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Why did my daily target change?

Your target isn’t a fixed formula — Neato keeps calibrating it from what actually happens. Every weigh-in and logged day teaches it your real resting burn: if the scale trends slower or faster than your logging predicts, the estimate inches up or down — slowly, and never by much at once. Your target also breathes a little day to day to balance the week. Small drifts mean it’s working. The full math lives in Goals → “How these numbers are derived.”

Move cal vs. Work cal — what’s the difference?

Move cal is your ordinary movement — steps, chores, everything that isn’t a workout — estimated from a daily-living baseline paced evenly across the day (a ~ marks the estimate; a watch or phone measurement replaces it). Minutes and Work cal are the part you did on purpose: the exercise sessions you log. With a watch, movement beyond the day’s pace counts as a workout too — it’s credited into Today’s Work cal, and into Minutes at your own usual pace (the ~ says those minutes are equivalent, not logged). Target’s Work cells are the day’s ask — 30 minutes a day, or your own two-week average when that’s more, set in the morning and fixed; Target’s Move cell is a normal day’s ordinary movement. “To burn” is what’s left of each ask right now, going quiet column by column as it’s met; its Move cell only speaks when a measured day is running behind pace — the nudge to get moving — and it never counts into debt.

Tips for better meal snaps

Get the whole plate in frame, shoot from a bit above, and give it decent light. For packaged foods, include the label — Neato checks real USDA data. If the photo alone could be misread, type a word or two with it (“turkey, not beef”) — the AI reads your words and the photo together. And every number stays editable — the estimate is a starting point, not a verdict.

Tips for snapping exercise equipment

After your workout, snap the machine’s summary screen — or your watch’s workout summary — and the session logs itself: what, how long, how many calories. Fill the frame with the display, angle a little to dodge glare, and make sure the time and calorie numbers are readable. Console already reset? The watch summary works just as well — and every number stays editable after.

Tips for body-fat mirror snaps

Stand square to the mirror in even light, whole torso in frame, fitted clothing so your shape is visible — and keep the phone from covering your midsection. Consistency beats perfection: the same spot and light each time makes the trend meaningful, and the trend is the point. The photo becomes a number on your chart and is never stored — analyzed, then gone.

How do I edit or delete an entry?

Tap the entry — it unfolds into an editor: description, servings, time, and the macros (entered per serving; the entry total multiplies by servings). Change anything and Save, or use Delete at the bottom to remove it. Fixed the description? You can re-run the AI estimate right from there too.

Can I log a meal for yesterday?

Yes. While logging, tap the “Logging for Today” line on the draft — it turns into a date-and-time picker. For a meal that’s already saved, tap the entry and change When. Day totals follow the meal to its new day automatically.

How do I repeat a meal?

Tap ↻ on the meal’s entry — it logs that meal again, right now: same description, same macros, same photo. It’s the fastest way to log the coffee you make every morning or the lunch on rotation. If today’s portion was different, repeat it and then tap the new entry to adjust servings.

Why am I out of AI estimates?

Free accounts have a daily AI allowance, and the count resets every day. Free is ad supported, and the AI runs on the anonymous sharing you approved. Manual logging never runs out: type what you ate and fill in the numbers yourself any time. Neato Plus removes the cap and the ads.

Use Neato on your other devices

Two ways. If you’ve saved a passkey: open neato.health on the new device and tap “Sign in with a passkey” — you’re in. Otherwise: on a device that’s already signed in, go to Settings → “Add this account to another device” and open the single-use link on the new one. Everything syncs — meals, weigh-ins, goals, the coach.

Where do the numbers come from?

Published science, cited: resting burn from the Mifflin-St Jeor equation, protein bands from peer-reviewed meta-analysis, BMI and activity bands from CDC guidance, and so on — the full list, with a link to each source, is linked from Goals inside the app. The same list is linked from Goals and from the Coach tab.