Bitey

About The Project

Photograph a meal, correct the portion, log it.

Bitey (formerly Plate) is a private food log for everyday eating. Photograph a meal, describe it in a few words, search for a food, scan a barcode, or repeat something you eat often. Keep track of calories, protein, carbs, fat and fibre, with a small dinosaur for company.

Photo and text estimates are a starting point: check the foods and adjust the portions before saving. Bitey is built around a log you can keep up with, with no good or bad foods and no need to weigh every gram.

The Android app, Bitey — Private Food Log, keeps the diary on your phone, with no account and no server holding your log. Add food by hand, from a barcode, or as a quick bite, and keep weigh-ins, trends, and backups on the device. Bitey AI, an optional subscription, reads a meal photo or a description you type, and you review and adjust every estimate before saving.

Bitey for Android

The Android app is live on Google Play.

Log from your home screen with the Today in Bitey widget, use the Meal photo Quick Settings tile, or long-press the app icon for Photo, Gallery, Barcode and Type shortcuts. A new welcome introduces the ways to log, quick bites and repeat meals, with an optional profile that stays on your phone. Weight and intake trends help you follow your progress over time.

These screenshots show the Android app with made-up example data, including the new welcome screen.

On a tablet

On wider screens, your day opens in two columns, with totals, weight and quick bites beside your meals.

Android features

• 📏 Consistent beats perfect: Log meals roughly but regularly — a photo, a few words, a quick bite — and the small misses even out over the weeks.
• 🔒 Private by default: Your diary, photos, weigh-ins, and cached barcode foods stay on your phone. There is no account, no advertising, and no analytics.
• 📸 Bitey AI reads your photos: Photograph a meal, or pick one from your gallery, and get its foods, portions, and calories to check and save. It counts loose foods like grapes and nuts, and can compare a photo of what's left to work out how much you ate.
• ✍️ Or describe the meal: Type what you ate and Bitey AI estimates its calories, protein, carbs, and fat. You review and adjust each food before saving.
• 🔄 "Not what you ate?": Tell Bitey AI what a dish really was, and it reads the same photo again.
• 🥗 Your diet, if you want: An optional setting lets Bitey AI use a vegetarian, vegan, or pescatarian diet for dishes that could be made either way. It is off unless you turn it on.
• 🔎 Free ways in: Search a built-in table of more than 16,000 foods, with common foods and dishes named in your language, scan a barcode, or type the numbers from a label, which Bitey remembers for that barcode. A barcode leaves the phone only if you agree to an Open Food Facts lookup.
• 🏠 Today at a glance: A resizable home-screen widget shows calories, macros and fibre, with Photo, Barcode and Type buttons. Add the Meal photo Quick Settings tile or use the app icon's shortcuts to start logging.
• 🔁 Your usual meals: Save quick bites and log a previous meal again in one tap.
• 🦖 A kinder companion: A short welcome helps you get started, your profile is optional, and Bitey keeps food comments encouraging. Available in 12 languages.
• ⚖️ Weigh-ins and backups: Record your weight, follow your food and weight trends, and back up or restore your data when you move phones.
• 💳 Bitey AI subscription: Bought and managed through Google Play, with the first month free. Bitey asks before the first photo or description leaves your phone, and you can withdraw that in Settings.

Bitey on Wear OS

Prepared for the 1.1.9 release: a Wear OS companion for your paired Android phone. See today's calories and macros, log a quick bite or repeat a meal with one tap, and undo a mistaken entry on the watch.

Choose from three tiles: Today in Bitey, Bitey quick bites, or both together. Add Calories today or Macros today to your watch face. The phone keeps the diary; the watch receives today's summary and meal shortcuts.

Watch screenshots use the same made-up diary as the phone screenshots.

The web app

Web app features

• 📸 Vision-First Food Logging: Snap a photo and let the vision model identify foods, decompose composite meals, and estimate baseline nutrition instantly.
• ⚖️ Empirical Portion Calibration: Transparent three-tier error bands based on whether weight was scale-measured, user-adjusted by eye, or model-estimated.
• 🔄 "Not what you're eating?" Re-Read: State what a dish actually is to re-analyze the in-memory photo from scratch without taking a second picture.
• 🏷️ Stated Nutrition Validation: Direct manual entry for printed panels or restaurant menus with automated sanity checks against physically impossible caloric densities.
• 📊 Energy & Weight Trends: Dense, honest daily time-series visualization tracking caloric intake stacked by macronutrient energy alongside least-squares expenditure trends.
• 📦 Complete Data Ownership & Zero Lock-in: Gated-free exports yielding structured JSON, spreadsheet-ready CSV, and a self-contained ZIP archive containing every captured meal photo.
• 🦖 Bitey Nutrition Companion: An encouraging daily companion that celebrates hitting your protein and caloric goals with actionable, personalized feedback.
• 🔒 Private & Account Budgeted: Strictly zero-telemetry architecture with built-in per-account daily quota guards to ensure sustainable operational costs.