Diary has some items when it loads, but is currently spinning

can’t explode or adjust a previously logged meal

seemed fine earlier - around 9am eastern today.

However, the online version using a web browser like Chrome still works:
https://cronometer.com/#diary

1. Create a recipe, Recipe A.
2. Add the recipe to the diary.
3. Retire Recipe A.
4. Go to the diary and right click on Recipe A and "View/Edit Selected Recipe".
5. Use "Edit a Copy" to create a copy and save the new recipe, Recipe B.
6. Recipe B does not show in the recipe list on the left or food searches.

Recipes created from copying a retired recipes appears to be automatically retired, which isn't the most sensible as a user wouldn't be creating a brand new recipe only to not be able to use it once they leave that screen. This seems to be a new behaviour as I was able to create new active recipes from retired ones in the past.

I have to toggle the advanced serving sizes on and off then it will correct itself to an actual serving listed instead.

What am I doing wrong here?

From over a year of tracking foods, almost all of which are NCCDB entries, the only food that has a non-zero and non-missing value for lactose is broccoli. (I don't eat dairy products so I didn't expect other foods to have it.)

As far as I know, there is no lactose in broccoli. From NIH: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases/lactose-intolerance/eating-diet-nutrition
"Many foods that do not contain lactose are also sources of calcium. Examples include: [...] broccoli and leafy green vegetables"

But on Cronometer, 100 g of broccoli is shown to contain 0.21 g of lactose (USDA as well as NCCDB entries).

According to USDA, there is 0g of lactose in broccoli: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/747447/nutrients

This works fine when I use MyFitnessPal (which I absolutely hate with a passion).

However, when using Cronometer, it doesn't seem to work.

Google Fit unfortunately doesn't seem to have any way in the app to see your food logged, but it does definitely receive and store this information because it has successfully pushed all of this info to another app for me.

Has anyone else been able to share their food data from Cronometer through Google Fit and have it display in a third app? Also, does anyone know if any way at all to view food information in Google Fit? I cannot seem to find a way to do this at all.

Also, is there a way to make sure that Google Fit does not send any data BACK to Cronometer? I want data to pass only from Cronometer TO Google Fit (not the other way around). Because at current it seems to be syncing two-ways and that means I get 2 weight readings. Cronometer could you please give us an option for only one-way sync (i.e. export from Cronometer only)

EDIT: @Hilary

I found this post from you last April: https://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/comment/7795/#Comment_7795

It's quite unclear because you use the word import twice. Am I to understand that Cronometer does not export any data to Google Fit at all? If I am correct, why is this the case and can you please change it? This is a serious loss of functionality as it means that Cronometer cannot use Google Fit as a medium to pass through a lot of data to third-party apps.

Can you please make this a big priority as it means that Cronometer is literally unable to pass its data anywhere outside of its own app... it makes using your app for logging food pointless if I wish to share that information with another app.

I have multiple devices that track sleep data:

• An Apple Watch
• An Oura Ring
• An Eightsleep Pod mattress cover
  

each of these devices write Apple Health data and Cronometer is adding the values together and making it seem like I sleep 18-20 hours per day in my metrics.

So today I changed phases in my weight loss program, moving to a higher percentage of fat for my macro ratios. Additionally, I added back some calories to my day by modifying the weight loss rate in the Trends feature.

I was disappointed to find, as I looked back through my historic data, that the daily calories had been changed for all my past entries, even though they had been saved. Where once my remaining calories were 20-30 calories for the day, now they are at 400!

So apparently all the data I've been collecting for historic measure and look back is altered and corrupted.

Am I mistaken here? Why wouldn't Chronometer save the daily macro ratios and daily target calories in the record with everything else?

--Signed,
Very frustrated

BugReport #DataIntegrity #DataCorruption

Each logged food gets stored as an individual nutritional data record instead of being stored as a food. This means other apps that read the data have no idea what you ate or drank. All they see is a bunch of disconnected nutritional data points and the time they were recorded. In practice, it means food won’t show up in all apps (as they don’t expect data to be unstructured) and you miss out on correlations and insights from Apple Health, Guava, and other apps that analyze the data.

One food item (one logged item in Cronometer) should be stored as a HKCorrelation of type food that contains all the nutrient records. This HKCorrelation should also contain a HKMetadataKeyFoodType, which is a string representing the food (e.g., "Honey" or "Apple").

Fixing this would make Cronometer’s nutritional integration with Apple Health would be on-pair with the structured data that your app already provides to Android Health Connect users.

I’m seeing a persistent weight error on one specific day in my graph/diary (see attached screenshot). In Apple Health the entries are correct and continuous, but in Cronometer that date shows a spurious spike/outlier.

Environment

• iPhone + Apple Watch
• Apple Health integrated with Cronometer
• Data type: HKQuantityTypeIdentifierBodyMass (lbs)
• Time zone: local; no manual overrides

Steps to Reproduce

1. Connect Apple Health to Cronometer.
2. Ensure normal daily Body Mass samples exist in Health for the period.
3. Open Discover → Weight Change (or diary) in Cronometer.
4. Observe a single-day value that does not match Health.
5. Run Settings → Integrations → Apple Health → Backfill → Weight and reopen the app.
6. Issue persists.

Expected

The per-day Body Mass in Cronometer mirrors Apple Health (same value, timestamp bucket, and unit).

Actual

On 2025-08-31, Cronometer displays an incorrect weight (large spike). The value remains after backfill, app relaunch, and device reboot.

What I’ve Verified

• Apple Health shows correct samples (no duplicates), correct Data Source priority (Apple Watch on top), correct units/timestamps.
• Tried disconnect/reconnect + backfill; force-quit; Background App Refresh on; Low Power Mode off.

Questions

• Does Cronometer apply rounding/averaging/dedup or a time-bucket rule that could pick the wrong sample when multiple exist on a day?
• Is there a way to purge and re-import Body Mass for a single date only?
• Any known issues with midnight boundaries, unit conversion (lb↔kg), or timezone offsets for HKQuantityTypeIdentifierBodyMass?
• Do backfills fully honor Health → Data Sources priority?

Happy to provide exact timestamps/values, app build, and iOS/watchOS versions.

Loving the app so far but I'm confused as to why my targets don't match the daily targets?

I manually entered into more>Targets>Macronutrient Settings:
Protein 120.0g
Net Carbs 80.0g
Fat 50.0g

But my daily "Default Macronutrient targets" in my diary has much higher amounts.
Protein /186.4g
Net Carbs /124.3g
Fat /77.7g

I'm unsure why it's arbitrarily different? These aren't the targets I want to hit.

Any help explaining why and if I need to fix it would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Thanks,

Jason

it’s been like this for over a week

I reached out to support previously, who recommended I get the fix from the latest update, but that didn't fix my issue. I tried re-installing the application and clearing the application cache to no avail. The web portal's nutrition scores work as expected.

Platform: Pixel 5 > Android 14
Cronometer Version: 4.41.3

If I could get any insight or help, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

The beverages still show up when I click to add them in the Diary, but the Supplements do not. They've also disappeared from all previous Diary days.