Food journal
A food journal you write in a sentence, or photograph in a second
Every food diary ever kept has failed in the same place: not at the decision to start one, but at the eleventh day, when the entry costs four decisions and the meal is getting cold. Take the four decisions out and what's left is a record people actually keep.
Why food diaries get abandoned in week two
It isn't motivation. It's that logging a sandwich in a conventional app means searching a database, picking between fourteen near-identical entries, estimating a portion in grams, and confirming — and doing that four times a day, for something you're going to eat in six minutes.
The estimates aren't even good. Portion guesses carry large errors, restaurant meals are unknowable, and what gets recorded is a number that looks like a measurement and isn't. So the cost is high, the output is false precision, and the whole thing collapses somewhere around day eleven — usually with no record left behind at all.
- Four decisions per entry, at the moment you least want to make them
- Estimates recorded as measurements, indistinguishable a month later
- Snacks and drinks unrecorded, which is often half of the eating
- Nothing kept about where you were, who with, or what had just happened
What an entry looks like here
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log_meal(items: ["curry", "rice"], at: "14:00", setting: "desk")log_context(company: "alone")
No lookup, no portion field, nothing to confirm. Dictating it takes about four seconds.
The difference
What you give up, and what you get
This is a genuine trade rather than a free lunch, and it's worth being straight about which side you're on before you sign up.
What you give up
- A daily calorie total
- Gram-level macro breakdowns
- A number to hit and a progress bar toward it
If you need real precision — a competition, a clinical plan, a coach working to grams — weigh your food and use a macro app. That's the honest answer, and it isn't the product we're building.
What you get instead
- A record that's still going in month six, which is where the value is
- Context — where, who with, what had just happened
- The meals that didn't happen, which no other diary records
- Photos as first-class entries
- A log you can ask questions of, instead of one you can only read
Coarse data over six months beats precise data over eleven days, and it isn't close.
What it does
The journal, specifically
Type it or say it
An entry is a sentence in whatever words you'd have used anyway. Dictation works well for this, which is why most people end up doing it walking away from the table.
Photos are complete entries
A picture of the plate records portions better than any description. Stored against the day, searchable later, never turned into a calorie guess.
Late entries are fine
Log yesterday's dinner tomorrow morning. The record is more useful slightly late than it is missing, and nothing penalises you for it.
Ask it questions
"Which dinners leave me uncomfortable?" is a query against your own entries. This is the part that makes a journal worth keeping past week two.
No streak, no score
Miss four days and four days are empty. Nothing resets, nothing is lost, and nothing tells you you've failed at keeping a diary.
Export whenever
Everything you've written and every photo, in one file — including the date range a dietitian asked you about.
Questions
Comparing it against what you're using now
How is this different from MyFitnessPal?
Different job. Those are calorie and macro databases, and they're good at that when you keep them up. This is a journal: entries in plain words or photos, context alongside the food, and a log you can query. If the number is what you're after, they do the number better than we ever will.
How is it different from taking notes in my phone?
Notes are write-only — that's the whole problem with them. Here the entries are structured as they're written, so three months later you can ask which evenings went sideways and what those days had in common, and get counts back rather than a wall of text to scroll.
Can I use it for a dietitian appointment?
That's one of the main reasons people start. Export a date range as a file with the photos attached — which answers "what does a normal week look like?" far better than the reconstruction everyone attempts in the room.
Does it work offline?
The first release is a web app, so it needs a connection. Entries are short enough that logging on the move works fine, and nothing is lost by writing up a meal an hour later.
What does it cost?
There's a free tier that's a real tier, and a personal plan at $5 a month. Founding accounts lock their rate for life. Full details on the pricing page.
Early access
Start the journal you'll still be keeping in month six
Tell us what you've been trying to keep track of and we'll set it up with you.
- Founding accounts lock their price for life
- No card, no trial clock
- Export everything you've logged, photos included, whenever you want
A food diary without the four decisions per meal
Founding pricing is locked for accounts opened during early access.
Founding accounts lock their price for life. No card required.