Day Pal
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Just say it.
We'll do the math.

Day Pal logs your food from a photo, your voice, plain words, or a quick search. Macros, micros, and a coach you can just ask.

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📸 Photo scan

620 kcal

Pasta carbonara · macros filled in

🎙️ Voice log

“Two eggs, sourdough, half an avocado”

Done.

💬 Ask the coach

“What should I eat tonight?”

Three foods that fit. Tap to log.

4ways to log: photo, voice, words, search0sign-ups before your first log11languages, from day one0free trials to cancel20free AI actions to start0meal photos kept on our servers

How it works

Logging a meal in four seconds.

No menus, no scrolling endless food lists, no “is this an apple or a fuji?” ambiguity. Say it and move on.

Snap the plate

Open the camera, tap once. Our AI sees the plate, identifies every item, and estimates each portion from the photo.

Confirm in 2 taps

Edit anything that's off: portion sliders, swap items, add a missing one. Correct the same food twice and Day Pal remembers your adjustment for next time.

Track effortlessly

Macros, micros, weight, streaks: all in one place, and Today stays fast.

Ask the coach

It already knows what you have eaten today and what is left. Ask what to eat and it names real foods from the database. Tap one to log it.

Photo scan

Point. Shoot. Logged.

Our vision model detects every item on the plate and estimates each portion from the photo. Correct the same food twice and later scans apply your own adjustment. Tap once to confirm.

  • ✓Multi-item detection in one shot
  • ✓Learns from your portion corrections
  • ✓Edit, swap or add items before anything is logged
  • ✓Needs a connection: analysed on our servers, then the photo is dropped
scan_result.json

Carbonara

580 kcal

96% conf.

Side salad

95 kcal

92% conf.

Red wine

125 kcal

88% conf.

Garlic bread

210 kcal

91% conf.

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Voice & text

Just say what you ate.

"Two scrambled eggs, a slice of sourdough, half an avocado." Done. Our NL parser turns spoken or typed sentences into structured entries: no menus.

  • ✓11 languages, including Arabic
  • ✓Handles compound items + substitutions
  • ✓Part of your 20 free AI actions
  • ✓Handles “no bun”, “half a portion”, “extra rice”

“Two scrambled eggs, a slice of sourdough, and half an avocado.”

2 scrambled eggs

156 kcal · 12g protein

Sourdough, 1 slice

120 kcal · 4g protein

½ avocado

160 kcal · 2g protein

Coach

Ask it what to eat. It answers with real food.

The coach reads the day you have actually logged, what is left, where your protein is, and suggests specific foods from the database. Every number comes from the row, never from the model.

  • ✓Knows today's remaining calories and macros
  • ✓Suggests real catalogue foods, with real macros
  • ✓Tap a suggestion to log it: no extra AI action
  • ✓Allergies filtered out before you ever see them

Coach

“What should I eat tonight?”

You have 1,120 kcal and 68 g of protein left. Either of these fits. Tap to add it to today.

Shish taouk

100 g · 170 kcal · 26 g protein

Add

Chicken tikka masala

200 g · 430 kcal · 28 g protein

Add
Log a meal, a workout, or ask your coach

Everything in one app

Built to actually be used.

Cal AI paywalls everything. MyFitnessPal makes you tap forever. We’re the third option.

Photo scan

Multi-item detection, portion estimation, instant macros. From one photo.

Voice & text

Natural language understood. Speak it or type it. Done.

Coach

Ask what to eat. It answers with real foods you can log in one tap.

You

Your model, your goals, your data: all in one place, no settings maze.

Multilingual

11 languages from day one, Arabic included. USDA food data plus a curated dish catalogue, named in all 11.

Private by default

Photos are analysed, then dropped. Never stored on our servers. EXIF + GPS stripped. Your copy stays on your phone.

How we stack up

Comparison facts.

We don’t try to win on database size. We win on speed, accuracy, and not paywalling the basics.

Comparison Facts

Serving size: one meal, logged · Servings per day: as many as you eat

Per featureDay PalCal AIMyFitnessPal
Photo scan on free tier20 free AI actionsPaywalledAdd-on feature
Voice / NL logIncluded in the 20LimitedNot a core feature
AI coachKnows your day · suggests real foodBasic chatPremium only
Database (foods)USDA FoodData CentralSmaller catalogueLargest, but cluttered
Ads on free tierNone yet–Ad-supported
Privacy defaultMeal photos never storedStandard cloud storageStandard cloud storage

* Compiled from each product's public pricing page and App Store listing. Go and check them: they change. Cal AI and MyFitnessPal are now the same company (MyFitnessPal acquired Cal AI, March 2026); shown separately here because they still ship as distinct apps.

Pricing

Free does free things. Premium does the magic.

No surprise paywalls. Cancel anytime. We’re not selling your data.

Free

$0forever

No credit card. No ads in the app yet.

  • Unlimited food search and manual logging
  • Water, weight and workout tracking
  • 20 AI actions: photo, voice or text
  • Once, not per month: no reset
  • Ask the coach until they run out
  • Full food database, forever
  • Last 14 days of diary history
  • Data export, free on every plan
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Pro

Day Pal Pro · Annual

Pricing shown in the app

Cancel anytime · exact pricing shown before you buy

  • Unlimited AI photo scans
  • Unlimited voice / text logs
  • Unlimited coach chats
  • Daily reviews of your day
  • No ads
  • Your full diary history
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Weekly and monthly plans also available · Cancel anytime · No data sold.

Frequently asked

Everything you want to know, in one place.

Accuracy

2 answers
How accurate is the AI photo scan?
It reads the plate, identifies each item and estimates portions. It will not be right every time. Treat it as a fast first draft you confirm, not a measurement. Portion corrections are the one thing it learns from: once you have corrected the same food twice, Day Pal applies your own median adjustment to later scans of it.
What if it gets a portion wrong?
Tap once to adjust the portion slider, swap an item, or add a missing one. We never silently log something you did not approve.

Pricing

3 answers
Is there a free tier?
Yes, and it does not expire. Food search and manual logging are unlimited and free. AI logging (photo, voice or text) comes with 20 actions to start, shared across all three. No credit card, and no trial to forget to cancel.
How is this different from Cal AI?
Cal AI paywalls most of what it does. We keep food search and manual logging free forever, add voice and plain-text logging, and the coach is a chat assistant that can see today's diary. Ask it what to eat and it suggests foods you can log with one tap.
How is this different from MyFitnessPal?
MyFitnessPal has the bigger food database. Day Pal is built for speed: log by photo, voice, plain words or search, and ask a coach that can see your day. There are no ads in Day Pal today.

Privacy

3 answers
What happens to my photos?
They are sent to our vision provider, analysed, and discarded. The backend stores no image bytes at all: there is no photo bucket, on any plan. What we keep is a row with the hash, the result, and what the call cost. The photo itself stays on your phone.
Do you sell my data?
No. We never sell user data. Deleting your account is immediate: your row and everything joined to it go in the same request, your export files are removed from disk, and you get a receipt confirming it.
Where does my data live?
One PostgreSQL database, encrypted at rest, TLS in transit. Progress photos are the strongest case: they never reach us at all. The app sends a hash and a timestamp, and the image stays on your device.

Available on iOS & Android

Get Day Pal on your phone.

Say it, snap it, or search it. Free to start: 20 AI actions, no card, no trial to cancel.

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🌍 11 languages
📷 Photos never stored on our servers
🛡️ Private by default
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