Count calories with a photo of your plate
Photograph what you're about to eat and Foodia identifies the foods, estimates their portions and works out the calories and macronutrients. No searching through lists, no weighing each ingredient.
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Grilled chicken330 kcalBroccoli42 kcalRoasted tomato33 kcalSautéed vegetables78 kcalWhat Foodia sees in your photo
The analysis doesn't look up “a plate of chicken with vegetables” in a list: it separates what's in the image. On a served plate it recognises each component on its own —the chicken, the rice, the salad— and suggests a portion in grams for each. That's where the calories and the split between protein, carbs and fat come from.
Analysing…Three steps and the meal is logged
From opening the camera to the meal counting towards your daily goals.
- 1
Take the photo
Of the served plate, before you start. No particular framing needed, and no moving the cutlery out of the way.
- 2
Check what it found
Foodia lists the foods it detected with their grams and macros. If one isn't what it thought, tap it and swap it.
- 3
Save it to your day
The meal goes into your day and counts towards your goals. You choose whether it was breakfast, lunch, a snack or dinner.
It's an estimate, which is why everything can be corrected
Nobody can know the exact grams of a served plate from a photo — not even a nutritionist looking at the same image. Foodia gives you a useful approximation for keeping a log, not a laboratory measurement. That's why no figure is ever locked.
- Tap any food's amount and type the real grams.
- Replace a food that was identified wrongly with the right one.
- Add what's missing —the oil it was cooked in, a sauce— or remove what isn't there.
- Every correction you make helps us improve the estimates.
What you need for the analysis
The analysis runs on our servers rather than on your phone, so the result is the same from any device. That means you need a connection when you take the photo. If you lose signal the photo isn't lost: it's saved and analysed on its own once you're back online.
- Five analyses a day during the five-day trial.
- Twenty-five a day with an active subscription.
- Food names follow the country you pick, so local dishes are called what they're actually called.
Questions about photo analysis
Do I have to photograph the plate from above?
No. Foodia works with the photo as you take it. Having the whole plate in shot helps so nothing gets missed, but there's no required angle.
Does it recognise prepared dishes or only separate ingredients?
It recognises the components of a served plate and lists them separately, each with its own portion. A stir-fry comes back broken down, not as a single line.
What if the dish contains something the photo doesn't show?
You add it by hand from the analysis summary. That's the usual case with cooking oil or with a sauce hidden underneath.
What happens to my photos after the analysis?
They stay in your account, in private storage, and only you and any professional you authorise can see them. They're never published or used to train models.
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