Identify a Dish from a Photoand estimate the calories
Upload a photo of your plate: the model figures out what's on it, estimates the portion size, and gives an approximate calorie count broken down by ingredient.
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What Is It and How Many Calories
What dish is this and roughly how many calories does it have? Break it down by main ingredients.
Protein, Fat, Carbs of a Portion
Identify the dish in the photo and estimate the protein, fat, and carbs in this portion.
Recipe from a Photo
What dish is this in the photo? Write a recipe so I can make something similar at home.
How to Make It Lighter
Identify the dish in the photo and suggest how to make it lower-calorie without losing the taste.
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What the AI can tell you about your plate
Dish composition, calories, protein-fat-carbs, recipe
What the Dish Is
Name and composition - exactly what's on the plate and what it's made from.
Approximate Calories
An estimate for the portion, broken down by where most of it comes from.
Protein, Fat, Carbs
A rough ratio - so you see the structure of the meal, not just one number.
Recipe from a Photo
Liked a dish at a café? Ask for the recipe right away and make it at home.
How to count calories from a photo
- Step 01
Photograph Your Plate from Above
This shows both the composition and the portion's area - the main input for estimating weight.
- Step 02
Add a Scale Reference
A fork or glass next to the plate helps gauge the real size of the portion.
- Step 03
Upload the Photo to Chat
Straight from your phone, no app to install.
- Step 04
Mention the Cooking Method
Fried or steamed - the calorie difference is bigger than it looks.
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Answers to questions
It's an estimate, not a measurement. The model can't see the oil in the pan, the sugar in the sauce, or the real weight of the portion - a gap of a quarter or more is normal. Fine for tracking your diet in general, not for strict counting.
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Calorie counting from a photo: what it's actually good for
Counting calories by hand is tedious, and manual-entry apps usually get abandoned in the second week. A photo of your plate is a trade-off: fast, but approximate. It's worth knowing where the line is between "useful" and "wishful thinking."
What the model can see, and what it can't
It sees composition: what the dish is, the main ingredients, roughly how much is on the plate. That's enough to tell a vegetable salad apart from one loaded with mayo, or to notice that the side dish is one and a half times a normal portion.
What it can't see is the main thing - the fat and sugar that went into cooking. A spoon of oil in the pan is about a hundred calories that simply aren't visible in the photo. Same with salad dressing, sugar in a sauce, or breading that soaked up oil. It can't see weight either: a top-down shot shows area reasonably well, but thickness is a guess.
So a fair estimate is usually off from reality by about a quarter, and more on fatty dishes.
How to get closer to the truth
Three tricks. Shoot from above - it shows the area. Put a fork or a glass next to the plate as a scale reference. And add in words what the camera can't show: "fried in two tablespoons of oil," "salad with no dressing," "a piece about the size of my palm."
Who this is good enough for
Anyone tracking their diet in general terms: keeping calories in a rough range, wanting to see the overall structure of a meal, telling a light lunch from a heavy one. Here, an estimate from a photo beats nothing and doesn't cost you any time.
Who it won't work for: anyone who needs medical-grade precision - carb counting for diabetes, a renal or elimination diet, strict mass-gain tracking. That needs a kitchen scale and composition tables, and no photo can replace them.
More than just a count
As a bonus, from the same photo you can ask for the recipe of a dish you liked at a café, or ask how to make a familiar dish lighter without ruining the taste. That's often more useful than the number itself.
