Eating patterns
The eating is the symptom. The pattern is the thing worth finding.
Nearly everyone who wants to change how they eat has already tried the obvious approach — more rules, more willpower, another app that counts. What almost nobody has is a record of what their eating is actually responding to, which is the part that turns out to be findable.
The same finding, over and over
The striking thing about food logs, once there are enough of them, is how rarely the answer is about food. The strongest predictor of a heavy evening is usually whether lunch happened. The strongest predictor of an afternoon craving is usually sleep. The strongest predictor of eating something you didn't plan to is usually who you'd just spoken to.
None of that is visible from the inside, because each occasion feels like a one-off and the cause was six hours earlier. It becomes visible the moment forty of them are written down with times attached — which is a low bar, and one that no calorie app clears, because they're all busy collecting a number instead.
What this section refuses to do
- Sort food into clean and dirty, good and bad, or treat and cheat
- Run a streak, so that one hard evening breaks a record
- Set a target for how much or how often you eat
- Estimate a calorie count from a photo and present it as a fact
- Suggest that tracking harder is the answer when it plainly isn't
Every one of those makes a log people lie to, and a log people lie to is worthless as data as well as unkind.
Pages in this section
What people are trying to understand
Each one has its own page: why it's hard to see, what's worth writing down, and what the log usually turns out to say.
Mindful Eating
A sentence or a photo after a meal, whenever it's worth remembering
Emotional Eating
Afterwards, when you can. Same day is close enough
Binge Eating
Only when you want to. A gap in the record is not a failure
Late-Night Eating
A sentence at the time, or next morning if that's more realistic
Mindless Snacking
Two seconds, at the time. Dictated is fine
Portion Sizes
A photo when it's a proper plate of food. Not every snack
Hunger & Fullness
Two numbers around a meal. Five seconds, once or twice a day
Sugar Cravings
When one shows up, whether or not you act on it
Eating Out
Afterwards, or the next morning. Never at the table
Intuitive Eating
Whenever you notice something. Some days that's nothing at all
Questions
The things people ask before signing up
Is this a calorie counter?
No, and it isn't one with the numbers hidden either. There's no calorie field, no database lookup and no daily total. An entry is a sentence or a photo, and what you get back is counts of your own entries — how often something happened, when, and what surrounded it.
Will it tell me what I should be eating?
No. It doesn't design a diet, score a meal or rank foods, because it has no basis on which to do any of that — it has seen your entries and nothing else. What it can do is show you what your own record says, which is a different and more useful thing.
I've had an eating disorder. Is tracking a bad idea for me?
It can be, and that's a real answer rather than a disclaimer. For some people any form of food tracking makes things worse, and the honest advice is to decide that with a clinician rather than with an app. If you're in treatment and have been asked to keep a record, this is built to be that record — no targets, no scores, nothing counting down.
What if I stop logging for two weeks?
Then there are two weeks with nothing in them. Nothing resets, nothing is lost, and nothing will tell you that you've broken anything. Gaps are normal in every long-running log and the patterns survive them.
Do I have to take photos?
No. Photos are one way to make an entry and a sentence is another; most people end up doing some of both. Photos are stored against the entry as a record of the meal — we don't run a calorie estimate on them and hand you the guess as though it were a measurement.
Where does the data go?
Into your account, exportable in full whenever you want it. Chat messages are processed by a model provider to produce a reply; your log isn't training data and isn't sold. The privacy page sets out exactly what is sent and when.
Early access
Start with whatever you've been trying to keep track of
Tell us what it is and we'll set it up with you — recording the thing that's actually useful, at a cadence that survives a bad week.
- Founding accounts lock their price for life
- No card, no trial clock, no notification designed to make you feel behind
- Export everything you've logged, photos included, whenever you want
Find the pattern without turning food into a test
Founding pricing is locked for accounts opened during early access.
Founding accounts lock their price for life. No card required.