Viewing profile — wnorris510

Apple requires us to say you get more as part of premium. They have silly rules that tie our hands on stuff. You have access to everything as part of the free tier. Hopefully the r…

We published in the top conference of computer vision a peer reviewed study of our accuracy. On average we are twice the accuracy of a professional nutritionist. The product is fre…

Our app uses LiDAR for portion and is a lot more accurate than ChatGPT, ChatGPT doesn't have access to LiDAR and is less accurate. Our app is free to use the most accurate model, C…

You have access to all of the same features without upgrading to premium. Just click the "x" on the paywall.

^^ 100%. Accuracy, speed, weight loss efficacy. Improving on each of this is a different solution.

I got into this space because I saw many family members struggling with weight and nutrition. One of the leading causes of death in the United States is Diabetes, largely caused by…

100%. You should not trust photo based calorie tracking and should only use it when there is no other realistic choice (e.g. eating out). You especially should not trust an app tha…

We do a lot of research on preventing eating disorders. As the article mentions we did not suggest she lose weight down to being underweight like other apps did. Our app has the fr…

We do! You can read about our original approach back at Google AI in our CVPR publication here: https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/papers/Thames... We've since come up …

Founder of https://snapcalorie.com and ex-Google AI researcher here. The article actually gets our pricing wrong, it's completely free to use SnapCalorie, the $79.99 price is a don…

Totally fair point. My guess though is most people who are getting 5-9 servings of whole fruits / vegetables per day consistently don't (or maybe shouldn't for long) have a goal of…

Haha, you say this until Apple does a breaking change to the barcode library or Apple Health export and things stop working. Then you probably want them to change some stuff :)

You can start a 7 day free trial and cancel immediately. There is also a freemium tier at the end if you don't end up converting. We don't normally advertise this because we've bee…

We don't discourage anyone from doing this! Free trial with access to all features stays live for the full 7 days even if you cancel immediately. Hope you enjoy it.

Modern phones have LiDAR that give you the near exact volume and dimensions of everything on a plate. That's what we do: https://www.snapcalorie.com/ We co-authored a paper on this…

Looks like we used to have it in the description on the app store along with the FAQ but a team member made the decision to remove it because of complaints about it being inconsist…

You really don't want to pay a one-time fee, it incentives the developers to stop maintaining the app.

This is not a dark pattern, it's just a constraint that the app stores place on the pricing disclosure that is very non-intuitive. You have to mark your app as "free" to download i…

Yeah, dividing out a known portion size is a good hack that will probably help with accuracy. In our research most people's calories and error came from eating out where they didn'…

We're an early stage startup and the models are expensive, we're trying to get the price as low as possible, but yes we need to charge to cover costs right now. Sorry about that! Y…

We've also been surprised at SnapCalorie how many researchers have approached us to use the app for more accurate diet tracking for medical study participants. The LiDAR based port…

Some do, some do not. We put them through a standard portion size training course regardless to be sure.

There is definitely a lot of variation in density, moisture content, fat percentage between regions, cuts, cooking amounts and methods. IMO using an average number here is probably…