Page 03 — Features

Features

What the app does, and what it never asks you to do.

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How you log

Three ways to write it down

Write it

Write the meal the way you’d say it out loud. That is the whole interaction.

“Greggs sausage roll and a coffee”

“Chicken breast, about 200 grams, with roasted veg”

“Porridge with honey and blueberries”

Say it

Speak while your hands are in the washing-up. Macronote writes down what you said and works from that.

For when you can’t be bothered typing.

Photograph it

Photograph the plate and we read it back to you as a list of foods. Home cooking, a meal out, a packet from the fridge. All fair game.

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Transparency

Where the numbers come from

Every calorie is traced to something you can go and read yourself.

  • Each figure names its origin: an official brand page, a verified database, or an estimate we have marked as one
  • A link through to the original, so you can check our working
  • An estimate is always labelled an estimate
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Restaurant data

Restaurant & chain data

We read the chains’ own published nutrition pages. A Big Mac is the one McDonald’s describes, not the one a stranger typed in.

Nando’s, Wagamama, McDonald’s, Chipotle, Subway, Chick-fil-A, and hundreds more, all sourced from the restaurants themselves.

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Offline

Works offline

Write on the tube, on a plane, in the gym. The page keeps what you wrote and syncs it once there is signal again.

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Portions

Portions, as you’d say them

You don’t need a scale. Describe the portion the way you’d describe it to someone else.

  • “A large bowl of pasta”
  • “About half the pizza”
  • “Two slices of toast with butter”
  • “A handful of almonds”

“A large bowl” is a size, not a shrug. We read it as one, mark the result as an estimate, and let you change it if it’s wrong.

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On the roadmap

Coming soon

Meal planning

Plan your week ahead of time. See daily totals before you eat, not after.

Shopping lists

Turn a week’s plan into a list you can shop from.

Recipe import

Paste a recipe URL or snap a photo of a recipe. Macronote extracts ingredients and calculates nutrition per serving.

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Before you go

Macronote comes to iOS first, Android after. The waitlist gets one email, the day it’s on the App Store.

Join the waitlist ↓

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