Clean Slate Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Clean Slate hosting and run a self-hosted calorie tracker for logging food, recipes, meals and exercise on your own domain, working in any browser. xCloud starts the pinned client, authentication server, Hasura GraphQL server and PostgreSQL behind one gateway, generates every secret and seeds your first account with a login token. There are no usernames or passwords, and the Hasura console is protected only by the admin secret.

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What is Clean Slate?

Clean Slate is a free calorie tracker, released under the Apache 2.0 licence, built for people who struggle with logging food consistently and with dieting itself. Upstream lists searching and logging food, quick-adding calories and protein, custom foods and recipes, barcode scanning through Open Food Facts, and tracking exercise and meals, on any device with a browser. Self-hosted Clean Slate is the option for people who would otherwise keep a food diary in a hosted app such as MyFitnessPal.

On xCloud the template runs the Clean Slate v4.30.0 client, authentication server and GraphQL server, plus PostgreSQL 15 and an nginx gateway, all pinned by digest, with one database volume. An account is a row in the profiles table and its token is the login, so there are no passwords. The first start applies migrations and can take one to two minutes. Barcode lookups go from the browser to Open Food Facts.

From Sign-Up to a Live Clean Slate Install In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting a calorie tracker normally means a database, a GraphQL backend, a domain and a certificate before a single meal can be logged. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Choose Clean Slate from the xCloud OneClick catalog and select a domain. There are no extra fields — xCloud generates the credentials.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Clean Slate 4.30.0 gateway alongside private PostgreSQL and Hasura GraphQL containers, run first-start migrations, and publish the app over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Paste Your Login Token And Log Your First Food
Save the generated login token and Console admin secret from the protected installation credentials, paste the token on the sign-in screen, and log your first food or quick-add entry.

Everything Clean Slate Does, On Your Own Server

Clean Slate runs in full here — the same food-logging tooling as any hosted nutrition tracker, on infrastructure you control.

Search Or Quick-Add Food And Calories
Search and log food, or quick-add calories and protein without a full entry.
Custom Foods, Recipes, Meals And Exercise
Create your own foods and recipes, and track meals and exercise alongside your food log.
Barcode Scanning Via Open Food Facts
Scan barcodes for quick lookups — the browser calls Open Food Facts directly to resolve them.
Works On Any Device, Installable As A PWA
Use it from any browser, or install Clean Slate as a progressive web app on your phone or desktop.
Your Food Log Stays On Your Own Server
Nothing is sent to a hosted tracking service — accounts, foods, recipes and logs live in your own PostgreSQL database.
Restart-Safe Logs And Accounts
Accounts, foods, recipes and logs are kept in a persistent database volume and were verified to survive an xCloud Restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Nutrition Tracking 24/7

Managed hosting for Clean Slate, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Clean Slate 4.30.0 deployed instantly
Generated login token, no passwords to manage
Private PostgreSQL and Hasura GraphQL included
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Clean Slate

Log food without a hosted account
Keep your food diary, custom foods and recipes in a PostgreSQL database on your own server, signing in with a token instead of an email address.
Scan a barcode at the shop
Use the phone browser to scan a product barcode and look it up through Open Food Facts, then log it.
Build your own recipes
Combine foods into recipes, reuse them in meals and track calories and protein without retyping the same ingredients.
Share a tracker with a partner
Add a second profile in the console and give each person their own login token, with separate logs in the same instance.

Clean Slate vs Alternatives

MyFitnessPal: If you log food in MyFitnessPal today, Clean Slate is the self-hosted route: foods, recipes and logs sit in PostgreSQL on your own Cloud VPS, and you sign in with a token you control.
wger: wger has its own xCloud page and covers workouts, nutrition, weight and body measurements. Clean Slate focuses on food, recipes and calories. Compare the two templates for services and sizing.
FitTrackee: FitTrackee has its own xCloud page and tracks outdoor activities. Clean Slate tracks food and exercise entries instead, and runs five containers behind one gateway.
Ryot: Ryot has its own xCloud page and is a dashboard for media, fitness and measurements. Clean Slate is narrower, a calorie and nutrition tracker with barcode scanning and recipes.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Clean Slate hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More accounts, more history to query.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Clean Slate alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Clean Slate itself is Apache-2.0 licensed software, separate from the server it runs on.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Own Your Food Log?

Clean Slate on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

What is Clean Slate used for?

Clean Slate is used to keep a private food and exercise diary. You search and log foods, quick-add calories and protein, build custom foods and recipes, track meals and exercise, and scan barcodes. Upstream designed it to be gentle for people who find dieting and consistent logging hard, and it runs in any browser.

Is Clean Slate free and open source?

Yes. Clean Slate is open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, and upstream also runs a free hosted instance. This template is your own copy. The Hasura image bundles proprietary enterprise components that stay off without a licence key, and none is set. xCloud bills for the Cloud VPS and the deployment.

Can you self-host Clean Slate with Docker?

Yes. For Clean Slate Docker hosting the template runs the three Clean Slate images, PostgreSQL 15 and an nginx gateway, all pinned by digest, with one database volume. It generates the Hasura admin secret, JWT signing secret and login token and puts HTTPS on your domain, so you skip upstream's configuration and deploy scripts.

How much RAM does Clean Slate need?

For Clean Slate the manifest floor is 512 MB of RAM, one core and 5 GB of storage, across five containers. The 6 GB tier on this page is comfortable. The first start applies database migrations behind a temporary server, and the page may show a bad gateway error for a minute or two until that finishes.

How do I log in to Clean Slate?

There are no usernames or passwords. An account is a row in the profiles table and its apiToken is the login. The install seeds one account with the generated login token on your credentials card; paste it into the sign-in screen. The site is public, so anyone who can reach the domain sees that screen.

How do I add another Clean Slate user?

Open the /console page on your domain, log in with the admin secret, go to Data, public, profiles and insert a row with the defaults, then copy its apiToken for the new person. Anyone holding a token can see that account's data. The admin secret gives full access to every account, so keep it private.

Does Clean Slate scan barcodes?

Yes. Upstream lists barcode scanning through Open Food Facts. In this deployment the lookup goes from the browser straight to Open Food Facts, so scanned barcodes are sent to that service. Nothing about it is stored on your server beyond the foods you choose to log.

How do I back up Clean Slate?

Back up the clean_slate_db volume, which holds all accounts, foods, recipes and logs, using a PostgreSQL-consistent dump from the database container or by stopping the stack first. The other containers keep no files. Keep the admin secret and login tokens separately, and test a restore before relying on it.

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How do I upgrade Clean Slate?

The three images stay at v4.30.0 on an existing install. Back up the clean_slate_db volume, read the Clean Slate release notes, then adopt a later template version, which moves all three images together; the GraphQL server applies migrations on start. Changing the JWT signing secret signs every user out, though tokens keep working.

Can I change the domain?

Yes. The app keeps no stored domain identity, so you can change it freely. The session token lives in the browser per domain, so sign in again on the new domain with the same login token. Clean Slate works only over HTTPS, because the client builds https and wss addresses from the host name.

Can I run Clean Slate in the cloud on xCloud?

Yes. Clean Slate cloud use means a dedicated Cloud VPS that carries all five containers, with your domain and certificate attached. Another provider's machine can be enrolled as self-managed, and the same template deploys onto it. Add Basic Authentication yourself if the site should not show a sign-in page publicly.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.