The questions people ask most

No. Every dish in the reference has a usual portion, so "a bowl of soup" becomes three hundred grams straight away. If the dish is not there yet, Nora asks how much it was and offers three weights to choose from: one tap instead of typing. Say the weight in words and that works too.

No, only the first time for a dish it does not know. What you answer becomes your usual portion for that dish, and after that it is logged in silence. Portions change as you do: say "pilaf, 300 grams" one day and pilaf stays three hundred until you say otherwise.

Yes, and you do not have to delete anything. Just write "that was two hundred grams, not three hundred" and the entry changes. The correction is not a one-off: next time the dish is counted with your number. "Move it to lunch" works the same way when an entry simply landed on the wrong card.

Yes, and that is the base layer of the reference: cooked dishes with their own numbers and a usual portion, not only packaged goods with a barcode. No reference covers every dish in the world, so whatever is missing is estimated by Nora herself. The estimate is made once and becomes yours: next week the same dish gives the same number, not a new one.

A scan looks the product up in our database first, then in the open Open Food Facts database. The numbers come from the packaging, not from an estimate. If the product is nowhere, Nora reads the ingredients label, and what she reads is filed under that barcode: the next person gets it instantly. Barcodes and labels cost no tokens.

Yes. Water, weight, measurements and workouts are logged the same way as food: in words to Nora or by hand. What a workout burns is taken off what you ate, and the target stays where it is, so the day card shows both numbers honestly.

Yes. Entries are kept on the phone and sync as soon as there is a connection. Only the assistant stops, because it does its counting on the server.

The diary is free. Tokens are spent only on the assistant: one token for a message, two for a photo. You start with thirty, thirty more arrive every month, and the balance tops out at a hundred. Answering by tapping a weight costs nothing: the dish is already worked out, and there is nothing to count twice.

The app keeps working. Logging by hand, the analytics, water and workouts are always there with no limits. Searching the reference is free too, so an entry made by hand still carries proper numbers rather than zeroes.

Nora with no limit: conversations, meal photos, recipes and the weekly review without limits, plus personalised memory. Everything free stays free. It costs $9.99 a month or $39.99 a year and is bought inside the app: Menu → Subscription.

In the settings of the store you bought it from: the App Store or Google Play. Access stays until the end of the paid period, then the app runs on free tokens. Your entries go nowhere.

Yes, any language, even several mixed in one sentence. The interface comes in thirteen: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Czech, Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian. It follows the language of the phone, and can be changed in the app settings.

In the evening Nora asks only about what is missing from the day, dinner or water, and stays quiet if everything is logged. Medications remind you on their own schedule, if you turned that on.

A photo is needed for exactly as long as the analysis takes and is never stored on the server. What reaches the diary is the dish name, the weight and the numbers, not the picture. A photo is counted on its own terms: it shows how much is actually there, and your usual portion does not override it.

No. The app works fully without signing in, and every entry stays on the phone. But only on that phone: change it or reinstall the app and there is nothing to restore the diary from, because we do not know whose it is. Signing in with Google is the one thread that lets you get your entries back and see them on two devices.

Sign in with Google on the new phone and the entries come back by themselves. The subscription is tied to the account too, not to the device. If you never signed in, the entries live only on the old phone, and there is nowhere to move them from.

In the app: Settings → Account → Delete account and data. The screen shows how many entries will go and asks you to confirm. If the phone is gone, write to us from the email you signed in with. What exactly disappears and what stays is described separately.

No. Calvi keeps a diary and counts calories with protein, fat and carbohydrates, but it does not diagnose, does not prescribe diets and does not calculate drug doses. It does not replace a doctor.