Foodvisor review

A Paris company behind a phone app

Both the App Store and Google Play list the app as Foodvisor AI Calorie Counter and identify Foodvisor as its seller or developer. Its terms identify the publisher as a French SAS registered in Paris, with an office at 40 bis rue Violet, 75015 Paris.

Foodvisor has no computer or web app. Its website lets you manage the subscription, not use the food diary. The Apple record dates its App Store release to 2016 and lists version 9.24.0 as current on October 4, 2026. The terms do not guarantee the accuracy, relevance or completeness of its data and say the app does not provide medical advice.

The photo is the start of the entry

1. In the diary, tap the + beside a meal to open the meal entry.
2. Choose the Photo tab. Separate the foods, take the shot from above and use good light. Photograph the dish, not its packaging. Barcodes have a separate scanner.
3. Foodvisor names the foods and estimates their quantities. These are suggestions to review.
4. Choose the right food from the other suggestions. If it is missing, search and add it manually, then return to the photo. Leave out suggestions that do not match.
5. Tap a food to change its amount or unit. You can use grams, portions or units.
6. Photograph cooked food as you will eat it. Entries without a stated preparation are treated as cooked, except pasta and plain rice, which are treated as raw unless labeled cooked. Foodvisor's example equates 150 g cooked pasta with 50 g raw pasta.
7. Review the detected foods and quantities, then confirm and save the meal.

Every photo ends with a review step. That makes the time saved depend on how often the first guess is right. Foodvisor's own correction instructions plan for both missed foods and wrong suggestions, so the camera does not remove the work of checking the entry.

The app's meal color labels describe its assessment of meal quality, not the overall balance of the day. The day summary requires Premium. The store listings present photos as a way to log meals without labeling that method Premium, while the help center explicitly puts photo analysis in Premium. That distinction matters before you download it for the camera feature.

When you put the camera aside

Search accepts a food name, and the barcode scanner looks up packaged products. If barcode information is empty or wrong, Foodvisor tells you to open the food and use Edit data to change its nutrition label. A saved food or meal can go into favorites by tapping the star.

You can create custom foods on Android and iOS, and create recipes on iOS. The Premium Smart Add tab accepts a typed meal description and estimates its nutrition. Foodvisor also says its database has some branded restaurant products and lets users report missing foods.

The store listings describe speaking a meal to the app. The checked pages do not establish whether voice logging is free or requires Premium.

The camera sits on the paid side

Changing the macro split is a Premium customization option. The checked pages do not settle whether free users see basic macro totals.

The Sport & Meal Plan pack is separate. It is a one-time purchase of workout programs and 28 days of menus, kept for life. Foodvisor says it does not include Premium.

Prices appear with the offer you receive

Foodvisor does not give a fixed universal Premium price. It directs you to the app, or to create an account on its website to see offers. Prices depend on country, platform and promotions.

The US App Store in-app purchase list showed these names and prices, in this order, on October 4, 2026. All amounts are US dollars.

The store does not show a plan length for the items named Foodvisor Premium. Those prices cannot be labeled monthly or yearly from this list. Google Play lists $6.49 to $119.99 per item.

The terms allow payment through the App Store, Google Play or the website through Stripe. Premium plans renew automatically. Foodvisor's refund page says you choose a trial price you are comfortable with. It also says refund requests must be made within 14 days and renewal charges are not eligible. Check the offer's term and renewal amount before paying.

A database without a named nutrition source

None of the Foodvisor pages checked for this review names the source of its nutrition data. That includes the website, terms, App Store, Google Play and help center. Its explanations mention a database with some branded restaurant items and missing-food reports, plus barcode nutrition that users can edit.

Without a named source, a careful logger has to check barcode entries themselves. An item appearing in search is not enough to trace its numbers. If seeing the source behind each number matters to you, read our guide to calorie trackers with sources.

Food names and nutrition had different test results

PubMed lists three records that mention Foodvisor, one of which tests the app, and PubMed Central has two more studies that test it by name.

Joubert measured carbs in hospital lunches in 2021

Joubert and colleagues worked in university hospital diabetes units in Caen and Strasbourg, France. From October 2019 to March 2020, five medical students acting as mock patients used Foodvisor for 30 hospital lunches. A dietitian weighed the food on laboratory scales as the reference.

The study found that Foodvisor underestimated meal carbs by an average of 7.2 g, with a standard deviation of 17.3 g. For 30% of its meals, the error exceeded 20 g of carbs. This measured carbs, not calories.

