What SlimPanda Is
SlimPanda is a daily health tracker for iPhone. It brings AI calorie tracking, an AI health coach, step counting, water intake and weight goals into one app, so the picture of your day lives in one place instead of four.
It is published for the App Store by Ankur Dhameliya, and support is handled directly by the team at app-support@md-tech.in.
How the AI Estimates Work
When you photograph a meal, an AI model identifies the likely foods and estimates portion size from what is visible in frame, then converts that into calories and macronutrients. You can also describe a meal in plain text and get an estimate from the description alone.
The AI health coach reads your own logged data, including calories, steps, water, weight and the goals you set, and answers questions in that context rather than offering generic advice.
Calorie and burn targets during setup come from standard equations used in nutrition practice, principally Mifflin-St Jeor for basal metabolic rate combined with an activity multiplier. Those are population-derived estimates, which is why the app lets you adjust them.
What We Will Not Claim
This is the part we would rather be blunt about, because health apps have a bad reputation for vagueness here.
SlimPanda is not a medical device, and it does not provide medical advice. It does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition. The AI health coach is a motivational and organisational tool. It is not a dietitian, not a doctor, and not a substitute for either.
Every number in the app is an estimate. A photograph cannot measure what is in your food. It cannot see oil absorbed during cooking, what sits beneath the top layer of a dish, or whether a dressing is full-fat or light. Calorie burn figures from any consumer device are estimates too, and they are frequently generous. We say so plainly in our guide on AI tracking accuracy rather than burying it.
Weight loss is not purely a matter of willpower or arithmetic. Medication, thyroid and hormonal conditions, sleep, stress and mental health all affect it. If tracking is not working for you, that is information worth taking to a professional, not evidence of personal failure.
Who Should Not Use a Tracking App
Calorie tracking is not appropriate for everyone, and we would rather say so than grow at any cost.
If you have a history of disordered eating, daily calorie logging can reinforce harmful patterns, and many clinicians advise against it. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, under 18, or managing diabetes, heart, kidney or thyroid conditions, please set targets with a healthcare professional rather than an app. If tracking is making you anxious rather than informed, stopping is a reasonable and healthy decision.
How the Guides Are Written
Our health guides are built from published reference sources rather than opinion: the Mifflin-St Jeor equation for energy estimation, National Academies reference intakes for hydration, CDC guidance on sustainable rates of weight loss, and WHO physical activity recommendations.
Where popular advice lacks good evidence, we say so. The 10,000 step target came from 1960s pedometer marketing. The eight-glasses rule has no clear scientific origin. The 3,500-calorie rule is an approximation that overestimates long-term loss. Repeating those uncritically would be easier, and less useful.
Every guide carries a last-updated date. When guidance changes, we revise the guide and move the date.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us at app-support@md-tech.in and we will correct it. If you are a dietitian, doctor or coach and something does not match current practice, we especially want to hear from you.