Beta 3.9 — a clearer Progress page and fried food done right

Beta 3.9 is a polish release: a redesigned Progress & Recovery page, better fried food, and a lot of work under the hood.

Progress & Recovery, redesigned

• Today comes first. The top of the page shows today's readiness. If you haven't checked in yet, there's a Check in button.
• The check-in is quicker. It opens in its own panel, with one row of five big buttons per question and what 1 and 5 mean written beside it. Tap a chosen answer again to clear it.
• No more empty sections. If you're new, you'll see a short Get started list instead: log your weight, a session, a day of food, a measurement or a photo. Each part of the page appears as soon as it has something to show.
• Your newest record sits under Strength, for example "New best: Bench Press". Tap to see the rest.
• Training weeks are named by their date, like "14 Sep", and a missed session shows as an empty circle.
• Readiness shows what's left, not what was taken off. A full green bar means that part didn't lower your score.
• Tidier everywhere: whole kilograms on the weight chart, a slimmer weekly report button, and one look for every section.

Fried food, with the oil it really soaks up

The Indian food data we use lists the whole pan of oil in a fried recipe, which made one poori look like 900 kcal. FITOS now counts only the oil the food actually soaks up, checked against measured fried dishes from the UK food database, so a poori is about 110 kcal.

45 fried dishes are new: poori, bhatura, kachori and mathri, potato, onion, spinach and cauliflower pakoras, gobi 65, bonda, fried fish, sev, namak para, murukku and papdi, kofta curries, spring rolls and scotch eggs. Cauliflower soaks up nearly twice the oil of potato, so each kind of pakora has its own figure.

19 everyday dishes are new too, including omelettes, paranthas, khichdis and cheelas. They had been left out by mistake.

Samosa, vada and cutlet aren't in yet. The measured values we check against vary too much for these dishes to give you a number we trust.

Update notices

Tapping a "FITOS beta is out" notification now shows the update straight away. Before, the app could take up to an hour to notice it.

Under the hood

Every part of the app is on its newest version, including the offline database, navigation and notifications. There's nothing for you to do.

Getting it

Download beta 3.9. It installs over beta 3.8 and keeps all your data.