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Contributors now receive notifications about new comments on their shared foods. The notice remains until they reply or edit the food. I recommend going through previously shared foods to check for older comments.

PKU Tools now has color themes and also an option for a random color on start. A tribute to the earlier apps Phe Rechner, with a color for each page, and PKU Manager, with violet as its accent color.

Edited community foods now return to the top of News. Comments are preserved, and the history shows which information was changed.

Please regularly check the ratings and comments on your shared foods in News and correct any errors in Own Food. Poorly rated community foods are automatically hidden. By responding to feedback and making any necessary corrections, you help me avoid having to step in manually.

Comments can now also be added to community foods in News.

The Barcode Scanner, Label Scanner and Phe Calculator now check the food type when converting protein to Phe and suggest corrections. These checks also apply to own and shared foods. I recommend a one-time check of existing own and shared foods by saving them again via “Edit”.

The food type and protein-to-Phe calculation can now be corrected for saved foods.

PKU Tools now has its own news feed with translated app updates, community foods and personal milestones.

If you like PKU Tools and use the Android app, I'd appreciate it if you could leave a review on the Google Play Store 😊

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-bfcvdJ-k1A

Premium users can now update a food icon they don't like.

Requested feature: Foods can now also be saved to Own Food when adding to the Diary. Additionally, the Barcode Scanner now suggests the type of food where possible.

More nutrients, BLS database in Spanish and French, more precise calculations, several fixes and updated terms now also in German, Spanish and French.

The food icon can now be updated when a name is changed, and you can see when a food item was added.

Suggestions now have food icons, are better aligned on small mobile screens and various other improvements around the app.

The "Getting Started" page has been improved.

PKU Tools now also has the BLS database from Max Rubner-Institut. (Spanish and French translations are coming soon.)

PKU Tools has a new logo. Desktop, iPhone and iPad need to reinstall the app to get the new app icon.

Food search performance has been improved and freezing issues have been fixed.

You can now scan a label of a product in the AI Calculator and calculate Phe with it (not just estimating it like before).

The default table sorting in Diet Report, Blood Values and Own Food has been improved.

Barcode lookup has been updated to the latest version. (Many of these updates are carried out without being mentioned.)

You can now save Phe calculations also as own food and share it with the community. Duplicates are now also also detected.

The landing page and the help page got new FAQ sections.

Diet Report now has the option to show a trend curve (7-day average).

Automatic food icons and AI Calculator have been updated to the latest AI model.

There are now new report cards in Diet Report and in Blood Values.

You can now choose a preferred tool and set target ranges for blood values.

Barcode Scanner now has a camera picker to choose a preferred camera or even a camera from a connected device. It's also helpful if the camera is too blurry.

Dialogs, desktop navigation and Barcode Scanner have been improved. Also a lot of technical improvements have been made.

Progress circles are now available and you can choose your preferred progress style.

Landing page and design improvements across the entire app.

Tell the AI what is wrong and the estimate will be redone. Also a small fix in the estimation: Now all inputs are considered if there are multiple.

You can now mark incomplete days in the diary so they don't skew the statistics.

Small bugfix: Image analysis now works again for multiple food items in a single image.

PKU Tools now combines a scale, nutritional table, calculator, pencil and paper.

Estimation, quick add and image analysis are now combined in a new tool called AI Calculator. The estimation accuracy has also been greatly improved.

PKU Tools now has an image analysis feature 😃 (it's not a late April Fools' joke)

Technical updates under the hood.

PKU Tools now (again) has a bottom navigation on mobile 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Re98hV8R34

Food icons are now automatically generated for food entries.

The video is now a YouTube embed, which improves page load time.

The price of Premium + AI has been reduced.

Navigation has been optimized and some features that were not as useful as expected have been removed.

There are now also charts for Kcal and Tyrosine and the date range is automatically set in Diet Report.

The search performance has been improved.

You can now share your own foods with the community and rate foods in Food Search to help improve the community database 😃

There is now a quick add feature in the diary and the possibility to add notes to food entries.

The button style has been improved, the diary now has a greeting message, the sign in now also works with the enter key, the username can be changed, a bug with the account deletion has been fixed and the estimation feature now also provides a short explanation.

Tables now have sorting and pagination where necessary.

The estimation feature now also automatically adds a food icon if possible.

There is now a new Premium + AI plan that provides a bigger AI budget for estimations and future developments. (Premium only is more limited due to the high costs of AI.)

The server got a big update. If you experience any bugs, please report them via email.

PKU Tools is now (as far as I know) the first PKU app with a feature to estimate phenylalanine for any food input 😃 🎉 AI feature: Estimated values can be incorrect.

There are some additional improvements like confirmation modals and a fix with the getting started page on sign in.

There is now a new in-app notification system and the option to undo certain actions (instead of needing to confirm them).

Own Food now has a search feature and the Food Search has also been optimized (icons and identifier for own food).

You can now add food to a different date than today again.

PKU Tools now has a “Getting Started” page with health data consent and the option to enable email notifications. The Assistant is now temporarily disabled.

Navigation has been improved, Phe Calculator and Protein Calculator have been merged, URLs have been translated, and further technical improvements (SEO).

Usual updates under the hood as well as search engine optimizations.

A small bug in "Own Food" has been fixed, where trying to add own food to the diary didn't work.

PKU Tools can no longer be provided for free indefinitely, as the development effort and costs exceed what is possible. There are already ways to support PKU Tools and get benefits such as unlimited entries, this may be expanded in the future. Find out more here: https://ko-fi.com/andrereus/tiers

PKU Tools Version 3 is live early 🎉 Technically, the underlying framework has been replaced, which will offer more development options in the future. It is also better for performance and search engines. URL paths and page names have also been revised.

