It wouldn't take long for other types of apps to take advantage of the image recognition to identify with the camera app what type of food we are consuming, in order to keep track of the diet more efficiently and we can save ourselves from having to enter it manually. Google Photos does a great job here of classifying photos automatically, which saves a lot of time in sorting, so apps like this are more than welcome.
Now it's Lose it! which incorporates the ability to take photos or upload one already taken to the daily food consumed in the day. Called Snap It !, this feature register food more easily to those who are starting a diet in order to lose those kilos that will be taken again when Christmas arrives. Snap it works with the food database that the application has with image recognition to identify and break down your nutritional profile to help you lose weight.
Photographing your food to record your diet
Snap It! It is in beta and this means that it does not usually give correct results every time. Even if you take a picture to a carrot with a certain shape and color, it will put you before different suggestions that have nothing to do with it so that you yourself have to click on "Add Food" to search for "Carrot" and add the food to your diary.
Anyway, as far as I can tell, this feature will go learning and improving as you use it more and add more images as custom food. Also, being in beta, it will take a little time until more and more users enter more foods and the app is able to identify them in a better way. This is in itself its best feature and that differentiates it from other apps, apart from the fact that it also allows you to read the barcode of any food product to enter it directly without having to type or anything like that.
The app will add all these photos to the nutritional diary So that you can get a better idea of the calories consumed and not go over the limit if you want to lose weight. It is in itself a rather striking idea that must be given a little time to be more efficient.
Launching the app
But not everything in Lose it! is Snap it !, the app has some quite obvious virtues such as the objectives for lose weight and we can indicate how quickly we want to lose them. We enter the target weight, slide the loss speed bar, and the app will suggest a caloric model for each day that we must not exceed.
The app has several graphs with which you can get an idea of the objectives and which were the days you met them. It has an interface that works quite well and the only downside is that at the moment it's in english, which limits its use quite a bit by having other apps that are also very good and allow you to use them in Spanish.
Lose it! it is managed from lthe tabs we have at the top that take us to the current day, the records, objectives and social. We have the option of adding friends so that this social function allows us to share that struggle to lose or gain kilos and thus we can cheer up among several before that Christmas that in two months we will already have all those advertisements with the best nougat.
For € 3,59 per month you have the premium option, although for free you will have the ability to register meals with the capture you make. An interesting app for its image recognition capacity.
