Log your food with a photo

A way to record what you eat by taking a picture instead of searching for each item. Boone identifies the food in the photo, estimates the portion sizes and adds the nutrition to your day.

Boone uses image recognition to identify the foods on your plate, then estimates how much of each there is from the image. Each item is matched to nutrition data and broken down the same way as everything else you log.

Yes. You can take a photo in the app or upload one from your camera roll, so it still works if you forgot to log at the time.

Yes. Photo logging works for anything on a plate. For restaurant and takeaway food, where recipes and ingredients are not published, the breakdown is an estimate based on what the dish usually contains.

For packaged food, scanning the barcode is usually quicker and more precise, because Boone can use the product's own nutrition information and ingredient list. Photos are best for meals on a plate.

Get the whole plate in frame, in reasonable light, from slightly above. Try to keep separate foods visible rather than stacked. If something is hidden, such as a sauce, dressing or the oil it was cooked in, add it as a detail.

Yes, although mixed dishes are the hardest to judge from a photo because ingredients are combined. Boone will estimate the dish, and adding a detail, such as vegetarian rather than beef, makes the breakdown much closer.

You can log drinks by photo, but for things like coffee it is often quicker to type it, for example "large flat white with oat milk", since milk type and size are hard to see in a photo.

It can give you a good estimate, not a lab measurement. That is close enough to show real patterns in your diet over weeks and months, which is what makes tracking useful. When you want more precision, you can correct items and portions in a tap.

From the image itself, so you do not need to weigh anything. If a portion looks wrong, you can adjust it before saving.

Edit it. You can change an item, adjust a portion or add a detail, and your totals update straight away.

Yes. We are improving recognition all the time, particularly for mixed dishes and food eaten out.

Calories for the meal and each item, macros (protein, carbohydrate and fat), 29 vitamins and minerals, and a rating for how processed the meal is likely to be. Everything is added to your daily dashboard.

It gives a prediction. A photo cannot show an ingredient list, so Boone predicts the rating from what is on the plate and your purchase history. Scanned products are rated from their full ingredient lists, so they carry more confidence.

Only in a limited way. A photo cannot show hidden ingredients such as sesame in a sauce or nuts in a pesto, so do not rely on photo logging to spot them. If an ingredient matters to you, check the label or ask, especially if you have an allergy.

Yes. Photo logging is included on the free plan, along with every other way to log: text, barcode and receipt.

No. We never sell or share your photos or personal data with advertisers or other commercial third parties. You can ask for a copy of your data or have it deleted at any time.

No. Boone is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat anything. If you have a health condition or ongoing symptoms, speak to your GP or a qualified healthcare professional.