About Tambour
One day of tracking is mostly noise: a big dinner, a rough afternoon. Over months and years the true signal comes through, the patterns in how you eat and how you feel. Tambour, French for drum, makes small, private apps for hearing it.
I have kept track of myself for most of my life: what I ate, what I weighed, how I was feeling that week. It started in notebooks, moved to spreadsheets, and then spent years scattered across apps that came and went.
When one of those apps shut down, got sold or raised its price, my history was either stuck inside it or gone. Almost none of them worked properly with Apple Health either, which is where all of this should come together. So I started building my own.
An experiment
Tambour is an experiment from Montréal. I build the apps largely by vibe coding: I work with AI to get from an idea to a finished, polished app much faster than I could on my own. I find it exciting, and I want to see how far it can go.
It works because the apps are built on open standards: Apple Health for your data, plain files you can open anywhere, and open nutrient data such as the USDA and Open Food Facts tables. Your data stays readable outside my apps, so if one of them stops working for you, you can take everything with you.
What every Tambour app promises
There are no accounts, no ads, no tracking and no analytics, and nothing goes through servers of mine. Your data stays on your device and syncs through your own iCloud, and you can export all of it as a plain file at any time.
Say hello
Tambour is a work in progress and I am figuring it out as I go. If you have a question, a bug or an idea for what to log next, I’d love to hear it: hello@tambour.dev.