Hold the button and speak
Or double tap and the recording runs hands-free. While you talk, cards appear — one for each thing you named.
Your entries stay on your phone
Speak. Track.
See what’s good for you
— and what isn’t.
Just say what you eat, drink and take — and how you feel. One sentence, no form. RecTake remembers it — including what you would long have forgotten.
And then you see it. On the item itself: on days with magnesium like this, without it like that. Under every bad day: what came before. Not an advisor, a mirror — it counts what happened and doesn’t say why.
Coming to the App Store and Google Play. One message when it's there — nothing else.
For iPhone and Android · English and German
For ADHD minds, athletes and anyone who wants to know what agrees with them
Weekly report · What stands out
After coffee, “bad” about 5 hr 45 min later — 4 of 6 times
After water, “good” about 3 hr 35 min later — 6 of 7 times
Counted, not judged.
- Stored locally Your entries live in a database on the phone. Not with us.
- No tracking in the app No analytics SDK, no ad IDs. The website counts visits only with your consent.
- Recognition on the device Your phone turns the recording into text itself. It goes nowhere.
- Text as you speak The cards are there while you are still talking. No waiting for a reply.
How it works
Logging supplements by voice
Three steps, and none of them is a form. The last one is: do nothing.
Check that it is right
Swipe right for yes. Swipe left for no. Then you correct it, again by voice — “not 400, make it 200”.
Put the phone down
Everything is saved anyway. An entry is never quietly lost here, not even when a call comes in mid-recording.
Try it
Say a sentence — here
Tap one of the four sentences. What appears is what the app would write.
A simulation in your browser. Nothing is recorded and nothing is sent — this page has nowhere to send anything to.
Nothing said yet.
The cards your sentence would produce appear here.
And then?
What you only suspect is written down after three weeks
Speaking takes two seconds. The use of it comes later — once enough days sit side by side. RecTake turns the log into a report: for a day or for a week, as a PDF, made on your phone.
Questions this makes answerable:
- Does dairy really make me feel ill — or were those two coincidences?
- The days I felt good: what was different about them?
- Does the second coffee make me alert or restless?
- Is the magnesium doing anything, or do I take it because I bought it?
The report counts, it doesn't judge. It won't say what caused what — it shows what occurred together, with dates and how often. You draw the conclusion. And where your health is concerned, it belongs in medical hands. RecTake is not a medical device.
RecTake · Weekly report
7 to 13 September 2026
60 entries in 7 days
Mon107
Tue108
Wed79
Thu1010
Fri811
Sat612
Sun913
What stands out
- After coffee, “bad” was recorded about 5 hr 45 min later — 4 out of 6 times.
- After water, “good” was recorded about 3 hr 35 min later — 6 out of 7 times.
- After creatine, “good” was recorded about 7 hr 50 min later — 3 out of 4 times.
Counted from your own entries, not judged. No medical recommendation.
What RecTake does
Four screens, and that is all
Record, look back, find again, teach. Anything else would only have made the way to an entry longer.
Today
One button, and the day writes itself
The home screen has exactly one big job: record. Above it sit your routines — groups of things you take together. One tap logs them all.
- Tap, hold or double tap — three ways, one of them fits your morning.
- Routines come from your own history, not from a template.
- No signal? Does not matter. Entries, search and history live on the phone.
History · Day
The day hangs on an hour axis
Every entry sits where it happened. Empty hours are folded away until you want to see them — so a quiet morning does not look like a gap.
- A line shows where “now” is.
- Things taken together become one row: “Magnesium · Vitamin D3”.
- How you felt sits in the same timeline, not in a separate area.
History · Month
What three weeks look like
In the month view every day becomes a cell: a dot for the entries, a bar for how you felt. You can search, too — type “magnesium” and you see the days without it.
- The app draws no conclusions. It does not rate your day or grade you.
- No goal, no streak, no bar that stays empty and stares at you.
- A skipped day is simply a day without an entry.
Vocabulary
It learns your words — and invents none
If it does not know a word, it does not guess. It asks: “I don’t know that one yet — what did you take?” Tell it, and next time it knows immediately.
- Every term shows what the app listens for: “Say: omega 3 · fish oil”.
- It remembers your usual amount — but never fills it in unasked.
- Teaching a word creates no diary entry.
Privacy
What stays on your phone — and what does not
Your entries live in a database on this phone. Not on a server, not in an account, not with us. We could not read them if we wanted to.
- Your entries
- Stay local. You still need an account — for your subscription. It knows your email address, an account ID and your subscription status. What you log, it does not know.
- Your recording
- Stays here. Your phone turns it into text itself — the same recognition that works when you tap the microphone on your keyboard. There is no service behind it that it could go to.
