ALTE 1.3.0: Try Everything Before You Subscribe

ALTE 1.3.0 is live, and it’s one of the biggest updates since launch. There are new Insights, better supplement tracking, a more useful Today screen, improvements to food logging, new reminders, Apple Watch fixes, accessibility improvements, and plenty of smaller changes.

But the biggest change happens before you use any of them.

Seven Days, Everything Unlocked

Until now, ALTE asked you to choose a subscription before getting into the full app. There was a 14-day free trial, but you still had to make that subscription decision first.

I’ve changed that.

Starting with 1.3.0, new users get seven days of full access without starting a subscription. No payment details. Nothing to redeem. Just open the app and use it. Log your food, track workouts and measurements, set up supplements, explore Progress, use AI-powered logging, try the Apple Watch app, and see how ALTE fits into your routine.

If you want to keep it after the preview, you can subscribe, and you’ll still get the 14-day free trial before you’re charged. Which means you get to actually use ALTE before making any kind of commitment.

And if you decide it isn’t for you? Your data is still yours. Everything you logged stays available to browse and export; ALTE simply becomes read-only until you choose to subscribe.

Insights That Actually Look For Something

Insights has had a major overhaul. Rather than presenting averages, ALTE now looks across what you’ve logged and tries to find things worth telling you.

It checks your metrics against your own targets, looks at which direction they’re trending, weighs how much confidence to put behind those trends, and identifies things that tend to happen together. Maybe your sleep looks different after a training day. Maybe one metric has been quietly moving in the wrong direction. Maybe you’re consistently falling short of a target you set for yourself.

When ALTE has enough data to support a finding, it’ll surface it. When it doesn’t, it stays quiet. Your five strongest findings appear first, with the rest there when you want to dig deeper.

Supplements Join Progress

Supplements now have their own section in Progress, including adherence and streaks. There’s also a Supplements card on Today, so checking off a dose doesn’t require going hunting for it.

And if there’s a particular dose you keep missing, ALTE can show you which one and let you turn on a reminder for it right there. It isn’t judging. It just noticed.

Today Does More

Today has picked up several improvements of its own. Cards now take you directly to the part of ALTE they represent, and you can log weight or measurements without leaving the screen. If you haven’t created any measurements yet, the same quick-add button will help you get started.

Step counts refresh when you return to ALTE or when the day changes, and the header has been tightened up to make better use of the space.

Smoother Food Logging

Food logging has had a lot of small improvements that add up to a smoother experience. Back-date a food and the next one you add starts at that same time instead of jumping back to now. The food library also stays open when you’re logging multiple foods from Meals, which makes adding several things at once considerably faster.

Serving sizes now keep their actual labels and units rather than flattening everything into grams, and barcode scanning has been corrected to better distinguish between nutrition values given per serving and those given per 100 grams. That last one took longer to track down than I’d like to admit.

And Quite a Bit More

1.3.0 also adds weigh-in reminders, better notification navigation, 24 colours and 48 icons for custom tags, quality ratings for manually logged sleep, Apple Watch complications that respect your preferred water unit, improved iCloud syncing, additional VoiceOver labels, and corrected French wording across onboarding and the Apple Watch app. Even the iPad sidebar got a little attention.

It’s a big update. But more importantly, you no longer have to take my word for any of it.

Take the seven days, and decide for yourself.