Protein, carbs, fat and fibre
The macros, per food and per meal, with sugar and salt alongside. Six vitamins and minerals too, for the nutritionist to look at with you.
An AI calorie counter that works from a photo
Snap your plate and Squish names each food, sizes each portion and works out the calories, protein, carbs, fat and fibre. You check it, change anything, and save. A meal logged in seconds rather than minutes.
Works in any browser, with iPhone and Android apps on their way.
How it works
Three steps, and nothing is saved until you say so.
- Snap your plateTake a photo from above, the way you would show a friend. A side, a drink or another plate can go in as another photo.
- Squish reads itIt names each food, sizes the portion against your own plate if you have told it how big that is, and works out the nutrition of each one.
- Check, change, saveEvery food is listed with its amount. Change a portion, take one off or add one, then save it to your diary.
Honest about portions
Naming a chicken breast is easy. Knowing whether it is 120 g or 200 g is the hard part, and it is worth about 150 kcal. A photo has no sense of scale unless something in it does, so Squish uses your plate as the ruler.
- Tell Squish once how wide your dinner plate, side plate and bowl are, and every photo after is measured against them.
- It works out which plate the food is on first, and says what it measured against: "your 27 cm dinner plate".
- With no plate size, it says so, rather than pretending to a precision it has not got.
- When a photo cannot settle something, like whether that is whole or skimmed milk, it asks.
More than calories
Every meal is counted for what matters, against targets set for you.
A score for every meal
Out of 100: protein and fibre lift it, a lot of sugar, saturated fat or salt pulls it down. So you can see what is working, not only how much.
Targets that fit you
Worked out from your size, age and goal, the way our calorie calculator does it, and adjusted by what your own logs show.
Not got a photo?
However you would rather say what you ate, it ends up in the same diary.
Say it or type it
“Two slices of toast with peanut butter and a banana.” Described in your own words, out loud or typed, and broken down the same way.
Scan a barcode
Packaged food is looked up in Open Food Facts. Free, and nothing about you goes with the number.
Search, or your favourites
Find any food by name, or log a meal you eat every week in two taps. Free, for good.
Questions
How accurate is counting calories from a photo?
Close enough to be useful, and more consistent than guessing by eye, which studies put at hundreds of calories out on a big plate. The food is usually right; the portion is where the error is. Telling Squish how big your plates are is the one thing that makes the most difference, and you can always change an amount before you save it.
Is the AI calorie counter free?
You can try it with 10 meal analyses and 5 questions for Squish, with a free account. After that, photos and descriptions are part of Squish Plus. Everything else in the food diary, including barcodes, search and your charts, stays free for good.
What happens to my photos?
A photo is sent to the AI to be read. The photo itself stays on your device, and only a small thumbnail goes in your backup, so you can see what you ate. There are no adverts and nothing is sold. Your diary lives on your device, with a backup if you make an account.
Can it read a home-cooked meal or a takeaway?
Yes. It works from what it can see, so a stew or a curry is estimated from how much is in the bowl. For a recipe you cook often, import it from a link once and log a portion in a tap.
Does it work in kJ?
Yes. Squish counts in kcal or kJ, and starts in kJ in Australia and New Zealand, where labels lead with it.
Snap your next meal
It takes a minute to set up, and it works in any browser. Or let Squish plan your week around what you like.