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 2.1 turns My Recipes into a recipe box. Import the recipes you already cook from a web page, pasted text, or a recipe card, check every line, and see what each one adds up to. Then pick a week's worth and shop from a single list.
Share a recipe page to the app or paste its address. Your phone loads the page itself and keeps just the recipe, with no pictures and no stories.
From an email, a note, or a message: paste the text and every ingredient line is read, with its amount and unit.
Photograph a family card or a cookbook page, up to six pages, read entirely on your phone. "1 c. oleo" becomes margarine; "butter the size of an egg" gets a best reading, flagged for you. Part of Pro.
See what the source said beside what the app understood, fix anything, then let it look up the values and show which ingredients contribute most.
Send a recipe file to another Trace Elements user, or plain text to anyone. A recipe you receive is recalculated on your own phone. No accounts, no links.
Pick recipes and servings and get one list, grouped by aisle. Pantry staples stay out of the way, shopping mode has big checkboxes, and you can share it as text or print it (Pro).
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. Import recipes from the web, pasted text, or a recipe card, share them phone to phone, and turn a week of them into one grocery list.
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 and recipe-card scanning, PDF reports, grocery list printing, 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. Version 2.0 is on the App Store today, with the same free core tracking, the same optional Pro subscription and tip jar, and backup to your own iCloud instead of Google Drive.
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 on Google Play and the App Store today. Core tracking is free, no account needed; Pro is an optional subscription.
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