AI Calorie Counter Reviews

I wanted SOOO badly to love AICalorieCounter. Objectively, the features for photo inputs and voice note work really well, but AICalorieCounter will not display the dietary details beyond calories and proteins. Granted, It does show others details on a weekly basis but not daily. So if your goal is just to monitor calories and protein then this is a great choice for you. Im a diabetic who is still learning to monitor my sugar and carb intake strictly to identify the trends that cause my sugar to spike - and you can’t track sugar nor carbs per day or meal with AICalorieCounter. I don’t want to have to track twice with another app in order to monitor the sugar/carbs. Good app, just doesn’t meet my personal needs.

I really wanted to like AICalorieCounter, but it just wasn’t tracking things properly for me. For example, I would tell it to track 80 calories of cheese and 2 eggs and it would only log 80 calories. The ease of talk-to-track just isn’t worth it if it’s this inaccurate. I look forward to trying it again once more of the bugs are worked out.
Update: I received a note from the developer saying that AICalorieCounter would track what I described above easily, but it just didn’t. I tried it multiple times and it was inaccurate when I tried to specify the number of calories for a food. If I said “an oz of cheese and two eggs” it worked, but if I said “80 calories of cheese and two eggs,” it simply didn’t.

The concept of logging the good with voice is genius! I had to make some corrections to protein for some store protein powder/drink I verbally listed off. I can’t use any of the buttons along the bottom - press, tap, etc and nothing is actually selected except for the home icon. I was able to get a meal plan generated quickly and although it looks flavorless, it met the criteria I input. I didn’t like the force to pay now mechanism or you’ll only get 50% right this moment. I believe that to be predatory and taking advantage of people. I think this has promise but isn’t anywhere near where you should be charging that much for it and it being buggy.

it kept getting the calorie and protein counts wrong. I was trying to enter the food I’d had for today by going through my current calorie tracking app and texting it into AICalorieCounter. Every entry I did it got the nutritional info incorrect, and on my current app the nutritional info is straight from the foods nutritional label, so my current app has the right info. I think maybe I eat too many weird diety foods and maybe they’re just too specific. AICalorieCounter probably works great if you eat non-specific regular food? For example I was trying to log my Mission zero net carb tortillas, which have a very different calorie count compared to regular tortillas, and it would recognize it as just regular tortillas and the calories were double what they should be. I was able to tell it the correct calorie count and it did update it to reflect that, but this created a separate entry so now I had entered two different entries, and, what if I hadn’t known that the calories were incorrect? I’d be thinking I’m eating way more than I actually am.

This was enough for me to give up on the free trial, but I do think it’s a fantastic idea and I really look forward to its evolution. I may try it again in the future when there have been some updates and developments with it. You’ve definitely got a borderline genius idea on your hands here and you’re probably going to get really far with it, especially if you keep listening to people’s feedback and updating with that in mind.

ParrotPal...potential but still very basic, buggy, and overall has an unfinished feeling.

- The big selling point that you can chat your entires is pretty neat...when it works. Very often you simply get a "I'm ParrotPal, your fat loss specialist." reply and fails to enter your meal/calories.
- Want to create a meal or a recipe to calculate your calories? Not so fast...the barcode scanner scans but fails to retrieve the item so you are forced to manually enter/search your items. After you've entered all the details if you decide you want to go back to modify the mean/recipe...well you can't. After you have saved your entry it forgets the details and only shows you the total calorie combined for all items not a n itemized list of ingrediants.
- On a daily basis it forgets I have a subscription and asks me to pick a subscription plan which I proceed to choose the same plan and then says you are already subscribed.

The above is just some of the bugs encountered, for the price you'd think AICalorieCounter would be further ahead in development and quite frankly feels like a beta app not a production app. I really like the chat function to enter the meals but not there yet...basically paying a monthly fee to beta test an app.

I was using AICalorieCounter for a couple days without a problem. Every time I would open AICalorieCounter , the free trial offer would pop up and then eventually go away. I never paid or signed up for the free trial. Despite me using AICalorieCounter earlier today, now when I open it, the offer for the free trial will not close. There is no X to close the offer and there is no way to get it off my screen. It is a good app and a good idea but if I have to pay to use it that needs to be more clear. If I don’t have to pay to use it, provide a way to close out of the offer. I don’t want to delete AICalorieCounter but this may cause me to.

I like the ease of use that AICalorieCounter provides which really makes the tracking easy to continue to do. The ability do just add some description of the food and get some kind of tracking is really helpful and I will often manually tweak the calorie estimates myself.

There are a handful of bugs or awkward moments I’ve experienced. Once these are sorted over time AICalorieCounter will be 5/5 for me. But even so, this has been the calorie tracking app I have continue to use the most

Absolutely love the simple interface and voice tracking. The ease of input alone makes me much more likely to track and is enough for me to switch over from MyFitnessPal

The only thing I would love to see is more nutrition data. If I’m hitting my protein/calorie goal but eating way too much sugar/sodium/etc. or not getting enough of something, that’s going to have a health impact.

Hoping that is an up and coming feature!

No more searching food databases that are updated by users and our usually wrong. I subscribed for a year because I think this has so much promise. I also want to support a developer that gives us an option other than MFP which since the redesign I just will not use. I think they’re spot on about not getting lost in the minutia of details that don’t really matter when it comes to getting weight under control. Personally, I feel the pendulum has swung a little too far to minimalist side and I would definitely appreciate an update that tracks, carbohydrates and fat. The balance between that and protein is a fairly good predictor for me for how I feel during a given week and where my weight is headed.

