ProScan: Daily Protein Scanner

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About this app

Most food trackers ask you to weigh a chicken breast, search a database of 400,000 entries, find eleven kinds of "chicken breast" and pick one. Almost nobody is still doing that by Thursday.

ProScan asks for a photograph.

Point your camera at a plate, a packet or a label, and you get the protein in about a second, with the portion worked out, the calories alongside it, and the day totted up for you. No weighing. No searching. No typing.

A TARGET BUILT FROM YOUR BODY

Your daily protein target comes from your weight, height, age, how much you actually train and what you are trying to do, not from a number that is the same for everyone. It uses the standard equations, and the app tells you the reasoning rather than handing down a figure: "1.7 g per kg of your body weight."

A PLAN, NOT JUST A NUMBER

A short setup asks when you actually eat, what tends to get in the way, and what you have already tried. It comes back with a plan you helped write:

• Your target split across your real day, so protein is spread rather than piled into dinner
• One rule to follow in week one, in your own words, "if it is breakfast, then one protein thing goes in before the coffee is finished"
• A plain answer for each obstacle you named

WHAT YOU GET

• Photograph anything — a cooked plate, a packet, a nutrition label
• One-tap logging of anything you have eaten before, no camera needed
• Corrections that stick: adjust a portion and the day stays true
• Your whole diary, day by day, with every meal
• A fortnight at a glance, so you can see the pattern rather than yesterday
• Calories, carbs and fat alongside the protein: shown, never nagged about
• Works in kilograms or pounds

NO ACCOUNT, EVER

No email, no password, no sign-in. ProScan works the moment you open it.

HONEST BY DESIGN

The app tells you when it is unsure, and says so plainly rather than inventing a number. Point it at something that is not food and it will tell you. Every reading is an estimate you can adjust in one drag and if your phone is offline, it says so instead of pretending your day is empty.

FREE TO START

Your first twenty meals are free, with everything unlocked, the target, the plan, the diary, corrections. After that, ProScan Unlimited removes the limit on scanning:

• $39.99 per year (save 16%)
• $3.99 per month

Subscriptions renew unless auto-renew is switched off at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed in your Google Play account settings at any time.

ProScan counts one thing, and counts it well. Being at 130 g instead of 138 g changes nothing. Missing four days because logging is tedious changes everything.