Describe a Meal

Photos plus your own words — the logging mode for meals a single snap can't capture.

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When one photo isn't enough

Some meals defeat a single frame: the curry hiding its ingredients, the plate that's half leftovers, the protein shake with no visual identity at all. Describe mode — the toggle next to Snap on the photo screen — lets you hand the analysis more than one photo and your own words, together.

What you can provide

  • Up to 3 photos — shoot them or multi-select from your gallery. Different angles, the packaging next to the plate, the second helping.
  • A written description — anything the camera can't know: "the bowl is half quinoa half rice", "cooked in about a tablespoon of butter", "only ate half".
  • Either alone also works — text with no photos behaves like voice logging, typed instead of spoken.

Your words outrank the pixels

The rule that makes Describe powerful: what you state is treated as truth, overriding what the image suggests. Say "that's seitan, not chicken" and it's logged as seitan; state a quantity and it's kept rather than re-estimated. And multiple photos of the same meal are understood as one eating occasion — the same dish from two angles doesn't log twice.

Same review, same rules

The result lands on the familiar review screen — everything editable before it enters your diary. Describe needs a connection like all AI logging, and the same honesty applies: estimates worth a glance, never a source for allergen decisions.