Calorie counting guides
Plain answers to the questions that come up once you start tracking: counting from a photo, eating out, cooking at home, living without a food scale, and what to look for in an app.
- How to count calories from a pictureWhat a photo can and can't tell you about a meal.
- How accurate is AI calorie counting?Where estimates drift, and how to keep them close.
- Count calories without weighing foodPortion habits that get you close enough.
- Track calories when eating outRestaurant meals with no nutrition label.
- Calories in homemade foodLogging the meals you cook yourself.
- Calorie apps and Apple HealthWhat syncs, and what to expect.
- Choosing an AI calorie counterWhat to compare before you subscribe.
- Looking for an AI calorie app alternative?Questions worth asking any app.
- Calorie apps with a barcode scannerScanning packaged food the quick way.
- Asking a chatbot for calories from a photoWhen a general chatbot helps, and when it doesn't.