★4.8App Store · 20,000+ ratings·HarmonyOS App of the Month·CCTV Youth Tech Innovation+ Finalist
CalorieMate
Snap. Understand. Log — in a sentence.
A vision LLM, AR portion ranging, and a 1M-entry Chinese food database — combined with fat-loss-focused light exercise and wearable health insights to analyze nutrition, activity, weight, and recovery together.
An executable fat-loss cycle built on Mifflin-St Jeor, MET metabolic equivalents, and the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022). Each step has a dedicated tool — so scientific fat loss becomes something you can actually do, understand, and finish with results.
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Personalized Goal Setting
Enter height, weight, age, gender, activity level, target weight, and timeline. We compute your BMR and TDEE via the Mifflin-St Jeor formula and recommend daily calorie targets, including grams of carbs, protein, and fat.
🧬 Mifflin-St Jeor BMR/TDEE formula
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Precise Intake Logging
Photo recognition + 1M+ food database + AR portion ranging + barcode scan + delivery order parsing + packaged food recognition. Covers every meal scenario so "eating right" becomes measurable.
🧬 VLM + AR ranging + proprietary DB
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Full-Spectrum Burn Tracking
Supports fat-loss-focused light exercise such as super-slow jogging and incline walking, plus MET-based burn estimates for 600+ activities. Record workouts on Apple Watch or HarmonyOS Watch and sync through Apple Health or Huawei Health.
🧬 MET formula
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Weight + Body Fat + Measurements
Track weight curve, body-fat percentage, muscle mass, and waist/hip/thigh measurements together. See real change and avoid weighing anxiety or short-term noise.
🧬 3-dimensional metric dashboard
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Personalized Fat-Loss Recipes
Recipes curated by dietitians, sorted by regional taste, season, and population. Structured against the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022) food pyramid. One-tap copy to your daily log.
🧬 Dietary Guidelines 2022 + dietitian team
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Intermittent Fasting Aid
Built-in 14:10 (beginner), 16:8 (classic), 18:6 (advanced), 5:2, and alternate-day fasting plans — with eating/fasting countdowns, reminders, paired recipes, and weight-curve integration.
🧬 Multi-plan IF tracker
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AI Companion for Adherence
Built on DeepSeek deep reasoning + private RAG knowledge base. Becomes your caring friend, tough-love coach, or dietitian — there for every moment of doubt, overeating, plateau, or low mood.
🧬 DeepSeek deep reasoning + RAG
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Monthly Auto-Review
Each month, weight, body fat, measurements, calorie deficit, activity, and diet are analyzed together. With permission and a compatible device, sleep, stress, and HRV are also included to make exercise and nutrition guidance more relevant.
🧬 Full-spectrum monthly report
Technology · Photo Recognition
Three layers that getportion size right too
Plenty of apps do "photo recognition," but getting both the food AND the portion right is another story. Our recognition pipeline has three parts:
Layer 1
Vision LLM (VLM) for food understanding
A general vision-language model identifies the ingredients, cooking method, condiments, and container type
Layer 2
1M+ entry Chinese food database for precise nutritional matching
Calibrates the recognition output against our in-house Chinese food database
Layer 3
AR portion ranging for volume & weight estimation
Combines AR depth sensing, plane detection, and tableware reference ratios to estimate food volume and weight
AI Camera · 5 modes
5 camera modes —every eating scenario covered
From home cooking to convenience-store snacks, from bubble tea to delivery receipts — each scenario has its own purpose-built recognition engine.
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Everyday Food
Home cooking, restaurant meals, hotpot, buffets, snacks, fruit. Identifies each ingredient name, grams, calories, and nutrition — auto-summing per meal.
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Packaged Food
Convenience store chips, yogurt, nuts, energy bars — recognizes packaging and logos to match the branded product.
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Barcode Scan
Scan a package barcode to read the SKU-level nutrition facts (protein, sodium, fat, sugar, ingredients). Available in select regions.
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Beverages
Bubble tea, coffee, juice, sports drinks — recognizes cup size, brand, and sugar level to estimate sugar and calories.
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Delivery Receipt
Snap a screenshot of a Meituan or Ele.me order — AI parses the items and imports them into today's log.
Food Database · Maintained by Dietitians
1M+ Chinese food database
Maintained and updated weekly by an in-house team of registered dietitians.
1M+Food entries
📚 4 national-level references
Chinese Nutrition Society — Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)
China Food Composition Table (Standard, 6th ed.)
