Why We Built Avocado
At Avocado, we saw meal tracking apps like MyFitnessPal as overly complicated, losing sight of user experience. We wanted to start fresh, focusing on user experience and taking advantage of the rapid advancements in AI to make meal tracking simple and intuitive.
We are focused on making Avocado easy and enjoyable to use, ensuring every detail is thoughtfully designed. While this takes time, it’s a mission we are fully committed to. Many apps boast AI capabilities, but they often overlook the finer details that truly enhance usability. We are determined to set a new standard by combining cutting-edge technology with a meticulous focus on user needs.
What Makes Us Different
We set out to create an app that makes meal tracking easy for new users and increasingly convenient for long-term users with time-saving tools. This required rethinking the entire meal tracking journey and designing a user experience that supports it. Advanced models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google have played a key role in improving meal tracking. These models enhance features like detecting meals from images, and providing faster, more reliable insights into what you eat.
One of the frustrations we addressed was the limitations in tracking goals. We designed a flexible and scalable platform that adapts to your needs and provides long-term trends and insights into your nutrition.
Unlike traditional meal tracking apps, Avocado stands out by focusing on simplicity and innovation. Here's what sets us apart:
- AI-Powered Meal Logging: Log your meals in a way that works best for you—snap a picture, write a short description, or select from saved meals. Avocado does the rest, making manual data entry a thing of the past.
- Personalized Insights: Discover trends in your macro consumption by week or month. Get insights like your top meals by protein or calories, helping you better understand your eating habits and make informed choices over time.
- Flexible Goals: Set limits, targets, or ranges for any macro to suit your needs. You can update your goals anytime while retaining your history, making it easier to adapt as your nutritional journey evolves.
Where We Intend to Go in the Future
Our journey doesn’t stop here. Future updates will include:
- Enhanced Food Database: We intend to build one of the world’s largest food databases, focusing specifically on packaged food and fast food. We will sync thousands of restaurant menus into our database for accurate nutritional analysis whenever you eat out, providing unparalleled accuracy and recognition.
- Community Features: We already give you many ways to share your progress. Soon, you’ll also be able to engage more closely with family, friends, or a community, making it easier to stay motivated and connected.
- Coaching Features: We are bringing coaching to the app in 2025. If you need extra accountability or coaching, we will be offering real human certified coaches for one-on-one and group coaching in the app.
Go Try It Out and Send Us Feedback
We’re excited to share Avocado with you. Your feedback will help us shape the future of meal tracking. Try it out today and let us know what you think. Together, we can make meal tracking smarter, easier, and more effective. And this is just the beginning—we’re only getting started!
