Put Marcelo Fit on your phone

Bigger text, bigger buttons and fewer numbers on screen. Protein, carbs and fat are hidden but still counted.

Settings → Appearance → turn on Easy mode. It changes straight away.

The whole app, including the built-in foods, comes in five languages. It starts in your phone's language.

• English
• Français
• Português (Brasil)
• Polski
• Español

To change it: Settings → Language.

Settings → Backup & data → Send a backup. Your phone's share menu opens: pick Mail and send it to yourself, or Save to Files.

Once a month a Time for a backup card appears at the top of Today. Tap Send backup there, or Later to be asked again in a week.

Good to know

• Some Android phones send the backup as a .txt file. That's fine; it restores the same way.
• Photos in your photo diary stay on the phone and aren't in the backup.
• Prefer a file on the phone? Download a backup is right below. iPhone saves it to Files → Downloads; Android to the Downloads folder.

New phone?

Install Marcelo Fit on the new phone, then open Settings → Backup & data → Restore from a backup and pick the file.

1. Tap Photo and take a picture of your plate from above.
2. The app lists the foods it sees, with portions and calories.
3. Untick anything wrong, change the name or number of servings, pick the meal, then tap Add.

The numbers are estimates, often 20–30% off, so adjust the portions if needed. It needs the internet. If it says the free AI has reached its limit, try again later or search for the food.

1. Tap Speak. Allow the microphone the first time.
2. Say it the way you'd tell a friend: "two eggs and a coffee for breakfast".
3. Check the list and tap Add.

It also understands "I walked 6000 steps" and "two glasses of water". If there's no microphone button, type instead, or tap the microphone on your phone's keyboard.

Scan a barcode

• Tap Scan. When the phone asks to use the camera, tap Allow. iPhones may ask again now and then; that's normal.
• Hold the barcode about a hand's width from the camera. Good light helps; tap the torch button in dim rooms.
• Not found? Add it to My foods once and it's remembered.

For a packet the barcode scanner doesn't know:

1. Tap My foods (above the search) → + New food.
2. Tap Read the label and take a clear, straight photo of the nutrition table.
3. Check the numbers it filled in, give it a name, and save.

The first time, it downloads its reader (about 10 MB), so use Wi-Fi. After that it works without internet, and the photo never leaves your phone.

At the top of the Today tab lives a little plant in a pot. It grows when you reach your goals: food within your calories, steps, water and exercise. With 3 goals it gets a bud; with all 4 it blooms. Skip a few days and it droops, then falls asleep until you log something.

Tap it and it says hello. Tap Outfits to rename it and dress it up; new outfits and pot colours unlock as it levels up.

The 🔥 next to Sprout counts the days in a row you've logged anything. It turns grey as a reminder when today is still empty, grows at 7 days and turns blue at 30. Tap it to see your best.

Close all three activity rings in a day, or reach 7, 14, 30 or 100 days in a row, and fireworks light up the screen.

Meal photos are now kept in a diary. On the Today tab, above your food list, tap Photo diary: a calendar with a picture on each day, or all your photos at once. Tap a day to see its meals big.

Add a photo works without the AI too. The photos stay only on your phone and aren't in backups.

After you scan a packet, tap Find a healthier swap. You'll see up to three similar products with a better Nutri-Score, with photos, and how they compare, like "254 kcal less, 30 g less sugar per 100 g". Tap one to add it instead.

Ask the coach for ideas gives more suggestions.

1. In What can I cook?, tap Cooking mode on a recipe.
2. Tick off the ingredients, then tap Next. Each step is shown big and read out loud.
3. A step with a time, like "simmer for 10 minutes", gets a timer button. It beeps and speaks when it's done.

Hands busy? Tap Hands-free and say "next", "back", "repeat" or "timer". The screen stays on while you cook.

Under the walk tracker on the Activity tab, tap All my walks. Every walk you've recorded glows on one map; streets you walk often shine brighter.

It also shows how many kilometres of different streets you've explored. Walking the same street twice counts once.

1. Under the walk tracker, tap Race a ghost and pick an earlier walk. Or open a walk's map and tap Race this walk.
2. Tap Start. A 👻 walks your old route at your old pace on the map.
3. The app tells you who's ahead, and whether you beat it when you reach its distance.

While the app is open, it tells you when it's lovely out and you haven't reached your step goal: "Great walking weather right now! It's 19° with little chance of rain." Tap Let's go to start a walk.

It needs Walk weather turned on once (see below). To switch it off: Settings → Reminders → Great walking weather.

On the Health tab, find Blood pressure. Type the top number, the bottom number and, if your monitor shows it, your pulse. Log as many readings a day as you like.

Each reading gets a colour and a short explanation, using the American Heart Association's levels, and a chart shows your last 7 days. The app isn't a medical device: always follow your doctor's advice.

A tidy summary of your last 14, 30 or 90 days: blood pressure (every reading), weight, resting heart rate, sleep, activity, eating and mood.

Tap the Report for the doctor banner on the Health tab, or Settings → Report for the doctor. Then print it or share it by email before your appointment. You can add your name so the doctor knows whose it is.

1. On the Activity tab, choose Walk, Run or Hike and tap Start.
2. Allow location (and on iPhone, motion) when asked.
3. A map shows the line of where you've walked, growing as you go.
4. Tap Finish at the end. The walk, its steps and distance are added to today.

To see a walk again, tap Map under it in the Workouts list. It shows your route with the time, distance, pace and calories. Tap Replay to watch the line draw itself with the clock counting up.

Keep the app open during the walk; it keeps the screen on for you. If the phone locks or the app closes, open it again and tap Resume.

Your route stays on your phone. The street pictures come from OpenStreetMap, a free public map, and need the internet.

On the Today tab, under the calorie ring, tap How am I doing?. The app reads out a short summary of your day: calories left, workouts, steps, water and your latest blood pressure.

Hear nothing? Turn the volume up, and on iPhone check the silent switch on the side.

At the top of the Trends tab, the app points out patterns from your last four weeks, like how you sleep after days you reach your step goal, or your most active day of the week.

They appear after a couple of weeks of logging. They show what happened together, not what caused what.

On the Today tab, under the calorie ring, tap Ask the coach. Type or say a question, or tap a suggestion:

• "What can I eat for dinner?"
• "How was my week?"
• "Is my blood pressure OK?"

It answers from what you've logged, in your language. Tap the speaker next to an answer to hear it. It needs the internet.

1. On the Today tab, under the calorie ring, tap What can I cook?
2. Take a photo of your open fridge, a cupboard or a few ingredients.
3. You get 3 simple recipes that fit the calories you have left. Open Ingredients and steps, or tap Cooking mode for big, spoken steps with timers.
4. Tap I cooked this to add it to your diary.

At the top of the Activity tab, tap Show walk weather once and allow your location. From then on it shows the best time for a walk today, like "Best walk today: 10:00, 18°, sunny", the next 12 hours, and warnings for rain, heat or ice.

Only your rough location (about 1 km) is sent, to Open-Meteo, a free weather service.

On the Activity tab, pick a famous route: Kraków to Zakopane (110 km), the Portuguese Way (620 km), the Camino de Santiago (780 km) or Route 66 (3,940 km).

Every kilometre you walk from that day on moves you along it on a map. Each town you reach sends you a postcard with a short fact.

At the top of the Trends tab, tap Play for a short slideshow of your month: days logged, kilometres walked, your best day, workouts, food and health.

Tap the right side for the next slide, the left side to go back, or hold to pause. On the last slide, Share my month makes a picture you can send to the family.