Sign in anywhere and your data is there. It is worth knowing why, because it
explains what can and cannot go wrong.
There is nothing to sync
ClapDiet keeps no separate copy of your data on your phone. Every screen reads
from your account when you open it, and every log writes straight to your
account as you save it. Your phone is a window onto one set of records rather
than a second set that has to be reconciled with the first.
So there is no sync to wait for, no sync to trigger and no sync to go wrong. A
meal logged on your phone is already on your account by the time the screen
confirms it, and the web shows it the next time you load the page.
The trade is that a screen needs a connection to load. See
Offline Mode for exactly how much of the appsurvives without one.
What lives on your account
These follow you to every device you sign in on:
the clock is 12-hour or 24-hour
alerts
What stays on the phone you set it on
These are deliberately per-device, because the right answer differs by device:
account-level notification preferences above, so you can silence one phone
without silencing the others
Set them again on a new device.
Refreshing a screen
Screens load fresh when you open them, and hold what they loaded for a few
minutes so that moving back and forth does not re-fetch constantly. If you have
changed something elsewhere and want to see it immediately, pull down on your
home screen, your labs or your insights.
Two devices at once
Because there is only ever one copy, the last save wins. If you log the same
breakfast on your phone and on the web within a minute of each other, you will
have two entries rather than one merged entry — delete the one you do not want.
You will never be asked to resolve a conflict, because there is no second copy
to conflict with.
When something is missing
second account made with a Google sign-in looks identical from the outside.
We would rather find out where it went.
Data usage
Everyday use is light: text records, a few kilobytes at a time. The exceptions
are uploads, where you are sending a file — a lab PDF or a photo of a report is
typically a few megabytes. Do those on WiFi if you are watching your data.
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