Getting started

Your first five minutes, start to finish. Account, carb goal, permissions, and a quick lap around the home screen.

KetoLens is designed so you can log your first meal almost immediately. There's a short setup the first time you open it — here's exactly what happens, so nothing catches you off guard.

1. Create an account

Takes about 30 seconds

You can sign up three ways — pick whichever you trust with your breakfast:

  • Continue with Apple — fastest on iPhone, and you can hide your email if you like.
  • Continue with Google — one tap if you're already signed into Google.
  • Email & password — the classic. We'll send a 6-digit code to verify your address.

Already have an account? Tap Sign in at the bottom instead, or use Forgot password? if past-you was forgetful. Email sign-up asks for an optional name and a password that needs at least 8 characters, upper- and lower-case letters, a number, and a symbol — the app ticks each rule off as you type.

The Create Account screen with Continue with Apple and Google buttons, plus name, email, password and confirm-password fields, and a live password-requirements checklist.
The Create Account screen. The password rules tick green as you satisfy them.
Verifying your email

If you sign up with email, we send a 6-digit code. Pop it in, and you're through. Didn't get it? There's a Resend Code link once the short cooldown ends — check spam while you wait.

2. The 60-second intro

Skippable, but worth a swipe

Brand-new accounts get a short swipe-through intro. It's not filler — it explains the three things that make KetoLens different from every other food tracker. Hit Skip in the top corner any time you've seen enough.

Onboarding screen titled Snap. Analyse. Track. with a sample card reading Grilled Chicken Salad, Est. 4-8g net carbs, 32g protein, 18g fat.
Snap a photo, the AI does the macro maths.

Snap. Analyse. Track.

Point your camera at a plate and the AI identifies every food on it, then estimates the macros in seconds. No barcode hunting, no scrolling a database.

Onboarding screen titled Sneaky Carbs, Caught, with a hidden carb warning example about Caesar dressing adding 3-5g carbs per serving.
Hidden carbs are the whole point.

Sneaky carbs, caught

Sauces, dressings, breading, root veg — the carbs that quietly knock you out of ketosis. KetoLens flags the usual suspects so they don't blindside you.

Onboarding screen titled Your Ketosis at a Glance, with a +72 In Ketosis battery example and the note This is guidance, everyone's metabolism is different.
The Ketosis Battery, explained in one screen.

Your ketosis at a glance

The Ketosis Battery scores how likely you are to be in ketosis, 0 to 100, based on what you've eaten. It's guidance, not a blood test — everyone's metabolism is different. There's a whole page on the battery if you want the deep version.

The intro also covers honest estimates (we show net-carb ranges, not made-up exact numbers) and teaching the AI (your corrections make it smarter). Same ideas, more screens.

3. Quick Setup — your carb goal

Optional · change it any time

Before you land in the app, there's a one-screen Quick Setup. Two settings, both editable later in Settings if you change your mind:

  1. Daily Net Carb Goal — a slider from 10g to 75g. Most people do best around 20–25g; the app labels the zone as you drag so you know whether you're in "recommended", "moderate", or "flexible" territory.
  2. Use Metric Units — grams and kilograms, or switch it off for imperial.

Tap Let's Go! to save, or Skip setup to take the defaults (a 25g goal, metric units). Nothing here is permanent.

Not sure what to pick?

Start at 25g. It's a sensible keto default, and your Carb Tank and Ketosis Battery both calibrate to whatever number you set. You can nudge it later once you see how your body responds.

4. Camera & photo permissions

You stay in control

To snap and upload meals, KetoLens asks for two iOS permissions. You can grant them now or Skip for now and decide later — the app keeps working either way, you'll just be nudged again when you first try to use the camera.

  • Camera — so you can photograph a meal and have it analysed on the spot.
  • Photo Library — so you can pick a photo you already took. Without it, you can still snap with the camera or log manually.
  • Notifications — optional, for meal reminders and "analysis done" alerts. Tap Allow on the system prompt, or turn them on later in Settings.
About your photos

Meal photos are processed securely and kept for only 7 days, then deleted. They exist to be analysed, not archived.

5. The home tour

Coach marks, not homework
The home screen with a coach-mark overlay titled Your Ketosis Battery explaining that 0 means not in ketosis and 100 means in ketosis, with Skip and Next buttons.
The first-launch tour points out each part of the home screen.

The very first time you reach the home screen, a short guided tour highlights each piece in turn — the Ketosis Battery, the Carb Tank, the macro tiles, and the green + button you'll use to log.

Tap Next to step through it, or Skip if you'd rather poke around yourself. You can replay it any time from the ? help button in the top corner.

6. Your home screen, decoded

The five-second version

From top to bottom you'll see the Ketosis Battery (your 0–100 score for today), an Insights teaser, the Carb Tank, and your macro tiles — with the green + button for logging. Each part gets the full treatment on the Ketosis Battery page; this is just the lay of the land.

The four tabs along the bottom — Home, Diary, Stats, and Profile — are where everything else lives.

The KetoLens home screen showing the Ketosis Battery, an Insights teaser, the Carb Tank at 61 of 50g, and macro tiles for fat, protein, fibre and calories.
Home: battery up top, Carb Tank and macro tiles below.

That's the whole setup. Time to log something — the logging guide covers all three ways to do it.

Next: time to put it to work — the three ways to log your first meal.