Calorie counters give up on you the first time you eat something without a barcode. This diary asks for less: a round for each meal with what it was and a rough calorie figure, all in today’s entry. The daily total adds itself up, the per-meal breakdown shows where the calories really sit, and a photo of the plate replaces the weighing.
Opens Log App and adds this log with example entries. You can clear the examples anytime.
On a computer? Scan this with your phone’s camera to set it up there.
One entry per day, a round per meal, a rough calorie number.
Also called a meal log, food journal or calorie diary.
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‹Meals⚙
food
1054kcal
Avg per day Calories · 7 entries
Today
Tuesday
2 rounds · Breakfast, Lunch
“Dinner still to come.”
Yesterday
Office day
4 rounds · Breakfast, Lunch, Snack, Dinner
“Vending machine at 4 again. Bring an apple tomorrow.”
Sat 24 Oct
Sunday
2 rounds · Breakfast, Dinner
📷 1 photo
Fri 23 Oct
Pizza night
3 rounds · Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
📷 1 photo
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What you’ll track
The Meals log, out of the box
One entry can hold several rounds — each meal with its own values — and the stats break them out separately.
Variable
Type
Stats shown
Meal
Choice · tracked individually
Own stats per value
Food
Text
Recorded, not aggregated
Calories · kcal
Number
Avg per day, Sum
Timer
Built in
Total time, per entry duration
Location
Built in
Pin or place, shown on the log map
Notes, photos, sketches, voice memos
Built in
Attached to any entry
1054kcal
Avg per day Calories
12650kcal
Sum Calories
How it works
From install to first entry in a minute
1
Pick “Meals” during setup
The log is created with the variables above and a few example entries so you can see how it works. Clear them with one tap.
2
Log as you go
Tap plus, fill in what you have, save. Timer, location, notes and photos are there when you want them, hidden when you don’t.
3
Let the stats accumulate
Avg per day calories sits on the log card, with the rest one tap away. Set a goal if you want a nudge.
Why this log
Built for the way you actually do it
Calories per meal, not just per day
Mark “Meal” as tracked individually and each one gets its own figures. The surprise is rarely dinner; it is the 4 pm snack that turns up four days a week.
A photo instead of a food scale
Attach a picture of the plate to the day’s entry. A rough number plus a photo is a diary you keep; a weighed, barcoded one is a diary you abandon.
The day builds itself as you eat
Open today’s entry, add a round for lunch, pick “Lunch”, save. What you typed under “Food” before comes back as a quick pick, so a normal day is a few taps.
Everything else in the app
Not just a form. A logbook that thinks with you.
The Meals log is one log among many you can keep. Every one of them gets the same tools.
💡AI analysis
AI reads the pattern for you
Tap the bulb on Meals and get a plain-language read of your trends, what changed recently, and a suggested next goal, built only from your own entries.
🎯Goals
Goals, streaks and reminders
Set a target like three times a week, watch the rolling progress bar, keep a streak, and get a reminder at the time you actually log. The app learns that time from you.
📅Calendar
A calendar heatmap per log
Every log has its own month view showing which days you logged. Gaps are obvious, consistency is visible, and one tap opens that day's entries.
🔁Rounds
Several meals in one entry
One entry can hold a round per meal, each with its own values, and the stats break them out separately.
📷Attachments
Photos, sketches, voice memos
Attach a photo, draw a quick sketch, or record a voice note on any entry. They stay with that entry and come back on every device you sign in on.
🗺️Map
Every entry on a map
Drop a pin or search for the place. Each log has a map view of everywhere you logged, and saved places open directly in Google Maps.
🔍Search
Search across everything
Find an entry by title, note or value across every log, filter by date or location, and jump straight to it.
🔒Privacy
Yours, offline first
Entries save on your phone first and sync when you sign in. No account needed to start, no feed, no one else sees your data.
Who keeps a simple food diary
People who tried a calorie counter, spent twenty minutes searching for “grandma’s lentil soup” and quit. Someone whose dietitian asked for two weeks of what they actually eat. A person who suspects the afternoon slump has something to do with lunch and wants to see it written down.
It suits anyone who cares more about the pattern than the exact gram. A rough figure every day beats a precise one three days a week.
What two weeks of meals show
The average per day is the headline, and it is usually higher than you would have guessed. The per-meal breakdown is more useful: it shows whether lunch or the snack is doing the damage, and whether weekends are a different diet entirely.
Notes and photos carry the context the numbers cannot. Reading back a fortnight tends to show the same two situations behind the big days, like team lunches or late evenings at home, and those are the ones worth planning around.
Questions
Frequently asked
Does it have a food database or barcode scanner?
No. You pick the meal, type what it was and a rough calorie figure, or leave the number empty and just keep the record. That works for home cooking and restaurant meals, where databases guess anyway.
Can I track protein or other macros?
Yes. Add number variables such as “Protein” in grams in log settings and each meal round will ask for them, with a daily sum next to calories.
Can I note how I felt after eating?
Yes. Add a rating for “Bloating” or “Energy”, or write it in the notes. If you are chasing a food reaction, a symptom diary alongside helps line the two up by date.
Is it suitable for managing a medical diet?
It is a record, not a medical device or nutrition advice. If a doctor or dietitian asked you to keep a food diary, this keeps it accurate and dated for them to read.
