Bitey isn't made by a 50-person growth-hacking startup. It's made by one developer in Vancouver who got tired of being lectured by his calorie tracker.
I make iOS apps from Vancouver, British Columbia. It started as a hobby and Bitey is the project that wouldn't let me put it down.
I'd been bouncing between calorie tracking apps for years. They'd start fine, then slowly turn into a chore. Search a database for "apple." Pick the wrong apple. Adjust the gram weight. Watch a guilt-trip notification fire. Close the app. Forget to log dinner. Repeat.
I kept thinking: I take a photo of my food anyway. Why am I also typing it in?
Bitey is the answer to that question. Point your camera, the AI figures out what it is and roughly how much, and it gets logged. The shame loops, the streaks-as-blackmail, the diet ideology, all of it left out on purpose. The goal is to know what you ate without the app trying to fix you.
There are a lot of decisions to make when you build software. These three I'm not budging on, ever, no matter what a growth advisor tells me.
Bitey is paid for by the people who use it. The free tier is genuinely free, not bait. The paid tier funds the AI bills and one human.
Not to advertisers. Not to insurance brokers. Not to "research partners." Bitey ships with zero third-party analytics and zero trackers. You can verify it.
No notifications that make you feel bad. No streaks designed to ruin your day if you skip one. Bitey winks when you go over. That's it. That's the whole vibe.
These are the things I'm working toward for Bitey v2. In rough order. If something here doesn't end up shipping, I'd rather you know than be quietly disappointed.
If you found a bug, have a feature you want, hate something, love something, or just want to say hi, that inbox lands in my pocket and I answer it myself. There's no support team behind me. There's just me.
Email me directly, I'd love to hear from you.