“I got frustrated with how many trackers wanted me to pay for features, so I built CalTrak.”
Ryan, on reddit.com ↗
Barcode scanning without a $19.99 monthly toll. Every feature free, no account, the tip jar unlocks nothing.
MyFitnessPal Premium is $79.99 a year per person, and that's only the food part. SparkyFitness tracks the whole family on your own server for zero.
“One good nutrition app runs $40–$100 a year; covering everything SparkyFitness covers means three or four subscriptions, per person, and still no single report across them.”
MyFitnessPal wants $79.99 a year before you've lifted anything. FiveByFive does the 5x5 progression and the plate math for nothing.
“Fitness apps have become bloated subscription machines ($80/yr for StrongLifts or MyFitnessPal).”
MetricBridge charges $24.99 to write your own Apple Health data to a folder. HealthSync does the same job in about 700 lines of Swift, for the price of building it.
“The paid alternative was MetricBridge at 24.99 EUR.”
Built something because a company wanted your credit card for a feature that fits in a single file? That's spiteware. Submit it and join the hall of fame.