Real food, known by its real name.
Snap your plate. Novalife names the dish the way its home country does, then counts it with real nutrition data instead of a guess. Latin American cooking comes first.
We'll only email you about the launch. No spam.
Coming soon to iPhone and Android
- App Store
- Google Play
Dishes, by their real names
We're teaching Novalife Latin American cooking first: local names, real ingredients, home-size portions. Other cuisines come next.
- Seco de pollo🇪🇨
- Ceviche🇵🇪
- Pupusas🇸🇻
- Arepas🇻🇪
- Bandeja paisa🇨🇴
- Mole poblano🇲🇽
- Mofongo🇵🇷
- Gallo pinto🇨🇷
- Encebollado🇪🇨
- Lomo saltado🇵🇪
- Baleadas🇭🇳
- Chilaquiles🇲🇽
- Feijoada🇧🇷
- Locro🇦🇷
- Sancocho🇩🇴
- Ropa vieja🇨🇺
- Paella🇪🇸
- Jollof rice🇳🇬
- Pad thai🇹🇭
- Bibimbap🇰🇷
How it works
Snap your plate
Just as it's served. No arranging, no food scale.
Novalife names it
It calls each dish what its home country calls it: seco de pollo, not “chicken stew.” Rice and plantain get their own lines.
The numbers come from real data
Calories and macros come from recipes built on USDA data, scaled to your portion. The AI never makes up a number. Something off? Fix it with a tap, or just say it.
Everything you need to keep count
The essentials of a calorie tracker, built around the food you actually eat.
Photo, voice or text
Log however's easiest: a photo, a voice note (“two arepas with cheese”) or a few words.
Barcode scanner
Packaged food? Scan the code for calories and macros per serving.
A plan you can check
Your calorie and macro targets come from a published formula and your own numbers, and we show you the math.
Repeat in two taps
Same breakfast most mornings? Log it again from your recents or favorites.
Spanish and English
The whole app in both languages. Switch whenever you like.
How we calculate
No black box. Here's what's behind your numbers.
What you burn at rest
The Mifflin-St Jeor equation, from your weight, height, age and sex:
10 × weight (kg)+ 6.25 × height (cm)− 5 × age
+ 5 for men, − 161 for women
How much you move
We multiply that by an activity factor from 1.2 to 1.55, based on how often you work out each week. We lean low on purpose: most of us think we move more than we do.
Your pace
To lose half a kilo (about a pound) a week, we take about 550 kcal off each day, since a kilo of body fat is roughly 7,700 kcal. To gain, we add them. You choose the pace, within sensible limits.
Your food
Every dish is a recipe with its ingredients in grams, and each ingredient's nutrition comes from USDA FoodData Central, the US Department of Agriculture's nutrition database. AI recognizes the dish; the database supplies the numbers.
A longer page with every detail and source is on the way.
Questions
What food does it recognize?
Latin American cooking first: home cooking, street food and restaurant plates, by the names each country uses. Everyday US food and packaged products (by barcode) too. More cuisines come after launch.
How accurate are the numbers?
AI recognizes the dish and its parts; the calories come from USDA-based recipes and the portion. A photo isn't a kitchen scale, so the portion is an estimate. If it looks off, adjust it with a tap and the totals update.
How much will it cost?
Launch pricing is coming soon. People on the waitlist hear first.
What happens to my data?
Your meals and photos are private to your account. We don't sell your data. For the waitlist we keep only your email, your language and the link that brought you here, if any, and use them to tell you about the launch.
What languages does it speak?
Spanish and English, across the whole app. Switch any time.
Which phones?
iPhone and Android. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the day it lands on the App Store and Google Play.
Be one of the first to try it
Join the waitlist and we'll email you on launch day.
We'll only email you about the launch. No spam.