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John
John

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I built an AI nutrition tracker after getting frustrated with CalAI pricing

A lot of AI nutrition apps feel impressive for 5 minutes and annoying after a week.

I kept coming back to the same problems:

  • price felt high for something I wanted to use daily
  • photo based logging was inconsistent on mixed meals
  • basic calorie tracking was there, but I still wanted more useful features around the actual nutrition workflow

So I built MetricSync.

It is an AI nutrition tracker focused on being practical:

  • cheaper than CalAI
  • more features
  • better accuracy on real meals
  • 3 day free trial

Site: www.metricsync.download

Not trying to do a generic launch post here. I am genuinely curious what people who have tried CalAI, MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, or similar apps actually care about most:

  1. speed of logging
  2. accuracy from photos
  3. macro breakdown
  4. barcode support
  5. trends over time

If you have used AI calorie trackers and hated something specific, I want to hear it.

I am especially interested in where current apps still get food recognition wrong, because that is the part I think most products still overpromise on.

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