplete when only some food was logged; do not mark it fasting. Explicit zero-energy fasts are kept as zero intake, while missing or partial days split the stretches used for the estimate. The methodology page explains the recent-data requirement and fallback behavior.

If you opt in, Apple Health active-energy estimates replace your activity selection in the formula baseline. The baseline continues to contribute to adaptive estimates; watch energy is not directly added to the intake-and-weight fit. Wearable calories are estimates, not a measurement of your total expenditure.

Snap up to five photos of your meal — extra angles or the nutrition label help — and Makuro estimates the foods and portions, returning macros you can review and edit before saving. No photo handy? Just type what you ate.

Yes — deeply. Search in your own script or in romanization, and serving sizes are the real ones: a bowl of rice is a bowl, not “100 g”. Curated data covers common Japanese products too.

Daily weigh-ins help most, because Makuro smooths out water-weight noise to find your true trend — but it works with whatever cadence you keep. More data just sharpens the picture.

Yes — Makuro follows your iPhone. Every weekly view (the diary strip, habit cards, calendars) uses the system week, so set it once in Settings → General → Language & Region → First Day of Week and Makuro matches, along with every other app on your phone. Your weekly check-in is separate: it looks at the last 7 days whenever it runs, so it works the same no matter which day your week starts.

Yes — with a dedicated calculator, because alcohol has no nutrition label but always prints its ABV, and volume × ABV computes the calories exactly (ethanol is 7 kcal per gram). Presets cover beer, chūhai, sake, shochu, soju, makgeolli, highball, wine, and more, with real serving sizes like a 中ジョッキ or one gō. Logged drinks count standard drinks per week (your country’s definition), can track against a weekly ceiling you set, and sync to Apple Health’s Alcohol Consumption metric.

English and Japanese today, with more languages planned. Food search understands native scripts and romanization either way.

Your health data is yours. Makuro is designed to keep your tracking on your device and never sells your data. Full details are in our privacy policy.

Makuro is built natively for the latest iOS, with home-screen widgets and an Apple Watch companion — glance at what’s left today and log weigh-ins right from your wrist.