Mealviser

AI powered calorie counter and nutrition coach

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AI powered calorie counter and nutrition coach

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Launch tags:Health & Fitness•Productivity•Artificial Intelligence

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Mealviser

Maker

Thanks @_jacksmith for the hunt! Hey, hunters! Indroducing Mealviser. Kinda Siri of calorie counters. Just tell Mealviser what you’ve had to eat and what type of exercise you’ve done today. Mealviser will track your calories, fat, protein and carbohydrate intake, then provide a custom meal recommendation for what to eat for dinner. You can choose from our huge library of recipes or choose dishes from nearby restaurants (USA only). Why is it coolest ever nutrition app? -It doesn’t require counting calories, log your food and get your next dinner suggestion. -It has an AI on board. We tortured top dietitians to make our AI know their secrets. -You can keep losing weight even if you skip a meal or overeat And YES it’s FREE with already included PRO features If that sounds interesting, just try! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/... Let me know if you have any feedback!

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9yr ago

PlanetScale Boost

@alexey_fisun @_jacksmith Really cool seeing more innovation in this space. I use myfitnesspal now / have my macros set and have to count everything. While it's "easy" for me now (after months and months of doing it). Is definitely a huge barrier to most everyone. It's really too much work.

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9yr ago

Mealviser

Maker

@mscccc @_jacksmith That's why we actually created Mealviser! :) Thanks for you feedback!

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9yr ago

Would there be a later date option to synch up exercise goals across multiple platforms? For example, I am a FitBit user, for the social infrastructure that it offers (gotta stay competitive on those step counts!) My exercise program is all in the FitBit app, and I would like to integrate it with a dietary app, without having to manually re-enter all my numbers.

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9yr ago

Mealviser

Maker

@russianotaku Yeeeea! Apps and wearables integration probably would be our next step, since we've got a lot of feedback like yours. For now you can easily add these numbers to mealviser manually, but yes, this should be integrated and synchronized.

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9yr ago

Eat This Much

Really pleasant design, easy to understand, nice work! Might be a little disingenuous to call it "the only app that tells you what to eat" though ;)

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9yr ago

Mealviser

Maker

@ldementhon Hi, it's nice to meet a fellow colleague. We believe that nobody does meal suggestions the way we do :) but anyway, we really appreciate your feedback!

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9yr ago

FYI - item not available in the U.K. - Can you (@alexey_fisun) let us know when it is available in the U.K. please. thanks.

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9yr ago

Mealviser

Maker

@freeman_faiz as soon as we polish proper UK food database I will make an update!

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9yr ago

Topvisor

Hi! Add feature to update Weight automatically from Apple Health. It's useful for users who use smart scales and no need to update weight manually every time.

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9yr ago

Topvisor

@udimov and water not sync with Apple Health too 😟 Bad news for those geekswho use smart bottles for water 😄

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9yr ago

Mealviser

Maker

@udimov Yep, even more integrations coming soon :)

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9yr ago

Mealviser

Maker

@dannykeane 😲 This is the most best and most useful review we have received in the history of our reviews. We are already discussing your advice with our dietitians, since we really want to create a truly innovate product that meets expectations, especially of the advanced users. Some of the features that you mentioned are already in our pipeline, and as soon as we make them we will certainly inform the community, while we underestimated the importance of some of the features you've mentioned. It was worth posting on product hunt just to get such a review. 🙌🙀

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9yr ago

@alexey_fisun no worries my man, really looking forward to seeing the product develop further. 👍🏽

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9yr ago

@alexey_fisun I want to throw in a disclaimer by saying that this comment provides pure and honest constructive criticism, and is not an aggressive rant or a personally charged attack on the product. 🙌🏽 This app seemed like a worthy contender to other leading diet tracking apps, but unfortunately it didn't really cut the mustard. I feel as if it tries to do to much assumption in some areas, but not enough in others, and lacks advanced individual features such as customization of macronutrients. This app is great for a beginner that is new to monitoring fitness metrics and tracking intake, if this was the first app I used I would find it useful, but unfortunately as an advanced user, there aren't enough features inside that warrant transitioning, especially when they lack in comparison to what other competitors already do very well. It's very publicized within the fitness community that cookie cutter plans and arbitrary RDA standardized formulas aren't the best way to have full control over your diet/performance/results. I noticed that this app presets your macronutrients/calorie goals based off of your fitness goal using a generic formula—this is great for beginners that may want a lot of the heavy lifting done for them, whom are happy following an extremely basic protocol following RDA standards. Speaking as an athlete/advanced user that understands the methods in which energy balance is calculated in parallel with fitness goals, this was really frustrating—as we know that adjusting macronutrients by percentages or ratios doesn't fit the bill. Instead, we would much prefer to have individual customization to set individual macronutrients ourselves in order to have more precision. This is probably the biggest and most important feature for any advanced user. If the product lacks doesn't enable this type of customization it isn't useful at all and there's no real incentive to switch. MyFitnessPal recently adopted similar functionality after listening to the advanced users that use the product within the community, granted the UX isn't great, but it's definitely better than a lot out there. In addition to this, having the ability to import data from other popular tracking applications could be great, I know products like Myfitnesspal offer .CSV exports, being able to either manually upload this or have you scrape their data via an integration could be useful. With that said, moving onto the food tracker. When logging food for the first time, I was a little disappointed to find that the AI was pretty redundant—I feel the marketing sells the product completely different. I was expecting the AI to do a little more of the grunt work. It would be nice, especially upon launch (this would be great for beginners) if the meal suggestions were pre-populated with choices that fit the allocated calories/macronutrients, from either popular foods that others on the platform have used (could be good to force crowdsourced choices to help with food variety), local restaurants, recipes or if you've input data before, obviously from those too. I feel this would really ad value to the product and the marketing of the AI, whilst being really impressive, since it's something that no other competitor is doing right now. Granted the system will learn more about the way I eat overtime as I enter food, but I feel the whole point of an AI is that it's one step ahead. I feel that it should provide suggestions from the start. Leverage the data you have available and match it to the users behavior. This would really sell the benefits of an AI instead of it being used as a cool buzzword for a basic recommendation engine. Another pet peeve was the annoying format of the standard 3 meals per day at specific times. I'd like to have better customization over this to suit the needs of the individual, since not everyone follows this format. Having the ability to set calorie/macro guidelines for these meals would be great too—the AI should watch for your eating trends and suggest alternatives in relation to your goal. This could be extremely beneficial for balancing pre/post workout nutrition and also managing different consumption patterns, for example people that follow IF (intermittent fasting), or other dieting styles. All in all, I had higher expectations from what I initially saw of the product. It would be really really awesome to see someone doing something truly innovative within this space, I feel there isn't much that separates the competition, everyone seems to be doing the same thing. Instead of bundling basic fundamental features behind buzz words and a different UI. I'd love to see more thought put into how to right the wrong within this industry, by using better practices and research to provide more value to the every day user about health and nutrition instead of relying 100% on RDA's, and Dr. Phil (yes, I said it) — there is a lot of hard evidence and research out there within the fitness circles about how inaccurate these guidelines are in relation to specific, and even fundamental health and fitness goals. And finally, it would be great to see a product pioneer in finding innovative ways to build complex functionality (from people that need it) into a workflow that would suit the masses and benefit people of all experience levels—this is something no one has to master.

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