Things we think you'll find useful

A quick guide to getting more out of OVASAI.

Start with the fastest way to log a meal, then add favorites, quick add, feelings, routines, exercise, and diary reviews when they make your day easier.

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Photo analysis

Best for meals where a quick estimate is more useful than slow manual entry.

Manual or voice

Best for homemade food, leftovers, recipes, or anything you can describe clearly.

Quick add

Best for meals you eat often and want to add in one or two taps.

Feelings

Best for learning which meals leave you energised, hungry, full, or uncomfortable.

Routines

Best for planning training days so diary targets adapt before the day arrives.

Exercise

Best for keeping a record of activity without logging the same planned effort twice.

Fast logging

Pick the quickest path for the meal in front of you.

OVASAI gives you several logging routes because real meals are messy. Use photos when you can see the meal, descriptions when you know the details, and saved meals when you are repeating something familiar.

Snap or upload a meal

TL;DR: take a clear photo, add any missing context, review the estimate, then save it.

Photos work well when the food is visible and portions are easy to judge. Add notes for sauces, oils, drinks, seconds, shared plates, or anything hidden by the image.

Describe it manually

TL;DR: type or speak what you ate when the useful details are in your head.

Manual descriptions are useful for homemade meals, leftovers, meal prep, recipes, and packaged foods. Serving sizes, brand names, and ingredients make the result more useful.

Save favorites

TL;DR: favorite anything you eat repeatedly so you can reuse it with one quick action.

Favorites are ideal for breakfasts, coffees, shakes, snacks, meal prep bowls, and go-to restaurant orders. You can adjust the name, items, notes, and nutrition as your habits change.

Use quick add

TL;DR: mark your most common favorites for quick add so repeat meals take seconds.

Quick add keeps familiar meals close to hand. Set up your common favorites once, then add them from the quick action flow whenever that meal comes around again.

Food diary

Use the diary as your memory for meals.

TL;DR: save meals, drinks, planned routines, exercise, notes, and feelings in one place so you can review patterns later.

The diary shows your day as a timeline with editable entries, totals, macros, hydration, planned routine context, exercise references, and notes. Open a saved meal when you want to correct an estimate, save it as a favorite, or check what you logged previously.

Daily review

See meals, drinks, exercise, notes, and totals for a selected day.

Trends

Look across time and let patterns carry more weight than one meal.

PDF export

Create a record of meals, items, macros, exercise, and times.

Feelings

Connect food with how your body responds.

TL;DR: rate how a meal felt and add quick notes so OVASAI can help you spot patterns over time.

Rate the meal

Choose a simple feeling rating after eating so the diary captures more than numbers.

Add later notes

Update an entry if you feel different after an hour or two.

Review patterns

Look for foods, meal sizes, timings, or ingredients that often show up with similar ratings.

Keep it lightweight

A short note like "sleepy", "still hungry", or "felt great" is enough to be useful.

Routines and training days

Schedule activity for today or a future date. OVASAI adjusts that day's targets for calories and nutrients based on your planned routine, duration, intensity, profile, and goal.

Exercise and movement

Log simple activity when it affects your day. You can deliberately add passed routines as reference exercise without increasing your targets a second time.

Drinks and hydration

Add water, common drinks, or analysed drinks so hydration and drink calories are visible beside meals.

Repeat schedules

Set routines to repeat daily, weekly, or monthly, with an optional end date. You can remove one day or the whole repeated schedule.

MCP connectivity

Connect compatible AI clients to supported OVASAI meal analysis and diary workflows.

A simple routine

Five habits that make the app more useful.

  1. 1. Log meals the fastest accurate way: photo, description, manual entry, favorite, or quick add.
  2. 2. Save repeat meals as favorites so tomorrow is easier than today.
  3. 3. Put your most common favorites into quick add.
  4. 4. Schedule training days in Routines when activity will change what your body needs.
  5. 5. Add a feeling rating when a meal noticeably affects you, then review the diary every few days for patterns.

Release notes

Updates and fixes

New release notes are shown automatically in the app. Dismissed notes remain available here.

v2.3.97

More accurate meal photos and stronger diary records

This update adds a personal hand-size reference for meal photos, expands food-diary audit history, and includes recent analysis, exercise, and app reliability improvements.

New features and improvements

  • Add a knuckle-to-knuckle hand measurement from Account so Ovasai can use your visible hand as a personal scale reference when estimating portions from meal photos.
  • Food diary meals, daily feelings, and exercise now retain detailed version history with change information, actor attribution, and deleted-record history.
  • Eligible members can inspect meal history and download a verifiable diary audit package when access is included with their referral or discount code.
  • Correct meal portions directly in standard and combined analysis results, with nutrition recalculated consistently without another analysis.
  • Administrators can compare estimated subscription revenue with month-to-date and projected monthly AI usage costs.

Bug fixes

  • Optional meal-photo angles now support the same queued item without appearing as separate foods.
  • Fitness-tracker screenshot imports now save reliably, support decimal-minute durations, reject impossible dates, restore incorrectly dated entries, and provide clearer processing feedback.
  • Completed meal-queue items remain available while other items continue processing, and separate analyses no longer replace the result currently being reviewed.
  • Manual meal analysis now follows the normal single-meal workflow until another item is explicitly added to a combined queue.
  • Portion weights and measurement selectors now use clearer, more compact values and unit labels.
  • The Advanced Analysis goal line remains visible above recorded and smoothed progress lines.
  • Repeated streak saves preserve the full restored streak without requiring a meal on the missed day.
  • Sign-ins remain active across compatible app updates and renew during regular use.
  • Diary edits now reject stale updates, retain support-actor attribution, and redact sensitive logging details more consistently.
v2.3.85

Build complete meals and import tracked exercise

This update makes it easier to combine several foods into one meal and bring completed activities into your diary from a fitness tracker.

