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title: What Is HealthifyMe and How Does the Diet Tracking App Work?
description: "What is HealthifyMe? A plain explainer of the calorie budget, logging, AI and human coaches, plans, and how the model works as a business you can launch."
url: https://miracuves.com/blog/what-is-healthifyme-app-how-does-it-work
date_modified: 2026-11-13
author: Aditya Bhimrajka
language: en_US
---

### Key Takeaways

  
- **HealthifyMe is a food tracker that grew into a coaching business.** Public sources describe a calorie budget, photo and voice logging, an AI assistant and paid human coaching in one app.
- **Indian food logging is a data problem.** Home recipes, katori and roti portions, and regional names make a generic catalog fail, so the food catalog is the product.
- **Logging has four paths.** Search, barcode, photo and a typed description each fit a different meal, and the entry should store a nutrient snapshot.
- **The ladder is free, self-guided and coached.** A wide free base feeds a middle tier, while the coached tier carries high revenue but is limited by coach capacity.
- **AI coaches give general guidance, not medical advice.** Cap daily use, show what data the coach can see, and let human coaches handle the members who need more.
- **A launchable business needs three surfaces.** A phone app, a coach workspace and an admin console must all exist, or you have a demo rather than a business.
- **A ready-made base reaches launch in 6 working days.** Miracuves builds on MXHealthy with Android, iOS, web, source code and a fixed one-time price.

If you have ever tried to count calories on an Indian thali, you already know why this category exists. A generic food logger does not know what a katori of dal weighs, how much ghee went into the tadka, or that “roti” can mean three different sizes. HealthifyMe was built around that gap, and it grew from a food tracker into a full health and coaching app.

This guide is a plain explainer. It walks through what the app is, what a member actually does on day one and day thirty, how the logging, the AI assistant and the human coaches fit together, and how the paid plans are laid out. Every fact about the brand comes from a public source linked in the text.

Then comes the part founders care about. The same model, a budget, a food diary, a coach and a subscription, can run as your own business. We show how it works behind the screen, and how a [ready-made nutrition coaching app](https://miracuves.com/healthifyme-clone/) puts that model in your hands in 6 working days of Miracuves work.

## What Is HealthifyMe? The App in Plain Terms

HealthifyMe is an Indian health and wellness app that began as a calorie and food tracker and added coaching, meal plans and an AI assistant on top. [Public records on the company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthifyMe) put its founding in 2012 in Bangalore, and [a 2023 news report](https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/khosla-backed-healtifyme-introduces-ai-powered-image-recognition-for-indian-food/) described it as a food-tracking app that had grown for about eleven years and raised more than 130 million dollars from investors.

Strip away the marketing and the app does four jobs:

- **It sets a daily target.** The member answers questions about body, goal and lifestyle, and the app turns them into a calorie budget.
- **It makes logging fast.** Instead of typing every ingredient, the member searches, snaps a photo or speaks the meal.
- **It coaches.** An AI assistant answers questions around the clock, and paying members can work with human nutritionists.
- **It sells the outcome as a subscription.** A free tier gets people in, and paid plans add coaching, plans and deeper insight.

The developer says the app is trusted by over 40 million users globally, and the [Indian App Store listing](https://apps.apple.com/IN/app/id943712366) shows about 67 thousand ratings averaging 4.6. Treat the user count as a company claim rather than an audited figure, but the ratings volume tells you the category has real daily-use demand.

The rest of this post uses the app as a teaching example. Not because it is the only way to build the product, but because it shows clearly how a calorie tracker becomes a coaching business.

## Who Uses a Diet Tracking App and Why

People open an app like this for one of three reasons, and they behave differently in the first week.

### The goal-driven member

This person has a number in mind: a target weight, a wedding date, a doctor-advised change in eating. They want a budget and a way to stay inside it. They log every meal for the first two weeks and need the app to make that effortless, because effort is the main reason they stop.

### The curious tracker

This member wants to know what is in their food. They are less interested in a target and more interested in protein, fiber or sugar totals. They log selectively and respond well to insight cards and weekly summaries.

### The supported member

This one does not want to do it alone. They pay for a human to look at the diary and tell them what to change. They are the highest-value member in the business and the hardest to serve, because coach time is the scarce resource.

