Private beta · Bengaluru

Know if you're actually getting stronger.

Trace scores every set against your own history, tracks Indian food properly, and tells you when it isn't sure yet.

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The ridges are three lifts' estimated 1RM, session by session. Sample data.

How Trace works

Food and training, read together every week.

Most people run one app for calories and another for the gym, so neither can tell whether the diet is helping the lifts. Trace keeps both in one weekly check-in.

You log foodKatori, ladle, packetIndian dishes first, cooking oil counted. Trace readsWeight trendSmoothed, so one salty dinner is not news. You log setsWeight × repsAny lift, any split, as you train. Trace readsStrength trendEstimated 1RM per set, against your last eight. Every weekOne check-inBoth trends side by side, with the arithmetic shown. Nothing changes until you accept it. OutCalorie target, nudged50 to 100 kcal at a time, never from one weigh-in. OutA verdict per liftConfirmed, building, held, declining, or not yet.
Session complete Thu 24 Sep · 58 min

Did you get stronger today?

Push A. 5 lifts, 18 sets, not scored yet.

  • Barbell Bench Press4 sets 82.5 × 882.5 × 882.5 × 780 × 7
  • Incline DB Press4 sets 30 × 1030 × 1030 × 927.5 × 10
  • Seated Overhead Press3 sets 45 × 642.5 × 642.5 × 5
  • Triceps Pushdown3 sets 34 × 1234 × 1132.5 × 12
  • Cable Lateral Raise4 sets 9 × 159 × 159 × 149 × 13
Score this session Against the last 8 sessions
Step one · the log

This is a finished Push A day. Five lifts, eighteen sets, logged as they happened.

Next, Trace scores it. First comes what most apps would tell you, then what Trace says instead.

Demo · sample lifts · real rules
Total volume · Push AThu 24 Sep
6,025kg
Volume up 1.4% vs 5,944 kg on Thu 17 Sep

Which of the 18 sets got stronger?

? / 18
What most apps say

Most trackers stop here. The total went up, so you get a badge and a streak.

But volume rises when you add a set or cut your rest. It can climb while a lift is going backwards.

So Trace ignores the total and asks a narrower question, one set at a time.

History · Barbell bench press

Your last eight Push A days.

The top set from each Thursday, with its estimated one-rep max underneath. Today is compared against all of it.

30 Jul
75 × 8e1RM 95.0
6 Aug
75 × 9e1RM 97.5
13 Aug
77.5 × 7e1RM 95.6
20 Aug
77.5 × 8e1RM 98.2
27 Aug
77.5 × 8e1RM 98.2
3 Sep
80 × 6e1RM 96.0
10 Sep
80 × 7e1RM 98.7
17 Sep
80 × 8e1RM 101.3
24 Sep · today
82.5 × 8scoring next

Eight sessions is how much history Trace wants before it will call a trend confirmed.

Push A · scoredThu 24 Sep
9
of 18 sets progressed

Each set against the same set on Thu 17 Sep.

Barbell Bench PressConfirmed
4 sets · top 82.5 × 8e1RM 104.5 · trend +4.6% · 9 sessions
Incline DB PressBuilding
4 sets · top 30 × 10e1RM 40.0 · 5 of 8 sessions
Seated Overhead PressDeclining
3 sets · top 45 × 6e1RM 54.0 · trend −2.3%
Triceps PushdownHeld
3 sets · top 34 × 12e1RM 47.6 · trend +1.8%, inside the band
Cable Lateral RaiseNot yet
4 sets · top 9 × 152 sessions · scoring starts at 3
9 progressed 3 held 2 down 4 not scored
What Trace says

Every set is measured against the same set last session, as an estimated one-rep max.

More than 2% up: progressed. Within 2%: held. Further down than that: down.

The last lift stays grey. Two sessions are not a trend, so Trace will not score it.

9 of 18 sets got stronger. The volume total said +1.4%. Only one of those tells you anything.

Why is this set this colour?Tap any set

Barbell Bench Press, set 1

Bench
Incline
OHP
Pushdown
Lateral
Today
Last time

Five answers, one of them honest about not knowing

A lift's overall verdict comes from its trend across sessions, smoothed so one good day does not count as a breakthrough.

