Carb-aware eating runs into the same wall in most apps: every meal means a manual database search. It’s slow, it’s tedious, and it’s the single biggest reason people stop tracking within a week.
Swoodie removes that wall. The AI photo scan estimates carbs, sugar, protein, fat, and calories from a picture of your plate. Barcode scanning covers packaged food. And if you’re on a GLP-1 medication with a reduced appetite, the meal planner can build around a protein floor so you don’t quietly under-eat.
Pain points Swoodie addresses
- Manual carb lookup for every single meal — tedious enough that most people quit
- GLP-1 medications shrink appetite, so it’s easy to under-eat protein without noticing
- Restaurant and home-cooked meals have no barcode, so carbs become a guess
- Generic recipe apps don’t surface carb-heavy ingredients before you cook
- Tracking feels clinical and joyless, so it never becomes a habit
What Swoodie does for carb-aware eaters
Instant carb counts from a photo
Snap your plate — Swoodie estimates carbs, sugar, protein, fat, and calories in seconds. No database search.
Product Check — packaged-product quality score
Scan any packaged product's barcode for an instant 0–100 quality score and see the additives and labels behind it, so you can compare options at a glance. Free scan + score; better swaps and Ask AI are Premium.
Ready-made diet plans
Load a curated 7-day plan into your planner and tweak it to your own carb and macro targets. It is meal-planning structure, not medical advice — always follow your doctor or dietitian.
Barcode scanning for packaged food
Scan any packaged product for verified carb and sugar numbers before it goes in the cart.
Protein-target meal planning
Set a protein floor — useful on a GLP-1 medication where appetite is low — and the AI meal planner builds around it.
Lower-carb recipe filters
Filter the recipe library and Chef AI generation toward lower-carb dishes without hunting.
Daily dashboard with a clear macro split
See carbs as a share of your day at a glance, not buried three menus deep.
Text-to-Nutrition
Type a meal in plain words and get carbs and macros instantly — fast logging helps you spot what moves your numbers.
Smart Cooking (raw vs cooked)
Toggle raw vs cooked weight with scientific yield factors so your carb counts reflect what you actually ate.
Intermittent fasting tracker
If your care team has cleared fasting, track your window with six protocols and a live timer. Always coordinate fasting with your doctor when you take glucose-lowering medication.
Quick facts
Free to start
barcode scan + 5 AI photo scans/day, no account
Carb, sugar & macro tracking
Free
Protein-target meal planner
Premium
Not a medical device
a food tracking tool, not medical advice
Free calculators to start with
Plan the numbers before you track them — free, instant, no sign-up.
Make carb tracking something you’ll actually keep doing
Download Swoodie and scan your next meal — carbs, sugar, and macros in seconds, free. Swoodie is a food tracking tool to help you stay aware of what you eat; it isn’t a substitute for guidance from your doctor or dietitian.
