Snap your plate
Photograph a meal and AI identifies the foods and estimates calories and macros, for 2 credits.
Complete feature catalog
Every way SnapKai makes food logging effortless
SnapKai is an AI food-logging app piloting in New Zealand. Snap a meal, scan a label or a barcode, and see your calories and macros, with only the AI scans costing credits.
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- barcode, search and manual logging
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Full feature catalogue
Grouped by what you are trying to do, every capability in the app is listed below.
56 specific capabilities
01
Log a meal your way
Six ways to record what you ate, with the credit cost shown up front so nothing is a surprise.
Scan the nutrition label
Point the camera at a nutrition panel and AI reads it into per-serving or per-100g values, for 1 credit.
Scan a barcode
The live barcode scanner reads EAN and UPC codes and looks the product up, free of charge.
Search NZ foods
Free text search covers curated New Zealand staples and the shared product database, and parses quantities from your query.
Add it by hand
A free manual form captures a food name with its calories and macros, with autocomplete to prefill values.
Estimate from a description
Type any food and the AI fills in calories and macros at no credit cost, with a confidence chip.
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Scans you stay in control of
Every AI result is yours to check, adjust, or reject before it touches your diary.
Confirm before it logs
Every scan opens an editable review screen with a confidence chip before anything is added to your day.
Scale the portion
A slider rescales the nutrition to your real serving, and you can expand, rename, or remove individual items.
Not useful? Refund
Reject a scan you cannot use and the credits it cost are refunded on the spot.
Failed scans cost nothing
If the AI fails or cannot recognise the photo, the charge is refunded automatically.
Camera help when needed
If camera access is blocked, SnapKai shows device-specific instructions and a photo-library fallback.
Save it as a favourite
Tick a box on the confirm screen to store the scanned meal as a reusable template.
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Your day at a glance
A clear daily diary that adds up as you go, with fast shortcuts for the foods you eat often.
Today dashboard
The home screen shows a calorie ring, protein, carbs and fat bars, sugar and sodium guide pills, and each meal's foods.
Browse past days
Step back through previous days with arrows, and a stale date snaps back to today automatically.
Meals with quick-add
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack each show their totals with a plus button to add straight to that meal.
Edit or delete an entry
Tap any entry to adjust servings with a live gram readout, move it to another meal, or remove it.
Recent foods
Re-log any of your last foods to the current meal in a single tap.
Repeat yesterday
Copy every item from yesterday's matching meal into today at once.
Favourite meals
Save meals you eat often and log them again in one tap, with a usage count for each.
Logging streak
A flame counter tracks your consecutive days of logging once you pass a single day.
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See your progress
Trends, weight and daily reports turn your logs into a picture of where you are heading.
Trends charts
The Trends page shows 7 and 30-day tiles for streak, days logged, average calories and protein, plus a calories-versus-target chart.
Weight tracking
Log one weigh-in per day and see your full history with day-to-day changes.
Weight chart with goal
A weight line chart plots your progress against a goal reference line.
Daily report
Each day summarises calories against target, macro progress, and a per-meal breakdown.
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Set goals and targets
Turn your body stats and goal into daily calorie and macro targets you can fine-tune anytime.
Guided onboarding
A five-step first-run wizard turns your goal and body stats into editable calorie and macro targets.
Body, goal and activity
Set height, weight, goal weight, birth year, sex, goal type and activity level, with a BMI card.
Daily targets
Edit calorie, protein, carb and fat targets and sugar and sodium guides, or auto-suggest them from your stats.
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A shared New Zealand food database
Local-first product data that gets better every time someone scans a label.
NZ-first barcode lookup
A scanned barcode resolves against the local New Zealand product database first, then Open Food Facts.
Add a missing product
When a barcode is not found, a label scan can add the product to the shared database for everyone.
Barcode-miss guidance
If a barcode has no match, SnapKai offers a label scan or a free typed entry to fill the gap.
Curated NZ staples
Search is grounded in curated New Zealand generic foods alongside community-contributed products.
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Sign in and stay in control
Flexible sign-in, secure sessions, and full ownership of your data.
Email and password
Create an account or sign in with email and password, protected by an invisible Cloudflare Turnstile check.
Google and Microsoft sign-in
One-tap Google or Microsoft sign-in is available when enabled, and degrades gracefully when it is not.
Email verification
Confirm your address with a six-digit code that auto-submits, with a resend cooldown.
Password reset
Request a time-limited reset link by email and set a new password with a single-use token.
Secure sessions
Sessions use an HttpOnly cookie with account lockout after repeated failures, and logout blacklists the token.
Terms re-consent
If the Terms or Privacy Policy change, a blocking prompt asks you to re-accept before continuing.
Export your data
Download a JSON bundle of your profile, weights, favourites, today's report and 90-day trends.
Delete your account
Permanently delete your account and all of its data from Settings, with a confirmation step.
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A fast, installable app
A responsive web app that installs to your home screen and works the way you expect on every device.
Install to home screen
Add SnapKai to your home screen from a dismissible prompt on Chromium, or via Share on iOS Safari.
Mobile tab bar
On phones a bottom tab bar and account sheet reach Today, Trends, Log, Wallet and everything else.
Desktop navigation
On larger screens a sticky navbar carries your links, a Log button, credit chip and account menu.
Dark and light theme
Switch between light and dark mode from the nav or Settings, saved to your profile.
Credit balance in view
A header chip always shows your credit balance, or Year Pass, and links to the Wallet.
Clear toasts
Success, error and warning toasts confirm saves and report failures across the app.
Friendly 404
An unknown page shows a light-hearted food-themed screen with a link back to today.
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Simple, honest pricing
Only the AI does the paid work. Everything manual is free, and credits never expire.
Start free with 30 credits
Every new account gets 30 starter credits that never expire, with no card required.
Only AI scans cost credits
A meal photo scan costs 2 credits and a nutrition-label scan costs 1; nothing else does.
Core logging is free forever
Barcode scans, food search, manual entry, AI text estimates, edits and your diary are always free.
One-off credit packs
Buy Casual 120 credits at $4.99, Regular 300 at $9.99, or Committed 750 at $19.99, all NZD and GST-inclusive.
Year Pass
A one-off $34.99 Year Pass gives 12 months of unlimited AI scans under a fair-use cap of 10 a day.
Credits never expire
There is no subscription and nothing auto-renews, with no fake urgency or compare-at prices.
Failed scans refunded
Any scan that fails or that you reject as useless is refunded, so a bad scan never costs a credit.
Secure Stripe checkout
Top up through Stripe checkout and see your balance, grants and payment history in the Wallet.
Refer a friend
Share your referral code and both you and your friend get 20 bonus credits.
Invite-code gift
A valid invite code at signup gifts the Committed pack of 750 never-expiring credits.
Ready to log your first kai?
30 free credits on signup. No card, no subscription, no catch — barcode scanning stays free even if you never pay a cent.
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