  • Confirmed

    Up, and sure of it. Eight or more sessions, trend above +2%.

  • Building

    Up, but early. Fewer than eight sessions. Outlined, not filled.

  • Held

    Flat. Inside the ±2% band. Most weeks of a long run look like this.

  • Declining

    Down and staying down. Your food and weight trend sit on the same screen, so you can look at both.

  • Not yet

    Grey, and it stays grey until the third session. No guessing.

Adaptive calorie target

Your target follows what your body actually did.

A formula guesses your burn from height and age. Trace works it out each week from the food you logged and the way your weight moved, then nudges your target and shows every step.

  • Weekly, never daily. One heavy weigh-in is water. The change waits for a trend.
  • Small steps. Half the gap, capped at 100 kcal, so one odd week can't swing you.
  • Training never buys food. Logged exercise is not added back to your target.
  • You decide. Accept it or keep your current number.
Weekly check-in · try itDemo
2,400 kcal
−0.20 kg / week
Goal
−100

kcal a day · new target 2,200
current target 2,300

What you burned: 2,400 eaten, weight down 0.20 kg a week (1 kg ≈ 7,700 kcal)2,620
To lose 0.5 kg a week, eat 550 below that2,070
Gap from your current 2,300, move half, capped at 100−100
Accepting updates the demo, so you can watch it settle week to week.
  1. 01Toor dal, cooked, home styleDish · 1 katori = 130 gRecipe
  2. 02Toor dal, rawIngredient · per 100 gWeighed
  3. 03Masoor dal, cookedDish · 1 katori = 130 gRecipe
  4. 04Dal tadka, restaurantDish · 1 serve = 180 gMenu
  5. 05Moong dal, cooked, home styleDish · 1 katori = 130 gRecipe
  6. 06Toor dal, 1 kg packPackaged · raw lentilsLabel
Sample of 9 foods. The full catalogue holds 578,773.
Food search

Search for dal. Get dal.

Plenty of trackers sort a text match by how often a barcode gets scanned, so a supermarket ready meal can outrank the dal you cooked this morning.

Trace ranks dishes, ingredients and packets separately, and measures dal in katori, not cups. Switch the ranking and watch the list reorder.

After a photo · one question1 katori dal

How was it cooked?

+41 kcalfrom about 4.5 g of oil or ghee, 1 teaspoon
Fat is 9 kcal per gram. Spray measured in a Bengaluru kitchen: 40 sprays ≈ 6 g. Trace learns your own pour after that.
Photo logging

A camera can't see the ghee.

When US government researchers weighed 102 meals and checked four popular apps, every one of them undercounted, by about 250 to 345 kcal a meal, mostly by missing fat.

Indian home cooking is exactly that kind of meal. So after a photo, Trace asks one question and shows you the difference it makes.

NIH study presented at NUTRITION 2026, a conference abstract not yet peer reviewed. Source

Compared honestly

Same questions. Different answers.

What popular apps do today, and what Trace does instead. Pick a question.

Hevy

Flags a personal record the moment a set beats any earlier one, from the second time you log a lift.

Source: hevyapp.com
MacroFactor

Training lives in a separate app, MacroFactor Workouts, sold on its own or as a $89.99 yearly bundle.

Source: help.macrofactorapp.com
Trace

Scores every set against the same set last time. It starts judging a lift at its third session and only calls a trend confirmed at eight. Until then it says so.

Checked on 27 September 2026 against each company's own help pages. Apps change; every line links to where it came from.

Score your own set.

Put in your last set and the same set from the session before. Nothing leaves this page.

Your setkg
This set
kg × reps
Same set, last session
kg × reps
sessions
Trace saysLive
Progressed

Estimated 1RM 104.5 kg, up 3.1% on 101.3 kg.

9 sessions of Barbell Bench Press: enough history to confirm a trend.

82.5 × (1 + 8 ÷ 30) = 104.5 · 80 × (1 + 8 ÷ 30) = 101.3