AI meal tracker for photo/text logging across iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram and the Wave Eats iOS app, estimating calories, macros, ingredients and caffeine.
Meals.Chat is an AI food and drink tracker built around conversational logging. Users can send a meal photo, type what they ate, or correct an estimate in a sentence; the service returns estimated calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat, ingredients and, where relevant, caffeine. The current product is available through iMessage, WhatsApp and Telegram, while its dedicated iPhone app is now branded Wave Eats: AI Food Tracker. The iOS app adds history, goals, reminders and daily/weekly/monthly insights. Because the Meals.Chat website and messaging surfaces remain active, Wave Eats is best treated as the current iOS name rather than a wholesale rename of the service. 12
Meals.Chat currently advertises the first 15 meals free. On the US App Store, Wave Eats is free to download with Pro in-app purchases at $7.99/month or $59.99/year. Other storefronts may use different regional pricing, so these US amounts should not be generalized globally. The most distinctive access advantage is channel choice: a user can log in messaging apps already used every day instead of opening a dedicated nutrition database for every meal. 12
The strongest external signal is the current US App Store rating of 4.8/5 from 29 ratings. That is positive but still a modest sample and represents only the iPhone surface, so it receives limited weight rather than being treated as broad product consensus. No fixed-panel editorial or benchmark source independently validated calorie, macro, portion-size or caffeine accuracy. The service explicitly lets users correct wrong estimates, which is appropriate for probabilistic food recognition but also underscores that the outputs are estimates. They should not be treated as clinical nutrition measurements or as a substitute for professional dietary advice when precision is medically important. 12
The privacy policy identifies Mohrer Associates LLC, describes account/profile/technical/transaction data, states that payment information is not taken directly by the operator, provides access/deletion rights and says SSL is used in transit. The policy also says the service does not collect special-category health information, a statement that deserves cautious interpretation because meal, calorie and goal data can be health-adjacent in practice. Apple's current disclosure says purchases, contact information, user content and identifiers may be linked to identity, while usage data may be collected without linkage. 234
Meals.Chat is best for consumers who value consistency and speed over laboratory-grade nutritional precision: people tracking calories or macros, casual fitness/diet users, and anyone who finds conventional food-database logging too tedious. Messaging-based capture is particularly useful for people who already live in iMessage, WhatsApp or Telegram. It is less suitable for users who need verified nutrient composition, clinical diet management, allergy-safe ingredient identification, or exact portion measurement without manual review. 12
The clearest strength is low-friction logging: photo, text and correction are all supported, and the service meets users in common chat apps while maintaining a dedicated iOS experience. The free 15-meal allowance makes the workflow easy to evaluate, and the current App Store rating is encouraging. The main weakness is evidence depth. There is no independent controlled test of nutrition-estimation accuracy in the current corpus, the iOS rating sample is still small, and privacy/terms documents are older than the current multi-channel product surface. Meals.Chat is therefore most compelling as a convenient tracking aid whose estimates users actively review and correct, not as an authoritative nutrition instrument. 123
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