The awkward meals decide everything
A log is only as good as the entries you did not skip. The hard cases are the ones the input flow is designed around: eating out, snacking, cooking with one hand.
Private beta · Android
Log a meal the way it actually happened.
Type it, say it, photograph it, scan it, or paste the recipe. Emira turns any of those into one entry with ingredients, amounts and a daily total, and shows you where every number came from.
Five ways in. One result.
Each way of logging is precise about something different. Pick whichever is least effort right now. The entry ends up in the same place, and you can fix the details afterwards.
If you only remember one thing: name or scan the product, then say how much. Those two facts decide the total, and the comparison of all five methods goes through when each one is worth reaching for.
Text
You write what you ate, the way you would tell a person: “180 g chicken breast, rice, a spoon of olive oil”.
Best for: Home cooking and anything where you know the amounts but there is no package to scan.
Barcode
You scan the package and the exact product is identified from its catalogue entry.
Best for: Packaged food, drinks, protein bars, anything with a label.
Photo
You take a picture of the plate and Emira works out what is on it.
Best for: Restaurant plates and mixed dishes you could not itemise if you tried.
Voice
You say the meal out loud and it is handled like text.
Best for: Cooking, driving, or any moment where typing would mean not logging at all.
Recipe link
You paste a URL and the page is read before anything is logged.
Best for: Meals cooked from a recipe, and anything you will make again.
What it looks like.
Screenshots from the current Android build. Nothing here is a mockup.
Food preferences
It stops guessing at the food you buy every week.
“Yoghurt” spans roughly 45 to 130 kcal per 100 g. Most trackers resolve that with an average and quietly get your breakfast wrong every single day, because the food you eat most often is the food they know least about.
Mark a product once as one you eat often and it becomes part of the context handed to every analysis. From then on your yoghurt is your yoghurt, whether you typed it, said it or photographed it, without a scan and without picking it from a list again.
It is the least visible feature in the app and one of the most useful, because it fixes the error you would otherwise never notice. See where it enters the pipeline.
It learns what you actually buy
Mark a product as one you eat often and Emira stops guessing at it. Your yoghurt becomes the yoghurt, every time you mention it.
Every number is inspectable
Each ingredient shows its amount, its confidence and its origin: scanned, looked up, or estimated. If something is off, you can see which part.
More than a calorie count
Protein, carbs, fat, sugar, fibre, caffeine and water share one flow, alongside mood and fullness if you want the context.
Where to go next.
The three pages that answer the questions people actually ask before they trust a tracker.
Questions people ask
- Is Emira available yet?
- Not publicly. It is in private beta on Android, and invitations go out from the waitlist. Everything described on this site is built and running in the current build.See what has shipped so far
- How do I log a meal?
- However it is easiest at that moment: type it, say it, photograph it, scan the barcode, or paste a recipe link. All five end in the same result, which you can correct afterwards.Compare the five ways to log
- How accurate is it?
- It depends on how you log. A barcode identifies a product exactly but not how much you ate; a photo sees the whole plate but judges portion size worst. Portion size, not food recognition, is the error that dominates.Read the accuracy page
- How does it know which yoghurt I mean?
- From food preferences. Mark a product as one you eat often and it is handed to the analysis as context, so an ambiguous name resolves to the thing you actually buy instead of an average.See where preferences enter the pipeline
- Can I use it from ChatGPT or Claude?
- Yes. Emira runs a remote MCP server, so an assistant that supports MCP can read your daily totals and log entries with your permission, using the same account as the app.Connection guide
Get in early.
Emira is in private beta on Android. Invitations go first to people who log regularly and tell us where it breaks. That feedback is what the next release is made of, and you can see the result of it in the release notes.