Built for hardgainers

Every fitness app was built for weight loss. This one isn't.

bulklab tracks your surplus, builds your meal plans, and coaches you through plateaus. One app, designed from scratch for people who need to eat more.

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The problem

The apps aren't built for you.

MyFitnessPal shows red warnings when you eat "too much." Noom won't let you sign up if you're underweight. You're paying $300+ a year across 3-4 apps that don't talk to each other, and none of them were designed for someone trying to gain.

Every other app
  • Penalizes you for eating over your target
  • Defaults to weight loss
  • No meal plans above 3,500 calories
  • No shake builder or liquid calorie tools
  • Paywalls the barcode scanner ($80/yr)
  • Static calorie formulas that never adapt
bulklab
  • Celebrates hitting your calorie surplus
  • Defaults to muscle gain
  • Meal plans from 3,500 to 5,000+ calories
  • Shake builder from your kitchen inventory
  • Free barcode scanner, no paywall
  • Algorithm that learns your real metabolism
How it works

Three steps. That's it.

01

Tell us about you

60-second quiz. Weight, height, goals, dietary preferences, experience level. We set your targets.

02

Get your plan

AI generates your meal plan, calorie targets, and training program. Grocery list included.

03

Eat, lift, grow

Track daily, see your trends, get nudges when you're falling short. The app adapts with you weekly.

What we're building

Tools that solve the actual problem.

800 calories short at 9 PM? Solved in 10 seconds.

Every coach says drink your calories. No app has a shake builder. Tell us what's in your kitchen and how many calories you need.

Calories needed842
Protein needed38g
Generated shake
2 cups whole milk
2 tbsp peanut butter
1 banana
1 scoop whey
½ cup oats
Total856 cal · 52g

Your metabolism changes weekly. Your targets should too.

Static calculators miss by 300+ calories. bulklab recalculates your expenditure from real weight data every week.

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Lift
Remaining1,180 cal
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4,000+ calorie meal plans. Generated, not Googled.

Grocery lists, prep schedules, budget constraints, dietary restrictions. Auto-adjusts for training vs rest days.

Breakfast920 cal
Lunch1,040 cal
Snack480 cal
Dinner880 cal
Bedtime shake780 cal
Total4,100 cal · 192g

Context-aware nudges that tell you what to eat.

Not a generic alarm. At 6 PM with 1,200 calories left, bulklab tells you exactly what to make and how long it takes.

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1,200 cal short
Bedtime shake: milk, PB, banana, oats = 820 cal. 2 min.
6:14 PM
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Meal 4 in 30 min
Chicken + rice bowl (680 cal, 48g)
3:30 PM
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Training day
Target bumped to 4,200 cal
8:00 AM

A coach that knows your actual data.

Ask a question. Get an answer based on your logged food, weight trends, and training. Not recycled advice from a weight-loss chatbot.

Weight hasn't moved in 2 weeks
Your avg intake is 3,340 cal but TDEE adjusted to 3,280. Only a 60 cal surplus. Add a bedtime shake to push above 3,800.
What shake?
2c milk, whey, 2T PB, banana, ½c oats = 820 cal, 48g. 2 minutes.

Weight trends that filter the noise.

Your weight swings 2-5 lbs daily from water and sodium. bulklab smooths the data and shows gain-rate analysis. Too fast, too slow, or on track.

From the community

Real people. Real frustration.

"I spent four years working out five days a week and never got bigger — because I didn't eat enough calories."Nerd Fitness Community
"How do I get past the feeling of wanting to throw up? I try to shove down more and literally feel like I'm going to throw up everything."r/gainit
"Overweight people have keto, paleo, intermittent fasting. Where's ours?"r/gainit
"I flat out do not know what or how to be eating. I still feel overwhelmed when it comes to food."r/gainit
"I had a friend who carried around a bottle of olive oil and drank straight from it to hit his calories."Breaking Muscle
We checked. Nobody does these.

7 things every hardgainer needs
that no app provides.

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Proactive "eat more" coaching that escalates urgency as the day progresses

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Food ranked by calories per volume — not per gram

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A shake builder that turns remaining macros into a recipe

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TDEE that accounts for your metabolism speeding up when you eat more

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A UI that celebrates surplus instead of punishing it with red warnings

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Meal prep automation for 4,000+ daily calories with grocery lists

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A community where gaining weight is the goal, not the problem

75+ features planned

You decide what gets built first.

Browse every planned feature, vote on what matters to you, or pitch something we haven't thought of. Your votes set development priority.

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My freshman year of high school I was 86 pounds. It's all I ever heard from friends, family, random people. 'Just eat more.' As if I hadn't tried.

I've watched my weight climb for a few weeks and then fall right back because I had no system. No app understood the problem. They all assumed I was trying to lose weight.

bulklab is what I wish existed. An app that holds you accountable, gives you the information that matters, and doesn't charge you $80/year for a barcode scanner.
Liam
Founder · Virginia Beach, VA
From the blog

Worth reading while you wait.

🔥Manifesto

Every Calorie Tracking App Is Built Against You

The entire fitness app industry optimized for restriction. Here's how.

🧠Science

The Hardgainer's Real Problem Isn't Willpower

Bulks fail because the tools don't exist. Not because you're not trying.

📊Practical

What 2 Lbs of Muscle Per Month Looks Like

How to know if you're gaining muscle or fat — without a DEXA scan.

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