Log your food ten ways
The app identifies the food. A nutrition database supplies the numbers. Nothing ever invents a calorie count. Alongside the five below, you can log a meal straight from your plan in one tap, log one of your own saved meals just as fast, re-log anything you have eaten before, or type your own figures for a recipe only you make.
Say it
“Two eggs and three rashers of bacon.” Speech is transcribed on your phone, so no audio ever leaves the device. It becomes a list of items with portions you confirm, and the transcript stays editable, so a misheard word is a one-word fix rather than a re-recording.
Photograph it
Point the camera at your plate. Every component comes back separately, each with an honest confidence rating. Got one wrong? Correct it against the food database and the macros change with the name, not just the label.
Scan it
Barcodes against Open Food Facts and USDA Branded, including Australian supermarket products. Anything missing, photograph the nutrition panel and the figures fill themselves in — then it is yours, and once a second person reads the same packet the same way, everybody’s.
Search it
Australian whole foods from the official Food Standards Australia New Zealand database — where every second entry says whether it is raw, baked, fried or casseroled, because chicken carries half again as much protein per 100 g once it leaves the pan. Plus USDA, branded products from Open Food Facts, and every food you have saved. Takeaway from McDonald’s, KFC, Hungry Jack’s, Guzman y Gomez and Starbucks is in there too, taken from each chain’s own published figures and stamped with the date it was read.
Paste a recipe
A link to any recipe becomes its ingredients, looked up one by one and divided by how many it serves. The job people give up on and guess instead — and a guess at a home-cooked dinner is the biggest single error in most weeks.
Drinks, properly
Alcohol counted as standard drinks, not just calories, because the number that matters for a night out is not kilojoules.
A coach, and a helper
Coach answers questions about your own numbers — why your target moved, whether a plateau is real. Ask it out loud if your hands are full, which at the kitchen bench they usually are. SET is the other one: ask it how anything in the app works and it walks you through it, step by step, instead of sending you to a support inbox.
AI identifies. The database calculates.
Setpoint never asks a model to invent a calorie figure. It identifies the food in a photo or a sentence and estimates the portion; every macro number comes from a nutrition database. When nothing matches, the item is flagged as an estimate rather than quietly counted as fact.
The AI never invents a number
A model identifies the food and estimates the portion. Every macro figure comes from a nutrition database. If nothing matches, the item is flagged as an estimate rather than quietly counted as fact.
🇦🇺 Built around Australian food
Whole foods come from the Food Standards Australia New Zealand database — the cuts sold here, with entries that say raw, baked, fried or casseroled. Weighing cooked chicken against raw figures undercounts you by nearly a fifth, and most apps never say which one you are looking at.
Australian food, Australian data
Whole foods come from the official Food Standards Australia New Zealand database — the cuts sold here, and entries that say raw, baked, fried or casseroled. Weighing cooked chicken against raw figures undercounts you by nearly a fifth, and most apps never mention which one you are looking at.
Added sugar, not just total sugar
Most apps show one sugar figure, which puts an apple and a can of soft drink in the same number. Eat three pieces of fruit and you read 60 g of sugar and conclude the fruit is the problem — while the guideline you were given was only ever about the added part.
Setpoint shows them separately, and it never guesses which is which. Calling the sugar in fruit and milk intrinsic and everything else added sounds sensible and is wrong in both directions. The added figure comes from the food databases that publish it, and the app tells you how much of your food that covers rather than passing off a partial total as a whole one.
Vitamins and minerals, and how much of them it knows
Thirteen of them — iron, calcium, B12, folate, zinc and the rest — from the same Australian database, for meals out of your plan as well as anything you search or scan. Every figure says what it was built from: from 5 of 7 foods logged. Other apps draw a tidy ring per nutrient, which can only be filled by counting “not recorded” as zero — and a total built that way reads low and reads confident. Ours is less tidy, and does not mislead you.
And when one of them has been genuinely low for a fortnight, Setpoint names it and suggests three foods that would fix it — ranked by how much they carry per calorie, so they fit inside your target, and filtered by what you actually eat. It stays quiet unless enough of your food carried a real figure to be sure.
Stop guessing what you burn.
Two weeks of honest logging is all it takes to start replacing a formula with your own data.