Count calories from a photo of your plate

1. Send the photo. Open the coach and attach up to four photos to a message. Add a few words if you know something the camera doesn’t, like “cooked in butter” or “I only ate half”.
2. It reads the plate. The coach names each food it can see and estimates its weight from the plate, the cutlery and any packaging in the shot.
3. It logs the meal. The foods land in your day with their calories and macros, and the coach says what it assumed.
4. You correct what’s off. “That was 150 g” or “remove the juice” fixes the entry, and you can also edit it by hand.

The two kinds of photo give you very different accuracy.

• A plate is an estimate. Portion size is judged by eye, the way a person would judge it. Oil, butter and sauce that have soaked in may not show at all.
• A label is the real number. The coach reads the values off a nutrition label and uses them in place of any database figure or estimate, then scales them to how much you had.

• Keep the whole plate and a fork or spoon in the shot, since they give a sense of size.
• Spread things out a little so one food isn’t hiding another.
• Say what can’t be seen: the oil in the pan, the sugar in the coffee, the sauce underneath.
• If you weighed something, say so. A weight you give beats a weight it guesses.
• For anything from a packet, photograph the label as well as the plate.

The full-size photo is shown to the AI model to read and isn’t stored. A small copy is kept with the conversation so you can still see what you sent when you look back at it. The privacy page says what else is stored.

If you need precise numbers, weighing food is still more accurate than any photo. You can type or say the amounts to the coach, or use food search and barcode scanning without the coach at all; the AI calorie counter page covers all of it. To work out what you should be eating first, try the macro calculator.