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Nutrition & Meal Planning App
GreenPlate
Timeline
6 mo
Team
3
Launch
Q4 2024
2
Platforms (iOS & Android)
8
Core Features
1
Codebase
Q4
2024 Launch
Overview
The Challenge
GreenPlate came to us with a clear frustration: the nutrition apps people actually use are either too basic — just a calorie counter with a barcode scanner — or so overwhelming with features that most users drop off within a week. Neither extreme helps someone genuinely change how they eat.
The vision was a focused, beautiful app that tracks what matters — calories, macros, hydration, weekly trends — gives users actionable daily goals, connects them to their meal prep for the week, and lets them find a nutrition coach when they're ready for real accountability. iOS and Android from a single codebase, in six months.
Solution
What We Built
A Flutter app that runs natively on iOS and Android from a single codebase — one build pipeline, one design system, two stores. Firebase handles the backend: Firestore for real-time data sync, Firebase Auth for secure account management, and Cloud Functions for nutrition data processing and push notification delivery.
Every screen was designed for daily habit — fast meal logging, a dashboard that communicates progress without clutter, and charts that make weekly trends readable at a glance. The Nutritionix API powers the food database with millions of entries, so users spend seconds logging a meal rather than minutes searching for it.
Tech Stack
FlutterDartFirebaseFirestoreCloud Functions
Key Features
What makes it work
01
Daily Dashboard
Calorie budget, macro balance (carbs, protein, fat), hydration progress, and weekly completion percentage — everything meaningful, nothing superfluous.
02
Meal Diary & Logging
Log meals by search, barcode scan, or recent history. Nutritionix API provides an extensive food database with accurate macros. Daily and weekly summaries built automatically.
03
Meal Prep Planner
Plan meals for the week ahead, generate grocery lists automatically, and see how weekly plans track against calorie and macro targets before shopping.
04
Goals & Trend Analytics
Weekly nutrient trend charts show protein, carbs, and fat over time. Goal tracking shows streaks, completions, and progress curves with a clean visualisation.
05
Hydration Tracking
Daily water intake goal with quick-log taps. Hydration check built into the daily checklist so it becomes a habit, not an afterthought.
06
Find a Coach
In-app directory of certified nutrition coaches. Users browse profiles, read specialisations, and connect directly — turning solo tracking into guided accountability.
Built with Flutter
One codebase, two stores, pixel-perfect on both
Flutter let us build a genuinely native-feeling experience for iOS and Android simultaneously. The same animations, the same widget polish, the same performance — no compromise between platforms. For GreenPlate, that meant a three-person team could ship a full-featured consumer app in six months without splitting effort across two separate codebases.
Firebase's real-time sync keeps the dashboard, diary, and goals in sync across devices instantly — log a meal on your phone, open the tablet and it's already there.
Flutter + Dart
Single codebase deploying to iOS App Store and Google Play — consistent UI and animations across both platforms
Firebase Firestore
Real-time NoSQL database — meal logs, diary entries, and goal progress sync instantly across all user devices
Push Notifications
Firebase Cloud Messaging for daily check-in reminders, hydration nudges, and streak milestone alerts
Nutritionix API
Millions of food items with accurate macro data — users find and log any meal in seconds
Cloud Functions
Serverless backend logic for nutrition calculations, weekly report generation, and coach notification routing
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