What LogMeal does

LogMeal is a Barcelona-based (Igualada, Spain) AI company that builds food recognition and nutritional analysis technology from a single image. Operated by AIGECKO TECHNOLOGIES S.L. (Tax ID B-02682300) and founded in 2012 as a spin-off from the Computer Vision Center at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the company offers a RESTful food recognition API that detects over 1,300 dishes, extracts ingredient lists and quantities, and returns up to 39 micro- and macronutrient indicators with reported accuracy of 95-99% and inference under three seconds. Its product portfolio includes the LogMeal API, a consumer mobile app (iOS/Android), the LogMeal Platform web dashboard for nutrition professionals, the LogMeal Kiosk for touchless self-checkout in canteens, and verticalized solutions branded Nutra Hospital, Nutra Expert, and Nutra Sport for healthcare institutions, private-practice dietitians, and athletic teams respectively.

LogMeal monetizes via credit-based API subscriptions (Analyse, Monitor, Recommend, and Custom tiers) with a 30-day / 200-query free trial, supplemented by white-label app licensing, custom deep-learning services, and kiosk integrations. Distribution is API-first and self-serve, with sales-assisted enterprise support for custom plans and vertical solutions. The company serves multiple verticals: hospitals and medical nutrition therapy (Nestlé, UMCG, EIT Health, Evidenze, Social Diabetes), professional sports teams (Bingoal UCI ProTeam, LaLiga, ACB Basket Girona, Real Club Deportivo), wellness and lifestyle apps (Life360, Happi, Droobi, Tyler Health), restaurant and canteen operators, and consumer goods (Unilever). It is GDPR-compliant, hosts infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform in EU regions, and reports a global footprint spanning Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, and Canada. LogMeal is a bootstrapped private company with 1-10 employees and no disclosed institutional funding, revenue, or M&A activity.

Name

LogMeal

Legal name

AIGECKO TECHNOLOGIES S.L.

Website

https://logmeal.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

LogMeal is a Barcelona-based AI company offering a food recognition API and vertical solutions (Nutra Hospital, Nutra Sport, Nutra Expert, Kiosk) that identify 1,300+ dishes and return nutritional indicators from a single image for healthcare, sports, restaurant, and wellness customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Barcelona

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. API Subscription Plans (Credit-based): Credit-based subscription model where each API request consumes 1 credit or none depending on endpoint. Plans include monthly credits with overages charged for additional calls. Standard plans allow 20 images/day per end user and 1 image/second per end user.
2. Extra Image Credits Overage: When customers exceed allocated monthly credits, additional API calls are charged as extras at end of billing period.
3. White Label App Licensing: White label service allowing companies to customize LogMeal App with their brand. App available on App Store and Google Play with company name, includes maintenance and annual updates.
4. Custom Plan Services: Tailor-made Food AI solutions and custom Deep Learning tools built for specific client needs.
5. LogMeal Kiosk Integration: Self-checkout solution API for restaurants and canteens enabling touchless automatic food recognition scanning.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

LogMeal provides AI-powered food recognition and nutritional analysis delivered through a cloud-based RESTful API, mobile applications, a web platform, and a self-checkout kiosk. From a single image, the system identifies the dish, extracts ingredients and quantities, and returns up to 39 micro and macronutrient indicators. The company also offers verticalized solutions for hospitals (Nutra Hospital), sports teams (Nutra Sport), and nutritionists/dietitians (Nutra Expert), plus white-label licensing for partners.

Product overview

LogMeal offers a multi-product portfolio centered on AI-powered food recognition and nutritional analysis. The core offering is the LogMeal API (RESTful service for food detection, ingredients, and nutrition), which powers the LogMeal APP (consumer mobile app for iOS/Android), LogMeal Platform (web dashboard for nutrition professionals), and LogMeal Kiosk (self-checkout solution for restaurants). Vertical-specific versions include LogMeal Nutra Hospital (healthcare), Nutra Expert (private practice dietitians), and Nutra Sport (athletic nutrition). All products leverage deep learning computer vision trained on the world's largest food image dataset with over 1300 recognized dishes and 800+ ingredients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LogMeal API: RESTful API for food recognition and nutritional analysis from images, enabling developers to integrate AI-powered food detection into apps and software.
• LogMeal App
• LogMeal Platform
• LogMeal Kiosk
• LogMeal Nutra Hospital
• LogMeal Nutra Sport
• LogMeal Nutra Expert

