2 credits
Photo of your meal
Point your camera at the plate. AI identifies the foods, estimates portions, and breaks it down into calories, protein, carbs and fat — with its confidence shown for each estimate.
Made in New Zealand "Kai" is te reo Māori for food
AI food logging without the subscription.
Pay for what you use, keep the rest free.
Snap a photo of your meal, scan a nutrition label, or scan a barcode — SnapKai turns it into calories and macros in seconds. Buy credits when you need them; everything else is free forever.
Installable on any phone as a web app — no app store, no 30% markup passed on to you.
Barcode scans
free, always
Credits
never expire
Subscriptions
none — nothing auto-renews
A scan that returns nothing useful never costs a credit. Every AI result lands on a confirmation screen before it touches your log, and failed scans are refunded automatically.
Three ways to log
Log it your way. You always know what it costs.
Every AI result shows its confidence and waits on a confirmation screen — nothing is saved until you say so.
1 credit
Scan the nutrition label
AI reads the nutrition information panel straight off the packet — including NZ supermarket house brands that no international barcode database has ever heard of.
Free — always
Scan a barcode
Instant lookup against a growing NZ product database. Barcode scanning is free today, free tomorrow, free forever. No, really.
Free forever, no credits needed:
- Manual entry
- Repeating meals
- Favourites
- Daily calorie & macro reports
- 7 & 30-day trends
- Weight tracking with goal line
- Streaks
How it works
From plate to logged in under ten seconds
SnapKai does the tedious part. You stay in charge of what actually lands in your log.
01
Snap, scan, or search
Take a photo of your plate, scan a nutrition label or barcode, or add food manually. Repeating meals and favourites are one tap.
02
AI does the maths
Foods are identified and portions, calories and macros estimated. Every estimate is labelled as an estimate, with confidence shown — a guess never dresses up as a fact.
03
Confirm before it counts
Each result lands on a confirmation screen. Adjust portions, swap items, or bin it. A scan that returns nothing useful is refunded — automatically, or with one tap.
04
Watch the trends
Daily calorie and macro reports, 7 and 30-day trends, weight tracking against your goal line, and streaks to keep the habit going.
Pricing
Buy credits once. Use them whenever.
One-off credit packs in NZ dollars, GST included. Credits never expire and nothing auto-renews — ever.
What does a credit buy?
Credits only pay for the AI. Everything else is free.
A meal photo costs 2 credits, a nutrition label scan costs 1, and barcode scanning is always free. If a scan returns nothing useful, the credit comes straight back.
Meal photo 2 credits
Label scan 1 credit
Barcode scan Free
Failed scan Refunded
Starter
Trying SnapKai
30 credits Credits never expire
Free
- 30 credits free on signup
- ≈ 15 meal photos
- Barcode & manual logging always free
- Credits never expire
Casual
Logging now and then
120 credits Credits never expire
$4.99 one-off
≈ 8¢ per meal photo
- 120 credits
- ≈ 60 meal photos
- ≈ 1 month at 2 photos/day
- Credits never expire
Regular
Most people
300 credits Credits never expire
$9.99 one-off
≈ 7¢ per meal photo
- 300 credits
- ≈ 150 meal photos
- ≈ 2.5 months at 2 photos/day
- Credits never expire
Committed
Daily loggers
750 credits Credits never expire
$19.99 one-off
≈ 5¢ per meal photo
- 750 credits
- ≈ 375 meal photos
- ≈ 6 months at 2 photos/day
- Credits never expire
Year Pass
Set and forget
Unlimited AI scans 12 months of unlimited scans
$34.99 one-off
≈ $2.92 / month
- Unlimited AI scans for 12 months
- Fair use: 10 AI scans/day
- One-off payment — never auto-renews
- We'll remind you near expiry, never charge you
GST included in every price · Nothing auto-renews, ever · Failed scans refunded
Our promise
The honesty manifesto
The diet-app playbook is auto-renew traps, fake countdown discounts, and a paywall in front of the barcode scanner. We think that's gross. So:
Prices visible before signup
Everything SnapKai costs is on this page, before you create an account. No "start your free trial to see pricing".
Nothing auto-renews. Ever.
