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What is BeforeIBite?

A 60-second tour of BeforeIBite — what it does, who it's for, and how the app is laid out.

Updated October 27, 2026

BeforeIBite is an AI nutrition tracker built for shared meals. Hot pot, dim sum, mezze, thali, tapas, family-style stir-fry — the meals most of the world eats together don't fit cleanly into apps designed around a single plated entrée. BeforeIBite is built around them.

What you can do

Log a meal four ways. Snap a photo, scan a barcode, scan a nutrition label, or type the name. The AI estimates calories and macros; you can adjust anything before saving.

Split a shared dish. When you eat from the middle of the table, log the whole dish once and split it by portion — yours, your partner's, the kid who only ate the tofu. No re-logging from scratch.

Send a meal to the other diners. On iPhone, choose Split & send to share a meal link. A friend can review the photo and nutrition, adjust their portion, and save their own copy. See Split, send, and save shared meals.

Track against your daily targets. Calories, protein, carbs, and fat, plus four micronutrients — sodium, sugar, fiber, and saturated fat — anchored to public-health guidelines. See How are nutrition's daily targets defined? for the sources.

The two tabs

Today. Your day in one screen — calories and macros remaining, the meals you've logged so far, and the camera button to log the next one.

On iPhone, the inbox button at the top right opens Shared meals, where you can revisit meal links you have opened and see saved and expiry status.

The Today tab: a weekly day picker, the day's calorie and macro progress, and the logged meals — Hot pot night, Dim sum lunch, Yum cha with Mei

Progress. How you've trended over time — calories, macros, and the four micronutrients across day, week, and month views.

What it costs

BeforeIBite is free to use with ads, or ad-free with a Pro subscription (7-day free trial on the annual plan). It's available on the App Store for iOS and on Google Play for Android. Every feature is available in both plans — Pro just removes the ads. See BeforeIBite plans — free and Pro for what's included, How your free trial works for trial details, and Why BeforeIBite Pro is ad-free for the longer answer.

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