Meal logging that takes one photo, not five minutes
Manual meal logging is why most people quit tracking. Mello reads your plate from a photo, so logging a meal takes one shot instead of a five-minute search.
Snap, and the meal is logged
Point the camera at your food and tap once. Mello identifies the items and adds the calories and macros to your day. There is no search box to fill, no list of near-matches to pick from, no guessing which entry is the right one. For a normal plate this is the whole interaction, which is the point. Logging should take less time than eating.
No manual search, no barcode hunt
Typing food names and hunting for barcodes is the part everyone hates, and it is where logging streaks go to die. Mello skips it. The photo is the input. That matters most for home-cooked meals and restaurant plates, which rarely have a barcode and almost never match a database entry cleanly anyway.
Edit in two taps when it matters
Sometimes the AI sees a large portion when it was small, or misses a sauce. You fix it fast. Tap the entry, adjust the portion or change the food, done. We would rather give you a quick estimate you can correct than make you build every meal from scratch. Most edits take a couple of taps, and then the day is accurate.
Questions and answers
How long does logging a meal take?
For a typical plate, about as long as taking a photo. The AI handles identifying the food and the numbers, so you are not typing anything in the normal case.
What if the photo gets something wrong?
You tap the entry and fix the portion or swap the food in two taps. The estimate gives you a starting point so you are correcting, not building from zero.
Do I need to scan barcodes?
No. Mello logs from the photo of the actual meal, which works for home cooking and restaurant dishes where barcodes do not exist.