AI calorie and nutrition trackers
Apps that log meals via photos, barcodes, text or voice and estimate calories, macros and micronutrients against personal diet goals, for people watching what they eat.
Built for: Dieters and fitness-minded consumers
Projects since May 04
224
Different builders
218
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-13%
AI is the core
34%
Projects per week
Mostly mobile app (69%), web app (24%), browser extension (2.2%) · from r/SideProject, r/IMadeThis, r/ShowYourApp, r/SaaS
Latest
- neoforge — Tracks food intake for users while they travel.“let's build your next nutrition tracking app together & get it free for life!”
- FoodbyClef — Classifies a food from a typed name or photo into one of nine categories by counting starch surfaces.“FoodbyClef: Experiment in classifying foods with Clef and cube rule”
- MacroSaver — Compares supplement products by label data such as protein per serving, calories per gram of protein, and servings per container.“I built a free site that compares supplements using the label data”
- Avory — Estimates calories and macros from a photo of a meal and tracks weight, water, steps, and fasting in one app.“I built an AI calorie tracker that scans meals from a photo, looking for honest feedback”
- MakanAI — Estimates calories and macronutrients from typed descriptions of meals and activities.“Tired of scanning barcodes to count calories, so I made an app where you just say what you ate”
- CalForge — Estimates calories and macros from a photo, spoken description, or typed description of a meal.“CalForge - snap a photo of your meal and the AI counts the calories and macros. Android, open beta, testers wanted”
- Tracks daily calorie intake from food photos and shows calories consumed versus the daily target.“Making the product better with users is fun”
- PantryPool — Tracks who takes shared office snacks and how many, so a group can keep up with the tab.“Snack club anyone?”
- SweetZero — Flags hidden sugars in scanned ingredient lists and tracks sugar-free day streaks with breathing exercises for cravings.“My sugar-free app has 1.39k+ users and zero marketing. Here's the first real video I made for it”
- FastFuel — Ranks fast-food menu items by protein, carbs, and calories and compares items and chains side by side.“I built a free site that ranks 36,000 fast-food menu items by protein — fully static, zero-cost infra”
- cutbulk — Calculates daily calories, macros and a per-meal split from body stats, training and a cut or bulk goal, and adjusts targets weekly from logged weight.“made a calorie/macro planner for lifters because free calculators kept making me stall”
- Calorie Dintis — Estimates meal macros and calories from a photo and logs them to a daily diary with goals adjusted for activity.“I’m 14, I bench 115kg, and I pull all-nighters to build an AI Calorie Tracker on FastAPI.”
- nosh — Turns food and ingredient notes in an Obsidian vault into progress bars for nutrition and DASH food group servings.“I’m building a macro tracker plugin for Obsidian”
- Logs meals from plain-language descriptions and estimates their calories, and answers questions about food.“Desperate. 3 months building this and 0 users.”
- Kebab Counter — Counts how many kebabs the user has eaten.“Kebab Counter app”
- EasyProtein — Recommends nearby restaurant and takeaway meals that publish their macros and fit a user's remaining daily macro targets, alongside a macro tracker.“Solo dev: EasyProtein helps you pick London café/takeaway meals that fit your macros — looking for feedback”
- Prevail Fitness — Creates personalized workout and meal plans with exercise and meal swaps and weekly check-ins.“Prevail Fitness for iPhone — workout and meal plans in one app”
- Quokka — Tracks meals in a calm, non-judgmental way on Android.“I built Quokka — a calm food tracker that doesn’t make you feel bad for eating”
- Macros: Protein & Calorie Log — Logs food entries and shows daily totals for calories, protein, carbs and fat against user-set targets.“I built Macros, an iOS food log focused on quick entries and reusable meals”
- Scans packaged food labels and checks them for halal, kosher, vegan, vegetarian and allergen concerns across family members.“Never guess packaged food ingredients again. I built an app to verify Halal, Kosher, Vegan, Vegetarian & Allergens for your entire family in a single scan! [10 free Scans for 1st 100 Redditors]”
Most discussed
- Logs meals from plain-language descriptions and estimates their calories, and answers questions about food.“Desperate. 3 months building this and 0 users.”
- What The Fuck Can I Eat — Displays government food recall data and related news stories in an easy-to-read reference page.“My latest ADHD-vibe-coded piece of crap”
- Tracks food and weight and gives guidance on mindful eating through an AI agent.“Building a health app”
- Is It Halal — Scans a photo of a product's ingredients list and classifies it as halal, haram, or doubtful with reasons.“I built a halal ingredient scanner, and it just caught hidden pork in a chocolate I almost bought”
- Tracks daily food intake and calories on Android.“I built a simple calorie tracking app and would love honest feedback”
- Tracks calorie intake for users, in a beta version of a calorie-tracking app.“I built a calorie-tracking app before finding a real problem. What would you do next?”
- Scandient — Scans barcodes or ingredient labels and reports vegan, vegetarian, keto, and gluten-free status, allergen alerts, and health concerns.“I built an AI food label scanner because I kept misreading ingredients — just launched on App Store”
- Tracks daily calorie intake using a food database of over 2 million items and barcode scanning.“2 weeks since I launch ads on my app, this is what I learned”
- FitnessChief — Coaches users on fitness and nutrition using a food database built around Indian meals.“53 → 90 visitors in 5 days. No ads. Here's exactly what I did”
- Muskelkater — Tracks daily calorie and macro intake offline using a large food database, with a mascot that levels up as you log.“My girlfriend and I got fed up with calorie trackers locking everything behind paywalls, so we built our own. She hand-draws every animation, I code. It's 100% free.”