Eat by your rules. Track by your rules.
From pro-metabolic to carnivore to high-carb athlete: pick your framework, or let AI build yours. BasedCal tracks the whole day by it.
Every other tracker argues with your diet. BasedCal starts from it.
Eight named frameworks (real schools, real source material), plus a ninth path where AI composes your own. Each one has its own targets, its own daily score, and its own coach.
Pro-metabolic
Fruit, milk, honey, gelatin. Warm the metabolism, ditch the PUFA.
Carnivore
Animal foods only. Simple, therapeutic, no decisions.
Animal-Based
Meat is the foundation. Fruit and honey are the decoration.
Seafood + Circadian
Fatty fish, olive oil, sunlight. Mitochondria first.
Instinctive Raw
Raw dairy, raw meat, raw honey. Enzymes over pasteurization.
Seasonal Ancestral
Weston Price and Fallon: organs, broth, ferments, rotated seasonally.
High Carb Athlete
Sports-science fueling. Carbs scaled to training load.
Full Plate
Real food, nothing off-limits, nothing ultra-processed.
Build your own
Describe how you actually eat. AI composes a custom approach with its own icon, targets, and scoring.
Compose with AILog food. Catch sun. Sleep. Move.
One BasedScore for the whole day, scored by YOUR approach's rules. Each framework weighs the day differently: the score follows the one you chose.
Share the day as a card. Your numbers follow you across devices.
Fat quality, not just fat total.
Mainstream trackers count calories and stop. BasedCal tracks PUFA (polyunsaturated fat, mostly seed oils but also nuts, fatty fish, and poultry) against a ceiling you set, and every micronutrient against your chosen approach's own targets. What counts as "enough" of anything depends on the framework you're running.
Don't want a daily score? Turn it off.
Just want a clean tracker? That's a plan, not a compromise.
Based Lite
The clean tracker. No score, no AI.
- Food logging + full food database
- Calories, macros, PUFA, sun tracking
- Approaches as optional target templates
Based Pro
Everything. The score, the verdicts, the coaches.
7-day free trial for new accounts, cancel anytime before day 7.
- BasedScore + every sub-score
- Food verdicts against your approach
- All nine AI coaches, grounded in source material
- AI-built custom approach
- Full display toggles to quiet any of it
Read the schools. Then track by them.
Macros, the Peaty way
TDEE, 1 g protein per lb, fat vs carb split, per-food and per-recipe math, with low-PUFA defaults.
Read Long readThe Light Guide
Sunlight, darkness, and circadian rhythm. Grounded in Zaid K. Dahhaj and Dr. Jack Kruse.
Read The manThe pro-metabolic school
Peat's life and work: metabolism over restriction, no PUFA, milk and gelatin, thyroid and progesterone.
Read The manThe raw, animal-based school
Aajonus's raw meat, raw dairy, raw fat, unheated honey, the milkshake formula, detox as the path back.
ReadEvery approach is sourced. See the receipts.
Every bot and preset is grounded in named source material. Where a framework is contested (and several are), we say so instead of pretending consensus.
Pro-metabolic (FuelBot)
- raypeat.com
Ray Peat's full archive. The backbone of the pro-metabolic, anti-PUFA, carb-friendly framework.
- theguild.quest/library
Curated Peat-aligned library of essays, transcripts, and references.
- Georgi Dinkov · Functional Performance Systems
Bioenergetic / Peat-style metabolism: thyroid, anti-PUFA, glucose oxidation, hormones, anti-serotonin.
- Functional Performance Systems · Blog
Long-form Peat-aligned articles on metabolism, thyroid, PUFA, and bioenergetic protocols.
Instinctive Raw (RawBot)
- primaldiet.net
Aajonus Vonderplanitz's raw-nutrition site, plus his books "We Want To Live" and "The Recipe For Living Without Disease".
- aajonus.net
Community archive of Aajonus Vonderplanitz's writing, interviews, audio, and Q&A.
Carnivore / Therapeutic keto (CarniBot)
- carnivore.diet (Dr. Shawn Baker)
Dr. Shawn Baker's carnivore practice, protocols, and case reports.
- mostly-fat.com
High-fat animal-foods recipes, traditions, and case reports.
- Thomas Seyfried (Boston College)
Therapeutic keto and metabolic therapy. Author of "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease".
- Dom D'Agostino · ketonutrition.org
Performance keto, ketones, fasting, mitochondrial energetics.
Animal-Based (AnimalBot)
- Dr. Paul Saladino · paulsaladinomd.com
Animal-based framework: meat is the foundation, fruit is the decoration. Author of "The Carnivore Code".
- Heart & Soil
Saladino's nose-to-tail organ meat company and educational hub.
- Animal Based Nutrition Research Foundation
Research and educational material on the animal-based framework.
Seasonal Ancestral (AncestralBot)
- Weston A. Price Foundation
Nutrient-dense traditional foods, raw/cultured dairy, organ meats, bone broth, lacto-ferments, traditional fats.
- Dr. Weston A. Price · "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration"
Price's 1939 field research across pre-industrial cultures. The source text for the Seasonal Ancestral approach.
- Sally Fallon Morell · "Nourishing Traditions"
Carries Price's work forward: soaking, sprouting, fermentation, raw dairy, organ meats, bone broth, traditional fats.
High Carb Athlete (AthleteBot)
- Prof. Louise Burke · Australian Institute of Sport
Lead author of IOC consensus statements on sports nutrition. Carbohydrate periodization.
- Prof. Asker Jeukendrup · mysportscience.com
Foundational research on intra-exercise carbohydrate intake and recovery glycogen.
- International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN)
Peer-reviewed consensus on protein, timing, carbohydrate, hydration, and recovery.
- Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI)
Sports science on hydration, glycogen, fueling, and recovery nutrition.
Seafood + Circadian (SeafoodBot)
- Dr. Stephen Hussey · Resource Your Health
Heart and metabolic health as mitochondrial. Books "Understanding the Heart" and "The Health Evolution".
Sunmaxxing / Quantum biology (SunBot)
- Jack Kruse
Quantum health, circadian biology, seafood-ancestral framework. Sunlight, DHA, mitochondria, EMFs.
- Zaid K. Dahhaj
Circadian heliotherapy. Writes daily on X and hosts the 2 AM Podcast.
Full Plate (WholeBot)
- Harvard T.H. Chan · The Nutrition Source
Evidence-based, plainly written whole-food nutrition guidance. Reference point for the Full Plate approach.
- Revivo · clean hydration
Hydration drink mix made with real freeze-dried fruit and Colima sea salt.
Limits & disclaimer
These equations estimate population averages and can be off by ±10 to 15% for any individual. Track your weight, morning temperature, and pulse over two to three weeks and adjust intake by ±100 to 200 kcal as needed.
BasedCal is not medical advice. The dietary philosophies presented may not reflect mainstream medical consensus. AI-generated content is for educational purposes only. Consult a healthcare professional before making dietary changes.