Export your food journal as a PDF or spreadsheet
Keep a readable report to print or send, or open your meals in a spreadsheet.
By Kovacs Software Solutions · Updated
Choose the format for what you want to do next
Meali exports your journal in two formats. Pick the one that matches what you want to do with your copy.
- Readable report (PDF): read, print, or send it
- Your meals day by day, in your own words, with calories and macros. It’s ready to print, keep, or send to someone who helps you with your eating. A report covers up to a year at a time.
- Spreadsheet (CSV): sort and add things up
- One row per meal with the date, time, meal, your note, and calories, protein, carbs, and fat. It opens in Numbers, Excel, or Google Sheets, and includes your whole range, however long.
Export step by step
- Open Settings in Meali and choose Export journal.
- Pick a range: the last 7 days, the last 30 days, all of it, or your own start and end dates.
- Choose Readable report or Spreadsheet.
- Check the preview. It shows how many meals and days are included.
- Tap Share, then save the file or send it with any app on your iPhone or iPad.
Before sending a copy, open it and check that the range and meals are the ones you intended. If you update a meal later, export again to include that change in a new file.
An export is a snapshot of your journal
The file includes your notes, the days you recorded, and the nutrition for each meal, as they are at the moment you export. Photos are not included.
A meal without numbers yet is labeled that way in the report and left empty in the spreadsheet, never shown as zero. Changing the file in a spreadsheet does not change the original meals in Meali.
An export is a copy to read or work with, not a backup to restore from. Your separate health profile and weight history are not part of it.