What Dietly! actually does

Your patients sit in one searchable list. Click a name and the record opens with the body data panel on top: height, weight, circumferences and body composition, alongside BMI, basal metabolic rate (BMR) and daily energy needs – each value from the most recent measurement that includes it.

• BMR comes from the formula chosen for the patient: Mifflin–St Jeor, Harris–Benedict, Katch–McArdle (from fat-free mass), or Schofield for patients under 18; if the formula doesn’t fit the patient’s age, the app says so. Where the BMR was measured by a device, the measured value is used instead of the formula.
• A measurement can also carry a body composition analyser’s result sheet: fat mass (kg), fat-free mass, skeletal muscle mass, total body water, phase angle and measured BMR.

Below the body data, the Patient Folder keeps the patient’s material together in six tabs: Diagnosis and medication, Consultations, Progression, Weekly Plan, Diary and Documents.

• The Progression chart follows weight, body fat, muscle mass, waist circumference and the body composition values, with the target weight running across it as its own line.
• Lab values in dated panels: 15 common parameters with fixed units, plus any further rows you need. A value stays exactly as you typed it (“<0.5”, for instance); the app does not assess it.

On a desktop monitor the planner switches to widescreen mode: the weekly navigator, the selected day’s plan and the catalogue all sit side by side, and in weekly view a live preview of the printable PDF updates as you work.

• Local override: adjust a recipe for one patient on one day – less oil, an ingredient left out – without touching the original in the catalogue.
• A red icon flags a food that contains an allergen recorded for the patient, and a yellow icon a disliked ingredient. For an allergen, the app asks for confirmation before adding the food. The flag relies on the allergen data recorded for the ingredients, so check that data for the built-in ingredients too.

The typo-tolerant search treats your own recipes and the built-in ones alike; edit a built-in recipe and the app quietly makes your own copy, leaving the original untouched.

• Mark a recipe as indivisible for foods that come in whole units – a cake, a muffin – and the app never lets a meal plan or shopping list show a meaningless fraction of one.
• Ghost Trace: deleting an ingredient or recipe doesn’t distort earlier meal plans, because each item in a plan keeps the name and data it had when it was added.

Recipe book

Pick the recipes meant for a particular patient from the library and turn them into a recipe book in one click. Every recipe card carries its allergen tag, which makes choosing easy. Hand the finished, clean PDF straight to the patient – one more way to make their everyday life easier.

Every recipe and every meal plan is calculated from this raw-ingredient database. Each row carries its category and the calories per unit – usually per 100 g – with an orange marker where the item contains an allergen.

• The search is typo-tolerant, so a small slip still finds the item. Filter by source, category and allergen; sort by name or calories.
• Click a row and the full nutrient table opens: energy, protein, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugar, fibre, salt, plus any vitamins and minerals recorded.

Every document is a clean A4 PDF, ready to hand straight to the patient.

• The daily PDF carries the day’s plan, its shopping list and recipe cards; the weekly PDF adds a landscape weekly grid, a categorised shopping list and prep tips.
• The header of every PDF carries your name, company, contact details and – if you upload one – your own logo. The footer holds only a small Dietly! mark and the page number.

The question-mark icon opens the app’s own manual: in chapters, with screenshots, and searchable. No leaving the app, no hunting for documentation elsewhere.

• The chapters walk through everything from the home screen to ingredients, recipes, the planner and the settings.
• It carries its own FAQ and troubleshooting chapter.