Track your food, down to the gram.
A fast, private macro tracker on real European food data. Two taps to log, no ads, no subscription, no gamification.
Notify me at launchBuilt for people who weigh their food.
Pensum keeps daily logging fast, on food data that matches what is actually on your plate in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Finds the food, not the noise
Generic whole foods rank above branded products. Search banana or Brötchen and get the food, not forty packaged versions of it.
Logged in two taps
Weigh, search, done. No streaks, no badges, no twenty-screen onboarding between you and a logged meal.
Real European food data
Built on the German Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS), the Swiss Food Composition Database, USDA FoodData Central, and Open Food Facts for barcodes.
Honest micronutrients
Calories, macros and key vitamins and minerals against your targets, each flagged as verified, partial or estimated. No false precision.
Private, no ads, no subscription
Local-first and no account. Your diary stays on your phone. No ads, no upsell, no selling your data.
A lean alternative to the bloated apps.
If you are leaving Cronometer over buried generic foods or ads, MacroFactor over price, or Yazio over gamified subscriptions, Pensum is built for exactly that: speed, control, and European food data that is actually right.
For eating out and cooking.
Fast manual logging is the core. When a meal is messier than a barcode, two more tools keep it accurate without slowing you down.
Snap it, then tell it what you know
Photograph the plate and add the context you already have: rough weights, the oil, the vessel size. Pensum treats your notes as facts, not guesses, returns an editable ingredient breakdown, and even surfaces the invisible extras like cooking oil and added sugar. You correct it, you stay in control.
Meals and recipes in a tap
Save a meal you eat often and re-log it in one tap. Build a recipe once, then log a single serving. Import a recipe by pasting text or a screenshot from anywhere, and Pensum reads the ingredients for you.
Questions
Which food databases does Pensum use?
Pensum is built on European generic-food data: the German Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS), the Swiss Food Composition Database, and USDA FoodData Central, plus Open Food Facts for barcodes.
Is Pensum a good Cronometer or MacroFactor alternative?
If your friction with Cronometer is buried generic foods, slow logging, or ads, Pensum is built to fix exactly that: generic foods ranked above branded ones, two-tap entry, and no ads or subscriptions. It is a leaner, EU-focused alternative.
Does Pensum work for German, Swiss and Austrian foods?
Yes. That is the point. Searching Brötchen or Quark returns the actual food, not forty packaged products, because Pensum ranks clean generic foods above branded noise.
Can Pensum estimate a meal from a photo?
Yes, but you lead. Photograph the plate and add what you already know (rough weights, the oil, the vessel size); Pensum treats that as fact, not a guess, and returns an editable ingredient breakdown you correct. It is an on-ramp, not a magic button.
Is Pensum free? Are there ads or subscriptions?
Pensum is free, with no ads, no subscription, and no gamification.
Do I need an account?
No. Pensum is local-first; your diary stays on your device.
Built in Switzerland, for people who got tired of apps that do not know their food.
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