About the company

A health app built by the people who use it every day

Navilo Health is made by Webbdo, a software company in Sweden. We started it for ourselves, after one too many calorie apps had ended up deleted by the second Sunday, and it's still the app we open with our own breakfast.

What we changed

The part we rebuilt is the logging. A photo of the plate, or a sentence spoken into the phone, and the app works out what was on it. The number is an estimate and you can correct it, but it arrives in a few seconds rather than after a search and three portion conversions.

Once that worked, we kept adding the things we were tracking in other apps anyway: workouts, runs with GPS, sleep, water, a fasting timer. They share one history, so a short night shows up next to the following afternoon's snacking instead of sitting in a separate app that never hears about it.

How we decide what to build

Logging has to be fast

A photo or a spoken sentence, corrected afterwards if the estimate is off. Anything that takes four searches gets abandoned in week three, and we know because we abandoned it too.

Nothing is mandatory

Water, steps, sleep, fasting, workouts: every card can be hidden. A dashboard full of things you never fill in is worse than a short one.

We say what the numbers are

A calorie count read from a photo is an estimate. We show it as one, and we would rather tell you where the app is weak than claim a precision it does not have.

A bad week should not end it

Streak freezes, gentle reminders and buddy challenges exist because most tracking attempts die on the third missed day rather than from a missing feature.

Where the roadmap comes from

The app is pre-launch. People on the waitlist get in first, and the public ideas board decides most of the next few months of work: anyone can post a request, vote on someone else's and see what we've marked as planned, in progress or shipped.

We answer the contact form ourselves. If a number looks wrong or a screen is confusing, that message reaches the person who wrote the screen.

See the ideas boardRead the release notesCompare us with other apps

Company details

Company
Webbdo
Organisation number
SE870226271101
Based in
Sweden
Product
Navilo Health, iOS, Android and web
Stage
Pre-launch, waitlist open

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