Introducing Parsely: food logging that feels effortless
Parsely turns meals into calories and macros—type in plain language, scan barcodes, snap photos, or scan a menu. Here’s what we’re building and why consistency beats catalog perfection.
The hard part of tracking isn’t “knowing what to eat.” It’s logging what you actually ate—before the day runs away from you.
Parsely is an iOS food and calorie tracker built around that habit. Type what you ate in plain English, scan barcodes, snap meal photos, or scan a restaurant menu or receipt. Everything lands in one account and one daily log.
What’s in the first release
- Natural-language meal entry with calories, protein, carbs, fat, and a confidence signal before you save.
- Barcode scanning for packaged foods and meal-photo capture when a picture is faster than typing—with the same review step before saving.
- Sprig, an AI nutrition coach that suggests what to eat and answers using your goals and what you’ve logged today.
- A unified dashboard: progress toward your goals, macro bars, and a timeline with source (typed, photo, or scan).
- Goals for calories and macros, set during onboarding or in settings.
- Sign in with Apple and cloud sync so the same log follows you across entry paths.
Why we’re building this
Traditional trackers optimize for huge databases and perfect matches. That helps sometimes—but it often trains people to quit. We optimize for the log you’ll actually keep: seconds to enter, honest estimates, and transparency when the model is unsure.
“The best log is the one you don’t abandon—even if gram-level precision is theoretically “better.””
We’re still intentionally focused: barcode, photo, and menu scanning join typing, but there’s no social feed or recipe builder yet—just a fast loop. We’d love your feedback as we grow.