Nutrition tracking and meal planning built around what each of your children actually needs — and what they'll actually eat. Free, no subscription, and nothing you enter leaves your device.
Coming soon to iPhone, iPad and Android.
Fourteen nutrients, with targets set by the child's age band and sex. Sugars and sodium are treated as limits; everything else as a goal.
The first thing the app tells you, and the promise the rest of it keeps.
Not a diet app pointed at a child. A planning tool for the person doing the feeding.
Daily values drawn from the National Academies Dietary Reference Intakes, split by age band and sex — so a four-year-old and a nine-year-old aren't measured against the same numbers.
Set each child's allergies once. Search, planning, lunchboxes and the grocery list all flag matching foods, and logging one takes a deliberate confirmation.
Fill the week from your own ingredients, your family's history, your favorites, or something new — aimed at whatever nutrients have been running low.
Hand your child a picker filled only with foods you've already approved and that are safe for them. They feel in charge; you keep control.
One screen per child showing live progress against their own goals. Portions scale to age automatically — a five-year-old's suggested serving is not an adult's — and you can override any value for pediatrician-directed targets.
Every target, and every suggested serving size, is resolved from the child's exact age band rather than a single generic figure.
Foods are tagged against the nine major allergens. A match against the child's profile is flagged wherever it appears — in search, in a generated plan, in the lunchbox, in the grocery list — and logging it requires explicit confirmation.
We're precise about the limit: NutriNest covers ingredients listed on the label, not cross-contact. Always check the packaging yourself.
Flagged in food search, meal logging, the week planner, Kid Choice, lunchboxes and the grocery list — not just once at setup.
Every mode respects allergies, leaves the meals you've already edited alone, and never plans a food that isn't safe for that child. Redo a single day without touching the rest.
The grocery list generates from the plan and groups itself by supermarket aisle — and it knows what's already in your pantry.
Built around what you already have, with as few extra groceries as possible.
Meals your family actually eats, aimed at the gaps in their nutrition.
Things they haven't had lately, anchored to familiar sides.
The meals you've already saved, with leftovers filled from the library.
Day, week and month views per nutrient against the goal line. When something runs consistently short, NutriNest says so plainly and suggests kid-friendly, allergy-safe foods dense in whatever is lacking.
There's also a pediatrician summary: a clean 7- or 30-day average you can screenshot or share from the appointment chair.
If a nutrient averages below 70% of a child's goal across 14 logged days, it's surfaced as a gap — with specific foods that are safe for them and dense in what's short. No grades, no alarms, no red screens.
Not marketing lines — constraints written down before building, because each one is a place other apps in this category went wrong.
Recording what you fed your child, and getting it back out again, is the reason the app exists — not a premium tier. Barcode scanning and logging stay free.
Nutrition and allergen information comes from the product's own label data via USDA FoodData Central, with Open Food Facts as a barcode fallback. Nothing is estimated from a photo. A guessed number about a child's allergy is worse than no number at all.
No grades, no red-flagging a birthday cupcake, no shame mechanics. Sugars and sodium appear as limits because that's what the guidance says — not as a judgement about your family.
We have young children, and we wanted to know they were getting more than just enough to eat — iron, calcium, fiber, the things that are easy to lose track of between one check-up and the next.
We went looking for an app that could handle two kids at two different ages without charging us to see our own logs. We didn't find one, so we made NutriNest. We still use it every day, which is mostly what keeps it honest.
Yes. There's no subscription and no paywall on tracking, planning, scanning or exporting. Some shop links may earn a small commission if you buy through them, which the app discloses where they appear — that's the only commercial element.
On your device, in the app's private storage. There is no server holding it. Your NutriNest account exists only on that device — it's there to keep two families' data apart on a shared tablet, not to sign you into anything of ours.
The only things that ever leave are optional food-name searches and barcode numbers sent to public nutrition databases. Never names, profiles, allergies or health information. The privacy policy spells out exactly what and when.
Yes, and it's the reason the app exists. Each child has their own profile, allergies, targets, logs and plans. Serving sizes and nutrient goals are calculated per child.
Use it as a second pair of eyes, not as verification. NutriNest flags allergens listed in the product's own label data and requires confirmation before logging a match. It cannot know about cross-contact, a manufacturing change, or an unlabelled ingredient. Always read the packaging.
Scan the barcode — the app checks USDA FoodData Central first and falls back to Open Food Facts. If neither has it, enter the values from the label by hand and it's saved for next time.
No. NutriNest provides general nutrition information based on USDA and CDC dietary reference values. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything. For concerns about your child's growth, eating or health, talk to your pediatrician or a registered dietitian.
Built and in final testing for iPhone, iPad and Android. Send us a note and we'll tell you the day it's live — no list, no marketing sequence, just one email.