Estimate calories and macros from a meal photo, explore the ingredients, and adjust your portion. Keep a food diary and share meal cards with or without nutrition details — in 25 languages.
Take a meal photo or choose one from your library. AVGusto estimates the dish and portion.
The AI breaks it down — pasta, sauce, parmesan — and tags every ingredient with grams and kcal.
Adjust the portion if needed. Then save to your diary, share a meal card, or do both — you choose.
Turn your meal photo into a card to share with friends. Keep it simple with a photo and meal name, or include estimated calories, protein, carbs, and fat. Crop your photo, choose from three designs, and pick a light or dark look.
Share straight from your scan results, or revisit a meal in your diary. Saving a new scan to your diary is optional.
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Illustrative cards. The example photo and nutrition values are for demonstration.
Three scans every single day, free forever. No "5-day trial" countdown. The thing the app exists for — it just works.
Most apps pay you twice for the same run — once in the activity level you picked, again when your watch reports it. AVGusto credits only the effort beyond your usual, so a genuinely hard day moves your budget and an ordinary one does not.
Mifflin-St Jeor is a starting line, not gospel. AVGusto watches what you actually log and recalibrates weekly.
From Italiano to Українська to Türkçe. Each tone, each weight unit, each food noun — checked by people who speak it.
Search packaged foods by name or scan a barcode. AVGusto looks up products in Open Food Facts and its shared community catalog. Choose your portion in grams or millilitres, and add it to your diary.
Can’t find a product? Photograph the front of the package and its nutrition label, or enter the details yourself. Review the values before publishing it to the shared catalog. AI label reading is free and does not use your daily AI photo scans.
How to add a missing productPhotos are sent for AI analysis when you scan a meal. Sharing is optional: preview your card and choose where to send it. Your personal goals and diary history are not included in the card.
Most calorie apps treat their math as a trade secret. Ours is more of a recipe — and recipes are for sharing. Here is exactly where every number on your screen comes from, and where it can be wrong.
A GPT-4-class vision model looks at your photo, names the dish, and estimates the portion — that's the AI in the AI calorie counter. Those first numbers are then enriched against USDA FoodData Central, the public nutrition database dietitians actually use. Packaged food skips the guessing entirely: scan the barcode and the data comes straight from the open OpenFoodFacts database. Fiber, sugar, sodium and saturated fat come from those databases when the dish matches one, and from the model's own estimate when it does not — which is most home cooking. The app tells you which of the two you are looking at.
Your daily budget starts with Mifflin-St Jeor, the standard TDEE formula — the same one everyone uses. The difference is what happens next: AVGusto recalibrates it weekly against what you actually log and what your weight actually does. And when Apple Health or Health Connect reports a workout, today's budget moves with it. The formula answers to reality, not the other way around. On the workout side we are deliberately conservative: only the effort beyond the activity level your plan already assumes is added, so an ordinary training day is never paid for twice.
On a typical home meal, the scan lands within ~15% of a careful manual log. On layered, mixed, or sauce-heavy dishes it does worse — lasagna keeps its secrets. A photo cannot weigh your food, and we won't pretend it can. That's exactly why the Adjust step exists: tap, scale the portion, and the math corrects itself.
We're not picking a fight. Just laying out who does what, and where AVGusto draws the line.
| AVGusto | MyFitnessPal | Cal AI | Noom | |
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| Apple Health dynamic budget | ||||
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| Transparent pricing, no trial trap |
The data in this table is based on an AI analysis of publicly available information and may be outdated or inaccurate.
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Can't find what you're looking for? Email ciao@avgusto.app. It's one person who actually reads them.
Yes. Choose a card without nutrition details, or include estimated calories and macros. You can preview the card before sharing.
No. You can share directly from your scan results without adding the meal to your diary. You can also share and save it together.
Honest answer: it's good, not magic. For typical home meals — pasta, bowls, plated proteins — AVGusto lands within ~15% of a manual log. For unusual or layered dishes you'll occasionally need to scale a portion. The Adjust step exists precisely for that.
Photos are sent for AI analysis when you scan a meal. Saved nutrition records sync to your account. Sharing a card is optional, and you choose the receiving app. Pro includes export of your available meals, weight and activity history as gzipped JSON.
Yes, via Apple Health on iOS and Health Connect on Android. Both feed workout calories and weight history back into your dynamic budget. Garmin and Whoop work via Apple Health / Health Connect.
AVGusto ships in 25 languages — Italiano, Español, Français, Deutsch, Português, Türkçe, Polski, Українська, Ελληνικά, Nederlands, Svenska, and a dozen more. Food names, units, dates, even the chef’s tone — all properly localized.
Free is the free tier — three AI scans every day, forever, no countdown. If you want unlimited scans, just subscribe directly. We don’t believe in the "7-day trial that quietly bills $99" pattern.