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John
John

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I built an AI nutrition tracker after getting annoyed with Cal AI pricing

I kept seeing people praise photo based calorie trackers, so I tested the category pretty hard.

Cal AI is slick, but I kept running into the same three issues:

  • the price felt high for something I wanted to use every day
  • I wanted more than just quick calorie guesses
  • accuracy got shaky on mixed meals and homemade food

That pushed me to build MetricSync.

What I wanted was simple:

  • cheaper than Cal AI
  • more features for actual daily use
  • better accuracy on real meals, not just clean product shots
  • a low friction way to try it before paying

That is what MetricSync is aiming at now.

If you are building in consumer health, I think this niche is still wide open because most products optimize for the demo, not the boring daily habit.

MetricSync is live here: https://www.metricsync.download

There is a 3 day free trial if you want to see how it compares in your own workflow.

If you are building or using nutrition apps, I would genuinely love to hear what still feels broken in this category.

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