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Protein Tracker

The menu bar app that keeps your daily protein goal front and center — effortlessly.

🍎 macOS Only ☁️ iCloud Sync 🆓 Free to Use 🔒 Your Data, Your iCloud

Hit your protein goal. Every single day.

Protein is the macro that matters most for fitness, body composition, and metabolic health — and it's the one most people consistently under-eat. Protein Tracker makes it effortless to stay on track with real-time feedback, a database of 400,000+ foods, and smart AI-powered tools.

It lives quietly in your Mac's menu bar — no Dock clutter, no subscriptions, no monthly fees. Just open it when you need it and your running total is always there.

Protein Tracker
Protein Tracker 2026-04-12 ↺
108g protein Goal: your target
42g remaining to reach goal
108g
Protein
1,140
Calories
62g
Carbs
Today's Log · 4 items
Chicken Breast (6oz)
P:52g1850g
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Greek Yogurt 2%
P:17g11010g
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Whey Protein Shake
P:25g1305g
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Eggs × 3
P:18g2102g
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+ Add Food
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Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

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Always-On Menu Bar

Your protein total is always visible. The icon turns green with a ✅ the moment you hit your goal. One click to open, click outside to close.

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400,000+ Food Database

Powered by USDA FoodData Central — official USDA data covering raw ingredients, packaged foods, and restaurant items. Free, accurate, instant.

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Claude AI Search

Specialty supplements and branded products not in USDA? Claude AI fills the gap. Results are cached locally — you're never charged twice.

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My Foods

Save your go-to foods with one tap. They appear instantly at the top of every search. No typing needed for your daily staples.

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Bulk Import

Already planning meals with Claude Chat or ChatGPT? Paste the output and log your whole day in seconds — table formats or free-form text.

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iCloud Sync

Your log, custom foods, and search caches live in your own iCloud Drive. Every Mac you own stays in sync automatically.

Log a full day in seconds with AI

Use Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI assistant to plan your meals — then import everything at once.

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Ask Your AI
"Plan my daily protein goal as a table"
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Copy the Table
Copy the macro table from the chat
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Paste & Parse
Paste into Bulk Import, tap Parse
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Log Everything
All items added to your daily log

Beautiful reports in any format

Share your daily log with a trainer, dietitian, or keep your own records.

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PDF

Color-coded, professional. Print or share.

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Word / RTF

Opens in Microsoft Word and Apple Pages.

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Markdown

Notion, Obsidian, GitHub, any notes app.

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Plain Text

ASCII table format. Works anywhere.

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Available for Mac only — macOS 13 Ventura or later

Protein Tracker is a native macOS application built with Apple's SwiftUI framework. It takes full advantage of macOS-exclusive features: the menu bar, iCloud Drive sync, the macOS Keychain for API key security, and native system fonts and dialogs. iOS, Windows, and Android versions are not currently available. Works on both Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) and Intel Macs.

Get started in 3 steps

No account required. The USDA food database works immediately out of the box.

1

Open the Installer

Double-click ProteinTracker-Installer.dmg and drag the app to Applications.

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Launch the App

Right-click → Open the first time (required once for non-App Store apps), then click Open.

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Start Tracking

Click the menu bar icon → Add Food → search 400,000+ foods. Log your first meal.

Optional: Enter a Claude API key (via the 🔑 icon in Add Food) to enable AI-powered search for specialty products.
Get a free key at console.anthropic.com