Bao: Asian & AI Food Tracker
Menu Scanner & Macro Counter
Only for iPhone
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
You eat hawker, dim sum and night market. Your calorie app thinks you eat chicken breast and salad. Bao knows the difference — and reads any menu, any language. Sorted.
Every calorie app was built for someone else's dinner.
Bao was built for yours. Hawker plates, night-market snacks, dim sum, curry, bento, boba — the food you actually eat, finally counted. Western food too, obviously. Free to download. Try Pro free for 7 days: unlimited scans, menu reader, coach.
THE FOOD BAO WAS BUILT FOR
Nasi lemak, char kway teow, dim sum, ramen, bento, boba, laksa, curry, Taiwanese street food — Bao names each one and estimates its calories and macros. Plus everything you'd expect it to handle anyway: burgers, pasta, salads, sandwiches, takeaway. 13+ cuisines in one app, so nothing you order is off the map.
SCAN ANY MENU, IN ANY LANGUAGE
Point your camera at a menu — Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, whatever the local language happens to be — and Bao reads it, translates it into yours, and estimates calories and macros for every dish. You decide what to order before you order it, instead of guessing afterward. Two weeks into a trip or two years into living somewhere you still can't read the menu — same problem, same fix.
SNAP YOUR MEAL
One photo. Bao names every dish on the table with calories, protein, carbs, and fat — in English, Chinese, and the food's original language. A single rice plate or eight dishes shared between five people, it reads both.
ALLERGIES AND HEALTH CONDITIONS
Set yours once — nuts, shellfish, sesame, gluten, dairy, diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, acid reflux, kidney, IBS, pregnancy — and Bao flags dishes that clash, on photo scans, menu scans, barcodes, and typed meals. It matches ingredients in English and Chinese, which matters most when you can't read the menu and have no idea what's in the sauce.
YOUR AI COACH, 24/7
A nutrition coach and a fitness coach in the same conversation, awake whenever you are.
- Knows your goal, your diet, your health conditions, and everything you've logged today, so you're never re-explaining yourself
- Remembers the obstacle you named at signup — busy schedule, late-night cravings, eating out constantly, portion guesswork — and works around it instead of ignoring it
- Real workouts, not "exercise more": rep counts, durations, step targets, 10-minute sessions when you're slammed, progressive overload when you're not
- Connects the two — protein timing around lifting, what to eat on a heavy training day
- Talks about mood, stress, sleep and a rough day at work, because those decide what you eat far more often than willpower does
- Never uses diet-culture language. No "you earned it," no "cheat meal," no "guilt-free," no asking whether you're really hungry. Those words are banned in Bao's instructions, not merely discouraged.
MORE WAYS TO LOG
- Barcode scanner for packaged food
- Describe a meal in plain words and Bao does the math
- Full app in English and Traditional Chinese
TRANSPARENT BILLING
No hidden charges. Pro's 7-day trial gives you full access from day one with nothing charged today, the price is the price, and you can cancel anytime in Settings — it takes two taps.
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Bao Pro subscription: $4.99/week, $9.99/month, or $59.99/year (price shown in your local currency at purchase). Payment is charged to your Apple ID account when the 7-day free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings.
Terms of Use: https://trybao.app/terms
Privacy Policy: https://trybao.app/privacy
Bao provides nutrition estimates for general informational purposes and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified professional before making significant dietary changes.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app has not received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
• A new first run: try an example scan before you set anything up, then build your plan in a few taps
• Set your own daily protein and calorie goals in Profile, or go back to Bao's suggestion any time
• Water: log a custom amount and set your own daily water goal
• Menu scan: a steadier read of long menus, with progress messages while Bao works through every page
• Menu scan now respects your diet (vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free, halal, kosher) and lets you add a dish Bao missed
• Deleting or editing a meal now updates Apple Health too
• Better Taiwanese dish names in scan results
• Rate Bao opens the App Store review page directly
• Additional bug fixes and improvements
The developer, Yao Wei Wang, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Purchases
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Yao Wei Wang
- Size
- 121 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Bao Pro Monthly USD 9.99
- Bao Pro Annually USD 59.99
- Bao Pro Weekly · Unlimited Scans USD 4.99
- Copyright
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