Credit packs and the Year Pass are one-off payments. There is no subscription to remember to cancel, because there is no subscription.
Credits never expire
Buy a pack, disappear for a year, come back — your credits are still there.
Estimates labelled as estimates
AI portion guesses come with their confidence shown. You edit before anything is saved.
Failed scans refunded
A scan that returns nothing useful never costs a credit — refunded automatically, or with one tap.
No dark patterns
No countdown timers, no fake discounts, no guilt-trip popups when you try to leave.
Your data, one tap
Export everything or delete everything in one tap, the way the NZ Privacy Act 2020 says it should be.
Built for kiwi kitchens
The NZ food database that grows with every scan
International barcode databases barely know New Zealand exists. Pak'nSave and Woolworths house brands, the local bakery's packaged goods, half the products in a kiwi trolley — missing, or wildly wrong.
So SnapKai builds its own. Every nutrition label a SnapKai user scans and confirms goes into a shared NZ product database. Scan the Value-brand muesli once, and the next person just gets a free barcode hit.
The app literally gets better for every kiwi who uses it.
NZ-first coverage
House brands and local products international apps miss.
Confirmed by humans
Label data enters the shared database only after a user confirms it.
Free for everyone
Once a product is known, looking it up by barcode never costs a credit.
The receipts
What a month of food logging actually costs
Real NZD prices, July 2026, per month of active use.
| App | Per month | AI photo logging | Auto-renews? |
|---|---|---|---|
| SnapKai — Year Pass | $2.92 one-off purchase | Unlimited (fair use) | Never |
| SnapKai — Regular pack | $4.00 one-off purchase | Included | Never |
| Lose It! Premium | $5.33 | Subscription only | Yes |
| Lifesum / Cronometer | $5.58–8.33 | Subscription only | Yes |
| YAZIO PRO | $5.83 | Subscription only | Yes |
| MacroFactor | $9.92 | Subscription only | Yes |
| MyFitnessPal Premium | $11.25 | Subscription only | Yes |
Competitor prices are annual-plan rates in NZD as at July 2026; MyFitnessPal is $32.99/month if you pay month-to-month. Every one of them locks AI photo logging behind an auto-renewing subscription — MyFitnessPal even paywalls the barcode scanner. SnapKai prices assume the Regular pack (300 credits ≈ $9.99 lasting ~2.5 months of daily photo logging) or the $34.99 Year Pass across 12 months.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers — the same ones you would get after signing up
A meal photo costs 2 credits, a nutrition label scan costs 1 credit, and barcode scanning is always free. Packs start at $4.99 for 120 credits, and you get 30 credits free when you sign up. If a scan returns nothing useful, the credit is refunded.
Never. Buy a pack today, use the last credit in three years — it still works. There are no expiry dates and no "use it or lose it" mechanics.
No. Nothing in SnapKai auto-renews — not the credit packs, and not the Year Pass. The Year Pass is a single one-off payment for 12 months of unlimited AI scans; when it ends, it just ends. You will never find a surprise charge from us.
Barcode scanning, manual entry, repeating meals, favourites, daily calorie and macro reports, 7 and 30-day trends, weight tracking with a goal line, and streaks. Credits only ever pay for the two AI features: photo logging and label scanning.
Honestly? Photo-based portion estimates are typically within ±20–30% — that's the state of the art, and anyone claiming better is selling you something. Every estimate shows its confidence, you can edit everything before saving, and if a result is useless the credit is refunded. Label scans and barcodes are far more precise because they read actual printed numbers.
No. Photos are processed to identify your food, then discarded — they are never stored on our servers and never used to train AI models without your explicit opt-in. What we keep is the food log entry you confirmed.
SnapKai is an installable web app (PWA), so there is no app store. On iPhone: open app.snapkai.com in Safari, tap the Share button, then "Add to Home Screen". On Android: open app.snapkai.com in Chrome and tap "Install app" (or the ⋮ menu → "Add to Home screen"). It then works like any other app, camera and all.
One tap in Settings → "Delete my data", and everything is gone — account, logs, the lot. You can also export everything first, in one tap. That is your right under the NZ Privacy Act 2020, and we built it in from day one.
Still have questions?
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