Products and services

• LogMeal API RESTful API service that recognizes food from images, returning dish identification, ingredients, quantities, and up to 39 micro/macronutrient indicators. Designed for developers and enterprises integrating AI-powered food detection and nutritional analysis into their applications, with 35+ programming language SDKs and multi-language responses.
• LogMeal Mobile App Mobile app for iOS and Android that allows users to track food intake by taking a picture of a meal. Detects 1300+ dishes, multi-label food items, and provides real-time nutritional information with 32 micro and macro nutritional indicators.
• LogMeal Platform Web-based dashboard for nutrition professionals and healthcare providers to monitor and manage patient or client food intakes, set nutritional goals, view detailed nutrient reports, assign meals, and track body measurements.
• LogMeal Kiosk Touchless self-checkout solution for self-service restaurants and canteens, using AI-powered food recognition to automatically detect dishes on a tray for fast checkout, menu management, and food waste reduction.
• LogMeal Nutra Hospital Hospital-focused nutritional monitoring software for patient diet tracking, nutritional goal setting, and personalized recommendations. Supports inpatients and outpatients with up to 39 micro and macronutrient indicators, achieving 99% recognition accuracy in hospital settings.
• LogMeal Nutra Expert Software solution for nutritionists and dietitians in private practice that optimizes time and service through AI-based nutrition tracking and analysis, with detailed nutrient reports for clients.
• LogMeal Nutra Sport Personalized nutritional tracking software for elite, professional, and amateur athletes, providing AI-based food recognition, body composition management, and diet recommendations for performance optimization.
• LogMeal White Label App White-labeled version of the LogMeal mobile app that partners can publish under their own brand on the App Store and Google Play, including maintenance and annual updates.

Quantifiable outcome

• Recognition accuracy above 95-99% for food identification
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• NestlécoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNestlé partnered with LogMeal on the Validithi project for kidney transplant and renal patients, using AI food recognition for nutrition estimation and tracking in medical applications.
• EIT HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEIT Health partnered with LogMeal on the Validithi project supporting kidney transplant patients, providing funding and validation for healthcare nutrition monitoring applications.
• University Medical Center GroningencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUMCG collaborated on Validithi project for kidney transplant patients, validating LogMeal's AI food recognition system in clinical healthcare settings for renal disease nutrition management.
• Universitat de Barcelona (UB)coreTechnology or IntegrationLogMeal originated as a UB spin-off (AIGecko Technologies SL). University provides ongoing research collaboration, academic validation, and access to computer vision expertise. LogMeal uses CVC (Computer Vision Center) at UAB for deep learning development.
• CVC (Computer Vision Center)coreTechnology or IntegrationOngoing research collaboration with Computer Vision Center at UAB for deep learning algorithm development and computer vision expertise.
• UAB (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)coreTechnology or IntegrationPartnership with UAB through CVC (Computer Vision Center) for computer science and deep learning research collaboration.
• Bingoal UCI ProTeamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBingoal UCI ProTeam (UCI Cycling Team) uses LogMeal API for food recognition, with nutritionists and dietitians tracking rider diets. UCI Pro Team riders monitor their diets with LogMeal App.
• LaLiga (Football Clubs)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLaLiga football teams use LogMeal for nutrition tracking with team dietitians using API food recognition for sports nutrition optimization.
• SHAPES Project (EU Horizon)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean Union Horizon project on food aging involving LogMeal food API for nutrition tracking in elderly care applications.
• NESTORE ConsortiumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNESTORE consortium focuses on elderly people food tracking, using LogMeal's technology for monitoring nutrition in aging populations.
• Google Cloud PlatformcoreTechnology or IntegrationLogMeal's primary infrastructure is hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with servers located in EU regions for data sovereignty and regulatory compliance.
• UnileverminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUnilever partners with LogMeal for API food recognition integration into consumer products and nutrition tracking applications.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Clarifai: AI vision API platform offering image and video recognition via cloud APIs and self-serve onboarding. Direct competitor to LogMeal in the developer-facing general-purpose vision API category, with overlapping customers in retail, food, and content moderation.
• Nutritionix: Nutrition database and API providing food, restaurant, and nutrient data to app developers and enterprise health platforms. Closely comparable to LogMeal on the nutrition-data and developer-API axis, serving overlapping diet-tracking, fitness, and healthcare customers.
• FatSecret: Global food and nutrition database platform with a developer API serving diet-tracking apps, foodservice, and healthcare integrations. Comparable to LogMeal in combining food recognition/dataset, nutritional outputs, and an API-first distribution model.
• Imagga: Cloud image recognition API providing tagging, categorization, and custom model training for developers and enterprises. Overlaps with LogMeal in the image-recognition-as-a-service market and developer self-serve go-to-market motion.
• Passio: AI food recognition platform offering SDKs and APIs for nutrition, restaurants, and health apps. Direct competitor to LogMeal on food-specific image recognition, with overlapping use cases in dietary tracking and self-checkout.
• Calorie Mama: Food image recognition API focused on calorie and nutrient estimation from photos. Direct competitor in the food-specific deep-learning API space, targeting health/wellness apps and consumer trackers.

Broad incumbents

• Google Cloud Vision AI: Hyperscaler vision API offering general image labeling including food/dish classification on Google's cloud. Competes indirectly with LogMeal in food recognition by bundling generalized vision into a much larger platform with global scale and lower switching cost for big customers.
• AWS Rekognition: Hyperscaler vision API for image and video analysis. Indirect competitor to LogMeal in food recognition, where customers can substitute general labels plus custom labels for LogMeal's verticalized offering within a broader AWS stack.

Emerging players

• SnapCalorie: Computer-vision-based calorie and nutrition estimation app using deep learning on food photos. Comparable to LogMeal's Nutra product on the photo-to-nutrition workflow, with a consumer-first brand and emerging enterprise presence.
• Veryfi: AI data extraction and OCR API serving consumer, retail, and fintech use cases. Comparable to LogMeal as a developer-first computer-vision API company targeting B2B integrations, though focused on documents and receipts rather than food.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/logmeal_ai
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/logmeal

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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