KaloBite for Android
Point your camera at a plate. KaloBite estimates the calories, protein, carbs and fat in seconds, then counts them against daily targets set for your body and your goal.
Free to start · Android · v1.0.0
The problem
Search a database, pick a match, guess the portion, then do it again for every ingredient. It takes minutes per meal, so most people give up within a week. KaloBite replaces the typing with a photo.
Typing it in
With KaloBite
Features
Six things, each built to make logging faster or give you a reason to keep going.
Photograph a plate and get estimated calories and a protein, carbs and fat breakdown in seconds.
Daily calorie and macro targets calculated from your sex, age, height, weight, activity and goal. Adjust any of them by hand.
Daily and multi-day challenges, streaks, badges and levels give you a reason to log again tomorrow.
Follow a program, or save recipes with cooking time, calories and protein shown up front.
Log them next to your meals and see the history in progress charts.
Sign in and your logs, targets and progress follow you to any phone.
Calorie and macro figures are estimates. KaloBite is a tracking tool, not a medical device.
How it works
Step 1
Answer six questions and get daily calorie and macro targets.
Step 2
Take a photo and KaloBite estimates the calories and macros.
Step 3
Log every day to keep your streak, earn badges and level up.
Screenshots
Real screens from the current build.
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Meal scan screen
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Challenges screen
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Pricing
Everything you need to track is free. PRO removes the limits and the ads.
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Track meals, targets and progress at no cost.
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Everything in Free, plus:
PRO is bought inside the app after you install it.
Case study
I designed and built KaloBite end to end: the product, the interface and the engineering behind it. These are the problems that shaped it.
01
One photo has to become a calorie estimate and a protein, carbs and fat breakdown fast enough that logging feels instant.
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Model or API used, how the image is sent and processed, typical response time, what happens on a low-confidence or failed scan, and how users correct an estimate.
02
Daily calorie and macro targets come from sex, age, height, weight, activity level and goal, and any of them can be overridden by hand.
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The formula used, activity multipliers, how the goal sets the deficit or surplus, how macros are split, and how manual overrides are stored.
03
Logs, targets, progress and PRO status belong to the account, not the phone. Sign in on a new device and everything is there.
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Auth provider, database, sync strategy and conflict handling, offline behaviour, and how the PRO entitlement is verified.
04
Daily and multi-day challenges, streaks, badges and XP levels exist to bring people back tomorrow, so the rules have to feel fair.
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How streak and challenge progress are calculated (day boundaries, time zones, missed days) and how badges and XP are awarded.
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Only numbers you can back up: scan response time, APK size, crash-free sessions, test coverage, retention if you track it. Then two or three things you would build or change next.
Try it on your next meal.
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