Frequently asked questions.

Setup takes about two minutes: your goal (cut, lean bulk, recomp or maintain), body stats, activity level and how many days you train. Vitalume builds your calorie and macro targets, and a first-run tour shows you how to log your first meal with the coach. You can skip setup and finish it later from the Profile tab.

Yes. Open Profile → Goal to switch between cut, lean bulk, recomposition and maintenance. Targets are recalculated immediately and the coach adjusts its advice from the next message on.

Yes. Profile → Targets lets you override calories, protein, carbs and fat. The coach will respect your numbers, but will tell you if they are aggressive for your goal.

It starts from your estimated TDEE, applies a deficit or surplus appropriate to your goal, and then learns from your actual weight trend: if you are losing faster or slower than expected over two to three weeks, targets are nudged so you stay on track without crash-dieting.

Vitalume keeps protein high and tracks strength so you preserve muscle while losing weight, which is the number-one concern for people on GLP-1 medication. It does not give medical advice about your medication; please follow your prescriber’s guidance.

Tap the camera in the coach, snap your plate, and Vitalume identifies each item, estimates portions and logs the meal. Tap any item to adjust the portion or swap the food.

Yes. Hold the microphone and describe your meal naturally: “two eggs, toast with butter, half an avocado”. The coach parses it, logs it and confirms the totals.

Yes. Barcodes resolve against a global product database, and label mode reads the nutrition panel directly for exact values. Both are unlimited on the free plan.

A photo cannot see hidden oil, sauces or exact weights, so estimates are estimates. Vitalume grounds every result in a verified database and shows a confidence hint. When exact numbers matter, use a barcode, a label scan or the food scale entry.

Yes. Tell the coach “that was yesterday’s dinner”, or open any day from Progress and add an entry there. Each entry has a meal slot you can change.

Yes. The database and the recogniser cover South Asian, Middle Eastern, East Asian, Latin American, African and European dishes, from biryani and dal to shawarma, pho and tamales.

Yes. Any logged meal can be saved as a favourite or turned into a recipe with per-serving macros. Favourites appear as one-tap chips in the coach.

Fibre, sugar, sodium and saturated fat are tracked on every entry. A full micronutrient panel is on the roadmap.

A full exercise library with video guidance, workout logging with a rest timer (phone and Apple Watch), PR tracking, weekly volume, and, on Pro, a training coach that builds and adapts your programme to your goal and schedule.

A daily 0–100 score built from your sleep, resting heart rate, HRV and recent training load. High readiness means go heavy; low readiness means the coach suggests a lighter session and may shift a few calories toward recovery.

Recovery shapes your training load, training load shapes your nutrition targets, and the coach explains every change. Most apps handle one of those; Vitalume connects all three so the advice is consistent.

Yes. The Vitalume watch app starts today's session from your wrist, logs sets with the Digital Crown, runs the rest timer with haptics, records heart rate through the workout, and shows your calorie ring, macros and readiness. Complications put calories, readiness, today's workout and weight on your watch face.

Yes. Four iOS widgets in small, medium and lock-screen sizes: calories left with the ring and macros, readiness with the recovery band, today's workout with a one-tap start, and your weight trend. Each one deep-links straight into the right screen.

Anything that writes to Apple Health or Health Connect: Apple Watch, Garmin, Oura, WHOOP, Fitbit, Polar, Samsung Galaxy Watch, Google Pixel Watch and more.

On Pro, active energy from your wearable adjusts your daily target conservatively (you never “eat back” the full number). You can turn this off in Profile → Targets.

Anything about your nutrition, training and recovery: “what should I eat tonight with 600 kcal left?”, “swap today to a rest day”, “why did my weight jump?”, “give me a high-protein vegetarian lunch”. It has your full context, so answers are specific to you.

No. Vitalume is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat or advise on medical conditions or medication. Please consult a qualified professional for anything medical.

A mix of on-device recognition and leading large language models, routed per task for accuracy and speed. Your data is never used to train third-party models.

Yes. Tell it your cuisine, budget, cooking time and what is in your fridge, and it builds a plan that fits your remaining targets, and logs it when you eat it.

Daily weigh-ins are smoothed into a trend line so a salty dinner or a hard workout does not look like fat gain. The trend, not the daily number, drives target adjustments.

Yes. Profile → Export gives you a CSV of every food log, workout and body metric.

Profile → Settings → Delete account removes your account and every piece of data associated with it, immediately and permanently.

Free: unlimited search and barcode logging, 1 AI photo/chat log a day, 3 coach messages a day, workout logging, core exercise library, 7-day progress. Pro: unlimited AI logging and coach, the training coach and programmes, readiness-adjusted targets, full history and the complete exercise library.

Subscriptions are managed by Apple or Google. Cancel any time from your phone’s subscription settings; you keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for.

Refunds are handled by the App Store or Google Play according to their policies. If something went wrong, message us on WhatsApp at +1 505 523 2529 and we will help.

Yes. Vitalume is native on both iPhone and Android, plus Apple Watch, with home-screen widgets on iOS.