Question 1

Why Don't My Steps or Calories Burned Match Apple Health?

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If the steps or calories burned you see in Hoot don't exactly match what Apple Health shows, don't worry -- there's usually a simple explanation.

Sync Timing

Hoot syncs your activity data from Apple Health periodically throughout the day. If you just finished a walk or workout, it may take a few minutes for the latest numbers to appear in Hoot. Try closing and reopening the app to trigger a fresh sync.

Active Energy vs. Total Energy

This is the most common source of confusion. Apple Health tracks two types of energy burn:

Active Energy -- calories burned through movement and exercise
Resting Energy -- calories your body burns at rest just to keep you functioning (breathing, digestion, circulation, etc.)

When Apple Health shows your total calories burned for the day, it combines both. Hoot shows active energy and resting energy separately so you can see exactly where your burn is coming from.

Rounding and Timing Differences

Hoot and Apple Health may calculate daily totals over slightly different time windows or rounding methods. Small differences of a few calories or a handful of steps are normal and nothing to worry about.

Multiple Data Sources

If you have more than one device or app writing steps or energy data to Apple Health (for example, both your iPhone and Apple Watch), Apple Health uses its own logic to merge and deduplicate that data. Hoot reads the result from Apple Health, so if Apple Health's number looks different from what your w

Question 2

How to Log a Meal with Hoot

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Logging meals with Hoot is designed to be instant, intuitive, and judgment-free. Our AI handles the heavy lifting so you can log in seconds, not minutes.

You can start a log from the big "+" button on your dashboard.

1. Photo Logging (Snap or Upload): The Fastest Way to Log

Photo logging is Hoot's most powerful and popular logging option. You can either:

Take a photo of your meal in the moment
Upload a photo from your camera roll

Hoot's AI will automatically:

Identify the foods in the image
Estimate portion sizes
Calculate calories, macros, and Nutrition Score
Display "Hoot Says" insights
Show assumptions (ingredients, toppings, cooking method)
Allow instant corrections via Quick Adjust

Examples of Quick Adjust corrections:

"No fries, just the sandwich."
"This was grilled, not fried."
"Add the side salad."
"Half that portion."

Photo logging is ideal for:

Multi-item meals
Restaurant or takeout food
Meals that are hard to describe
Times you're moving quickly

2. Log by Text (Natural Language)

Type what you ate just like you'd text a friend.

Examples:

"Chicken Caesar salad with dressing."
"Steak tacos with rice and beans."
"Oatmeal with blueberries and almond butter."
"Breakfast: eggs and toast. Lunch: burrito bowl. Dinner: salmon and veggies."

Hoot will parse the foods, estimate portions, and log everything automatically.

Best for:

Clear meal descriptions
Logging a full day in one

Question 3

Your Weekly Insights, Explained

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Insights is the dedicated tab in Hoot's bottom navigation that gives you a weekly recap of your nutrition. It opens to the current week by default. Tap the chevrons to scroll back through past weeks.

What you'll see

Week Progress. A row of seven day pills (Monday through Sunday). Each pill shows a semicircular arc with the percentage of your calorie goal you hit that day.
Summary Cards. Two large stat cards: your average calories and your average Nutrition Score for the week. Each one has a range meter so you can see where you landed.
Status Card. A short coach-tone message that reads your week's data and translates it into one sentence. Things like "Looking great this week," "Trending under," or "Day one in the books." Plus a "Full week logged" badge if you hit all seven days.
Macro Balance. How your week's calories broke down across protein, carbs, and fat.
Per-macro Trends. A swipeable carousel of bar graphs for protein, carbs, and fat. Optional nutrients you track (fiber, sugar, saturated fat, sodium, cholesterol) show up here too.

How the Status Card works

The Status Card is rule-based, not AI-generated. That means it's fast, predictable, and won't make things up. It's smart about a few things:

It knows your goal direction. If you're trying to lose weight, eating under your target isn't flagged as a problem.
It eases in. Before three days are logged, you'll see "early days" copy instead of a full readout.
It rewards consi

Question 4

Adjustable Goals

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Change your:

Calorie targets
Protein/carb/fat goals
Water intake, fiber, sugar, sodium, and more

Edit in Settings any time. Your plan, your way.

Question 5

How Hoot Sets Your Daily Fat Target

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Introduction

Fat is essential for hormone production, nutrient absorption, brain health, and long-lasting energy. Despite its reputation in old-school dieting, fat is not something to fear — it’s something to balance.

Hoot uses a science-backed approach to set your fat intake so you get enough to support your metabolism and hormones while staying within healthy cardiovascular guidelines.

1. The Fat Formula

Hoot assigns 30% of your daily calories to dietary fat.

Formula:

Fat (g) = (Daily Calories × 0.30) ÷ 9

Because fat contains 9 calories per gram, dividing by 9 converts your fat calories into a daily gram target.

2. Minimum Fat Thresholds

To protect hormonal health and prevent extremely low-fat eating (which can impair mood, recovery, and nutrient absorption), Hoot enforces smart minimums:

Women: at least 30 g/day
Men: at least 40 g/day
Other genders: at least 35 g/day

If 30% of your calories falls below these thresholds, Hoot increases your fat target and automatically adjusts carbohydrates to stay within your total calorie target.

3. Why We Use 30%

Major health authorities recommend getting 20–35% of your daily calories from fat, with an emphasis on healthier fats like monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.

Choosing 30% offers key benefits:

Supports estrogen and testosterone production
Improves absorption of vitamins A, D, E, and K
Helps keep you **full and satisf

Question 6

How to Disconnect Apple Health from Hoot

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If you'd like to stop syncing data between Hoot and Apple Health, you have two options depending on how much you want to disconnect.

Option 1: Turn It Off in Hoot

Open Hoot and go to Settings.
Tap Apple Health.
Toggle the connection off.

This stops Hoot from reading or writing any data to Apple Health going forward. It's the quickest way to disconnect and you can turn it back on anytime.

Option 2: Revoke Permissions in iOS Settings

If you want to fully remove Hoot's access at the system level:

Open iOS Settings.
Tap Health.
Tap Data Access & Devices.
Tap Hoot.
Turn off any or all of the toggles for reading and writing.

This is useful if you want to keep some permissions active but remove others -- for example, letting Hoot write your nutrition data but stopping it from reading your steps.

What Happens to My Data?

Data already written to Apple Health stays there. Disconnecting Hoot doesn't delete nutrition, water, or weight entries that were previously synced. If you want to remove those, you'll need to delete them directly in Apple Health.
Data already in Hoot stays there too. Your food logs, water logs, and weight history in Hoot are not affected by disconnecting Apple Health.
Activity data stops updating. Steps and calories burned in Hoot will stop refreshing once you disconnect. Any activity data already shown in Hoot will remain as-is.

Want to Reconnect Later?

Just follow the setup st

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