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A Foodvisor alternative without the programme.

Foodvisor is a coach: it reads your plate, then wraps the numbers in a personal plan, workouts, fasting and daily quests. That suits some people perfectly. Others just want to know roughly what a night out came to — and remember the night itself.

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In short

Foodvisor is an AI calorie counter with a coaching programme: photo, voice and barcode entry, a personal plan, workouts and weight. PlateDiary is a lighter alternative for meals out — one photo of the table, a rough calorie number per dish, no account and no plan — but it has no barcode, coaching, exercise or weight.

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Foodvisor

Foodvisor, in its own words.

Foodvisor’s App Store listing — “Foodvisor - AI Calorie Counter” — says you take a photo of a meal and its “AI identifies everything instantly”. You can also speak a meal, search by typing, or scan a barcode. It shows calories, protein, carbs and fat, plus vitamins and minerals, and reports on how you eat.

Around that sits a programme: a personal plan designed by experts, intermittent fasting, workouts, hydration, weight progress week by week, Apple Health sync, a community, and a little “seed” that grows as you complete daily quests. Its Premium plan unlocks the personal programme, unlimited workouts, all the fasting plans and full meal analysis. It is on iPhone and Android.

Coach or diary?

Do you want a coach, or a good memory?

Tapas in Madrid with Sofia and Lukas: patatas bravas, croquetas, pan con tomate, gambas al ajillo, a tortilla to finish and three glasses of vermouth. A coaching app wants to know how that fits into today’s plan. Fair enough — if you’re on one.

PlateDiary wants to know something simpler: what was on the table, where, and with whom. One photo keeps all six as saves under the bar’s name. If you turn Calories on, each dish gets one rough number you accept or fix. No quests, no plan, no seed to keep alive.

Side by side

Foodvisor and PlateDiary.

Foodvisor and PlateDiary, from Foodvisor’s store listings and PlateDiary’s app (checked 19 October 2026)
FoodvisorPlateDiary
What it isAn AI calorie counter with a coaching programmeA food diary for eating out, with optional calories
Ways inPhoto, voice, typed search, barcodeOne photo of the table, or type a number
What you seeCalories, protein, carbs, fat, vitamins and mineralsOne rough number per dish; protein, carbs and fat on the Calories page
Plans and workoutsPersonal plan, fasting, workoutsNone
Health appsSyncs with Apple HealthNever written to a Health app
CaloriesAlways onOff unless you turn them on

Privacy

What leaves your phone when a photo is read.

Any app that estimates from a photo sends something to a server. In PlateDiary it is small pictures of the cut-out dishes, with the place’s name as a hint — never the table photo, faces or your location. You agree once before the first read, and nothing is kept on the server afterwards. There is no PlateDiary account, calorie values never go to analytics, and nothing is written to Apple Health or Health Connect.

If you want your food in Apple Health next to your steps, that is a point for Foodvisor. If you would rather it stayed out, that is a point for PlateDiary.

Choose

Choose Foodvisor if… choose PlateDiary if…

PlateDiary is not a full calorie tracker: there is no barcode scanner, no food database to search, no exercise and no weight. We make PlateDiary, so weigh that in.

  • Choose Foodvisor if you want a guided plan, workouts, fasting timers and vitamins in one app, and you like a little game to keep you going.
  • Choose PlateDiary if you mostly want rough numbers for meals out, shared plates handled dish by dish, and a diary of every place you ate.
  • Choose neither if you need medical-grade accuracy. Ask a registered dietitian.

In PlateDiary

A rough number for the dishes you save — only if you want one.

Off unless you turn them on

Calories in PlateDiary are off unless you turn them on. Switch them on and, when PlateDiary AI reads your photo of the table, each dish gets one rough “~” number. Accept it or change it; a number you correct is remembered for that dish. With Calories off, the app looks exactly as it did before.

A read sends small pictures of the cut-out dishes, with the place's name as a hint — never the table photo, faces or your location. Calorie numbers never go to analytics, and nothing is written to a health app. PlateDiary AI starts with free tries; here is how it works.

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Sources

Where the facts come from

  1. Foodvisor — AI Calorie Counter, App Store listing
  2. Foodvisor on Google Play
  3. Cronometer — official site
  4. Newswise: photo-based calorie apps may underestimate energy in meals (NIH abstract, July 2026)

Questions

Questions people ask.

Is there a free Foodvisor alternative?

PlateDiary is free to download, and its Calories switch, typed numbers and Calories page are free. Photo estimates use 10 free AI tries, then the PlateDiary AI membership. If you want a free full tracker with a barcode scanner instead, look at Cronometer.

Is Foodvisor accurate?

Foodvisor’s listing doesn’t give an accuracy figure that we found. A preliminary 2026 NIH test of four other photo apps found they all came in low, so treat any photo estimate as a rough number.

Does PlateDiary give me a meal plan?

No. There are no plans, quests or targets set for you — only an optional daily number you can choose to add on the Calories page.

Does PlateDiary show vitamins and minerals?

No. The Calories page shows calories plus protein, carbs and fat in grams. For vitamins and minerals, a detailed tracker like Cronometer or Foodvisor is the better fit.