GPT Food Cam

Log your food with AI

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Log your food with AI

102 followers

GPT Food Cam is the simplest food logger and calorie counter for iOS and it's 100% Free. Take a picture, post it to your feed and see an estimated calorie range.

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Launch tags:Health & Fitness•Food & Drink•Dieting

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GPT Food Cam

Maker

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Hi Product Hunt 👋 Excited to share GPT Food Cam, a hobby project stemming from my experience working with a food coach where I would text a picture of each meal and we'd discuss async. After I wrapped-up with my food coach, I sought a replacement and I tried popular apps like MyFitnessPal and LoseIt! but I found them to all be too cumbersome. You have to select the meal, enter the items, choose the serving sizes and more. No wonder most users churn from these apps after a few weeks -- it's simply too much work and they are expensive! Welcome GPT Food Cam: 1. I wanted the experience to be super simple and fast. GPT Food Cam may be the only app in the category that opens straight to the camera. Simply take a pic, post it, see your AI calorie estimate, and you're done! 2. AI estimation isn't perfect, so GPT Food Cam displays a calorie range and this works a lot better. It's still not perfect but the AI will improve and more importantly, the app is so simple, we hope it encourages a behavior of food logging to make you a more mindful eater. 3. It's totally free, like seriously, actually free without any spam or upsells or anything else and as far as we know, it's the only AI calorie counter in the App Store that is free! We are able to do this by inserting an occasional ad in the food photo feed to cover the cost of the AI calorie lookup. I know this product doesn't have all the bells and whistles of some of the paid apps but it's simple, it works and it's free. Very much looking forward to your feedback and I hope you have as much fun using GPT Food Cam as we do. Cheers to a more healthy lifestyle!

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1yr ago

Epsilla (YC S23)

@mobileraj Congrats!

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1yr ago

Mailfox

Hey @mobileraj thats look amazing and can simplify the way how people track their calories 💪🏻 It says "will estimate the calories". How accurate is the calculation? What is the average deviation? Congratulations on the launch 🚀.

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1yr ago

GPT Food Cam

Maker

@crebuh We use an AI model to estimate the calories similar to a ChatGPT. It's not perfect by any means but it continues to get better. To help address some of the inaccuracy, we display the calorie results as a range vs a specific number. Unfortunately, I don't have an average standard deviation. Sometimes it's wildly accurate and sometimes it's pretty off. I have found in these instances, adding a hint text can make a big difference. The biggest issue which I think is hard for the AI to discern is the portion size. I photographed a full pizza the other day but it can't readily tell if that's a small or a XL pizza and so you end-up with a number close to a medium unless you add a hint. Fortunately though, as mentioned earlier, the AI is getting better so we should assume that the calorie range estimate will only improve over the coming months.

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1yr ago

This is great product, it can help tracking calories while eating out so much :) I'm just wondering - usually restaurants can use a lot of oil/butter etc. which is not that visible. Is it taken for consideration and done any average, or how the app can try estimate that?

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1yr ago

GPT Food Cam

Maker

@anna_hanusova It's by no means perfect but the prompt I use behind the scenes with the AI model includes that "food often have oil, butter, other sauces etc..." and that the "range should accommodate for that." All that said, it's not perfect, it's AI but it continues to get better and as mentioned in my intro comment, I made the app so easy that we hope the focus is really to create a behavior of food logging with less focus on the numbers. I logged with a food coach for 9 months and I realized that just simply taking the picture is 95% of the way there so if you accomplish that, you're definitely on your way to more "mindful" eating.

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1yr ago

BlissBox

Very original and interesting idea. It would be great to be able to add your own custom general prompt (like the one you added about food having oil, butter etc...) if someone has a particular diet. For instance I am vegan, so I always use replacements (so even if my burger looks like yours it probably doesn't have the same calories) and instead of adding a hint on each picture, specifying at the user-level could be helpful?

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1yr ago

GPT Food Cam

Maker

@annedevj So I considered this, basically a section in Settings called "Background" or "Eating habits" but I found the result to not improve that much so ultimately didn't include this. What I found to work better was to provide a wider range. So yes, it prob will always be on the high side for your food items but my intent really to drive the habit of food logging through simplicity than an extreme focus on the precise calorie value. My general feeling is if a user wants that, then they should probably go use something like a MyFitnessPal because they likely will need to enter exactly what they eat with serving sizes etc.

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1yr ago

BlissBox

@mobileraj I understand, makes sense. Thanks for the detailed explanation Raj!

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1yr ago

Cool app, is the ad revenue enough to recall the LLM calls, or do you have some other tech in the background to make the costs manageable? Congrats on the launch! 🚀

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1yr ago

GPT Food Cam

Maker

@rokasjk It's a delicate balance but so far, it's close. We are only available in some countries where ad monetization is higher and we only do AI calorie lookup for the first 8 posts per day so we have some controls etc. We will continue to tweak as we have better data on the baseline. We also had to optimize the images and prompts accordingly.

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1yr ago

Product Hunt

Oh cool! Those apps are so annoying to use. I recall many years ago there were a few apps that tried to do this but of course ML is a lot better now. For about 6 months once I took a picture of everything I ate - that by itself (even without analysis) was helpful to make more intentional eating decisions.

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1yr ago

GPT Food Cam

Maker

Neat to see some positive coverage of GPT Food Cam today, really happy if we can help make healthier lives (and for free!) https://thespoon.tech/ive-seen-t...

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1yr ago

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