Building a fitness app? A calorie tracker? A smart food diary?
You don't need a machine learning team. You need one API call.
CaloAI takes any food photo and returns calories, macros, allergens, diet tags, and an AI nutritionist verdict — in milliseconds. Powered by our proprietary Vision AI, trained on 150,000+ dishes, with a built-in consistency check so your numbers always add up.
One endpoint. Clean JSON. No ML headache.
⚡ Powered by our proprietary Vision AI — fine-tuned on 150,000+ dishes across global cuisines.
🍜 Full ingredient breakdown with individual weights & macros on PRO plans.
📊 Expanded nutrient database for deeper, more reliable data.
✅ Mathematically verified outputs — macro numbers always add up.
Same simple API. Way smarter results.
Building CaloAI taught me a lot about what developers actually need vs what I assumed they'd need. Curious if you're building a fitness or nutrition app, what's the one thing that would make integrating a food recognition API an instant yes for you?
AI models kept returning macros that didn't add up mathematically. Protein 4 + Carbs 4 + Fat 9 would never equal the reported calories. I ended up building a double-layer verification guardrail that forces every response to be internally consistent before it's served. Small detail but the kind of thing that breaks user trust silently if you ignore it.
A common problem when building nutrition apps users take photos in-app, but the image isn't publicly accessible. CaloAI accepts Base64 strings directly, so you can encode the image client-side and send it without needing a storage bucket or signed URLs at all.
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋
A couple of years ago I was building a small app to help me track what I eat. Nothing fancy — just something personal to stay on top of my diet.
I needed a food recognition API. Seemed simple enough.
It wasn't.
Everything I found was either way too expensive for a side project, returning wildly inaccurate data, or so poorly documented I gave up after 20 minutes. I just wanted to point a camera at my lunch and get calories back. That's it.
So I built it myself.
Months of experimenting, iterating, and way too many late nights later — CaloAI was born. Trained on 150,000+ dishes, powered by our own proprietary Vision AI, with mathematically verified outputs so the numbers actually make sense.
I put it on RapidAPI because I figured if I struggled to find this, other developers probably did too.
If you're building a fitness app, a calorie tracker, a smart food diary — I hope this saves you the months it cost me.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
A couple of years ago I was building a small app to help me track what I eat. Nothing fancy — just something personal to stay on top of my diet.
I needed a food recognition API. Seemed simple enough.
It wasn't.
Everything I found was either way too expensive for a side project, returning wildly inaccurate data, or so poorly documented I gave up after 20 minutes. I just wanted to point a camera at my lunch and get calories back. That's it.
So I built it myself.
Months of experimenting, iterating, and way too many late nights later — CaloAI was born. Trained on 150,000+ dishes, powered by our own proprietary Vision AI, with mathematically verified outputs so the numbers actually make sense.
I put it on RapidAPI because I figured if I struggled to find this, other developers probably did too.
If you're building a fitness app, a calorie tracker, a smart food diary — I hope this saves you the months it cost me.
Would love to hear what you're working on 👇