Every other tracker guesses what you burn from your height, weight and age, then never checks whether it was right. Setpoint measures it from what you actually log.
Android only for now. An iPhone version is planned. It is the same app, so it is a question of when, not whether.
The Mifflin–St Jeor equation is a population average. It is routinely 300–500 kcal wrong for any given individual. That is the difference between losing half a kilo a week and losing nothing at all.
After a couple of weeks, Setpoint has something better than an average: you. It fits a trend line through your weigh-ins, compares it against what you ate, and reads your expenditure straight off the energy balance.
Until there is enough data it says so plainly, and blends toward the measured figure as the evidence builds, rather than lurching one morning and quietly changing your targets.
How the estimate settles
A mistyped weight cannot move it. Physically impossible results are rejected, not averaged in.
The app identifies the food. A nutrition database supplies the numbers. Nothing ever invents a calorie count.
“Two eggs and three rashers of bacon.” Speech is transcribed on your phone, so no audio ever leaves the device. It becomes a list of items with portions you confirm, and the transcript stays editable, so a misheard word is a one-word fix rather than a re-recording.
Point the camera at your plate. Every component comes back separately, each with an honest confidence rating. Got one wrong? Correct it against the food database and the macros change with the name, not just the label.
Barcodes against Open Food Facts and USDA Branded, including Australian supermarket products. Anything missing, save as your own.
Generic whole foods from USDA Foundation and SR Legacy, branded products from Open Food Facts, plus every food you have saved.
Alcohol counted as standard drinks, not just calories, because the number that matters for a night out is not kilojoules.
Hit your targets exactly, respect allergies and a weekly grocery budget, and arrive with a shopping list attached.
Around week six of any diet, progress stops. Most people conclude they have lost discipline, eat less, and stall harder. What has actually happened is that their expenditure fell.
Setpoint measures your expenditure twice, once at the start and once now, then subtracts the part explained by simply being lighter. A smaller body costs less to run. That is physics, not adaptation. What is left over is the real signal, and it is the one no app built on a formula can see, because a formula only moves when your weight does.
Then it tells you what to do about it, which is usually the opposite of eating less.
WEEK 9
Your metabolism has adapted
Your expenditure has fallen 130 kcal beyond what losing 5.4 kg accounts for. This is normal and it is why cuts stall. Two weeks eating at maintenance usually brings it back. Carrying on and cutting calories further usually does not.
Needs about eight weeks of logging before it can compare two windows.
A programme is a list of exercises until you ask the only question that matters: am I doing enough of everything, and too much of anything?
Setpoint adds up your working sets across the whole week and attributes them to the muscles that did the work. Assisting muscles count as half a set, because a row is not a biceps exercise but your biceps did not sit it out either.
Twenty-two sets of chest next to four of hamstrings is obvious in a glance.
Sleep stages, steps, heart rate, HRV and blood oxygen from Apple Health and Health Connect, so Garmin, Fitbit, Samsung Health and Google Fit all land in one place.
Activity is shown for context and deliberately never added to your calorie target. Wearables overestimate calorie burn by 20–50%, and adding that to your allowance is how people eat back a deficit they never had.
Your food log, weight and plans are visible only to you. That is enforced at the database level, not by the app being polite about it.
No ads. Nothing sold to anyone. Nothing used to train models. Delete your account from inside the app and everything goes with it, permanently.
No tiers, no add-ons, no ads, no upsells.
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Prices in Australian dollars. The App Store and Google Play convert to your local currency and handle billing; Setpoint never sees your card.
Three things. Your calorie target adapts to what your body actually does, rather than staying wherever a sign-up formula put it on day one. There are no ads and no upsells, just one subscription with everything in it. And no number in the app is invented: a model may identify food from a photo or a sentence, but every macro figure comes from a nutrition database or from a food you entered yourself.
Not yet. Setpoint is Android only at the moment. It is built from a single codebase that already targets both, so an iOS release is a matter of finishing store requirements rather than rewriting the app.
Around two weeks of weigh-ins and food logging gets a first blended estimate; four weeks of reasonably consistent logging gets a figure that no longer leans on the formula at all. Until then the app tells you exactly what it is working from and what it still needs.
No, but you do have to log consistently. The expenditure figure is derived from what you record, so it inherits any systematic under-logging. Being roughly right every day beats being exactly right three days a week.
Never. A model is used to identify food from a photo or a sentence and to estimate portion size. Every macro figure comes from USDA or Open Food Facts, or from a food you entered yourself. If nothing matches, the item is flagged as estimated so you know.
No. Setpoint is a tracking tool. If you have a health condition, are pregnant, or are recovering from an eating disorder, talk to a GP or an accredited practising dietitian.
Two weeks of honest logging is all it takes to replace a formula with a fact.
Android only for now.