Platform Updated 2026-08-01 View as Markdown

Progress pictures

Photos attached to your record, viewable as a series over time.

Why bother

Weight is a lagging and noisy signal. It moves with hydration, sodium, glycogen and time of day, and over a body-composition change it can sit flat for weeks while something real is happening. A photo taken on the same schedule shows a change the scale does not.

It is also the metric you are worst at judging in the mirror, because you see yourself daily and the day-to-day delta is zero. Two photos eight weeks apart are a different experience.

How it works

Upload from the app. Each picture is stored against your account with its date, and the set is retrievable as a series. Thumbnails load in the gallery; the full-resolution image is fetched only when you open one, so browsing a long history stays fast.

Pictures can be deleted individually.

Getting comparable photos

The value is entirely in comparability, so hold the variables still:

  • Same time of day, ideally first thing in the morning
  • Same lighting and same spot
  • Same distance and camera height
  • Same poses each time — front, side, back
  • Similar clothing

Monthly is the right cadence for most people. Weekly produces noise you will over-read; quarterly loses the intermediate detail that tells you when something changed.

Privacy

Progress pictures are stored against your account and are only ever returned to you. They are not sent to the AI coach, not embedded for semantic search, and not exposed by any tool on the MCP server — no tool in either catalog reads them. See security and privacy.