Is there a nutrition app with AI that speaks Catalan?

Yes: vitaloop. Its AI understands Catalan, typed or spoken, and answers in Catalan, just as it does in Spanish and English. All three are native languages of the app, not translations bolted on later. We are the team that builds it, in Barcelona, so we are not neutral; what we say about other apps we checked on 10 October 2026.

Why this matters if you live in Catalonia

You may read in English, but the food around you is named in Catalan: the market stall, the menu del dia, the recipe your neighbour sent. And the people you share a kitchen with may well prefer Catalan or Spanish. vitaloop lets each person pick their language, and recognises the dishes of the place you live in.

What the AI does in Catalan

• The meal chat. Type or say “per dinar, un plat de llenties amb xoriço i una poma” (for lunch, a plate of lentils with chorizo and an apple). It understands, finds each food by its Catalan name and replies in Catalan, with portions you can adjust.
• Food names. Every food and recipe in the catalogue has a Catalan and a Spanish name: 1,077 foods and 169 recipes. Botifarra, mató, calçots, xató, suquet, trinxat.
• The weekly report. Each week the AI explains what it found in your meals and your biometrics, in the language you chose.
• Meal ideas that respect your goals, your tastes and your allergies, written in your language.
• SmartBite. Pick a nearby restaurant; the app reads its menu and suggests the dishes that fit your day.
• Recipes from a URL. Paste a link from a Catalan cooking site and vitaloop turns it into a recipe of your own, with every ingredient and its nutrients.

What using it in Catalan looks like

Phrases you can type or say

• “Per esmorzar, un tallat i una torrada amb tomàquet i oli.” (Breakfast: a cortado and toast with tomato and olive oil.)
• “Per dinar, un plat de llenties amb xoriço i una poma.” (Lunch: lentils with chorizo and an apple.)
• “Per sopar, un plat de trinxat i un iogurt.” (Dinner: a plate of trinxat and a yoghurt.)

Keyboard or microphone, either works. When what you said matches more than one food in the catalogue, the chat shows you the options instead of guessing.

Local dishes by their own names

93 of the 169 catalogue recipes are Spanish cuisine, Catalan dishes included: xató, suquet, trinxat, calçots. Foods like botifarra and mató are there too.

Switching language

Go to Profile, tap Language and choose Catalan, Spanish or English. Switch whenever you like; the chat, the weekly report, the meal ideas and SmartBite follow.

What about the other apps?

We looked at the languages the best-known nutrition apps declare on the Spanish App Store: MyFitnessPal, Yazio, Lifesum, Fitia, Cronometer, Foodvisor and Cal AI. None includes Catalan; most offer Spanish, and Cronometer lists English only. Some smaller apps do offer Catalan too.

For the full comparison (languages, vitamins and minerals, packaged food, AI and price), see The best nutrition apps in Spain (2026).

Beyond language

• 42 nutrients per food: vitamins, minerals, fibre and types of fat, not just calories and macros.
• Packaged food, complete. EU labels usually carry seven values; vitaloop estimates a product’s vitamins and minerals from its ingredient list.
• Free barcode scanning.
• Your biometrics next to your meals: sleep, resting heart rate, weight and workouts, with the weekly report explaining the patterns it finds.
• A Barcelona company, Vitaloop Labs, SL, with your data on EU servers.

Manual logging, the catalogue and barcode scanning are free. The AI chat, the weekly report, meal ideas, SmartBite and recipe import are part of Pro. Everything the assistant does is on vitaloop’s nutrition assistant page.