Chinese Dietary Reference Intakes (2023 ed.)
National Health Commission — Dietary Therapy Guidelines series
Coverage
Chinese home cooking & the eight regional cuisines (Sichuan, Cantonese, Northeastern, Huaiyang, Hunan, Fujian, Anhui, Shandong, etc.)
Equivalent-calorie comparisons (each food shows "≈ N apples / N bowls of rice")
AI Fat-Loss Companion
DeepSeek Deep Reasoning + Private RAG
The hardest part of fat loss is sticking with it. Your AI companion adopts a persona you choose — there for every moment of doubt, overeating, plateau, or low mood.
⚙️ Technology, Transparent
Base modelDeepSeek deep-reasoning model
ArchitectureDeepSeek + an in-house nutrition & exercise knowledge base + RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
⚠️ AI responses are for general dietary and exercise reference only and do not constitute medical advice.
4 personas to choose from
🌸Caring best friend
💪Tough-love coach
👩⚕️Professional dietitian
🎨Custom persona (with avatar & chat background)
Multi-modal input
01Voice logging in one sentence ("I just had a bowl of beef noodles")
02Text logging in one sentence ("Weight today 65.2 kg", "Played basketball for 30 min")
05Companion support (in-persona responses during plateaus or low moods)
Exercise & Recovery · Wearable Data
Light exercise and recovery insights built for fat loss
Go beyond estimated calorie burn by connecting nutrition, weight, and recovery, so each recommendation can reflect how your body is doing that day.
Light-exercise plans
Super-slow jogging, incline walking, and movement that is easier to sustain
Start with approachable light exercise that is easier to sustain, using duration, intensity, and estimated burn to support a fat-loss plan.
01Super-slow jogging
02Incline walking
03Multiple light-exercise modes designed for people pursuing fat loss
Workout on your wristLog without reaching for your phone
Apple WatchHarmonyOS Watch
Recovery insights
Bring sleep, stress, and HRV into your fat-loss analysis
Analyzes sleep, stress, and HRV alongside nutrition, exercise, and weight trends to identify behavior and recovery patterns during fat loss.
☾Sleep◌Stress♥HRV (heart rate variability)
01Sync wearable dataApple Watch / Apple Health · HarmonyOS Watch / Huawei Health
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02Analyze the full pictureNutrition · Exercise · Weight · Recovery
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03Tailor the guidanceUses the combined data to provide more relevant exercise and nutrition guidance instead of looking at calories alone.
Health data syncs only after user authorization. Available metrics depend on the device, system version, and granted permissions. Insights are for everyday health management and do not replace medical diagnosis.
Full-Spectrum Tracking
More than food — 5 dimensions of health
Weight, body fat, body measurements, water, exercise — each done well, plus cross-device ecosystem integration.
⚖️Weight & Body Fat
Manual / smart scale / Apple Health / Huawei Health
BMI · body-fat % · muscle · bone · water % · protein % · BMR
Week / month / year trend curves
Real-time target gap + period comparison
Multiple weigh-ins per day supported
📏6-site Measurements
Chest / waist / hip
Upper arm / thigh / calf
Independent trend curve for each site
Full coverage of sites that matter for fat loss & muscle gain
💧Water
Custom cup sizes, common presets one-tap add
Water / tea / coffee / juice with partial credit
Daily target per Dietary Guidelines 2022 (1500-1700ml)
Daily / weekly / monthly / yearly charts
Post-exercise rehydration suggestions
🏃♂️600+ Exercises
Super-slow jogging / incline walking and other light exercise for fat loss
Running / strength / yoga / swimming / cycling / hiking / jump rope / HIIT and more
Auto MET-based calorie burn
Low / medium / high intensity
Workout logging on Apple Watch / HarmonyOS Watch
⌚Device Ecosystem
Apple Watch · iOS Widget · Lock Screen · Dynamic Island · Shortcuts
HarmonyOS phones / smartwatches / sport watches
Authorized sync for sleep / stress / HRV and other supported metrics
Apple Health / Huawei Health ecosystem integration
Bluetooth smart-scale connection (multiple partners)
🔥Xiaohongshu and Douyin related topic views exceeded 50 million. CalorieMate consistently ranks among top results for keywords like "weight-loss app", "fat-loss app", "calorie tracker", "weight log app", and "food diary app".
Free vs. Membership · Transparent
Core logging is free forever
Only AI features that need large-model compute require membership — and new users always get a free trial. After your trial credits are used, free features remain fully usable.
