An app that logs your meal's calories from a photo
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HN · launched Jul 30, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 42%) · 0 views
Niche: photo food tracking and nutrition apps · 92 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▲ +25% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Healthcare
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 92 launches in photo food tracking and nutrition apps →
Could you build this?
Yes Better is a standard mobile CRUD application combining workout tracking with vision-based calorie estimation by passing uploaded meal photos to an LLM multimodal API.
Discussion
19 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Other photo-based calorie counter apps, Apple Health/fitness apps, Manual food logging apps
Concerns raised: Photos cannot detect invisible ingredients (milk, butter, sugar, oil, dressing), No depth information to determine actual portion sizes, Cannot see what's hidden behind visible food, Accuracy issues with messy or mixed plates, Same limitations as every previous attempt at this concept
Feature requests: Smartwatch integration with rest timer notifications, Voice logging for workout tracking, Zero-effort logging while exercising (mid-workout input), Ability to log entire workout once at end instead of during, Minimal manual effort required during exercise sessions
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 493 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #195 of 494 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 268 days after the earliest competitor.
- MakanAI: Calories Tracker · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- FittyUp · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Track it easy · hn · 2026-08-24 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- BiteCal · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Daylory · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Tab: Calorie & Macro Tracker · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- AskFork · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- kcalSimple: Calories & Weight · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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