A good product has a path for all three. The free budget and the logger serve the first two. The coaching tier serves the third. That ladder is the whole commercial shape of the category, and you will see it again when we look at plans.

## How the App Works, Step by Step

### Step One: The Assessment That Sets the Daily Budget

Everything in a diet tracker starts with a questionnaire. The member enters sex, age, height, current weight and goal weight, activity level, food preferences and restrictions, and a target date. The app converts those answers into a daily calorie budget, a split between protein, carbohydrates and fat, a water target and a step target.

The first screen after onboarding is the one that matters. A member who lands on an empty dashboard leaves. A member who lands on a budget ring that says how many calories are left today has already been given a reason to log the next meal.

Two design details separate a good tracker from a mediocre one:

- **Stored targets, not recomputed targets.** The budget is saved at assessment time, so the plan does not silently change each time the member logs a weight.
- **Honest framing.** Projections are shown as estimates. A body-mass number is a rough screen, and good apps say so instead of presenting it as a diagnosis.

### Step Two: Logging a Meal Without Giving Up

Food logging is where members quit. Typing “one bowl of rajma, two rotis, a small salad” into a search box and picking from forty near-identical results is tedious. The whole competitive history of the category is a story about making that step shorter.

According to the [public store listing](https://apps.apple.com/IN/app/id943712366), HealthifyMe offers photo logging that reads a meal’s calories and nutrition from a picture, voice logging, an automatic mode that logs meals from photos already in the phone gallery, and manual entry.

[A 2023 TechCrunch report](https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/khosla-backed-healtifyme-introduces-ai-powered-image-recognition-for-indian-food/) put the photo model’s training at roughly 150,000 Indian dishes and quoted the company’s own estimate of 60-70% recognition accuracy, which it expected to rise. That figure is worth remembering: photo logging is a shortcut that members confirm, not a measurement.

### The four logging paths every product needs

| Method | What the member does | Where it fits |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Search | Type a name, brand or category and pick a result | Slowest path, but the most precise and works offline-minded |
| Barcode | Scan a packaged item with the phone camera | Fast and exact for packaged foods, useless for home cooking |
| Photo | Point the camera at the plate; the app proposes items and portions | Fastest for mixed plates, needs confirmation and an AI provider |
| Describe it | Type or say the meal in a sentence; the app parses it | Natural for home meals, depends on how well names are matched |

Whichever path is used, the entry should store a snapshot of the nutrients at the time of logging. If the catalog is edited next month, last month’s diary must not change. Founders who skip this rule end up with progress charts that rewrite themselves.

### A Member’s First Day, First Week and First Month

The easiest way to understand the product is to follow one member through the first month. The details below describe how a well-built tracker behaves; the exact screens differ by app.

### Day one: from sign-up to the first logged meal

The member signs up, answers the questionnaire, and lands on a dashboard that already shows a budget. The first prompt is not “explore the app” but “log your next meal”. A good product keeps this path to a few taps, because the first logged meal is the strongest predictor that a second one follows.

Most members also decide in the first session whether the app understands their food. If they search for a dish they ate yesterday and find it, they trust it. If they have to build the entry by hand, they begin to doubt the catalog, and the doubt spreads to everything else on the screen.

### Week one: the habit loop forms

Over the first seven days the member logs three or four meals a day, checks the budget ring before dinner, and starts to notice patterns: afternoon snacking, late dinners, low protein at breakfast. Reminders and small nudges, such as a prompt after a day with nothing logged, matter more here than any advanced feature.

This is also when the first coach touchpoint should happen. On a coached plan, the coach sees the first week of diary data and sends a message that references something the member actually did. A generic welcome message wastes the best moment in the relationship.

### Week four: the review and the upgrade question

By the fourth week the member has a weight trend, an average intake, a streak and a view of how many days they stayed inside budget. This is the natural point for a weekly review card and for an upgrade offer. A free member who has logged consistently for a month has shown the app is useful, so a trial of the next tier is a fair question rather than a sales push.

The members who drop out are usually visible before they leave. They stop logging for several days, stop opening the app, or skip the weigh-in. A product that flags those members to coaches, and sends a gentle message to the member, gives the business a chance to recover revenue that would otherwise vanish quietly.

