RESERVE: Metabolic HUD
Everything you need to cover RESERVE — fact sheet, story angles, quotes, and downloadable assets. For interviews or additional materials: briankq@icloud.com.
Fact Sheet
| App name | RESERVE: Metabolic HUD |
| Developer | Brian Khan Quintana — solo developer & physician (MD), San Diego, California |
| Price | Free · no account · no ads · no data collection |
| Platforms | iPhone + Apple Watch (widgets, Control Center, Siri, Live Activity) |
| Languages | English, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese |
| Released | 1.0 — June 2026 · 1.1 "whole-metabolism" update — July 2026 |
| App Store | apps.apple.com/app/id6772624785 |
| Website | drkq.github.io/reserve-site |
| Contact | briankq@icloud.com |
The one-paragraph version
RESERVE turns your metabolism into something you can actually see: a living orb of fuel that fills when you eat and drains as your body burns — through meals, walks, fasting windows, and sleep. Built single-handedly by a physician, it replaces the spreadsheet-with-guilt formula of traditional diet apps with something radically kinder: it never punishes a weigh-in, stays silent when the scale blips upward (water masks change — the app knows the difference), and reshapes itself around six life chapters, from cutting and bulking to pregnancy and recovery modes that hide weight and calories entirely. It's free, fully localized in six languages, deeply accessible (VoiceOver, sonified Audio Graph charts, Dynamic Type), and collects nothing: no account, no server, no ads.
Story angles
- A doctor got tired of diet apps shaming his patients — so he built the opposite. Every design decision in RESERVE runs through one filter: "no shame, ever." The app literally has a rule against commenting on weight gain.
- The anti-MyFitnessPal. No barcode-scanning homework, no 40-field food diary, no upsell walls. A glance at the orb tells you what a spreadsheet never could: what your body is doing right now.
- A weight app with a pregnancy mode that refuses to talk about weight. Care modes flip RESERVE into a gentle companion — fetal growth week by week, nutrient tracking, appointment reminders, and zero diet pressure. The same architecture serves people recovering from disordered eating.
- Health tracking without surveillance. RESERVE has no backend at all — the entire app runs on-device. It cannot sell your data because it never receives it.
- Games taught it more than diet culture did. Weigh-ins are boss fights. Lost pounds are golden trophies. Themes are earned, not bought. A health app that borrows joy instead of guilt.
- Accessibility as craft. Charts you can hear (Apple Audio Graphs), full VoiceOver coverage, six languages on day one from a solo developer.
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Founder quote
"I've watched patients cry over what a tracking app said to them. Software shouldn't do that. RESERVE is my answer: an app that shows you your metabolism honestly, celebrates what's real, and never — ever — makes you feel worse for stepping on a scale."
— Brian Khan Quintana, MD, creator of RESERVE