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Every change to Deficitly, newest first: new features, improvements and fixes, each listed on the day it reached the site. Found a bug or have an idea? Tell us through the contact form.
November 2026
11 November
- New Sync between devices: turn it on in Settings, link your phone and your computer with a QR code, a link or a 6-digit code, and both keep the same food log, weigh-ins, recipes, plans and settings, end-to-end encrypted and with no account (how sync works).
- Improved The privacy policy now explains what sync keeps on our server, for how long, and how to delete it.
- Fixed On iPhone, the “Undo Typing” box no longer pops up over the app when you move the phone after searching for a food.
- Fixed After you edit a recipe from a logged food, saving the food now keeps the recipe’s new calories, as the screen showed.
- Fixed A quick double tap on Copy today to tomorrow in the Plan tab no longer copies your food twice.
- Fixed In What if, a goal one week away now reads “1 week”, not “1 weeks”.
- Fixed A damaged recipe in a backup file no longer leaves the recipes and saved meals list in the Plan tab empty.
- Fixed Without JavaScript, the contact form now shows whether your message was sent.
- Fixed A browser’s autofill can no longer make the contact form drop your message without telling you.
10 November
- New This What’s new page, with every change to Deficitly since launch.
- Improved Settings in one place: tap the gear at the top for backups, the theme, and What’s new, About, privacy and contact.
- Fixed When Deficitly updates while you have it open, it now reloads cleanly instead of mixing new and old parts of the app.
- Fixed Food search leaves out products whose nutrition numbers cannot be right, and corrects products whose kilojoules were entered as calories.
- Fixed Deleting or moving a day in Progress history no longer takes away the calories of a day you logged on Food.
- Fixed A second tap on Clear all no longer loses the Undo, and Clear all now also clears your shopping list ticks and weight loss challenge (Undo brings them back).
- Fixed If loading a backup fails, your data now stays exactly as it was instead of being half replaced.
- Fixed Saved meals keep every food, including foods with very long names.
- Fixed Typing new steps and then tapping Eat it back straight away no longer puts the old step count back.
- Fixed The calorie burn calculator on our guides no longer suggests a deficit to under-18s or to people who are underweight.
- Fixed The challenge mode of the weight loss percentage calculator shows every weight in the unit you picked.
- Fixed Protein, carbs and fat never add up to more calories than your target.
- Fixed Numbers typed with a thousands comma, like 1,500 or 10,000, are now read correctly everywhere.
- Fixed Hardened how product names are shown in food search.
- Fixed On iPhone, the installed app reconnects to your saved data after it has been in the background, instead of asking you to reload.
- Fixed Messages with an Undo button close when you leave the app, so an old Undo no longer shows up when you come back.
9 November
- New A meal planner in the new Plan tab: plan your meals for the days ahead and see each day’s calories and protein against your targets, plus the week’s planned deficit.
- New Planned food shows up on Food, and counts once you tap Ate it or change the amount.
- New Copy a planned day to other days in one go.
- New A shopping list from your planned food, with recipes split into their ingredients and cooked foods listed by their raw weight; tick things off, share it or copy it.
- New Your recipes and saved meals have their own list in the Plan tab, where you can open, edit, delete or plan them.
8 November
- New Over 12,000 basic foods, dishes and fast-food items from USDA data in food search, with their common portions.
- New Extra steps on Food: log the steps beyond your usual day and choose to bank them for a bigger deficit or eat them back.
- New Extra workouts on Food: add a workout you did on top of your usual week, like a long swim, to that day.
- New Your weekly deficit on Progress: the calories you saved each week, roughly how much body weight that equals, and the 4 weeks before.
- New Share your week as an image.
- New On Android, long-press the installed app’s icon for Add food and Log weight.
- Improved Once your details are in the calculator, the installed app opens on your food log.
- Improved Drinks show how many grams of alcohol they contain.
- Improved Deficitly now asks your browser not to clear your food log and weigh-ins when storage runs low.
- Fixed A tap next to the weekly link on Food no longer flips the deficit card by mistake.
- Fixed Food names like “Turkey, ground, raw” no longer show stray capital letters.
7 November
- New Saved meals: save a meal once and add all of it in one tap, adjusting amounts as you go.
- New Copy or move a meal to another day.
- New Recipes: enter the ingredients once and Deficitly works out the calories and macros per serving, logged by servings or by grams.
- New Your daily deficit on Food: flip the day’s card to see what you burned minus what you ate.
- New An About page with everything Deficitly does.
- New A privacy policy and a contact form for questions, bug reports and ideas.
- Improved Food and Progress offer to install Deficitly on your phone, with the steps for iPhone.
- Improved The installed app moves on to the new day when you open it the next morning.
6 November
- New A food log: search over 3 million products by name and log what you eat, meal by meal.
- New A barcode scanner that reads the code with your camera on your device, iPhone included; the picture is never uploaded.
- New Log food in grams, ounces, servings or common portions, and drinks in ml or fl oz.
- New Faster logging with Same as yesterday, quick add, favourites and recent foods.
- New Daily targets for calories, protein, carbs and fat on Food.
- Improved Backups (export, import and clear) are also on Food and Progress.
- Improved Sharper barcode scanning, with autofocus and a 1x, 2x and 3x zoom.
5 November
- New A Progress tab: log your weigh-ins and see a trend line that looks past daily water swings, with your weekly rate.
- New Log your calories with your weight, and Deficitly measures your real burn from the two and blends it into your result.
- Improved One backup file now holds your weigh-ins and daily calories as well as your calculator.
- Fixed Weigh-ins in pounds are saved without rounding errors.
4 November
- New A BMR calculator for the calories you burn at rest.
- New A walking calorie calculator, with guides on how many steps a day is good and walking vs running.
- New A weight gain calculator and a guide on how to gain weight in a healthy way.
- New A 7-day calorie deficit meal plan at 1,500 calories, with add-ons for 1,800 and 2,200.
- New 20 more guides, from belly fat and water weight to counting macros and intermittent fasting.
3 November
- New A body fat calculator from a few tape measurements, with four guides.
- New A weight loss percentage calculator, with a challenge mode for a group, and two guides.
- New A protein calculator, with four guides on how much protein you need.
2 November
- New A calorie deficit calculator, a macro calculator and a maintenance calorie calculator.
- New Several calculators on our guides now take your real workouts, not just an activity level.
- New Nearly 30 new guides, from how many calories you burn a day to why your weight loss stopped, all in All questions.
1 November
- New Deficitly launched: your daily calorie burn from your real steps and workouts, with a goal planner and What if sliders.
- New Plan your goal three ways: by a pace, by a target date, or from what you eat now.
- New Protein, carbs and fat for your goal.
- New Install Deficitly on your phone’s home screen and use it offline.
- New A share image of your result, drawn on your device.
- New A calories burned calculator for over 100 activities, 12 guides and a page on how Deficitly calculates.