## Why Indian Food Logging Is a Different Problem

A food database built for Western packaged goods breaks on an Indian kitchen. The reasons are practical rather than mysterious:

- **Home recipes dominate.** The same dal has a dozen versions. There is no barcode to scan.
- **Portions are household units.** A katori, a ladle or a single roti is how people measure, not grams.
- **Oil and ghee vary the most.** A teaspoon more changes the entry by a visible amount, and members rarely remember it.
- **Names are regional.** The same dish carries a Hindi name, a regional name and an English name, and search has to find all three.

That is why the public coverage of HealthifyMe keeps returning to its Indian food coverage. The Apple store editorial note on its listing cites over 20,000 Indian foods, and the company describes its database as the largest of its kind, which is a marketing claim you should read as a positioning statement. For a founder, the lesson is the same either way: in an India-first product, the catalog is the product. We cover how to build and curate one in our guide to the [Indian food database behind a nutrition app](https://miracuves.com/blog/indian-food-database-nutrition-app/).

![MXHealthy web app food log screen with search results for a meal, showing nutrition details a member checks before adding the item to the diary](https://miracuves.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/mxhealthy-web-food-search.webp)MXHealthy member web app: the food log search a member uses to find a dish and add it to a meal

## The AI Coach and the Human Coaches

The coaching layer is what turns a logger into a subscription. According to the [store listing](https://apps.apple.com/IN/app/id943712366), the assistant is called Ria. It answers questions, comments on the diary, and can build meal plans, recipes and grocery lists. Premium members can also work one-to-one with instructors, nutritionists or dietitians. [Public history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthifyMe) dates the first version of the assistant to 2017.

### What an AI coach can sensibly do

- Answer “why am I hungry at four in the afternoon” using the member’s own calories, protein and water for the day.
- Suggest a swap when the budget is nearly spent but protein is short.
- Draft a weekly plan from the member’s diet type and restrictions.
- Handle the high-volume, low-stakes questions so human coaches can focus on people who need them.

An AI coach gives general guidance and is not medical advice. A responsible product says this on the screen where the coach speaks, shows the member what data the coach can see, and caps daily usage so cost stays predictable.

### What human coaches add

A human coach opens the member’s diary, targets and messages before replying. They catch patterns a model glosses over: a member who logs perfectly on weekdays and stops on weekends, or one who is eating too little. The product detail that matters is that AI replies and human replies sit in one thread, so the member never has to wonder which channel to use.

From the business side, human coaching is the expensive part. Each coach has a caseload, a pay model and a utilization rate, and the platform needs a desk where they see who is at risk of dropping off.

## Plans, Pricing Tiers and the Free-to-Paid Ladder

The in-app purchase list on the [Indian store page](https://apps.apple.com/IN/app/id943712366) shows several plan tiers priced in rupees, with the lowest at 499 and the highest at 4,199. Plans are labeled as Smart Plan and Healthify+ tiers. Prices change, so check the live listing before quoting any number. The structure is what matters.

The same [2023 report](https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/khosla-backed-healtifyme-introduces-ai-powered-image-recognition-for-indian-food/) said the company had more than 200,000 subscribers, nearly 40 percent of them on its top plan. Again that is a point-in-time statement, but it shows the usual shape: a wide free base, a middle tier of self-guided members, and a smaller coached tier that carries a large share of revenue.

| Tier | Typical contents | Business role |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | Budget, basic logging, limited plans | Acquisition and habit formation |
| Premium | Full meal plans, deeper insight, AI assistant, more logging help | Self-guided members who want structure |
| Coaching | Everything above plus a human coach, appointments, priority messages | Highest revenue per member, limited by coach capacity |

Annual versus monthly pricing, free-trial length and coupons are the levers that matter most in the first year. Our companion piece on the [revenue side of this model](https://miracuves.com/blog/healthifyme-business-model-revenue-how-it-works-explained/) goes through those levers with worked numbers, so we will not repeat them here.

## Beyond Logging: What Keeps Members Subscribed

### What Keeps Members Coming Back: Habits, Lessons and Nudges

Logging alone does not hold people for months. Retention in this category comes from a handful of supporting features that make the app feel like a routine.

