Day rhythm
A 24-hour view of your day — sleep, awake, eating window — with a now-line, so you can see where you are without doing arithmetic.
iPhone · Private beta
Snap it. Log it. Get on with your day.
PlatePilot turns a photo of your meal into an editable nutrition estimate in seconds — then shows you where you are in your day at a glance. Your food log lives on your iPhone.
Logging a meal takes three taps
Manual entry is the fallback, not the workflow. The camera button is on the Today screen at all times.
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Snap or pick a photo
Take a photo of the plate, or choose one you already have. Nothing else to fill in first.
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Review the estimate
You get a multi-item breakdown — foods, portions, calories and macros — with every field editable. Fix what looks wrong; it usually gets the plate roughly right and the portions approximately right.
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Log it
One tap and it lands in your day, grouped by meal. Favourites and “same as yesterday” make repeat meals a single tap next time.
Estimates, not measurements.
Nutrition values from photos, labels and catalogue entries are all estimates.
Portion size is the hardest part to judge from a photo. If you need precision,
check the packaging or use a scale.
What’s in the app
Targets vs. actuals
Calories and protein, carbs and fat against targets derived from your goals. Sensible defaults are seeded, so the app is useful before you configure anything.
A 55,000-food catalogue, offline
Search is bundled with the app and runs on-device. No signal, no waiting — search stays responsive as you type.
Eating window & water
Start and end a fast with a goal duration and a progress ring, and log water and drinks alongside it. The language stays factual: time since your last logged calories.
Weekly insights
Stacked macro bars against your target line, switchable by day, week or month. Enough to spot a pattern, not enough to obsess over.
Apple Health, if you want it
Off by default. Grant permission and PlatePilot can read sleep and weight for context and write your nutrition totals back. Revoke any time; the app degrades gracefully.
Local-first, by design
No account, no sign-in
There is nothing to register. Your food log, goals and fasting history are stored on your iPhone.
Photos only when you ask
A meal photo leaves your phone only when you choose photo analysis. Nothing else about your day is uploaded.
No ads, no trackers
No advertising SDKs and no third-party analytics. Nothing about your eating is sold or shared for marketing.
A wellness app, not a medical one
PlatePilot is for information and general wellness. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, and it won’t tell you that you are “in ketosis” or “in a fasting state” — it tells you how long it has been since you last logged calories, which is a thing it can actually know.
Talk to a qualified healthcare professional about any medical condition, medication, or change to your diet or activity. If you think you have a medical emergency, call your local emergency number.
Want in on the beta?
PlatePilot is in private testing on TestFlight while the photo pipeline and the Today screen get their edges knocked off. It isn’t on the App Store yet.