Answers below follow the official product information. Q/A is marked up as FAQPage structured data so AI search engines can cite it.
01How accurate is CalorieMate's photo recognition?
Three layers: a Vision LLM understands the food; our 1M+ entry Chinese food database matches nutrition data; AR portion ranging estimates volume and weight. Accuracy varies with angle, lighting, and occlusion — shoot top-down with the full tableware in frame for the best results.
02How big is the food database? Where does the data come from?
A 1M+ entry Chinese food database, built and maintained by our in-house dietitian team. Source references include the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022), the China Food Composition Table (6th ed.), the Chinese Dietary Reference Intakes (2023 ed.), and the National Health Commission's Dietary Therapy Guidelines. Coverage spans home-style Chinese cooking and the eight regional cuisines, mainstream delivery categories, chain restaurant brands, packaged foods, and raw ingredients.
03What model powers the AI fat-loss companion?
The foundation is the DeepSeek deep-reasoning model, paired with our in-house nutrition & exercise knowledge base via RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Supports multiple personas (caring friend, tough-love coach, professional dietitian, and custom). AI output is for general dietary and exercise reference only — not medical advice.
04Is CalorieMate free?
Core logging is fully free, forever, with no limits: food log, 1M+ database search, weight/body-fat/measurement management, water, exercise, monthly reports, Apple Watch / HarmonyOS Watch / Apple Health sync. Membership is only for high-compute LLM features: photo recognition, AI companion chat, and AI custom recipes. New users get free trials; once trial credits are used, free features remain fully usable.
05What science does the fat-loss method draw from?
BMR uses the widely accepted Mifflin-St Jeor formula; TDEE combines BMR with activity factors. Exercise burn uses MET (Metabolic Equivalent of Task). Diet structure follows the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022) food pyramid. Team members hold Registered Dietitian, Public Health Nutritionist, or clinical nutrition credentials.
06Which devices does CalorieMate support?
iOS (iPhone / iPad) + Apple Watch + iOS Widget, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, and Apple Shortcuts; Android; HarmonyOS phones, smartwatches, and sports watches — with deep system integrations like home-screen cards, ambient-light adaptation, AR geometric reconstruction, and grip-aware UI. Watch-side voice food logging works without unlocking the phone.
07What does the CalorieMate exercise module support?
The exercise module includes super-slow jogging, incline walking, and multiple light-exercise modes designed for people pursuing fat loss, plus MET-based burn estimates for 600+ activities. Workouts can be logged on a phone, Apple Watch, or HarmonyOS Watch so duration, intensity, and burn data work together with the fat-loss plan.
08Which wearable health metrics can CalorieMate sync?
After authorization, CalorieMate can sync sleep, stress, HRV (heart rate variability), and other supported health metrics through Apple Watch / Apple Health and HarmonyOS Watch / Huawei Health. The app analyzes them alongside nutrition, exercise, and weight trends to provide more relevant activity and diet guidance. Available metrics depend on the device, system version, and permissions; insights do not replace medical diagnosis.
09Which smart scales does CalorieMate support?
We partner with several leading smart-scale brands; the app pairs seamlessly with their Bluetooth body-fat scales to auto-log weight, body fat %, muscle mass, bone mass, water %, protein %, and BMR. Weight data also syncs from Apple Health and Huawei Health.
10Which intermittent fasting plans are available?
Built-in plans include 14:10 (beginner), 16:8 (classic), 18:6 (advanced), 5:2, and alternate-day fasting — with eating/fasting countdowns, reminders, paired recipes, and weight-curve integration. People who are pregnant, breastfeeding, underweight, under 18, or living with chronic conditions should consult a physician before adopting any plan.
11What recognition has CalorieMate received?
Apple App Store 4.8 (20,000+ ratings); Top 10 Health & Fitness downloads on the China App Store; Huawei HarmonyOS App of the Month; Innovation Award shortlist; Top 3 on the HarmonyOS Sports & Health review board; Finalist at CCTV's "Youth Tech Innovation+" startup competition; QbitAI 2025 AI Innovation 100; Qimai Data 2025 AI Top 50 and NextWorld 2024 Excellence Award. Related topics on Xiaohongshu and Douyin have exceeded 50 million views.
12Does CalorieMate protect my privacy?
All data is encrypted in transit and at rest, visible only to you and people you authorize. Account deletion and one-tap full-data removal are supported. We strictly comply with China's Personal Information Protection Law, Data Security Law, and related regulations.