Phase 1 Kygo Beta Launch Is Live—And We're Almost Ready for You

Update: November 14, 2025

Last week, I rolled out the first beta version of Kygo to a small group of friends and family. It's been a long time coming, and honestly—seeing real people actually use something I've been building for months is surreal.

I wanted to start small. Get a handful of people testing the app, finding bugs, pointing out things that seemed off or confusing. The kind of stuff you miss when you're the only person using your own product every day.

And it worked. We found issues. We fixed them. The app is significantly better than it was a week ago.

Here's where we're at: I'm a few days away from opening up the beta to everyone who signed up at www.kygo.app.

If you're on that list, you'll be getting access late this weekend or early next week. Finally.

What's Actually Working Right Now

The core functionality is solid. People are logging food, the natural language processing is handling different ways of describing meals, and the speed is where I wanted it to be.

Here's what's live and working:

1. Natural language food logging is working well. You can type or speak your meals naturally, and the app figures out what you mean. No more scrolling through 50 duplicate entries for "chicken breast."

2. You can now create multiple custom meal times. Not everyone eats at the same times or calls meals the same things. Want to log a post-workout snack? An afternoon snack? A midnight snack? You can do that now.

3. Copy and pasting meals is robust. You can copy a single meal to another day, or copy an entire day's worth of meals to multiple future days. It's one of those features that seems simple but makes a massive difference when you're logging consistently.

4. Trends screen redesign. The original version was functional but not great. The new design makes it easier to see your biometric patterns over time.

5. In-app email sending for weekly summaries, password resets, and reaching out to support directly. You shouldn't have to leave the app to get help or check your progress. It's all there now.

6. Speed improvements across the board. The app loads faster, meals log faster, and navigation is smoother. I've been obsessive about this because slow apps are annoying apps.

What We're Working On Right Now

The focus hasn't changed: making food logging more robust and advancing the correlation features.

Specifically, I'm finalizing:

1. Barcode scanning. It's close. Just needs a few more tweaks to make sure it's reliable and pulling accurate data. This will be one of the fastest ways to log packaged foods.

2. More flexibility around custom dates and times for food logging. Sometimes you need to log a meal from two days ago, or you want to pre-log tomorrow's breakfast. The current system works but could be more intuitive.

3. Presenting correlation data more elegantly. The correlation engine is running in the background, but showing you those insights in a way that's clear and actionable—that's the challenge. We're getting there.

4. Design improvements. Yes, I know the header isn't perfectly centered. I know some screens could look better. Design isn't my strongest skill, but I'm working on it. Function first, polish second.

The 20-30 Second Milestone

One of my original goals was getting daily food logging down to 20-30 seconds. That's now happening consistently.

For context: most apps take 2-5 minutes of manual entry per day. Some people spend longer if they're tracking everything precisely. That's why people quit—it's tedious and time-consuming.

With Kygo's natural language system and meal templates, you can log an entire day in less time than it takes to make coffee. That matters. That's what makes tracking sustainable.

Next Steps for Kygo's Beta Launch

Kygo's beta launch rolls out late this weekend into early next week for everyone on the early signup list.

It's been months in the making. Solo development takes longer than I'd like, but it also means I can build exactly what I think needs to exist without compromise.

Full transparency: there will still be some rough edges. Some features aren't fully polished yet. Some design elements could be better. If that bothers you, maybe wait a few weeks. But if you're okay with being part of the process—if you want to help shape what this becomes—then I'd love to have you.

Whether you're here for free, robust food logging, for correlating how your nutrition influences your biometric data, or for connecting multiple health wearables to one platform, I hope you'll join me on this journey.

It's really exciting to see this all coming together. Still a lot to do, but we're finally at the point where the vision is becoming real.

Thanks for being patient. Beta access is coming.

Ryan

Founder, Kygo Health

November 14, 2025

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