The full report says there was no funding or sponsorship. Medical students, lunch meals only and hospital food limit how widely the finding applies. The tested app was from 2019 to 2020, before the current version.

Van Asbroeck measured recognition in 2020

In Belgium, Van Asbroeck and Matthys submitted 185 photos of foods, drinks and mixed dishes to seven recognition platforms. Foodvisor version 2.3 named the food correctly in its first choice for 46.2% of photos, reported as 86 of 185. Within its first five choices, the study reported 71.5%, or 133 of 185.

For mixed dishes, Foodvisor identified 70.8% of components, or 119 of 168, within its first five choices. That was the highest component result among the platforms tested. These were food-name results, not calorie or portion measurements.

The full text names EIT Food's SmartFoodLogging project as funder and declares no conflicts. The authors identify demo versions as a limitation and report that none of the platforms could estimate food amounts. Foodvisor 2.3 is older than today's app.

Li measured energy estimates in 2024

Li and colleagues at the University of Sydney, Australia, uploaded 22 researcher-taken photos to seven photo-recognition apps. The photos covered 16 foods and six drinks with 39 food components. Foodvisor version 5.15.0-1 named 34 of 39 components correctly, or 87%.

For single-item foods and drinks, the study found Foodvisor's energy estimates averaged 47% below the food records. For eggs on toast with butter, its estimate was 73% below the reference. Recognizing the food therefore did not establish an accurate calorie estimate in this test.

The full report declares no external funding and no conflicts. It used one set of researcher photos at a fixed 45-degree angle and 30 cm distance. That small photo set and the 2024 app version limit what the results say about ordinary use today.

Every tested app version predates the current App Store version 9.24.0. We found no study measuring weight or health outcomes in Foodvisor users, and the figure cited in its store listings comes from Foodvisor's own unpublished internal study, not a published peer-reviewed study.

High store averages, recorded on October 4

These US store figures were checked October 4, 2026.

Google Play also shows 10M+ downloads. The Foodvisor homepage shows different rating counts from these US listings. A store average combines many app versions and does not measure nutrition accuracy.

Useful details beyond the camera pitch

• The help pages make corrections concrete, explaining how to replace or add a food and how to change a portion.
• Barcode entry and manual search are free, so paying is not required to keep a basic diary.
• Recognition showed promise in the limited tests. Foodvisor found most mixed-dish components in the 2020 study, and 87% of components in the 2024 study.
• The cooked and raw instructions spell out the pasta and rice exception, which helps explain what an entry means.
• The Google Play rating draws on 205,874 ratings, a large body of store feedback to read.
• Photos, typed descriptions, voice, barcodes and search offer several ways to enter food in the same app.

The tradeoffs deserve a closer read

• The listings emphasize photo logging, but photo analysis and typed descriptions need Premium. That paid boundary should be easier to see.
• There is no single published Premium price. You have to inspect the offer shown to your account.
• The website and database help do not name a nutrition data source, making the numbers harder to trace.
• The hospital-lunch study found carb underestimates, and the 2024 photo study found calorie underestimates. Those findings warrant checking portions even when the food name looks right.
• The seed mascot and game features cannot be turned off. Foodvisor acknowledges a large volume of negative feedback and says a setting to disable them is not planned in the short term.
• There is no web app, and CSV meal export needs Premium and an iPhone. That restricts computer use and access to exported records.
• The free app shows ads, so manual logging comes with that interruption.

Be comfortable correcting the first guess

Foodvisor is worth considering if you like starting with a meal photo and do not mind checking each suggestion. Its correction help is clear, and the free barcode and search tools let you keep a diary without paying for photo analysis. Premium makes more sense if you will also use its courses, recipes and summaries.

Look elsewhere if you expect a photo to settle the portion for you, need to log on a computer or want named nutrition sources. People who dislike game features should take the lack of an off switch seriously. We would also want to see the actual subscription offer before deciding whether Premium is good value.

Other starting points for a food diary

Our Cal AI review covers another app centered on photos. The Cal AI alternatives guide looks beyond photo apps, and the AI calorie tracker comparison helps you weigh a wider set of logging options.

For another option, TrueCal keeps manual calorie logging free and puts macros in Pro. Pro also handles typed descriptions, voice, photos and barcodes, at $29.99 a year or $9.99 a month. Eligible customers can start its 14-day free trial only in the iPhone or Android app, through the App Store or Google Play. TrueCal's nutrition estimates can be wrong.

Before you install Foodvisor