A quit sugar tracker with no food diary
Compound is a quit sugar tracker for iPhone that asks one question a day: did you get closer to your goal today? Skipped the dessert, chose fruit over candy, made it through a craving — tap ↑ Closer. Your answers build a trajectory chart of your progress cutting back on sugar, with no food diary or ingredient labels to track. Free on the App Store.
Why sugar tracking usually means a food diary
Most apps for cutting sugar want you to log every food and read every label, which turns a simple goal into a research project — and most people quit the logging before they quit the sugar. Compound tracks the one honest question that captures the goal directly: did today, on balance, move you toward eating less sugar?
Sugar hides in places a quick glance won’t catch, and obsessive label-reading burns out fast. The goal isn’t forensic nutrition — it’s a daily choice, made a little more often in the right direction.
A three-second honest answer each evening survives long after a detailed food log gets abandoned, and it’s the habit — not the spreadsheet — that actually cuts sugar intake over months.
How Compound tracks a no-sugar goal
Name your goal — “Cut out added sugar,” “No dessert on weekdays” — and answer the same question every evening: did you get closer today? The chart turns those answers into a visible trajectory, and the stats show your progress across the whole chapter, cravings and slips included.
- Passed on the office donuts without a second thought → ↑ Closer
- Normal day, sugar about the same as usual → → Same
- Stress-ate half the dessert menu → ↓ Further — honest data, not a failure
The point isn’t counting grams — nutrition labels do that. The point is the daily habit of choosing, made visible enough that you keep choosing well.
What a sugar binge looks like in Compound
You tap ↓ Further, the line dips one notch, and tomorrow the question returns exactly as calmly as ever. One binge doesn’t erase three good weeks of cutting back — in Compound it’s a single visible dip in a trend, not a reason to give up on the goal entirely.
Sugar cravings are real and cyclical, and treating every slip as a catastrophic failure is exactly what makes people abandon a no-sugar goal after the first bad day.
Compound keeps the dip in proportion: visible, honest, and immediately followed by tomorrow’s ordinary question — not a lecture, not a reset.
Pulse notices your real cravings pattern
Pulse, part of Compound Pro, reads your recent days and reflects back the pattern behind your cravings — including what tends to precede a ↓ Further day.
“Your sugar slips cluster on stressful evenings, not weekends like you assumed. The days you eat lunch on time are almost always ‘Closer’ days.”
Quit sugar questions
Related ways to use Compound
Compound is a general goal & habit tracker — see everything it does →
See you tomorrow.
Scan to download on your iPhone