I’ve been using ParrotPal for a little over a week, and I’m already seeing exciting progress! The daily podcasts are wonderful—packed with valuable information and motivation that helps keeps me on track.

What I love most is how effortless AICalorieCounter makes tracking. Even on days when I forget to log my meals, I can just tell it what I’ve eaten verbally, and it records everything for me. It’s hands down one of the most intuitive and supportive tools I’ve used for tracking calories. Excited to keep going!

As a recovering perfectionist, all of the other weight loss tools I’ve used have been daunting and short lived. If I couldn’t track my food well because I ate out or if I forgot, I would mentally just give up. I’m also impatient, and if I’m not losing pounds dramatically, I feel like it’s ineffective.

What’s been great about ParrotPal is the way you’re eased back into your weight loss journey. In this process, you’re expected to lose about 1 pound a week. I’ve been losing 2 but still feel full—sometimes finding myself eating an extra snack to hit my protein and calorie goals.

The intro week podcast is vital—don’t skip it. It helped me understand the why/science of this tool. And it helped me give grace to myself and release my perfectionism (a little).

AICalorieCounter still has some features I’d like to see, and the AI isn’t flawless, but the developer is constantly making updates—they didn’t want to wait until it was perfect :) and for that I’m grateful.

This appears to be a very new app, but you can tell that it’s incredibly well thought out, including the support model behind it (with companion videos and podcast episodes).

This is pretty much exactly what I’ve been looking for, an app that tracks your calories by just speaking what you ate. The relatively minimalist, text-message-like interface is also brilliant, as it makes it so quick to track any meal, I find I’m much more likely to do it than I have been in the past with other apps, where I need to do a lot of searching and selecting to track different items. I really hope this breaks through all of the many other diet apps out there, as it very much deserves to have a spot at the top.

Exactly what I wanted. Removes the friction and tedium of tracking and allows you to just pay attention to what you are eating daily. Tracking is more important than perfection, and ParrotPal helps you just stay mindful of your eating. The chat interface allows you to use voice to text, so it literally takes only seconds to track a meal versus spending time looking things up in a database one at a time. Close enough is good enough if it helps you stay in tune with what you are eating.

This is probably the easiest calorie counting food tracking app I’ve ever used. Literally takes seconds for you to input the information via voice memo just so easy it’s great. However, it only will track the calories and the protein. I know they say the most important macro as far as losing weight, but somebody who’s truly trying to dial-in to the macro nutrients also needs to know the carb count and the fat count. Once this is all collectively put together and trackable I wouldn’t hesitate to purchase AICalorieCounter however, I just need a little bit more.

I’m only a few days in, but so far I’ve found it much less painful than other tracking tools. I feel like it’s informative enough to be useful without making me obsess that every number little thing is 100% correct. (I know that is impossible and a terrible waste of time, but that’s the trap of calorie counting.) I think it might actually be fast enough that I’ll keep using it, which might be the best praise I can give a food tracking tool. 😆

I love simple and AICalorieCounter has it in spades. Simple concept- track three things daily: calories, protein, steps. Simple interface- speak it, type it, take a photo. What is great is realizing that simple can also be powerful when put to good use. AICalorieCounter, the podcasts, and the online community all combine perfectly and make the process of loosing weight and getting healthy fun and actually “achievable”. Great work team ParrotPal.

I’ve lost weight with calorie counting before. In 3 months, I was able to drop 35lbs.
I had a baby 9 months ago and honestly, the thought of calorie counting and weighing my foods was so exhausting. However, after I found AICalorieCounter, everything changed. I am able to actually count calories just by speaking into my phone. AICalorieCounter will automatically count it. I can say “splash of oat milk” and it’ll count the right amount of calories too. It’s really incredible. I’ve sadly gained a lot of weight during pregnancy due to preeclampsia. I have lost 45LBS so far and I am 7lbs away from my pre pregnancy weight!
I really recommend!!

I have always struggled with my weight going up and down and have tried many different apps! When I was looking to start a diet again this past summer I saw an ad for parrot pal and it has quite literally changed my life. The ease of focusing on just 3 things-steps, protein, and calories and Scott’s mentality of one day at a time and progress over perfection has changed my mindset and approach to weight loss and fitness. I would recommend AICalorieCounter to everyone!! But you have to trust the process and be in it for the long haul, don’t get frustrated if you don’t see results right away but keep at it! I’m down 12 pounds so far and continuing to trek on to lose the rest to get to my goal weight. Thank you Scott and Parrot Pal!!🦜

There are so many ways to log your food! And so getting your food logged is simple, which means I actually do it! Adjusts to your needs as it goes, and the accompanying podcast is very informative and useful (motivational). Highly recommend it and don’t overthink it. Just do what it says and hit your calorie and protein goals and you’ll start to lose weight!

I love the ease of AICalorieCounter and that I can focus on the most important things. Easily put in my weight each morning and then I’d love being the ability to text out what I ate and the amounts. It’s easy to edit and change if I made a mistake. Scan barcodes works most of the time and I love being able to take a photo of my food if I’m out and about and I’m not sure what I’m eating and amounts since it’s the least accurate I’d say. Tried another ai diet app and it didn’t even compare. I’ll be sticking to this one.