What is Nume and how does it work?
Nume is an AI meal and workout planner. It plans what you eat and how you train around your day, keeps a record of what you actually ate and did, and changes the plan from that. It works from food you already eat and the gym, sport or walks you already do. Logging a meal takes a tap, a photo or a line of text. It runs in the browser on iPhone and Android, and it’s free while the beta runs.
Who it’s for
Adults, 18 and over, who want help with food and training together. You pick one goal: lose body fat, maintain, build muscle, perform better, or “not sure yet”, which plans for maintenance. Diets are built in: non-veg, vegetarian, eggetarian, vegan, Jain, or your own description. You choose the cuisines you actually eat, or type your own.
You don’t need a gym. Tell Nume you walk every evening or play badminton on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and it plans food around that. If you want workouts, it writes them for the days you can train, at home or at a gym. The ones it writes start easy.
Setting up
Once you’re let in, you open Nume on your phone and sign in with Google or your email. Set-up is seven short screens:
- About you: name, date of birth, sex, height and weight.
- Your goal, with an optional target weight if you’re losing fat.
- Food: how you eat, anything Nume must never suggest (an allergy, or a food you don’t eat), and your cuisines.
- What a normal day is like, not counting exercise.
- What you do for exercise, how often, and who plans it: you, a coach, or Nume.
- Whether Nume should plan workouts for you, and if so where, on which days, at what time and for how long.
- Your day: when you eat, anywhere from one to six times, and anything Nume should work around, such as a sore knee.
Then you tap Plan my day.
The first day
Your day appears in about a minute, and each meal’s dish fills in shortly after. Today opens with a plain line such as “First day. Breakfast at 9:00 AM, easy home strength this evening.”, then your meals and sessions in order, with energy and protein shown as a range. Talk, the third tab, holds a short note of what Nume set up and how to change it.
What you do is eat, train, and tell Nume when something went differently. There are a few ways to log a meal:
- tap Had it when you ate what was planned;
- take a photo of the plate;
- type a line, such as “two slices of pizza and a coke”;
- quick log, when it was about as planned, lighter or more.
A photo or a line is saved straight away, and Nume works out the parts and amounts in the background. You can tap any item to correct it. A Nume workout can be followed step by step, with sets, reps and rest, or marked done. Your own sport or a walk goes in as a movement log.
What Nume does: when a meal runs well over or under its plan, when you add something extra, or when you skip a meal, it changes the rest of today and tells you why. If lunch was a heavy biryani, dinner becomes grilled fish with rice and salad, marked “Lighter after a heavier lunch”, with a button to keep the first plan instead. Tomorrow stays as it was.
Across a week
Each night Nume plans the next day, so the coming seven days are always laid out. The Week tab shows them, with tools for your training days, time off and travel. When you travel, you choose to keep training, keep it light or take a break, and meals follow where you are.
The plan changes from what actually happened. After a full workout, the next one steps up. After time away, it comes back lighter. A skipped workout is dropped, and nothing piles onto the next one. After two misses in a row, the next two are made easier. When you log a new weight, the plan follows that weigh-in, and Progress shows how your weight has moved. If you’d rather not see numbers, you can switch them off.
Some things can log themselves. Set up something you have most days, like whey after the gym or a morning coffee, turn on “Log it for me”, and Nume records it at its time. Today shows “Logged by Nume” with Undo. A supplement sits on your day the same way, with a reminder at its time.
Nume also starts some things itself. It puts a note in Talk a couple of hours before a timed session about what to eat beforehand. It asks when something in your week clashes with a Nume workout, checks back on things you mentioned (is the knee feeling better?), and asks whether a sport you play on your own happened. It starts a conversation in Talk at most once a day.
Talk
Talk is where you tell Nume things in your own words, typed or as a photo. Write “Had pizza for lunch, can my next workout be shorter?” and Nume records the pizza, shortens Wednesday’s session from 45 to 30 minutes, and shows both changes, each with Undo. You can also ask what you ate on Thursday or how the week went.
It remembers what you tell it (“I have a scoop of whey after every gym session”), and you can see and delete any of it in Profile.
If you already follow a plan from a coach, a dietitian or another app, paste it into Talk or send up to four photos of it. Nume shows what it read, and once you confirm, sets up your week from it. Sessions you or a coach planned stay as written. Nume plans food around them and doesn’t change them.
Food and training together
Meals and workouts are planned as one day. On a badminton evening the Week tab reads “Snack before, dinner after”, with an optional snack about 45 minutes before the game. Eating out fits in too: switch a meal to Out, name the place or take a photo of the menu, and Nume picks what to order and how much, with a tip such as asking for the salan on the side.
What it runs on
Nume runs on iPhone and Android. Open app.nume.co.in in your phone’s browser and add it to your Home Screen.
What it costs
It’s free while the beta runs. If that changes, you’ll get at least 30 days’ notice, and nothing is charged unless you choose it.
The rules Nume keeps
Every change passes Nume’s own rules before it reaches your plan. It won’t plan very low-calorie days or a target weight below a healthy range for your height, and it never changes a session you or your coach planned. Every food estimate is split into parts you can open and correct.
How to join
Leave your email at nume.co.in. We let people in a few at a time and email you when there’s a place. When places are open, the button on the home page reads “Join the beta” and takes you straight to sign-in. Questions go to hello@nume.co.in.
Checked on · The Nume team