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bestcaloriecounter.app exists because every other "best calorie counter" article wastes 2,500 words before answering the question. We answer first.

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Saoirse Brennan-Marlowe, BS CS, MS IA — Editor

Solo editor at bestcaloriecounter.app. Previously on staff at Pinboard.in (2016–2022). Writes the way she'd answer a question on Hacker News: terse, sourced, no preamble.

alumni: Trinity College Dublin · UC Berkeley iSchool · Editorial since 2016
Vikram Patel-Olsson, BS Math, MS DS — Senior Writer

Senior writer. Treats every calorie counter app like a black-box system: feed it inputs, measure the outputs, publish the residuals. Tech-tester voice.

alumni: IIT Bombay · Stanford University · Writing since 2018
Cleo Voss-Akinyemi, BA Linguistics — Junior Writer

Junior writer. Self-taught dev. Editorial style: terse, factual, no adjectives unless they carry information.

alumni: University of Pennsylvania · Writing since 2022

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