Paprikav1.0

Calorie Log: a Simple Calorie Counter for Your Phone

Why Paprika? Ground red pepper: the spice that turns a plate red.

Runs on: Any web browser, best on a phone: nothing to install, and the log stays on your device. Claude estimates need your own Anthropic API key.

✨ Install with Claude's help

Not sure how to install this? Let an AI assistant walk you through it, step by step, on your own system.

  1. Copy the instructions below.
  2. Open Claude (a free account works) and paste them in.
  3. Answer its questions and follow along, doing the typing yourself.

Claude in a web browser cannot reach your computer: it reads the instructions, asks about your system, and tells you what to type and what each command does, one step at a time. You stay in control of everything that actually runs.

Using Claude Code? That is the version that runs in a terminal on your own machine, so it can do the downloading and installing itself, asking before each step. Paste this into it instead:

Open in Claude Code ↗needs the Claude Desktop app

Calorie Log (Paprika): a calorie counter for your phone

Paprika is a one-page calorie log. Type what you ate with its calories ("banana 105"), or add your own Anthropic API key and just type "2 eggs and toast" or take a photo of the food or its nutrition label, and Claude fills in the number. The log stays in your browser: no account, no server.

Today's log with a 7-day chart

Use it: https://veered.org/calorie-log/app/ (add it to your phone's home screen). Or open index.html from any web server (python3 -m http.server); add ?demo to the address to see sample entries.

What it does

Privacy

Your log is saved in this browser's local storage and never leaves your device. With an API key, the text you type or the photo you take is sent straight from your browser to Anthropic to be estimated, and the key is kept in this browser only. Barcodes alone are not looked up: the page makes no other network calls.

Name

Paprika is ground red pepper: the spice that turns a plate red.

MIT License.

Information for nerds: the source code

Everything this project is made of, as committed: the code, its README files and its license. No build step or account needed to read it.

⬇ Download source (.zip)

paprika-calorie-log.zip · 126 KB · released under the license stated on this page.

Please test before relying on these tools. They are shared as-is, with no warranty. They work on my own computers, but your system, settings and software versions may differ, so please try them in a safe setting first. If something doesn't work, you can ask Claude (or another AI coding assistant) to look into it, and I'd appreciate hearing what you found and how you fixed it. You are also welcome to just let me know at support@veered.org, and I'll look into it.