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Miriel AI is an iOS app that gives parents personalized nutritional intelligence for their children. It scans food labels, generates AI meal plans tailored to each child's age and allergies, and answers questions through an AI nutrition coach. The app is free to download and built specifically for families with children aged 1–12.
Yes. Children do not have accounts and do not log in. Parents enter all child information on their child's behalf, and Miriel’s data handling is aligned with COPPA controls. Miriel uses zero third-party tracking on children’s data, and parents can delete a child profile at any time.
Point your phone’s camera at any packaged food label. Miriel reads the ingredients and nutrition panel, then returns a child-specific safety score, allergen alerts, and an age-appropriate analysis. The scoring takes into account each child’s allergies, sensitivities, and growth-stage needs that the parent has set up.
Miriel is built for children aged 1 to 12. Younger ages (1–3) get extra weight on choking-hazard and texture-appropriate guidance, and older ages get age-tuned portion sizes and macronutrient targets. Parents can add multiple children to a single account.
Yes — allergies and intolerances are first-class data in Miriel. When a parent adds an allergy to a child’s profile, every food scan, meal plan, and AI coach response respects it. Miriel surfaces clear allergen warnings rather than burying them in fine print.
Tell Miriel what’s in your kitchen and which child you’re cooking for. Miriel generates a weekly meal plan that respects the child’s age, allergies, dietary preferences, and what they’ll actually eat. Eighteen AI nutrition engines work together to balance macronutrients, micronutrients, and dietary diversity across the week.
Miriel learns over time. Mark which meals worked and which didn’t, and the AI gradually shifts recommendations toward foods your child accepts while still meeting nutrition goals. Picky-eater profiles are explicitly supported — Miriel doesn’t treat them as edge cases.
Most nutrition apps are adult diet trackers scaled down for kids — calorie counters with a smaller portion size. Miriel is built from the ground up for children: age-appropriate portions, allergy-safe recommendations, growth-stage nutrition rather than weight loss, and parent-managed child profiles. It’s designed for the parent making decisions, not the child counting calories.
Yes, Miriel is free to download with a free tier of features. Optional Standard and Advanced subscription tiers unlock additional capabilities like deeper meal-planning automation and advanced nutrition reports. Parents can use the free tier indefinitely.
Family sharing is on the near-term roadmap. Today, a single parent account can manage multiple children. If you and a co-parent both want to use Miriel, the cleanest setup is to share one account or to create your own and add the same children to each profile.
Miriel is available worldwide on the iOS App Store. The app supports English and Korean today, and respects regional dietary guidelines where relevant. Some advanced features may roll out region-by-region.
Miriel is iOS-only today. Android is on the roadmap but not yet scheduled. Sign up for the waitlist or follow Miriel on social media to be notified when an Android version is announced.
Allergies and intolerances are first-class data per child. A parent can add as many allergens and sensitivities as needed to a child profile, and every food scan, meal plan, and AI coach response respects all of them simultaneously — there is no limit, and there is no priority where one allergy is honoured at the expense of another.
Miriel can respect an EoE elimination diet protocol when a parent inputs the relevant trigger foods on the child's profile. It is not a substitute for pediatric gastroenterology — diagnosis, biopsy follow-up, and protocol design happen with a specialist. Once that protocol is set, Miriel makes day-to-day meal planning around it easier.
Yes — FPIES triggers added to a child profile are treated like any other allergen across scans and meal plans. Because FPIES is a non-IgE reaction and trigger lists are often very child-specific, the safest setup is to enter triggers exactly as your allergist has confirmed them rather than relying on general FPIES food lists.
Gluten is a standard exclusion in Miriel. Once a parent flags celiac disease on the profile, gluten-containing foods are excluded from scans and meal plans, and cross-contamination warnings surface on packaged-food scans. As always, the diagnosis itself should come from a pediatric gastroenterologist before gluten is removed from the diet.
