Meals.Chat

Meals.Chat is a calorie counter that you text to get calories, macros and ingredients from a meal photo or a sentence. It operates across iMessage, WhatsApp and Telegram, offering a way to track daily intake without a traditional account. The service emphasizes that the first 15 meals are free and that there is no database to search, with a focus on quick readouts and corrections in natural language.

A large multimodal AI model analyzes the image to identify ingredients and portions in grams, converting them into calories and macro totals. Typing a sentence or correcting a readout updates the same meal and adjusts the day’s total. The model’s estimates are presented as an readout rather than a call to a food database, and corrections fit into the same meal history.

The product logs meals and ingredients, providing a running total for the day along with calories and macros. It tracks history and offers corrections to improve accuracy. It supports logging through photos, sentences, or corrections, and it stores photos and messages to maintain a usable history and enable corrections to be applied to the right meal.

Meals.Chat supports logging across multiple chat channels, with a pricing model featuring a free tier and a paid Pro tier. It offers a dedicated iPhone app with its own pricing and provides a free 15-meal trial before subscriptions, cancellations, and upgrades are processed through the respective chat or App Store channels.

Use cases

• Keep a running tally of calories and macros from meals logged via photos or text