MealByMeal is a subscription-based meal tracker that helps you count calories and macros over text messages. There's no app – just text what you eat and everything is logged for you. MealByMeal is the easiest way to track your food intake! Try it today!
Hello everyone, I'm Jared! 👋
Today, I'm excited to introduce MealByMeal, the easiest way to track your calories and macros!
🔎 The problem
After using apps like MyFitnessPal off and on over the years (and losing and regaining 40+ pounds in the process), I grew to hate logging food. I would regularly change what I ate just to have foods that were easy to log. I would dislike going out to eat and needing to figure out how to represent what I ate. Because it's so miserable to track, I would stop using these apps once I reached some goal. Soon after, I would regain the weight and start the cycle over again. I made MealByMeal to break the cycle and make tracking easiest enough that it's sustainable long-term.
💡 The solution
It's super simple to use:
1. Set your weight, calorie, and macro goals on our website (we have a wizard that guides you through the process).
2. Text us what you eat and what you weigh.
Use normal language, but remember that the more information you provide, the more accurate we can be. If you text "pasta", we'll give you an estimate. If you text "20g of penne", we'll give a better estimate, and if you text "20g of barilla penne" we'll give you a perfect value based on a lookup in a nutrition database. We also support approximate sizing if you aren't sure, but serving sizes, weights, and volumes will always be the most accurate. Remember: you can use Siri/Google to text with your voice too!
We respond to each of your texts with a summary of how you're doing for the day so you usually won't need to even visit the website except to track progress.
3. That's it!
With MealByMeal, you're a few seconds away from stress-free food logging after each meal. Start your journey towards a health today!
This kind of app really worries me, since calorie counting is a dangerous kind of behavior that reenforces eating disorders… I can understand tracking meals to make sure you’re getting enough variety and all the nutrients you need. But I’m a firm believer that the risks of calorie counting far outweigh the possible benefits (if you’re actually eating excessively to an unhealthy amount, or eating too much oily sugary stuff and such, you probably know that you are, without needing to quantify it exactly). Well… I guess the app just isn’t for me. I’m just scared that incorporating AI into it to make calorie counting easier and quicker has the potential to amplify its harm further.
MealByMeal offers a convenient platform for meal planning, but there's potential for growth. While the concept is promising, the recipe database might benefit from further expansion to cater to diverse tastes and dietary preferences. Improving customization options and adding more features could enhance its overall appeal. Nonetheless, it's a solid foundation for simplifying meal organization.
I'm from the Philippines and I can't seem to register my phone number. It would be really helpful if you have the country options beside the XXX-XXX-XXXX format. Thanks!
This is super awesome. I'm bigger than I've ever been and I have a lot of self doubt... this might be a perfect addition to what I need to keep me motivated.
Super innovative in how minimalistic it is! Super streamlined w/o an app and just relying on texting alone. This solves the problem of friction in macro tracking which was my #1 problem. I'm going to try this out, this is like quick capture for the macro-tracking world lmao. We recently launched a product also focused on quick capture, but in the note-taking space. Excited to try and give feedback! It wasn't immediately obvious to me because I just wasn't used to texting for macro tracking, but this is so innovative.
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I also second that breakdowns for the food item components that led to the calculation would be helpful. eg if i mention two items and get one calculation, i want a confirmation of the items that its using to calculate.
Congratulations on this great product! This app sounds like a game changer to me. 🚀 Tracking calories and macros was always a challenge for me with other apps like MyFitnessPal because it was very time consuming.
I'm curious if there is a way to plan meals in advance. For example, if I want to eat "xyz" tomorrow, is there a feature that allows me to figure out how much I can eat to hit my calorie and macro goals? It would also be interesting if the AI could give me tips on, for example, tips on protein-rich products, assisting me in fulfilling my protein requirements. 🤔
Are there any plans to support phone numbers outside the US?
Hey, I like the feel of the UI you created. It has an unique style. I'm personal trainer and this immediately got my attention, I don't often see sport-related products.
Got a question though. Is the data about what the user ate (all the macros) is just straight from AI LLM or LLM is just calling a function to search for the products in some large proven database?
Overall congratulations on the launch, cheers!
Would be cool to also send pictures and you could parse them with image recognition models.
This genuinely sounds like a great idea, especially for someone who struggles in maintaining a balanced and predictable diet.
The integration via text is also a brilliant idea, will definitely try it.
That sounds good and very intuitive. Congratulations on the launch! What sets your product apart from others, for example, QR code-based meal tracking apps? Does the app have special features, what makes it particularly easy and particularly fast?
Hey @jrhizor, wow this is great! MealByMeal sounds like a real game changer - AI powered macro and calorie tracking through text, how awesome is that? All the best with the launch - excited to see what your users think of it!
