Food logging, honestly

Every other app gives you a confident number. We give you the range.

Estimating a meal from a photo is never exact — not here, not anywhere. So MunchMetrics shows you the uncertainty instead of hiding it, and puts your weekly trend front and centre, where the signal actually is.

Android first. iOS to follow.

A scanned meal in MunchMetrics showing 1,000 kcal plus or minus 53, marked medium confidence, with protein, carbs and fat broken out below.
± 53 kcal

Shown, not buried

Every estimate carries its margin. A wide range is information, not a defect — it tells you when to look twice.

7 day average

The number to trust

Daily totals bounce around for reasons that have nothing to do with you. The weekly trend is what we lead with.

0 trackers

Nothing watching you

No analytics SDK, no advertising IDs, no data brokers. Meal photos are deleted the moment they've been read.

How it works

Photograph the plate, check what it found, save. The checking step is the point — you know what you ate better than any model does.

1

Photograph the plate

One shot. It breaks the meal into ingredients rather than guessing a single total, and itemises the oil and butter most apps quietly leave out.

2

Correct what's off

Drag a portion, rename an item, remove what isn't there. Anything low-confidence is flagged as worth a look — never as an error.

3

It remembers

Correct your porridge to 150 g once and that's your usual portion from then on. Repeat yesterday in a single tap, with no model call at all.

Why we show the range

Published error rates for photo-based food estimation sit around 20–30% for a mixed plate, and worse for anything sauced or layered. That's the honest state of the technology — including ours.

An app that reports “612 kcal” for that plate isn't more accurate than one reporting “610 ± 140”. It's the same estimate with the uncertainty removed to look authoritative.

Hiding it has a cost: you end up making decisions on a number that was never that precise, and blaming yourself when the maths doesn't line up. We'd rather show the range and point you at the weekly trend, which is accurate enough to act on.

What's free, and what isn't

The scanning costs us money per photo, so that's the paid part. Everything else is yours.

Free, permanently

Free — no trial, no expiry, no card

  • Log meals by hand, with your own saved foods
  • Your weekly trend, target band and full history
  • Repeat yesterday, duplicate, copy to another day
  • Export everything as CSV or JSON, whenever you like
  • Delete your account and all of it, from inside the app

Scanning

Subscription — price shown in-app before you start

  • Photograph a meal instead of typing it
  • Itemised ingredients with per-item confidence
  • A free trial, with a reminder 48 hours before it converts
  • Cancel in the store in the same few taps it took to start
  • Your log, history and export stay free if you stop

If a real price can't be loaded from the store, the buttons stay switched off rather than showing you a made-up number.

Built to be put down

A food diary that becomes a compulsion has stopped helping. A few decisions follow from that.

No streaks, no scolding

Nothing punishes you for a missed day, and no screen turns red because a number went over.

A safety floor on targets

Targets are clamped to a sustainable range, and the app tells you plainly when it has adjusted what you asked for.

You can hide the numbers

One switch turns off every calorie and macro while keeping the log and the timeline. Under-18s get this by default.