- **Streaks and checklists.** A daily habit checklist and a streak count give the member a small win for opening the app even on a hard day.
- **Short lessons.** Brief reading with a quiz question, spread across courses on habits, cravings and motivation, add a learning layer that makes the app more than a calculator.
- **Challenges and community.** Group challenges, simple leaderboards that members opt into, and moderated posts create social reasons to stay.
- **Rewards.** A coin ledger that members earn through consistent behavior can be exchanged for perks the operator defines.

None of these is complicated on its own. The skill is in connecting them so the daily screen always offers one clear next step: log lunch, finish the lesson, join the challenge, message the coach.

One caution for founders: rewards and streaks should reinforce healthy routines, not pressure. Wording matters. A product that shames a member for going over budget loses them; one that reframes the day and shows the weekly average keeps them.

![MXHealthy member mobile app showing an AI coach conversation that answers a question using the member's own calories, protein and water for the day](https://miracuves.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/mxhealthy-member-app-ai-coach.webp)MXHealthy member app: the AI coach thread answering from the member’s own day, with a not-medical-advice note

### Beyond Food: Activity, Sleep, Health Sync and the Store

Members do not only log food. The store listing mentions water, sleep, weight and workout tracking, and a sync with the phone’s built-in health data. Over time the app becomes the member’s daily health record, which is what makes it hard to leave.

Three more pieces tend to appear in a mature product:

- **Meal plans and a shopping list.** Weekly plans built from recipes, with a grocery list generated from them.
- **Movement.** A set of sessions you can narrow by style, difficulty and length, with logged minutes feeding the calorie picture.
- **Commerce.** A store inside the app for products that support the plan, with orders, stock states and shipping.

Each of these raises the value of a subscription, and each adds scope if you build from scratch. That is the main reason founders compare a ready-made base with a custom project.

### Reading the Whole Product at a Glance

Putting the member journey next to what the business runs behind it makes the model easier to see.

| What the member sees | What the system does | What the operator controls |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Onboarding assessment | Questionnaire rules, target formulas, plan assignment | Operator sets trial days and tier prices |
| Daily budget and diary | Catalog, serving units, nutrient snapshots | Staff curate foods and approve member-added items |
| Photo and voice logging | AI routing, usage caps, confirmation step | Operator picks the AI provider and sets limits |
| Coach conversation | One thread, caseload, notes and tasks | Coach pay rates and monthly settlements |
| Plans and checkout | Subscription tiers, invoices, rupee and card payments | Coupons, refunds, month-end close |
| Store and orders | Products, baskets, tracking, referral attribution | Fulfillment, stock and shipping zones |

## How the Same Model Works as a Business You Can Launch

Seen from the founder’s side, a food-logging and coaching app is three products stitched together: an app that people open daily, a workspace that runs the human service, and a console that runs the commercial side. Missing any one of the three leaves you with a demo rather than a business.

### The member side

Members open a phone app or the browser version. The core loop is: see the budget, log a meal, ask a question, finish a short lesson, check the weight trend. Streaks and gentle nudges bring them back when they stop logging.

### The coach side

Coaches need a desk, not an inbox. That means a caseload, each client’s diary and targets beside the conversation, notes, follow-up tasks, appointments and an earnings view. Without it, coaching does not scale beyond the founder’s own clients.

### The operator side

The operator needs to change prices, trial lengths, coupons, coach rates and which AI provider handles which task, without waiting for a release. They also need a finance view with revenue by plan, refunds, payouts and a month-end close, and an audit trail of who changed what.

That last part is easy to underestimate. Subscription businesses live on small adjustments, and a console that makes them safe and traceable is worth as much as any member feature.

## Operating Realities: Costs, Security and Demo Testing

### What Scales With Members

A tracker looks cheap to run until you list what actually scales with members. Four cost lines matter, and they behave differently.

| Cost line | What drives it | How to keep it predictable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AI coaching and photo logging | Per-use charges from your chosen AI provider | Daily per-member caps on calls and tokens, and a graceful message at the cap |
| Human coaches | Caseload size, pay model, utilization | Choose a retainer, a per-client rate, a session fee or a sales cut, and settle monthly |
| Payments | Processor fees on card and rupee checkout, refunds | Price annual plans to reduce transaction count; track refunds by plan |
| Hosting and data | Database growth and stored media | Plan for object storage when image volume grows; keep backups tested |

The first line is the one that surprises founders. Photo and voice logging feel free to the member, but each call has a cost. Setting limits in the operator console, and routing different AI tasks to different models, keeps that line under control.

