Track calories like a normal person.
Photo in, a rough number out. No food database, no gram-perfect fiction, no red. You were never counting accurately anyway — dinki-di just stops pretending, and lets your weight trend do the thinking.
Nobody knows what’s in that curry.
Not you. Not us. Not the app promising you 637 calories from a photo. Every calorie count you’ve ever logged was a guess wearing a lab coat.
Here’s the part nobody says out loud: it doesn’t matter. Unless you’re a professional bodybuilder counting grams for a stage, you don’t need an accurate number to lose or gain weight. You need a rough one, consistently. dinki-di is built on exactly that — every estimate wears a ~, and the app never claims a precision that was never there.
The scales keep it honest.
So if the numbers are rough, what keeps you on track? The scales. Weigh in each morning and dinki-di smooths the noise into a trend line — the real scoreboard. If the trend isn’t moving the way you asked, the app quietly re-tunes your budget on Monday.
Your log doesn’t have to be right. It has to be consistently wrong.
“Budget’s 1,700 this week — trend was a touch slow, so we’ve trimmed 150.”
How it works
1. Snap it.
Point, shoot, done. Or just say what you ate. Three taps from hungry to logged.
2. Near enough.
~650 cal, 60 g protein, and a list of what it reckons it saw. Wrong about the sauce? Tap it off.
3. Let the trend drive.
The smoothed trend is the scoreboard. One big dinner barely moves it.
Skip the food database
No searching “chicken breast” and picking between forty wrong answers. A photo or a sentence is the whole input.
A budget that adapts
Every Monday the app re-reads your trend and re-tunes your budget. You never do the maths, or wonder whether your number's still right.
The trend, not the scale
Weight bounces over a kilo on a salty day. The trend doesn't care, so you don't have to.
Nothing goes red
Over budget is a data point, not a telling-off. No streaks to break, no days to backfill, no red anywhere in the palette.
dinki-di (adj.) — genuine, the real deal.
An honest tracker for people who’d rather be eating than typing.