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    People who think in workouts, not kilocalories

    Key Features

    Activity-cost conversion
    AI photo meal logging
    Live tracking
    Calorie identification from photos

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    Burnplate

    freemium • Free
    Updated Oct 2026

    Burnplate reframes calorie tracking around a question numbers alone never answer: what does this meal actually cost? Instead of just '650 calories', it tells you that burger takes a 55-minute run to burn off, which makes food decisions visceral in a way charts never manage. Logging is effort-free: take a photo of your meal and the AI identifies it and estimates the calories, no searching databases or weighing portions. Live tracking shows progress as the day goes on. It suits people who have tried calorie apps and quit, and anyone who thinks in terms of workouts rather than kilocalories. The honest trade-offs: photo-based calorie estimates are approximations and can be off on mixed or homemade dishes, and exercise equivalents are motivational estimates rather than exact physiology. As a fresh angle on food tracking, it makes the numbers mean something.

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    Pros

    • Exercise equivalents make calories meaningful
    • Photo logging, no searching
    • Live daily tracking

    Cons

    • Photo estimates are approximate
    • Exercise math is motivational, not exact
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    Activity-cost conversion
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    Calorie identification from photos

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