New features and improvements

  • Build one meal from multiple photos and manual descriptions while each item is analysed, then review, edit or re-analyse individual items before combining the final result.
  • Add exercise from screenshots produced by fitness-tracker apps, with visible activity details prepared as an editable draft before anything is saved to your diary.
v2.3.77

Introducing Training beta!

Ovasai now brings nutrition and training together, making it easier to plan workouts, follow each session and understand progress over time.

New features and improvements

  • Build reusable workouts with exercises, sets, repetitions and the measurements that matter for each activity.
  • Follow a simple guided workout, record performance and difficulty, swap or skip exercises, and finish early when needed.
  • Review recent sessions, exercise trends, training consistency and body-composition measurements in clear progress views.
  • Connect saved workouts with Routines and the diary so planned sessions and completed exercise stay together without double-counting.
  • Training is off by default and can be turned on at any time from Account → Customise Ovasai.
  • A new three-step welcome experience helps new members choose calorie, activity, training and measurement preferences before they begin.
v2.3.18

More accurate meal analysis and clearer weekly progress

This update makes photo and manual meal analysis more informative and resilient, while simplifying how seven-day nutrition progress is compared with personal targets.

New features and improvements

  • Photo analysis now checks image quality, identifies foods and portions before calculating nutrition, and uses higher-detail photos plus validated reference data where suitable.
  • Optional quick-check questions appear beneath detected foods and guide users through up to six useful answers before re-analysing the meal once.
  • The scanning animation now explains what Ovasai is working on while a photo is being analysed.
  • The 7-DAY AVG view shows how average calories and macros compare with the targets that applied on each logged day, while retaining the estimated fat-loss projection.

Bug fixes

  • Quick-check choices now match the question instead of offering unsuitable Yes or No responses, and follow-up questions are not repeated after re-analysis.
  • Typed and voice meal descriptions now continue safely in the background when analysis takes longer than expected.
  • Calorie targets continue to use a proportionate fat-loss adjustment without imposing a universal minimum.
  • Photo estimates now use clearer confidence guidance and record private user corrections to support measurable accuracy improvements.
v2.3.9

Clearer, safer calorie targets

This update makes calorie targets easier to understand and adds safeguards so fat-loss recommendations remain proportionate.

Bug fixes

  • Calorie targets now show how resting needs, normal daily movement, the selected goal, and logged workouts affect the result.
  • Fat-loss targets now limit the deficit to 20% of the baseline, capped at 500 calories.
  • Automatic calorie targets now have a conservative minimum of 1,200 calories per day.
v2.3.8

Safer sign-in and more reliable tracking

This update strengthens account and connected-app security while improving the reliability of meal saving, buddy updates, exports, and older diary data.

New features and improvements

  • Account sign-in, connected app authorization, and abuse protection now use stronger shared security controls.

Bug fixes

  • Exercise tracking targets now include normal daily movement from the selected activity level while keeping deliberate workouts as separate logged exercise adjustments.
  • Meal auto-save and Goal Buddy updates now complete even when push notification delivery is unavailable.
  • Diary exports, achievement reports, and older saved data are handled more reliably.
  • Existing connected-app credentials are upgraded automatically to stronger protection.
v2.3.6

Smoother manual logging and app polish

This update improves manual meal analysis reliability, clarifies the installed app experience, and includes recent fixes for voice logging, release notes, and exercise estimates.

New features and improvements

  • Added a homepage FAQ explaining why OVASAI is distributed as an installable web app instead of through the App Store or Play Store.
  • Clarified that the installed web app can keep the same level of functionality while avoiding store-imposed costs that could increase user pricing.

Bug fixes

  • Manual meal descriptions now complete with fewer AI calls and a leaner text-analysis response, reducing the chance of long-running estimates.
  • Manual item entry now analyzes all entered rows together instead of making a separate estimate request for each row.
  • Fixed exercise calorie estimates for custom activities so unsupported reasoning options no longer cause avoidable request failures.
  • Fixed voice meal logging so repeating the same spoken meal later saves as a new diary entry, while duplicate submits from the same recording are still ignored.
  • Fixed the release notes popup so it stays below the top navigation and users can always scroll to the dismiss button.
  • Removed internal development wording from release notes.
  • Fixed the About page release notes anchor so the section is not hidden behind the top navigation.
v2.3.0

More reliable tracking, sharing, and admin review

This update improves meal analysis reliability, buddy motivation, account controls, push notifications, and the food item review tools used to strengthen OVASAI's nutrition data.

New features and improvements

  • Goal Buddies can share compact progress, milestones, and encouragement.
  • Photo analysis supports a second image for extra context without double-counting food.
  • Admins can review, validate, search, import, export, and add food reference items and household conversions.
  • Customise Ovasai lets users choose which modules are active and visible.
  • Push notifications can alert users when meal analysis or buddy updates are ready.

Bug fixes

  • Improved background meal analysis handling when the app is closed.
  • Reduced duplicate diary entries from voice logging.
  • Strengthened food reference matching so validated rows are trusted over fresh estimates.
  • Improved account, buddy, and food-item review layouts for smaller screens.
  • Fixed deployed web version metadata so the app shows the released version instead of 'current'.