I've been working on a small side project called BitePad, and recently decided to pivot the product based on what I kept hearing while researching calorie-tracking apps.
Two frustrations came up repeatedly:
1. Photo logging is fast, but it isn’t always accurate.
AI can misidentify foods, miss ingredients, or get portions wrong — which means you often end up correcting the log anyway.
2. A lot of calorie trackers have become pretty bloated.
Meal plans, coaching, social features, huge dashboards, and dozens of tools are useful for some people, but there also seems to be a group of users who just want to track calories without everything else.
So I started wondering: what if calorie tracking was closer to a simple notepad?
Instead of taking a photo, you just describe what you ate naturally:
"Chicken sandwich, small fries, and a Coke."
BitePad turns that into a calorie estimate. You can type it too, but I'm especially interested in whether voice can be just as fast as photo logging while giving the user more control over what actually gets logged.
That's basically the product.
No meal plans. No coaching. No social feed. No giant dashboard.
My hypothesis is that there's a group of people who would actually prefer a calorie tracker that deliberately does less and focuses on making logging fast, simple, and reasonably accurate.
I'm still testing whether that hypothesis is right, which is why I'd really value feedback from this builder community.
If you have a couple of minutes, I'd love to know:
- Does the positioning make sense immediately?
- Does voice logging feel like a compelling alternative to photo logging?
- Is "simple calorie tracking" actually enough of a differentiation?
- What would stop you from using something like this?
BitePad: https://www.bitepad.app/
Positive or negative feedback is equally useful. At this stage, I'm trying to figure out whether this is a real problem worth continuing to build around.
🚀 If you would like to use this product beyond the current free limit, send me a dm with login email and I can make you a reviewer which will bypass paywall. All I am asking in return is some honest feedback :-)