A mobile calorie-tracking app where users take a photo of a meal and AI estimates…
A mobile calorie-tracking app where users take a photo of a meal and AI estimates calories and macros.
Problem it solves. Make it easy for people to estimate calories/macros from meal photos to track nutrition.
Who pays. Consumers wanting to track calories (mostly German-speaking users).
Market. health / nutrition apps / consumer mobile
How it makes money. Subscriptions: €7.99/month and €39.99/year
Claimed. ~€22k gross all-time; ~€14.3k landed after store cuts/VAT; ~678 active subscriptions; ~$2.2k MRR
OP provides granular metrics (installs by platform from RevenueCat, ratings counts, subscription counts, itemized expenses including ad spend and cloud bills), commenters engage constructively (no high-upvote accusation of fakery or self-promotion) and some validate the numbers as plausible while offering optimization suggestions.
“Google Cloud: ~€3,900, mostly Gemini / Vertex AI Cursor + Claude Code: ~€3,000 These look way too high, why not use cost effective models like gpt-6-luna or glm-5.3-flash? Are you paying API prices for Cursor/Claude Code?” ▲ 30
“Yeah I was gonna say it seems that you're paying API pricing. For the same price you can get over a dozen Claude 20x subscriptions.” ▲ 20
“Out of interest, how experienced are you with Google Ads and what’s your CPA? ... my current CPA (trial started) ist around 30€” ▲ 15