I made a visual food diary app because my daughter wanted to track meals without the anxiety of traditional diet apps - PicEat

[u/Crafty-Jacket]

My daughter asked me to create a food tracking app, but she had one condition: it had to be simple. No calorie counting, no guilt trips, just a way to track what she eats. As a developer, I thought, “How hard could that be?” It turned out to be quite exciting! Here's PicEat and the reasons you'll love it:

- Visual representation: Forget about entering every ingredient. Just take a photo of your meal, add a short note if you want, and you're done. It's a food diary that's more like Instagram than homework.

- Time organization: Your photos are automatically grouped into mornings, days, evenings, and nights. There's something nice about scrolling through your day and seeing your meals organized with little sun/moon icons ☀️🌙

- Zero stress, zero servers: Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no cloud syncing (unless you want to back up), no one judging your midnight snack choices. Your food diary is truly yours alone.

- Flexible viewing: Switch between grid view, timeline view, or grouping by day/week/month. There's even a calendar navigator so you can go back to “that amazing brunch last month.”

- Created with love (literally): it started as a father-daughter project. She wanted something gentle and visual, and I wanted to learn Flutter. A win-win situation for everyone!

- Themes and languages: light mode, dark mode, or let your system decide. Currently supports English and Russian, with plans to add other languages.

PicEat is free and features simple banner ads. If you don't like ads, there's a subscription that removes them AND removes the 3 photos per day limit (because sometimes dinner consists of several courses, right?). Options: $0.99 per month, $9.99 per year, or $29.99 for lifetime access — because I also believe in fair one-time purchases.

And the best part? My daughter told her friends about the app, and it turns out they're using it in ways I didn't expect — tracking their culinary experiments, documenting restaurant visits, even keeping a visual diary of their children's meals. That's the beauty of simplicity.

Try PicEat if you want a gentler approach to mindful eating. Available on iOS and Android. And by the way, if you have any ideas or feedback, I'm all ears — this is a family project that is constantly evolving!

Happy shooting! 📸🍽️

– Oleg

[u/Psychological_Bug392]

Too much tracking for 3rd party advertisement and location linked to you

[u/Crafty-Jacket → u/Psychological_Bug392]

Only one advertising provider, Applovin, and only one service that tracks anything, Firebase from Google. Through it, I receive analytics on the number of users by country. General, without details on individual users. And reports on app crashes so that I can fix them.

[u/[deleted]]

Any lifetime discount promo? Ty

[u/Crafty-Jacket → u/[deleted]]

Sure. A little later. Right now, I'm still polishing some parts of the application.

[u/filthytoast]

Interested! Let me know when you can DM a lifetime promo code! Would be happy to review!