Multiple updates in various places of the app.

The price for PKU Tools Unlimited has been greatly reduced.

PKU Tools now has a Facebook page where you can find news in German: https://www.facebook.com/pkutools

There is now a one-time payment option for PKU Tools Unlimited.

PKU Tools Unlimited has been revised, it now includes: Unlimited diary entries. Unlimited lab value entries. Unlimited custom foods. Own food icons. CSV export (Excel).

PKU Tools is getting smarter. Get an overview, recommendations and motivation from Assistant 🤖

Search now also has kcal values and the translation and emojis have been updated.

PKU Tools now lets you track your energy intake in kilocalories (kcal)! 🙌 (Kcal values in Phe Search will be added soon.)

Phe Log now has a date picker and food is automatically assigned to a day. Also you can now add or edit food entries in the Phe Diary. Maximum flexibility! 🎉 😃

Maintenance updates and app presentation updates in several places (Web App, Android App).

You can now get unlimited entries and priority support with PKU Tools Unlimited.

You can now zoom the chart / diagram in Phe Diary. 😊

You can now enter lab values (blood levels) and track them in a diagram.

Fix a bug when exporting food with commas in the name.

It is now possible to get a license for unlimited entries with PKU Tools Unlimited.

The suggestions algorithm has been improved and suggestions can now be added to the log without the need for horizontal scrolling.

After redesigning the layout and now the pages, the redesign is almost complete. 😊 The technical side now has much more flexibility and independence for future developments.

The Protein Calculator has been improved and an additional food category has been added (meat).

To provide this information on every page, total Phe and remaining Phe are now displayed in the navigation bar.

Searching in PKU Tools has been improved. Search results can be refined by using multiple words, e.g. "apples raw" or "potatoes cooked". In addition, the pipe operator (|) can combine searches, and using quotes around words searches for exact matches.

The Barcode Scanner has been greatly improved and now recognizes barcodes much more reliably. 😊

Now there is a % value that shows the deviation from the optimum Phe value in the Phe Log. This helps in estimating and approaching the Phe tolerance.

Now you can set the date when you finish the Phe Log. This makes it much easier when you finish it a day later.

The layout of PKU Tools has been completely redesigned. 😊 Besides the new design, the technical side now has much more flexibility and independence for future developments.

The setting for the appearance of PKU Tools has been revised and is now easier to use.

Facebook has altered the requirements for using their login system and unfortunately we can no longer support it. Users with a Facebook account have been informed in advance. If you have further questions contact me via email.

Now there is this new changelog 🎉 All past updates from social media posts have also been added.

4 years PKU Tools already, wow 🎉

You can now add food from the last few days even easier (with one click) 🙂

A bug has been fixed where direct access to subpages did not work.

PKU Tools now works like a normal website and no longer offline. This is an improvement. It can still be installed like an app on the home screen. You now always have the latest version without having to click on "Refresh" in a popup (as you would expect from a normal website).

There was a bug that adding your own food via the search did not work. This has been fixed.

The navigation and other places have been cleaned up. You can now also export your own food. A few bugs regarding registration, logging in and out and deleting accounts have been fixed.

This update probably has the most extensive changes to date. The entire framework had to be rewritten so that the libraries used could be brought up to date. Almost every part of the code had to be changed. The update also included some improvements and bug fixes: The barcode scanner now works more reliably. 2 different data views can be exported. The design can be automatically adapted to the device. The search function now also searches for your own foods. Bugfix: "Add again" now also works for foods with self-defined icons. And much more.

New email, cookie banner, account deletion, updates for Google Play guidelines etc.

On the help page there are now also pictures of the installation instructions for better understanding.

You can now also add the most recently added foods (from the last 3 days) again with one click 🙂

The foods have been standardized and are now based on the data source that Google also uses for nutritional information in the sidebar. Icons are now also assigned as far as possible, and everything is available in 4 languages.

You can now also sign in with email, as some of you have asked for.

PKU Tools is now available in Spanish and French ✌️

PKU Tools now has a preview for the Phe Log everywhere where something can be calculated 😊

PKU Tools is now (as far as I know) the first PKU app with a Barcode Scanner 😃 🎉

The Phe Log is now on the start page along with the search for a quicker overview and access to functions.

You can now also find your own food using the Phe Search 🙂

You can now also edit logs in the Phe Diary.

iOS has been optimized (regarding notch and navigation bar).

The user interface of PKU Tools has been improved. The search is now on the start page and searches as you type and navigation has been simplified.

PKU Tools is now just over a year old 😊🎉 Also performance has been improved and search engine optimization etc.

Phe Search now has significantly more food and the Amino Counter has also been updated 🙂

There is now a new diagram 🙂

Phe Search has been improved again and now also copes with small spelling mistakes 🙂

PKU Tools now has an improved design and confetti 🎉 (don't worry, you'll find the confetti 😉)

Food icons are back 🎉 This time you can choose them yourself.

The help page and the instructions on how to install the app have been improved.

The export function has been optimized. The logs from the Phe Diary are now also exported (as individual pages in the excel file). The feature comparison has also been made clearer.

PKU Tools is now Open Source 🙂

PKU Tools is now also available in the Google Play Store for Android 😃 🙌

There is now an export function for the overview of the Phe Diary 🙂

Phe Search has received a major update: It now opens much faster and the german database has been replaced 🙂