Grab it from the download page and open it. The app asks your height, weight, how active you are, and your goal: lose, maintain, or gain. From that it sets your daily calorie budget, like an allowance for food.
The AI is what understands "turkey sandwich with mayo". You bring your own free key so the app can stay completely free. In the app: Settings, then "How to get your free keys". Pick Groq (console.groq.com) or Gemini (aistudio.google.com); both are free, take about two minutes, and never ask for a credit card. The app walks you through every tap, then tests the key for you.
Also free and instant (one short form, key arrives by email). It gives you your own lane into the US government food database instead of sharing the demo key with everyone. The app works without it.
Tap "Add food". Type what you ate, or tap the mic and say it, or tap the camera and snap it. Check the app's answer, fix anything that looks off, and log it. That is the whole job.
Yesterday's breakfast is a one-tap button now. Tap, done, two seconds. The ring shows your whole day ahead of you.
Snap the menu. The app stars what fits your budget: "620 cal fits and packs 40g protein." Order, tap what you got, logged.
Scan the barcode on the package, say how many you had. "2 meat sticks" beats "68 grams" every time.
Cooking from your recipe book: open the recipe, "Log a serving". New dish? The AI analyzes it once, with a health score, and it is in your book forever.
The ring says what is left. Went over? A calm note reminds you that one day never breaks anything. Saturday morning you weigh in, and every few weeks the app offers a small budget tune-up based on your real trend.
Really free. No ads, no premium tier, no selling your data (your data never leaves your phone, so there is nothing to sell). The one piece of honesty: the AI runs on a free key you create yourself with Google or Groq. Their free tiers are generous and the app uses tiny requests, but those tiers belong to them, not us.
Honest and labeled. Everyday foods are checked against the US government's USDA database. Barcode scans and label photos use the printed numbers. Chain items use published menus. When the AI estimates, the food says "estimated" right on it, and photo portions are good guesses you can adjust in one tap. For weight goals, consistency matters more than perfection, and the weekly weigh-in loop corrects for any systematic drift.
No. Portions work in human counts: 1 chicken breast, 2 tacos, half a serving. If you ever do weigh something, a grams option is one tap away.
Android 8 and newer. The step counter uses Health Connect, which is built into modern Android. An iPhone version is possible later; the app is built on technology that supports both.
There is an optional Diabetes support mode: carbs shown everywhere, plain-word blood sugar flags on foods, blood sugar notes on recipes, and menu suggestions that favor gentler options. It is information, not medical advice, and it never replaces your care team.
If you saved more than one key, the app automatically retries your request with another provider and tells you it did. If a provider retires a model, one tap of "Test key" in Settings moves you to a current one.
Settings, "Export backup". It writes one file with everything. Copy it somewhere safe now and then, because your data lives only on your phone, which is the point.
By day three, logging takes less time than reading this sentence took.
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