Cal AI - Calorie Tracker

The app is great, definitely one of the best out there right now for tracking your health goals. If you expect to just be able to take pictures of every meal and go on with your day, this is not that, but the camera feature is great for when you’re out to dinner. The barcode and nutrition label options make the app worth it. If the food data base doesn’t have what you need or if you’ve made something from scratch, you can adjust all the macros and put your own values. The option to adjust freely is one of my favorite features. The app is great for logging meals and keeping up your goals. I love how the app has multiple options to customize and tailor to your needs and preferences. SUGGESTIONS: -The app should have an option for a water goal and reminders to remind you to drink enough water to reach your goal. I think that would be a nice extra add on. I know that you can track your water already but I would like if I could set a goal to hold me accountable and remind me to drink water. - The workout feature needs to have more details. I want to be able to log my steps for the day manually. There is an option for steps on the app currently but it always says zero and you can’t adjust it. I want to be able to put that I went on a walk. There’s not really an option to log a walk because it registers as a “run” in your actual data. I would like to have an option to log your workout time in manually instead of picking the preset options. Overall I like the aesthetics of the app, the layout isn’t overwhelming or an eye sore. The app makes the process of logging your meals and workouts more efficient. The variety of options and customization makes the app standout from others.

So let's cut to the chase. It works for me. At the 3 month mark through using Cal AI and exercise I've dropped significant weight. If it takes more than the year subscription to lose what I want, I am already planning on re-upping. Pros: I had tried calorie counting through other apps before like lose it and so on. And the massive number of steps just to log a multi-ingredient meal was daunting and frankly exhausting. Point and click and it logs it. If there's a barcode even better. The first few weeks I religiously checked the calorie count it gave me versus online and while not perfect it was accurate usually to within 10 percent of the actual calories. It can remember meals for easy logging and it has a step count meter that's great, because other apps aren't integrated and so if you have a very active day you get no more calories and end up starving. This doesn't happen with Cal AI. Cons: sometimes it takes a very long time to load a meal and when I go back to the app, the meal is gone and I have to reconstruct it from scratch using their look up tool. This doesn't happen often maybe once a week. It does sometimes have crazy calorie counts, usually on the high side. A small bowl of popcorn it listed at something like 8000 calories, it one time listed a candy bar at an eye popping 27 million calories. But you can usually retake the pic and it fixes it. This has only happened maybe a handful of times.

I have four or five ideas that would drastically improve this app, even though it’s pretty good as is. Ps you better incorporate this, because I’m giving you this idea for FREE. First, and most important, there should be an option to add ingredients by scanning barcodes and labeling the list of ingredients together as a meal that you save as a “Saved MEAL”… Then when you have this meal-prepped for the week, you can signify that you’re eating 1/8 of the total meal. I make crockpot meals for lunch, and this is the hardest thing to log manually because I have to re-do all the ingredients if I wanted to put this in. Having a list of saved MEALS (various meals with ingredient lists after clicking to expand on the meal) would be a huge game changer because it’s just like meal-prepping; you enter the ingredients and save as a meal, then it saves you time when you actually need to use it… just click 1/8 of saved meal. With this, there should be an option to take a picture of said meal after telling AI what the meal contains, this way it continues to have more data to compare meals it doesn’t have the ingredients to beforehand (you should also be able to label pieces of the meal with what ingredient that you’re labeling). But telling AI what’s in the meal, and even going to add the weight of the portion or volume of the container would really increase accuracy after thousands of accounts of what the AI is analyzing. Contact me for further improvements. Thanks!!! -Matt, Be The Change