Are you fed up of all the calorie logging apps.

5 clicks to log a banana. whatt??

I got fed up with every calorie tracker out there, so I built my own. Now I'm stuck on whether to even launch it.

Here's the thing — I've tried MyFitnessPal, HealthifyMe, Cronometer, all of them. Same experience every time. Search for food, scroll through 10,000 results, find something close enough, pick a portion size from a dropdown, assign it to breakfast or lunch or dinner, hit submit. Five screens for one roti. I quit by day three, every single time.

What I actually wanted was to just tell an app: "had two rotis, dal, and a mango shake" — and have it figure it out. Like texting a friend.

So I started doing that with ChatGPT. Honestly worked great — understood akhrot, poha, chole bhature, vague quantities like "1 bowl" or "1 plate". But the obvious problem: ChatGPT forgets everything the next day. No history. No graphs. No point.

That gap is what I spent the last few months building. It's called Caliq.

How it works:

- You just type what you ate. "1 plate rajma chawal", "paneer paratha and chai", "30g akhrot" — it parses it and logs the nutrition

- Everything gets stored and tracked — 7-day calorie trend, weight, macros, streaks

- Indian food first — I've integrated INDB and IFCT (Indian food composition databases) so it actually knows what our food is, not just guessing from American databases

- It shows the source next to every result — whether it came from USDA, IFCT, or an AI estimate — so you know how much to trust the number

The part I'm most unsure about: pricing. Right now it's free while I figure things out. But I genuinely don't know if I should keep it free, charge a small monthly fee, or do a freemium model. I also keep second-guessing whether to do a "proper launch" or just let people find it organically.

If you've ever rage-quit a calorie tracker, I'd genuinely love to know what broke you. And if you try Caliq, tell me what's wrong with it — especially the Indian food coverage, that's where I need the most honest feedback.