App Showcase: FoodAI

What it does

FoodAI is an AI-driven health and fitness app designed to simplify nutrition tracking and meal planning. It uses AI to create personalized daily and weekly diet plans based on a user's goals and biometrics. The core features include logging meals by taking a photo, scanning barcodes, or describing them with text, alongside an AI chatbot that offers contextual dietary advice.

Where it shines

The app excels by integrating its AI capabilities into every part of the user journey. The onboarding quiz (00:25-01:45) is extensive, creating a strong foundation for a truly personalized plan. The food logging is particularly powerful. After scanning a meal (04:18), the app breaks it down into individual, editable ingredients (05:08), solving a common AI inaccuracy problem. Furthermore, the AI Dietitian chat (06:45) is context-aware, using the user's profile data and allowing them to upload photos for instant analysis, which makes getting advice feel like talking to a personal consultant.

UX highlights

• Granular Editing: Users can correct AI-detected meal ingredients by unchecking items or editing weights, which builds trust and improves data accuracy (05:10).
• Instant Feedback: During onboarding, the BMI is calculated and updated in real-time as the user adjusts their weight, providing immediate, valuable information (00:40).
• Flexible AI Plans: Users aren't locked into their generated plan. They can replace a single meal or an entire week's plan with one tap, blending automation with control (08:12).
• Contextual Chat: The AI assistant uses personal data and can analyze photos sent directly in the chat, providing highly relevant answers (07:37).
• Playful UI: Complex choices, like setting a weight loss pace, are simplified using intuitive visuals like animal icons, making the process less intimidating (01:23).
• Detailed Analytics: Tapping any nutrient on the dashboard reveals a detailed history and educational content, encouraging deeper exploration (04:33).

Monetization & growth

FoodAI uses a free trial model with a paywall presented at the end of the onboarding quiz (01:54). By making users invest significant time in the quiz, the app builds strong intent before asking for a subscription. The paywall itself highlights a 35% discount for the annual plan and uses a visual timeline to clarify the 3-day trial period. The app also includes in-app rating prompts (01:48, 02:21) to drive App Store visibility.

Who it’s for

This app is for individuals who want a structured, data-driven approach to weight loss or nutrition management but lack the time or expertise to create their own meal plans. It appeals to users who are comfortable with technology and trust AI to provide personalized guidance. The detailed tracking and analytics also make it suitable for those who enjoy digging into their health data to understand their habits better.

Notes & opportunities

The onboarding flow is quite long and front-loads several permission requests (00:00-00:04), which could cause some user drop-off. While the quiz is thorough, it could benefit from reinforcement screens to maintain momentum. The main dashboard is dense with information, but the hierarchy could be clearer to guide users to the most important daily metrics first. The app also lacks any social proof like testimonials or ratings, which could be tested in the onboarding or on the paywall to build trust earlier.