What PureBariatric does
PureBariatric helps bariatric users follow the nutrition, hydration, and supplement guidance their surgical team has given them — across pre-op preparation, post-op recovery, and long-term maintenance. The app is educational. It does not diagnose, treat, or replace care from a licensed clinician.
Protein & hydration tracking
Daily targets you can adjust to match your surgeon's plan, with simple visual progress.
Procedure-specific guidance
Content tailored to LSG, RYGB, SADI-S, LAGB, and BPD-DS — including supplement frameworks and stage progressions.
AI photo scan (optional, Pro)
Snap a meal and the app estimates the food and nutrition. It asks your permission first. You can use the app fully without ever turning it on.
Recovery milestones
Stage-by-stage checklists from pre-op through Beyond Day 90 to keep you grounded between clinic visits.
About the optional AI photo scan
Read before you tap. The optional AI photo scan (Pro) sends a single food photo you choose to OpenAI (United States) to identify the food, with Anthropic (United States) as a backup. Nutrition values come from public food databases.
- Nothing is sent until you allow it. The app asks the first time you use the scan, and names both providers.
- Only the photo, your diet stage and your food-database region are sent — no name, email, account ID or device identifier.
- PureBariatric does not store the photo. The providers may keep it for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring and do not use it to train their models.
- If you decline, manual entry, search and barcode scan keep working.
Full details, including the equal-protection statement required by Apple App Store Review Guideline 5.1.2(i), are on our Privacy page.
Screenshots
Final screenshots will be published with the App Store release.
What PureBariatric is not
- Not a medical device. Does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prescribe.
- Not a replacement for your surgeon, dietitian, or care team.
- Not affiliated with any hospital, health authority, or insurance provider.
If you have urgent post-op symptoms — uncontrolled vomiting, signs of dehydration, fever, severe abdominal pain, or chest pain — contact your surgical team or local emergency services immediately.
About the author
PureBariatric was built by a Canadian specialty nurse with over two decades of acute-care experience and a current focus on bariatric pre-op and post-op recovery, to give users clear, evidence-based tools grounded in published guidelines (ASMBS, Obesity Canada).