Update 2 Is Here!

Jul 16, 2024

This is the second update for EasyEats, but the first REAL major update for the app. This update includes TONS of new features and an unreal amount of bug fixes! So I’ll cut to the chase and tell you all about them, 

But first, I wanted to say thank you to all the existing users and new coming users to EasyEats! It’s your support and help that makes me want to keep expanding the app more and more!  So again, thank you all! 

Now, the first newest feature is: 

The Healthy Eating Routine! 

The Healthy Eating Routine is a collection of reminders and notifications that go off throughout the day to try and help you remember to eat regularly but in a non-intrusive way! Basically depending on the time of day, if you have not eaten yet or not eaten enough during the day, EasyEats will send you a helpful reminder to try and remind you to eat some food, you need to meet your goals! When creating an account or returning back after the update, you get a pop-up asking if you want to enable the mode or not. 

The next big feature comes to the main carousel:

I have pretty much completely rewritten how the carousel behaves underneath, making it feel MUCH more fluid, perform 10x better, and allow for even more things to appear in the carousel! The first new thing you’ll notice is a friendly new starting card. The starting card acts to teach the player about how the carousel works. For new players it acts as a daily tips area, giving tips about the app and dieting! 

The final biggest changes come from the grocery screen, which has been overhauled in various aspects: 

First, the AI list creation model has been changed, so it now favors making lists based on foods, rather than making lists based on traits alone. Now when creating lists it’s much more tailored to eating, while still prioritizing stocking your cabinet; but now also ensuring you can make dinner! You can also see what the list can make as well with a new section at the bottom of the list dedicated to previewing what foods you can eat from this new list! 

There are many more new features here, including: 

General: 

• Added search bars to add/swap adding areas. This includes the user settings, tons of areas in the grocery screen, the macro dashboard, and more!
• Tweaked views and font sizes 

More in the Curation screen:  

• Added new capabilities to the recommendation AI model, now able to recommend foods based on time or day. 
• Tweaked the tagging system so the recommendation model gives foods more accurate, and faster too. 
• Overhauled swiping system and carousel behavior, now everything is MUCH smoooother.

More in the Grocery screen:  

• Added an add ingredients button. You can now add ingredients to the list either by single ingredient or by whole food.  
• Changed edit pantry and generate icons 

And many more features! you can download and try it out now TODAY!!

If you find any bugs or run into any issues please let me know, and if you enjoy the app and the update please let me know as well! Your feedback is greatly appreciated! Thank you again! 

However, there’s one more big feature I haven’t talked about that I’ve introduced. I’ve introduced monetization into EasyEats. That sounds scary, but don’t worry I’m not putting money over the quality of the app, or how you use it. As a user of the app and other apps myself, I hate pop-up ads or being slowed down and annoyed by ads, so I’ve tried to make a user-friendly experience for ads and have made a policy for myself on ads. You can read more about it here, I highly recommend you read it if you're interested, but in short, I will not sell personal user data every, I will never have ads that interrupt a user's flow throughout the app. Finally, ads should feel integrated into the experience, not overpowering or ruining the experience. I hope you understand, that EasyEats is just being developed by me, and Iwould like to keep developing it making its experience better and better, so with your continued use of the app, you now DIRECTLY help me improve the app quality, so I’ll just say thank you again!