Bariatrack

A practical iPhone app for life after bariatric surgery. The rules are the rules; this just keeps them straight for you.

Coming soon to the App Store.

Why we built this

Bariatric surgery comes with a long list of daily homework. 64 ounces of fluid in tiny sips. 60 to 80 grams of protein when food itself is hard. A multivitamin in the morning, calcium 2 hours later, iron at a different time again. No drinking for 30 minutes after a meal. Pureed food at week 3, soft food at week 6, regular food somewhere down the road.

Most people walk out of the hospital with a laminated handout that covers all of it. Bariatrack puts that handout on your phone, sorted by where you are in your recovery, and reminds you when something matters.

That is it. No calorie shaming, no badges, no tricks. The app keeps score so you do not have to.

5 phases, and the app knows which one you are in

Give it your surgery date and procedure during setup. From there it works out which phase you are in: clear liquids, protein liquids, pureed, soft, or regular. Foods, fluids, and recipes filter to what you are cleared for, so a soft-food chili is not staring at you while you are still on broth.

Surgeons run different timelines. If yours stretches a phase or pulls it forward, edit the durations in Settings and the rest of the app adjusts.

What you will actually see

TodayThe home screen for the day. Sips of water, supplements you've taken, meals logged, what's still on the list.

Logging a fluidPick a fluid type, dial in the amount, done. The reminder for your next sip resets as soon as you log.

Logging a mealSearch the food, set the portion, drop it into the meal slot. Barcodes work for most packaged foods.

Meal entryThe meal screen itself. Edit portions later if you guessed wrong, or split an item across 2 meals.

TimelineA scroll-back of everything you have done today in the order it happened. Useful when your dietitian asks what you ate around 3 in the afternoon.

Food databasePhase filtering is on by default, so things you're not cleared for don't show up in the list.

RecipesA library of 90+ recipes built for bariatric eating, sorted by phase. Restricted ingredients get flagged automatically.

Fluid trendsDaily fluid totals over the past few weeks. Easy to spot the days you didn't hit 64 ounces.

Protein trendsProtein by day, with your target line on the chart. Most patients live in the 60-to-80-gram window.

Calorie trendsCalorie totals over time. Useful for noticing when intake starts to creep, especially in the soft food phase.

SupplementsSchedule your multivitamin, B12, calcium, and iron. The app keeps calcium and iron at least 2 hours apart, because they don't absorb well together.

AdherenceHow consistent you have been, week over week. Helpful for the conversations with your dietitian.

Weight and exerciseWeight log alongside activity. Mostly used for looking back at how far you have come.

ExerciseActivity log. For the first 6 weeks the app reminds you about lifting limits and the no-swimming rule.

On your wrist and your home screen

You will be sipping water all day, and you do not want to fish your phone out of a bag for every 2-ounce log. Tap a button on the Apple Watch. Tap the widget on the home screen. Either one takes about a second.

Live Activities keep your daily totals on the lock screen if you want them there, and hide cleanly if you do not.

Your data stays yours

Everything you enter lives on your device. If you turn on iCloud sync, it travels through your own private iCloud account between your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Nobody at SpiritWise can see it.

No advertising identifiers. No third-party analytics. No selling anything to anyone. The privacy policy lists exactly what is collected, which is less than most apps you already use.

Available in 10 languages

English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), and Simplified Chinese. The app picks up whichever language your iPhone is set to.

Questions, bugs, feature requests

There is a real person on the other end of email. If something is broken or confusing, or you want the app to do something it does not do yet, please tell us.

Visit the Support page