Uses 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.
Built different "Kai" is te reo Māori for food
AI food logging without the subscription.
Pay for what you use, keep the rest free.
SnapKai is an AI calorie and macro tracker. Snap a meal photo, scan a nutrition label or barcode, and log calories, protein, carbs and fat in seconds, with no auto-renewing subscription. New accounts also get 1 month of unlimited AI scans free, fair use applies.
Works in your browser on any phone or computer and installs to your home screen from Safari or Chrome, so no 30% store markup is passed on to you. Also on Google Play.
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's free.
Every AI result shows its confidence and waits on a confirmation screen. Nothing is saved until you say so.
Uses credits
Scan the nutrition label
AI reads the nutrition information panel straight off the packet, per serving and per 100 g where shown, so a product missing from barcode databases is still easy to log.
Free, always
Scan a barcode
Quick lookup in SnapKai's shared product database, which grows with every confirmed label scan. 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.
Start with 30 free credits. New members currently also get 1 month of unlimited AI scans free (fair use: 5 a day, no card required). Credits never expire and nothing auto-renews, ever. Packs are one-off payments. Any applicable tax is calculated at checkout, and your card or bank may apply its own conversion.
What are credits for?
Credits only pay for the AI. Everything else is free.
Credits are only spent when the AI analyses a meal photo or reads a nutrition label. Barcodes, manual entry, favourites and repeats are always free, and if a scan returns nothing useful, the credit comes straight back.
Meal photo Uses credits
Label scan Uses credits
Barcode scan Always free
Failed scan Refunded
Need more? One-off packs and the Year Pass
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Secure checkout via Stripe · 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 your profile, weight history and favourites, or delete your account and diary, each in one tap in Settings.
Gets better with every scan
A shared product database that grows with every scan
No barcode database knows every product on every shelf. Store brands, small local makers and new launches can be missing, or listed with the wrong numbers.
So SnapKai keeps a shared product database of its own. Scan a barcode and it looks there first, then falls back to Open Food Facts, an open crowd-sourced food database. If a product is in neither, scan its nutrition label or log it by hand for free. Confirm a label scan and the product joins the shared database, so the next person just gets a free barcode hit.
The app literally gets better for everyone who uses it.
Contains data from Open Food Facts, licensed under the ODbL.
Grows as people scan
Every confirmed label scan can add a product for everyone else.
Confirmed before it's shared
A label scan only joins the shared database after the person who scanned it confirms the result.
Free for everyone
Once a product is known, looking it up by barcode never costs a credit.
Explore SnapKai
Go deeper on how SnapKai tracks food
Each way of logging food gets its own page, with the detail that does not fit on the homepage.
AI calorie tracker
How SnapKai turns a meal photo into calories and macros.
Photo calorie counter
Step by step: photo, AI estimate, review, edit, save.
Macro tracker
Protein, carbs and fat targets with 7 and 30-day trends.
Barcode calorie scanner
Free barcode lookups in a shared product database that grows with every confirmed label scan.
Nutrition label scanner
AI reads the nutrition information panel straight off the packet.
No-subscription calorie tracker
One-off credits instead of another monthly subscription.
SnapKai's AI scans run on one-off credits instead of an auto-renewing subscription, and barcode scanning stays free where MyFitnessPal paywalls it.
See all pricingFrequently asked questions
Straight answers: the same ones you would get after signing up
Packs start at $4.99 for 120 credits: about 60 meal photos, or a month of logging at 2 photos a day. The Regular pack lasts about 2.5 months at that pace and the Committed pack about 6. You also get 30 credits free when you sign up, and 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. The Welcome Pass launch offer below is not a subscription either: no card, no auto-renewal.
New accounts get 1 month of unlimited AI scans, free, capped at 5 scans a day (fair use). No card required, and nothing auto-renews or auto-charges when it ends; you fall back to your ordinary credits automatically, starting with the 30 free credits you also get on signup.
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? A photo-based portion estimate carries meaningful uncertainty: a camera cannot see hidden oils, sauces mixed through a dish, or the exact weight of a serving. Every estimate shows its confidence, you can edit everything before saving, and if a result is useless the credit is refunded. Label scans, barcodes and weighing are far more precise because they read or measure the real thing instead of estimating it.
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.
Open app.snapkai.com in your browser on any phone or computer. On iPhone, use Safari: tap the Share button, then "Add to Home Screen". On Android, use Chrome: tap "Install app", or the ⋮ menu → "Add to Home screen". It works like any other app, camera and all. SnapKai is also on Google Play.
One tap in Settings → "Delete my data", and your account, diary, weigh-ins, favourites and credits are permanently removed from our database. You can export your profile, weight history and favourites as a file first, also from Settings.
Still have questions?
Contact usReady to log your first meal?
30 free credits on signup, plus 1 month of unlimited AI scans free for new members (fair use). No card, no subscription, no catch. Barcode scanning stays free even if you never pay a cent.
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