Two numbers, fifteen seconds
This tracker gives you two things a day, and they answer different questions.
- Calories in — photograph your plate, the app itemises it.
- Effort out — score your walking, snacking and carbs out of 210.
Most apps give you one or the other. You need both: the calories tell you where you are, the score tells you whether you showed up.
The photo scanner
- Snap the plate — before or after eating, whichever you remember.
- Get each dish, its portion and its calories back in a few seconds.
- Built for Indian food: katori and roti portions, and the cooking oil and ghee that generic food databases quietly leave out.
- Every result carries a confidence rating, so you know when to trust it.
- No weighing. No searching a database. No logging a brand that isn't there.
Week 1 is deliberately silent
- Week 1: log normally. No advice. We're learning what your normal is.
- Week 2 onwards: small cuts based on your real meals — usually 300–500 kcal.
- Every suggestion is picked to keep you full. Oil, sugar and fried snacks go first; dal, curd and protein are protected.
Changing someone's food before you know what they eat produces a plan that doesn't fit their life. So we wait a week.
The daily score
The second number. Three questions, fifteen seconds:
| What you did | Points |
|---|---|
| Walking — from under 2,000 steps up to 10,000 or more | 0 – 100 |
| Snacking — from all day down to none | 0 – 50 |
| Carbs — from no change to giving them up almost fully | 0 – 50 |
| Extra effort — a workout, meal prep, a long walk | +10 bonus |
| Best possible day | 210 |
The bonus only unlocks once the first three add up to more than 20 points. That is deliberate: an extra walk on a day you otherwise sat still and snacked continuously is not really a bonus, and letting it count would make the score dishonest.
Why calorie counting usually fails — and why this doesn't
Calorie counting isn't wrong. It's just been unusable with Indian home food, for reasons that have nothing to do with the maths:
- Portions are served, not weighed.
- A sabzi has however much oil it has.
- Nobody is weighing three rotis before dinner, every night, for six months.
- Half the dishes aren't in any food database.
Every one of those is a data entry problem, not a calorie problem. Photographing the plate removes all four — which is why counting is suddenly worth doing again.
The daily score stays because it measures something calories can't: whether you walked, and whether you showed up on a bad day. You can log a perfect calorie day by eating almost nothing, and that is not progress.
How to use it
Start with one honest day
Do not change anything on day one. Log your normal day exactly as it happened. Whatever number you get is your real starting point, and you cannot improve on a baseline you made up.
Aim to beat your average, not to max it
A perfect 210 is not the goal and chasing it will burn you out by the second week. If your first ten days average 70, then a month of 90s is genuine progress. The best day counter above the ring is there to show you what you have already proved you can do.
Protect the streak, not the score
A logged day worth 30 points keeps your streak alive. A skipped day breaks it. On your worst days, log the bad score anyway — it is worth far more to the habit than a gap in the chart.
Weigh in weekly, read the line
Your weight will jump up and down by a kilo or two from water, salt, sleep and your menstrual cycle. That is normal and it means nothing. What matters is the direction of the line over four to six weeks, which is exactly what the weight chart shows you.
What a realistic rate of loss looks like
Roughly half a kilo a week is a sensible, sustainable target for most people. That sounds slow until you work it out: six months of it is twelve kilos, and it tends to stay off because nothing extreme was required to get there.
Faster is usually water in the first fortnight, and anything much beyond that generally costs you muscle. If your line is drifting down and your points are trending up, the tracker is telling you it is working — even on the weeks the scale is being annoying.
Frequently asked questions
How does the photo calorie counter work?
Take a photo of your plate and it returns an itemised estimate — each dish, the portion it thinks you have, and the calories. It is tuned for Indian home food, so it uses katori and roti portions and accounts for the cooking oil and ghee that most food apps ignore completely.
How accurate is it?
Accurate enough to act on. Every result comes with a confidence rating, and it tells you what would sharpen the estimate — usually shooting from above with something in frame for scale. It is an estimate, not a lab measurement. For weight loss, consistency matters far more than precision.
Is this weight loss tracker free?
Yes, completely. No payment, no trial, no signup required. You can sign in free if you want your history backed up across devices, but everything works without an account.
What happens in week one?
Nothing but logging. The tracker deliberately gives no advice in your first week, because suggesting changes before it knows what you normally eat produces a plan that does not fit your life. From week two it suggests small cuts based on your actual meals.
Will the suggestions leave me hungry?
They are designed specifically not to. Suggestions target calorie-dense, low-volume things — cooking oil, sugar in chai, fried snacks — while protecting the dal, curd and protein that actually fill you up. A deficit that leaves you hungry gets abandoned by Thursday, which defeats the point.
How are the daily points calculated?
Walking is worth up to 100 points, cutting snacking up to 50, and reducing carbs up to 50. If those three total more than 20, you unlock a 10 point bonus for extra effort such as a workout or meal prep. The maximum for one day is 210.
How often should I weigh myself?
Once or twice a week, same time of day, is plenty. Daily weight swings by one to two kilos from water, salt and your cycle, so a single reading tells you very little. The chart exists so you watch the trend instead.
Can I log a day I missed?
Yes. Use the arrows above the date to move back to any earlier day. You can also edit any day from the history list below the charts.
Where are my photos and data stored?
Photos are sent for analysis and are not kept afterwards. Your calorie results and daily entries stay in your own browser unless you sign in, in which case they are stored in your private account that only you can read. Photo thumbnails never leave the device that took them.
Medical disclaimer: This tracker is a general wellbeing tool, not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. It is not suitable as a sole guide if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, under 18, or managing a condition such as diabetes, thyroid disease or an eating disorder. Talk to a qualified doctor or registered dietitian before making significant changes to your diet or exercise.