- The one limitation
- If your phone cannot do it, there is no speech recognition — then you type. Speaking works on iPhones from the XS and XR of 2018 and on Android devices from version 13. Which phone can do what is on the support page. We do not build in a fallback to a server that you cannot see.
- What there is none of
- No analytics SDK. No ad IDs. No crash reports carrying content. The website counts visits with Google Analytics, but only if you agree.
Where a recording goes
- You speakThe recording exists in your phone's memory.
- Your phone listensThe operating system turns it into text. The same recognition as dictation.
- Cards appearWhile you are still talking. “Two capsules of magnesium” becomes an entry.
- That was the whole journeyIt never left the phone. The recording is discarded afterwards.
Effort per entry
The difference is not the feature list
It is whether you actually make the entry at a quarter past seven in the morning.
| Step | Typical tracking app | RecTake |
|---|---|---|
| Pick a category | menu, scroll, tap | gone — you say the name |
| Amount and unit | number field, dropdown | “two capsules of 400 milligrams” |
| Time | confirm or correct | already attached |
| Several things at once | one pass per thing | one sentence, several cards |
| An unknown word | create it, fill in a form | the app asks and remembers |
| Where the data sits | usually an account in the cloud | on your phone |
“Typical tracking app” describes the common form-based flow, not one particular product. We compare procedures, not names.
Boundaries
What RecTake is not
Four refusals that together say more about the app than a feature list would.
Not a medical device
You can log medication. That is all the app does with it — no dosing, no indication, no advice.
Not a calorie counter
No daily targets, no points, no streak that breaks. Food is recorded, not judged.
Not a social network
Nothing is shared, nothing is compared. Nobody sees your week but you.
Not a coach
At most it reminds you that nothing has been logged today. It never tells you what to take.
If you are looking for an app that pushes you, you are in the wrong place. This is a notebook that listens.
From the blog
Try it, record it, look back
How to keep track of what you take and how you feel over weeks — without advice.
Does magnesium work for me? Find out, don’t guess
No study can tell you whether magnesium changes your sleep. Three weeks of notes, then a look back, without the app handing you a verdict.
Supplement tracker app: what actually matters
Nine criteria you can check against any supplement tracker app yourself, and an honest account of where RecTake fits and where it does not.
Switching phones: what happens to my entries?
Your entries live only on your phone and do not move by themselves. What comes along, what does not, and how to back up first.
Keeping a mood diary by voice instead of typing
One sentence instead of a form: how to record your mood by voice, get asked at set times and look back weeks later.
ADHD, supplements and why I built RecTake
Creatine, omega-3, fewer carbohydrates, more water — and the suspicion that it makes a difference. Why I built myself an app you only ever speak to, and that asks how you are doing by itself.
A supplement diary you keep for longer than two weeks
Diaries fail on friction, not on motivation. What actually helps — and why there are no streaks here.
Frequently asked
What people ask first
If something is missing, it is on the full page — and if it is missing there too, write to us.
What happens to my voice recording?
Nothing. It stays on the phone. The operating system turns it into text itself — the same recognition that works when you tap the microphone on your keyboard. The recording is discarded afterwards.
Do I need an internet connection?
To sign in and to buy, yes. Speech recognition itself needs none — it runs on the phone, just like reading, searching, typing and editing: your entries are here.
Is RecTake a medical device?
No. You can log medication, and that is all the app does with it: no dosage advice, no indication, no medical advice, no diagnosis. What you conclude from your data is your business — and, in case of doubt, that of someone with a licence to practise.
What does RecTake cost?
Seven days to try it out, with no limit on recording time. After that RecTake costs 6.99 € a month or 49.99 € a year in Germany, final price including VAT — your store shows the price in your currency before you buy. Reading, searching and exporting stay free of the subscription.
Does it help if I keep forgetting to take things?
Yes — that is what reminders are for. Each routine can remind you up to four times a day. The notification itself carries “Taken”, “In 15 minutes” and “Not taken”, so one tap records it without opening the app. Anything you already recorded drops out of the reminder.
You set them up under Plan → Create reminder: either for an existing routine, or for individual intakes you pick from your vocabulary. On top of that the app can ask how you are feeling and remind you of things you usually record around this time.
It is still not a treatment and not a substitute for medical advice.
Get it
Say one sentence. See what it becomes.
RecTake is available for iPhone and Android. You need an account for the subscription — what you write down and what you say stays on the phone.
Speaking needs an iPhone from the XS or XR of 2018, or an Android device from version 13 with the language pack installed. The full overview.
Tell me when it's out
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