The second line is the one that decides profitability. A coaching plan that sells at a premium but needs hours of coach time can be less profitable than a self-guided plan. Track contribution per tier from the first month, not the first year.

For the full revenue and payout picture, our walk-through of [plans, coach payouts and store income](https://miracuves.com/blog/healthifyme-business-model-revenue-how-it-works-explained/) is the place to go.

### Privacy and Security Basics for a Nutrition App

A diet app holds weight, food habits, sleep and sometimes screening answers. That is sensitive personal data, and members notice how it is handled. These are the controls a founder should expect from any product in this category.

- **Server-side identity.** The server decides who a user is from the session, never from something the browser sends, and every action checks the role.
- **Scoped access.** A member can open nothing but their own records, and a coach is limited to assigned clients.
- **Safe sessions and passwords.** Hashed passwords with per-record salt, and session cookies the browser scripts cannot read.
- **Parameterized queries.** Database access that never builds SQL by pasting user text.
- **Export and deletion.** A way for members to download their data and to request deletion with a grace period.
- **Audit trail.** A record of operator changes to prices, payouts, features and orders.

Also decide who is accountable for the content. The operator curates foods, recipes and lessons, and reviews any screening escalation. Software supports that work; it does not replace a qualified reviewer. For the full treatment of these controls, read our [security guide for a diet tracking app in India](https://miracuves.com/blog/healthifyme-app-security-guide/).

### How to Test a Demo Before You Choose a Build Route

Whatever route you pick, spend an hour inside a working demo before you sign. Treat it as an interview of the product.

- **Log five real meals.** Use dishes from your own audience. Count how many taps each takes and whether the food is found.
- **Ask the AI coach three questions.** One simple, one specific to the diary, one outside nutrition. Check whether it stays on topic and says it is not medical advice.
- **Sign in as a coach.** Open the client list, then one member’s food log, then the pay screen. When the log is not visible next to the conversation, coaching will not scale.
- **Sign in as the operator.** Change a price, add a coupon, and look for the audit record.
- **Check the mobile apps.** Install the Android build and confirm the iOS build is part of the offer, not a later quote.
- **Ask which accounts you connect.** Get the list of services that run on your own accounts or keys, such as the payment gateway and the AI provider, so running costs sit in your name.

A vendor that welcomes this test is usually one whose product holds up. A vendor that only shows slides is asking you to buy on trust.

## Build It, Buy It Ready-Made, or Rent It

Once the shape is clear, the route question follows. There are three honest options.

| Route | Cost and time shape | Trade-off |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Custom build | Scoped project; typically 15 to 30 days for a defined scope, and up to 45 to 60 days for larger scope | Full control, highest cost and delay |
| Ready-made base | Fixed one-time price; live in 6 working days of Miracuves work, store review separate | Fastest, source code included, fit depends on your model |
| Monthly SaaS | Subscription that continues for as long as you use it | Quick to start, limited control, no source code |

Our [buyer’s guide to calorie-and-coaching scripts](https://miracuves.com/blog/healthifyme-clone-script-features-pricing/) goes through the checklist for comparing vendors. The short version: ask what is included in the price, who owns the code, and how the apps reach both stores.

## How Miracuves Helps

Miracuves offers this model as [a ready-made nutrition coaching platform](https://miracuves.com/healthifyme-clone/) built on MXHealthy. The fixed one-time price is , and a ready-made build goes live in 6 working days of Miracuves work, with app store review handled separately. You receive the full source code.

- **Android and iOS apps together.** Both native mobile apps come in the build, alongside a responsive web app.
- **Coach portal and operator console.** Coaches work from their own desk with an earnings view, and the operator console spans 14 areas such as pricing, finance, coach pay and AI routing.
- **Rupee checkout and Indian foods.** Members can pay in rupees or by card through Stripe, and the food catalog includes Indian dishes. The app runs in English and Hindi.
- **Modern stack.** Next.js, TypeScript and PostgreSQL on the server, Flutter on mobile.
- **Security controls.** Every action re-checks the user’s role, session cookies never land in browser storage, SQL is always parameterized, and members can download their data or close their account.

