Sayved

Features

Voice food diary

Yes. Press the button, say what you ate in your own words, and Sayved files it as a meal with calories and macros, each an estimate with a range. Your speech is turned into text on your phone, and the audio is never uploaded.

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How it works

  1. HoldLong-press the floating button and recording starts immediately. Or tap it once and choose voice.
  2. Say it plainlyDescribe the meal the way you would to a friend. Amounts help, but you do not have to give them.
  3. FinishYour phone transcribes the speech on the device. Only the resulting text is sent to an AI model to be structured.
  4. Check laterThe meal appears in your diary with an estimate and a range. Fix a number any time from History.

The quickest way to keep a food diary is to say what you ate at the moment you ate it. Sayved is built around that. You talk, it writes the meal down, and months later you can ask it what you had. No typing into search boxes, no scrolling a list of nine versions of “toast”.

What is a voice food diary?

It is a food log where speaking is the main way in. In Sayved there is one floating button that sits over every screen. Tap it and pick voice, or long-press it and recording starts immediately, which is the version most people settle on after a day. You say the meal and it is saved. The target for capture to saved is under ten seconds.

There is no meal-type menu and no category to choose. Sayved works out that “porridge with blueberries” is breakfast food, that “a flat white” involves caffeine, and that “twenty minutes on the bike” is exercise and belongs somewhere else. It files each in its own place.

How do I log food by voice in practice?

Speak the way you naturally would. Some real examples of what people say:

  • “Chicken shawarma wrap with garlic sauce and a handful of chips.”
  • “Leftover lasagne, about two squares, and a glass of milk.”
  • “Skipped lunch, just a coffee with oat milk at three.”
  • “Half the pizza. Honestly most of it.”

You can include amounts (“two slices”, “about 200 grams”) and Sayved will use them. If you leave them out, it assumes a typical portion for that food, saves the entry at lower confidence, and does not ask you anything. A rule of the app is that capture is never blocked by a question. You can correct it later, and a correction is stored beside the original reading instead of replacing it.

Sayved even handles the “I forgot to log” moment. Say “yesterday evening I had a jacket potato with beans and cheese” and the entry lands on yesterday evening, not now.

Does a voice calorie tracker need me to weigh anything?

No. The estimate comes from your description, and every figure is stored as a point value with a low and high bound and a confidence. Saying “a small bowl” versus “a huge bowl” shifts the estimate. Saying “150 grams of cooked rice” tightens the range.

Sayved is honest that this is an estimate. It is consistent, so the same description tends to produce the same reading, which is what makes weekly totals comparable. It is not a kitchen scale. If you weigh something, say the weight, and the range narrows. You can also edit any calorie or macro figure by tapping it.

For meals where a photo is easier than words, such as a restaurant plate you cannot describe, use calorie estimation from a photo instead. Both routes end in the same kind of entry, so they sit together in the same diary and the same totals.

Can I speak my food log in a noisy kitchen?

Mostly, yes, with a caveat. Speech is transcribed on the phone by its own speech recogniser, so quality depends on your phone, the room, and how clearly the foods are said. Common foods transcribe well. Brand names and dishes in another language are likelier to be misheard.

Sayved keeps your words with the entry, so if “quinoa” came out as “keen wah” you can see what happened and edit it. Nothing is silently lost. Because capture is fast, many people simply repeat an entry that was obviously wrong rather than fix it by hand.

What happens to my voice and my words?

Two different things, and it is worth being precise. The audio is converted to text on your device and is never uploaded. The text, meaning the sentence you said, is sent to an AI model to be turned into structured entries. No name, email or account is attached to it, the call is stateless, and nothing is kept on Sayved’s servers. Your diary itself lives on your phone.

That is a narrower promise than “nothing ever leaves your phone”, and Sayved does not make that promise. The privacy page lays out exactly what is sent and why.

What can I do with a spoken food diary afterwards?

Everything a typed one gives you, plus easy recall. Today shows the day as plain totals. Reports show energy, macros and meals across a week, month or longer. And in Ask, you can write “what did I have for dinner the last three times I had a headache?” and get an answer built only from your own entries. See ask your health history. There are no daily targets and no streaks, so a missed day is just a day with nothing in it.

If you eat the same things often, a saved routine logs a usual breakfast in one tap. The full picture of the category is on the food diary page.

Cost

Voice reading is part of Sayved Pro: 14 days free, then $2.99 a month. If you stop, your diary stays readable, searchable and exportable, free, forever, and typed entries keep working. Details are on the pricing page.

What it looks like

“Two scrambled eggs on toast with butter, and a black coffee. Then a banana around eleven.”

Two entries from one sentence

Breakfast
Eggs on buttered toast, ~420 kcal (range 340–510)
Coffee
Black coffee, ~2 kcal, caffeine logged separately
Snack, 11:00
Banana, ~105 kcal (range 90–120)
Confidence
Medium to high

Illustrative entries. Estimates always show their range.

What it doesn't do

  • Sayved cannot know an amount you did not say. 'A bowl of pasta' gets a typical portion with a wide range.
  • Transcription depends on your phone's speech recogniser, so noisy rooms and unusual product names can be misheard. Check the text if it matters.
  • AI structuring of spoken entries is part of Sayved Pro. Typing an entry stays free to use after the trial.
  • It records and estimates. It does not tell you whether a meal was good, bad, or enough.

Questions people ask

Is my voice recorded and uploaded?

No. Speech is converted to text on your phone and the audio is never uploaded. Only the text of what you said goes to an AI model, with no name, email or account attached.

Can one sentence log several foods?

Yes. Breakfast, a coffee and a mid-morning snack said in a single breath become separate entries, each filed in the right place.

Do I need to say the time?

No. The entry is stamped with when you spoke. If you say 'around eleven' or 'last night', Sayved uses that instead.

What if I say a food it does not recognise?

It saves the entry anyway at lower confidence with your words intact, so you can correct it later rather than being interrupted.

Does it work in languages other than English?

The app is available in 14 languages. Speech recognition uses your phone's own recogniser, so what works depends on the languages your phone supports.

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