CMPA is a standard exclusion option in Miriel. Parents can specify the type (IgE vs non-IgE) where the pediatrician has confirmed it, and Miriel adjusts meal plans accordingly — including for the milk-protein-free overlap with infant feeding when the child is still on a milk-based diet.
Miriel is built for ages 1–12. For an infant who is exclusively breastfed and not yet on solids, the day-to-day decisions are different from what Miriel is designed for. We recommend pediatric and lactation guidance during the first year; Miriel becomes most useful once the child is eating a meaningful share of solids.
Yes. Macronutrient targets, calcium and iron needs, and portion sizes are all age-tuned, with adjustments for the rapid growth and shifting energy demands of puberty. Miriel does not treat a 12-year-old in a growth spurt like a 6-year-old in a maintenance phase.
Yes. AAP guidance is clear that fat restriction is inappropriate before age 2 — full-fat dairy and fatty foods are essential for early brain development. Miriel's recommendations under age 2 reflect this, with no carry-over of adult or older-child fat limits to the under-twos.
Yes. Vegetarian is a first-class dietary preference. Miriel adjusts protein sources, watches micronutrients that can run low in vegetarian diets (iron, zinc, B12), and builds plans around what the family actually eats rather than treating vegetarianism as a restriction to work around.
Vegan is supported. Miriel pays particular attention to B12, vitamin D, iron, and calcium for vegan children, and surfaces supplementation reminders where the diet alone is unlikely to meet a child's needs. For infants and toddlers on vegan diets, we recommend pediatric and dietitian oversight in parallel.
Halal and kosher dietary patterns are supported as preference settings. Miriel respects them in recipe suggestions and meal plans. The depth of region-specific recipe coverage continues to grow; if a specific cuisine or preparation is missing for you, the team welcomes feedback.
Yes. Korean cuisine is a core supported pattern, with attention to common Korean dietary concerns — sodium from soups, stews, and fermented sides; balance with white rice; and culturally familiar protein and vegetable choices. The app and content are available in Korean.
Stimulant-related appetite suppression is a well-known feeding challenge. Miriel can prioritize calorie-dense, high-protein options at meal times when appetite is highest (typically early morning and late evening), and de-emphasize bulky low-density foods during peak medication hours. Work with your pediatrician on the medical side; Miriel handles the meal-planning side.
Failure to thrive is a clinical situation that needs pediatric supervision. With a pediatrician-set catch-up nutrition plan, Miriel can support the day-to-day execution — calorie-dense meal suggestions, frequent small meals, protein layering, and tracking what was actually eaten — but the plan itself comes from the medical team.
Yes. Narrow-diet children are an explicitly supported case. Miriel's picky-eater adaptive features build plans around foods your child accepts, then gradually introduce small bridges to similar foods over time. The goal is acceptance, not pressure; the strategy is consistency, not confrontation.
Some features (viewing existing meal plans, your child profiles, basic recipe details) work offline. The AI coach, new meal-plan generation, and food-label scanning require an internet connection because they call AI models in real time. The most common day-to-day uses tolerate brief offline periods.
Yes. Miriel is built with parent control as a first principle. Parents can export their child profile data and delete it at any time. The specific export format and process are described in the privacy policy.
Safety is computed per child against the profile you set: age, allergens, sensitivities, growth stage, dietary preferences, and (where relevant) medical conditions. Each food scan and meal-plan suggestion is filtered through this profile, with the most safety-critical signals (allergens, choking hazards by age) taking precedence over preferences.
Today, the AI Coach is fully fluent in English and Korean. Additional languages are on the roadmap. The underlying AI models support many languages, but content quality and clinical alignment take ongoing review before we add a language to the supported list.
Miriel is designed with child data minimization in mind and aligns with COPPA controls. Food scan photos are processed to extract the information Miriel needs (ingredients, nutrition data), with the privacy policy describing exactly what is retained and for how long. There is no third-party advertising or tracking on children's data.
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