Custom work on top of the base takes 15 to 30 days, and larger scopes take 45 to 60 days. If you want to extend the product, six paid add-ons are available: wearable adapters for steps and sleep sync (add-on), smart scale and CGM sync (add-on), live video coaching and group classes (add-on), a video lesson studio (add-on), a corporate wellness portal (add-on) and regional language packs beyond Hindi (add-on).

Support is built in: 60 days of dedicated platform guidance, 6 months of priority bug resolution and 12 months of continuous product evolution. You can try the demo with the published logins on the [solution page](https://miracuves.com/healthifyme-clone/) before talking to us, and browse the wider [healthcare solutions category](https://miracuves.com/solutions/on-demand-services/healthcare/) for related products.

If you came here from the sibling category, our explainer on how a [behavior-change coaching app](https://miracuves.com/blog/what-is-noom-app-how-does-it-work/) works shows the lesson-led version of the same business.

  
### Founder Decision Signals: Are You Ready to Launch a Nutrition App?

  
    
      
#### Audience Is Specific

      
Can you name the group you serve, such as home cooks in one region, and the foods they actually eat?

    

    
      
#### Coach Supply Exists

      
Do you have coaches or dietitians lined up, with a pay model on paper?

    

    
      
#### Catalog Plan Is Written

      
Do you know who will curate foods, recipes and lessons after launch, and how often?

    

    
      
#### Pricing Ladder Is Drafted

      
Have you chosen a free tier, a self-guided tier and a coached tier, with trial lengths?

    

    
      
#### AI Budget Is Capped

      
Have you set a daily per-member limit for the AI coach so usage cost stays predictable?

    

    
      
#### Payments Match Your Market

      
Can members pay in the currency and method they prefer, such as rupees or card?

    

  

  
    **Decision Rule:**
    Launch when you can name your audience, your coaches and your pricing ladder. If two of the three are still open, spend the next week on those before choosing a build route.
  

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## Final Thoughts

HealthifyMe is a useful case study because it shows how a simple idea, make logging food easier for people who eat Indian meals, becomes a layered business: a free budget to start habits, an AI assistant to keep costs down, human coaches to carry the premium tier, and subscriptions that tie it together.

For a founder, the useful question is not whether to copy the brand but which parts of the model fit your audience: your region, your foods, your coaches. A ready-made base lets you answer that with real members instead of slides. Miracuves is the fastest route to find out, with the apps, console and code already in your hands.

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## Frequently Asked Questions

### What is HealthifyMe used for?

It is used to track food and calories against a daily budget, log meals by search, photo or voice, get advice from an AI assistant, and, on paid plans, work with human nutrition coaches. Members also track water, weight and activity in the same app.

### How does a diet tracking app like HealthifyMe work?

The member completes a questionnaire, the app sets a calorie and macro budget, and the member logs meals against it. An assistant and coaches review the diary and suggest changes. Subscriptions unlock deeper plans and coaching.

### Can an AI assistant stand in for a dietitian on a diet app?

No. An AI coach gives general guidance based on the member’s own diary and is not medical advice. Human coaches review the diary in detail, and members with medical conditions should still consult a qualified professional.

### Why do Indian foods need a special catalog?

Home recipes vary, portions are measured in katoris and rotis rather than grams, oil use changes the numbers, and dish names differ by language. A catalog built for packaged Western foods misses most of what members eat.

### Can I launch my own app with this model without building from scratch?

Yes. A ready-made base provides the member apps, coach workspace and operator console, so you configure pricing, branding and content instead of engineering them. The fixed one-time price and demo logins are on the solution page.

### How long does a ready-made nutrition app take to launch?

The ready-made build goes live in 6 working days of Miracuves work, and app store review runs separately. Custom changes take 15 to 30 days for a defined scope and up to 45 to 60 days for larger scope.

### Do I get both Android and iOS apps?

Yes. Android and iOS apps are always included together, plus a browser app, a coach workspace and an admin console. You also receive the full source code.

### What languages and payments are supported?

The app runs in English and Hindi, and members can pay in rupees or by card through Stripe. Further regional language packs are available as a paid add-on.

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