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Nigerian food
That's the whole reason it exists. 68 Nigerian dishes ship in the library with the portions they're really served in — a wrap of eba, a ladle of egusi, a stick of suya — and the photo scanner is tuned to name them properly rather than describe amala as 'brown porridge'.
Swallow (eba, pounded yam, amala, fufu, lafun, semo, tuwo, wheat), soups (egusi, efo riro, ogbono, okra, ewedu, gbegiri, afang, edikaikong, banga, oha, bitterleaf, nsala, pepper soup), rice (jollof, fried, ofada, coconut, native), beans (ewa agoyin, porridge, moi moi, akara), yam and plantain, proteins from suya to nkwobi, street food, breakfast and drinks. Plus everyday staples and Nigerian fruit.
Portions and macros for most dishes come from a 2012 study in the African Journal of Biomedical Research that measured what 413 Nigerian adults in Ibadan actually served themselves. The rest are built from USDA ingredient data combined at standard recipe ratios. Every figure is cross-checked so its calories agree with its own macros.
Because most published figures are for dry garri, not prepared eba. Garri is around 357 kcal per 100g; once you turn it into a swallow with hot water it's mostly water, closer to 94 kcal per 100g. Quoting the dry figure overstates a wrap roughly fourfold. We list dry garri separately, under garri soakings, where it belongs.
Then adjust it, and save it. Soups vary enormously with how much palm oil and meat went in, so the library figure is a starting point. Save your version as a recipe and it comes back as one tap.
Many dishes cross borders, so jollof, plantain and pepper soup will read fine wherever you are. The depth is Nigerian for now — that's where the research went. Tell us what's missing and we'll widen it.
Scanning and accuracy
Close enough to steer decisions on. CalChopAI estimates portions from the shape and depth of the food in frame, which lands nearer the truth than eyeballing — and you can correct any item in a tap when it's off.
Yes. It reads several foods in one photo rather than only the item in the middle, lists each with its own portion, and totals them together. Takeaway packs and canteen trays included.
No. A scale will always be more precise, and you can type exact grams whenever you want them, but the point of CalChopAI is getting a usable number without one.
Open the entry and fix it. Swap an ingredient it misread, drag the portion slider, or delete a line entirely — the totals recalculate as you go.
Drinks in the frame get counted, and visible stew and sauce are estimated. Anything already stirred into a dish is harder to see, so add it by hand when it matters — a cooking spoon of palm oil is worth logging.
Using the app
Scanning needs a connection to analyse the photo. You can still open your log, review past days, and add entries by hand while offline, and queued scans process when you're back on.
Yes. Glasses, sessions, and weigh-ins sit in the same day view as your meals, so you're not stitching four apps together to see how a day actually went.
You can start a group, invite people, and share a leaderboard and activity feed. Badges cover streaks and milestones along the way.
Any entry stays editable for as long as it's in your log. Open the day, tap the meal, and change or remove it.
Your log is tied to your account, so signing in on another device brings your history with it.
Plans and billing
There is a 3-day free trial on the monthly and yearly plans. Cancel in your app store before it ends and you won't be charged. After the trial, CalChopAI needs a subscription.
Yes. In Nigeria, subscriptions are priced in naira through the App Store and Google Play.
Subscriptions are billed by the App Store or Google Play, so cancelling happens in your store account's subscription settings rather than inside CalChopAI. Cancelling stops the next renewal and leaves your access running to the end of the period you've paid for.
Because the stores handle the payment, refunds are requested from Apple or Google directly. If a charge looks wrong, contact us as well and we'll help you sort it out.
It's on the roadmap — several of our beta testers coach for a living and want to see client logs in one place. Get in touch if that's you and we'll bring you into the group shaping it.
Privacy and your data
A meal photo is sent to our AI provider for analysis and stored with your log so you can look back at it. It isn't used to train anyone's model. You can delete any entry and its photo from the app, and deleting your account removes them.
No. What you eat is not advertising inventory. The privacy policy sets out exactly what's collected and why.
Yes to both. You can export your log, and you can delete your account and its contents from inside the app without emailing anyone to ask.
If you're in Nigeria, the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023. If you're in the UK or the EU, the UK GDPR or GDPR. The privacy policy covers your rights under each.