Tell us what you ate.
We’ll do the maths.
Platey is an AI food diary and macro tracker for people who run. Photograph your dinner, or describe it in five words, and it works out the calories, protein, carbs and fat — then tells you what would fit in the rest of the day.
No barcodes. No food search. Nothing to weigh. Built for someone who works full time, runs three or four times a week and still has a takeaway on Friday.
Nothing to pay · Works in any browser · Sits on your home screen like an app
Your day, halfway through a Tuesday
No red, no warnings, no telling you off. Targets are a guide, and the app is perfectly happy for you to be over one of them.
Three ways in, and that's the whole app
- 01
Take a photo
Point it at your plate and add five words if you like. It reads the portion from the plate and the cutlery, and asks if it needs to.
- 02
Or just say it
“Handful of chips and a pint.” “Usual breakfast.” Ordinary language, not a search box you have to fight.
- 03
Paste the whole day
Missed a day? Type it all out in one go from memory and it separates it into meals for you.
How Platey works out what’s in a meal — the estimate, the sanity check, and where the numbers come from.
It knows you run
Type “5 mile easy run tonight” or “parkrun Saturday” and your day adjusts around it. A long run on Sunday morning changes what Saturday evening should look like. There is no heart rate, no training load, no recovery score, and nobody is ever told they’ve earned a cake.
Most of the time it says nothing at all. An easy half hour after a normal day of eating needs no advice, so it doesn’t give you any.
Who it's for
Runners in the middle
Three or four runs a week, a spring half marathon in the diary, no coach and no interest in a training-load dashboard.
People who gave up on tracking
Because searching a database for “chicken curry, homemade” at nine at night is a chore nobody sticks at.
Anyone who eats normally
Takeaways, meal deals, a pub roast, the last of the kids’ chips. All of it goes in without judgement.
Platey is deliberately not for elite athletes, and it isn’t a clinical tool. If you need gram accuracy for a medical reason, weigh your food — this is the wrong app and would be a frustrating one.
Your food diary is nobody else's business
- Photos go in a private bucket, keyed to your account, served through short-lived links. There are no public image URLs.
- Every table is locked to your user ID at the database level, not just in the app.
- Delete a meal, a photo, a whole day, or your entire account — from Settings, without emailing anyone.
- No ads, no selling data, no sharing your diary with anyone.
What it isn't
- A calorie tracker with AI bolted on the side
- A database you have to search before you can eat
- Sports science software with a dashboard of scores
- Anything that will ever tell you a food is bad
Indicative and quick beats meticulous and abandoned. That is the whole design argument, and everything else follows from it.
Questions people ask first
How accurate is a calorie estimate from a photo?
Close enough to be useful, and not as precise as a food label. Platey reads the portion from the plate, the cutlery and anything else in the frame, then checks its own answer against a table of common UK foods and pulls the estimate back if it has drifted. You can adjust any portion, and it remembers. For seeing the shape of a normal week it is plenty; for a clinical diet it is not.
Do I have to photograph everything?
No. Most people type. "Handful of chips and a pint" works, so does "usual breakfast" once you have saved one, and you can paste a whole day from memory in one go and it will separate it into meals.
Does Platey work with British food and supermarket meals?
Yes. Portions are UK sizes throughout, the reference table is built around food sold and eaten in Britain, and it is comfortable with a Friday takeaway, a meal deal or a pub roast.
Will it tell me to eat back the calories I burn running?
No. A session feeds through at a fraction of its estimated cost depending on your goal and how hard it was, and it is capped. Nobody is ever told they have earned 600 calories. Carbohydrate is where a hard day actually shows, so that is what moves most.
Is it a diet app? Will it tell me off?
No. Nothing turns red, nothing says failed, and no food is ever called bad. Targets are described as a guide, and the app is perfectly happy for you to be over one of them.
What does it cost?
Nothing at the moment. There is no payment step anywhere in Platey and no subscription to cancel.
Start with tonight’s dinner
One meal is enough to see whether you like it. Setting up takes about a minute, and you can change every target afterwards.