Trace Elements helps you follow a low–trace-element diet. Pick the element you care about, log what you eat, and a simple daily ring tells you whether you're under, near, or over your limit.
Log your meals and the ring fills up, changing color as you approach your daily limit. Patterns that are invisible day-to-day become obvious over weeks.
Version 2.0 is a complete rewrite of Trace Elements — faster and smoother throughout, with the same food database, trends, recipes, favorites, and backups. Your data migrates automatically the first time you open it.
Logging, searching, and switching days all respond instantly. Nothing to set up — it installs as a normal update.
Logs, foods, favorites, recipes, and settings move over on first launch, and the original copy is kept on the device.
When device backup is on, your history is included and comes back when you set up a new phone — no file juggling.
Photograph the menu, pick your dish, and its ingredients are looked up. The photo is read on your phone and never uploaded. Part of Pro.
Before anything leaves your phone, a dialog tells you exactly what will be sent and to whom — and you can say no.
Ingredients the database can't price are looked up together, with live progress and a Stop button. Food Management gains the same lookup, a prepared-dish builder, and product scanning.
Most tracking apps are built for fitness or calories. Trace Elements is built for the specific, ongoing work of managing dietary trace elements.
A color-coded ring shows today's total against your limit. Amber as you approach, red when you go over. Limits are yours to set — and with Pro, a second ring tracks cobalt alongside nickel.
Hundreds of common foods built in — one clean value per food, averaged across sources. Search finds them in any word order, and the online lookup fills gaps with your say-so.
Log a whole dish at once — from built-in recipes or looked up online. Build and share your own recipes, and watch the total update as you swap ingredients to bring it down.
Scan a packaged product and its label becomes a compound food — ingredients pre-portioned from the label's own composition, ready to tune and log. Rescanning a saved product loads it instantly, fully offline.
Eating out? Photograph the menu, pick your dish, and the app finds its ingredients and prices them. Text is read on your phone; only the dish name you choose goes online.
Tag each day and jot down how you felt. Line up symptoms against intake to find patterns worth discussing with a clinician.
Week and month views colored by how each day landed, with a badge naming the element that went over. Export a PDF report to bring to a clinic visit.
No account, no cloud we run. Your logs and food database live on your device, ride along in your own Google backup, and every online lookup asks before it sends anything.
Day-to-day tracking is free, full stop. Trace Elements Pro ($1.99/mo or $12.99/yr) adds cobalt tracking alongside nickel, menu scanning, PDF reports, and file backup — and a tip jar if you'd just like to say thanks. Details in the FAQ.
Trace Elements is built from a single shared codebase, so the iPhone version is the same app, not a port. The iOS beta is open on TestFlight — join with one tap, no invite email needed. Right now TestFlight carries the previous-generation 1.11 build; the 2.0 rewrite rolls out on Android first and comes to iPhone once the Android beta clears. Purchases aren't available on iOS yet, so every Pro feature is unlocked there in the meantime.
Health data is among the most personal information you have. Trace Elements keeps your logs and food database on your device — nothing is uploaded to any server we run.
Trace Elements is a self-tracking aid, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, and its reference values are population-level estimates. If a clinician has put you on a restricted diet, follow their guidance over the app's numbers.
Trace Elements 2.0 is in closed beta on Android, and the iOS beta is open on TestFlight. Free during beta as a thank-you for helping shape the app.
Beta access is limited to 50 testers so we can support everyone properly. Request access below — we'll send your Play Store invite link within a few days.
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