Design notes, science explainers and build logs — written by the team.
Your photo is downscaled on-device, sent over TLS to a vision model, and returned as a structured ingredient list with per-portion macros. We never store the photo unless you save it as a progress picture.
Every scan shows its parsed ingredients first — you confirm before anything touches your diary. Wrong portion? Adjust grams and the macros recalculate instantly.
Your calorie target starts with the Mifflin-St Jeor BMR equation, multiplied by your real activity factor. Protein follows the 1.6–2.4 g/kg evidence range; deficits are capped at clinical safety limits; pregnancy, diabetes and PCOS each get guideline-specific rules.
It's the same engine behind the free calculator on our homepage — transparency is the point.
Checklists guilt you; aquariums delight you. Our water tracker fills a living bowl with waves and bubbles because habit science says feedback should feel like play, not debt.