STYR Updates Nutrition App To Integrate Voice And Photo Recognition
Used to logging your meals manually into a diary or fitness app? Obsessed with posting pictures of your food to Instagram? Those habits can now come in handy with the introduction of STYR 2.0, the nutrition company’s updated app that integrates voice recognition and image capture.
The new app gives consumers an easier way to log their meals and instantly see their calorie consumption and nutrient intake. The app employs a database of over two million foods, so that most anything you log with their voice or camera will be recognized. The app also takes account of the place and time of every entry, potentially helping users better space out their meals. (Users can still manually log their meals in the app.)
STYR 2.0, which is registered for a patent, also maintains 250,000 research articles that support the company’s model of converting users’ food logs into personalized nutritional advice. It also recommends individual vitamins, protein powders and electrolytes based on fitness and nutrition data from a number of peripheral devices such as a water bottle, wireless scale and fitness-tracking bracelet (all of which work on Bluetooth).
“The Alexa integration not only eliminates the hassle of having to remember to log your food intake manually, but it’s another step towards our vision of making nutritional data actionable and personalized,” Sergio Radovcic, STYR Labs’ founder, said in a statement.
STYR Labs originally broke onto the fitness and wearables scenes last July with the launch of the scale and a fitness-tracking wristband, released in tandem with the first iteration of the app. The scale and wristband each take stock of the user’s nutrition, body composition and physical activity. Based on the data, the devices recommend custom-made protein powders and multivitamins, respectively, that STYR sends directly to the user. The aforementioned water bottle launched in November.
With the new version of the app, users create personal “labs” that display their food and water intake; weight; calories (both in and out, corresponding to set goals); different dieting options (Cheats and Eats); and rewards based on fitness or diet accomplishments. In line with its nutrition data model, the app also tracks users’ progress towards the recommended daily allowances of many necessary amino acids, vitamins and minerals.
“We’re excited to offer the new food capture technology to consumers to provide a more convenient user experience, so they can really see and understand the health benefits of an entire ecosystem of products working together to capture data and create personalized supplements,” Radovcic said in the statement.
