Description of App
Track the foods you shove in your piehole with CARROT, the talking calorie counter.
** Hilarious A.I. construct CARROT has been featured on Jeopardy, Good Morning America, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, & more! **
After watching humans indiscriminately stuff their chubby faces for far too long, CARROT has scienced up a calorie counter that will reward you for healthy eating - and punish you for overindulging.
Log At Lightning Speed
Simply tap CARROT’s ocular sensor, then start typing to search her enormous food database. Or you can open her barcode scanner to scan the UPC of the item you just wolfed down.
See A Food's True Cost
Did you know you need to go for a 90 minute walk just to burn off the calories contained in a single slice of pizza? CARROT will convert a food's calories into terms you can actually understand, like how many miles you'll need to run to work off a donut.
Feel The Burn
Keep your avatar from blimping up by logging your workouts. CARROT imported a wide variety of activities into her database, including Running, LARPing, and Laser Tag.
Get Yelled At For Opening The Fridge
Stick an iBeacon sensor inside your fridge, and CARROT will remind you to log your foods whenever you get near. But be careful - if you’re already over your calorie goal, CARROT will blare an alarm.
Quake In Fear Of Punishment
Overeat, and CARROT will serve up brutal punishments like bribe requests, hideous fullscreen ads, and tweets that will shame you in front of all your social media pals.
Features:
- Track your calories with a talking AI construct
- Scan barcodes for lightning-fast logging
- Record your exercises and workouts
- Watch your avatar grow as you consume food
- Stay up to date on your progress with the Today widget
- Create time-based reminders for different meals
- Use an iBeacon sensor to set up a proximity-based reminder
- Establish calorie and weight loss goals
- Back up all your data with Dropbox sync support
- Sync data with Apple's Health app
Don't make CARROT angry. Download her immediately!
Comments
any advice on using the bar code scanner to add foods?
I was going to try to add in a few of my staple foods to make life a bit easier, but I am having trouble figuring out how to use the bar code scanner. Is it functional, or are my horrific camera skills to blame? I had a protein bar and kept moving it around in front of the camera, trying to get the barcode to read, but nothing ever happened. I ended up having to close the app and then type in the name of the food manually. In this particular instance, it wasn't a big deal, but sometimes, I'd prefer to scan a barcode as I don't always know the exact name of what I want to eat. Any tips or tricks would be extremely appreciated. Next thing I'd like to add is the little ready-to-drink protein shakes. If anyone knows the most effective way to scan one of those, I'd really appreciate it. On the whole, I love the Carrot apps, for both hunger and fitness. They're the most accessible I've encountered so far, but both occasionally have focus issues. I eagerely await future updates to these apps as I think they'll definitely keep me motivated.
It Works, but…
I find it to work. Not as well as Red Laser, but it will scan easily enough. The main thing I'd suggest is to be sure you enable the light. To do this, hold your finger over the camera as you double tap the button to scan, so that the phone will think the lights are low and turn on its own light.
Don't forget that you can type in the name of an item, hit the "search all foods" button, and see if what you have is already in the database. You can then tap the correct search result, and there you go.