Hey there, Calorik crew—a few tweaks and twinkles under the hood today for our latest app update. Here's what we've cooked up for you in this release:

🍴 Personalized Meal Reactions: Smart, Contextual Advice
Calorik just got smarter! Our improved meal reactions now consider your calorie and macro goals alongside the time of day to offer you tailored advice. Plus, we've added a brand-new voice to our mix. Can you guess what it might be?

🎉 Free Trial Adjustments: Your Journey, Your Pace
Now new users can dive into Calorik at their own pace with 21 meal submissions before choosing a subscription. More freedom, less pressure.

🎙️ Meal Transcription Visual / Audio Cues: We're All Ears
With new visual and audio cues when recording starts and stops, you'll know exactly when it's listening to your meal details and when we've got everything noted down.

In our quest to make Calorik the simplest, most delightful nutrition tracker ever, we're continuously refining, tweaking, and adding features that you ask for.

Got feedback or a feature you’re dying to see? Drop us a line.

co-founders,
Brad & Taylor

Over here at Calorik we’re dead set on creating the fastest, simplest tool imaginable for tracking your nutrition, and today in the app we’ve released a few much-requested features aimed at improving accuracy—without the headache of hunting down individual ingredients.

Edit Mode: The first allows you to edit or delete portion, calorie or macro data in any meal, item, or ingredient AFTER it’s been logged.So maybe Calorik predicted that your powerbar had a bit less protein than it says on the label—if you want it to be 100% accurate, now you can tweak it. Or maybe you told Calorik you had two handfuls of potato chips… and you went back for more later. Just bump up the portion size.

Explicit Prompts aka "Because I Said So Mode": We’ve also refined Calorik’s AI model to prioritize explicit data inputs—so if you tell it “I had a caesar salad for lunch and it was 280 calories”, Calorik will anchor the prediction of all the other macros around that number and your log will reflect that calorie total exactly. You can also dictate multiple data points at the same time.

And keep an eye out, we have some big features coming in the next few weeks!

Have some feedback, questions, or want to talk to our team about your Calorik experience? Just reply to this email and we’d love to hear from you.

Eat easy!

Brad & Taylor
co-founders, Calorik

Hello, Brad here—

Calorik's Private Beta period is nearing an end—and as we prepare to release the app officially to the iOS store, we'd like to throw a HUGE thank you to our beta group of testers who have provided loads of critical feedback. Your thoughts have materially affected the direction and priority of the app.

In the last few weeks you've helped us as we've:

• Quashed bugs

• Improved the nutrition model

• Reworked our authentication system

• Added Smart Goals

• Laid the groundwork for more advanced conversational AI features

• Completed final preparations to release publicly to the iOS App Store

Today we're announcing a feature that will be available with the iOS release and marks Calorik's first foray into tailored nutrition coaching.

Calorik Coach is appearing first as a micro-response to each meal logged—so that every time you take a bite, you're getting instant feedback, guidance, and maybe even a bit of a good-natured jab in the ribs (as needed) to stay on track. Studies tell us that consistent, positive reinforcement, clear information, and even just the knowledge that another voice out there is aware of our choices can be the strongest motivator there is.

We'll continue to hone the tone of the Coach so that it's both useful and novel—because after all, no one needs to be told for the 35th time to eat more grilled chicken and broccoli. Sometimes you just need a coach to laugh along with you and your inexplicable addiction to eating dry Lucky Charms out of the box. Or is that just me?

In coming releases, we'll give you the option to dial in the voice of the Coach that works best for you. Maybe you need Pulp Fiction mode to really motivate you when the artisan chai-flavored cream-filled donut holes are calling, or perhaps you'd rather the gentle cadence of Oprah's wisdom to guide you gently to balanced rice bowl nirvana.

And as we continue to train our model with access to new data sources, we'll continue to release more options for open-ended and two-way interaction with the Coach.

Hope you enjoy and can't wait to hear how the Coach is responding to your meals. Give me a shout at brad@calorik.ai to share.

Losing weight or packing on muscle can definitely be hard. But for most, it isn’t complicated. It’s just math. Want to lose? Find out how much energy your body burns at rest. Eat slightly fewer calories than that each day. Repeat. And adjust as needed for high activity days.

So if it's that simple, why is it so hard? Because we're surrounded by foods that give us quick energy, but don't fill us up. And knowledge is the best way to fight back.

So to help you stay on track and see what a satisfying meal looks like in the numbers, we've just added Smart Goals to Calorik.

• Syncing to Apple Health or answer a few questions, and your daily calorie and macro goal sits front and center.

• Log each meal in just seconds with Calorik AI and see how it impacts your goals, instantly

• By hitting your macro goals each day, you can avoid empty foods and prioritize "high-volume", satisfying meals that fill you up

• Stay consistent and log each day, even if takes a few days to get into a new eating rhythm

Simplicity means consistency. You got this!