by Workfile
MealStack vs Zoconut: the consultation, not the cockpit
Zoconut runs the business around your consultation. MealStack runs the consultation itself, on named Indian food data, with an assistant that drafts the plan and a bill that does not grow every time you sign a client.
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Why a practice moves from Zoconut to MealStack
Zoconut is a real product with real customers. These are the six places it leaves a working nutrition practice short.
Your bill stops growing with your caseload
Zoconut charges one credit per client per month, so every client you sign raises the bill. MealStack charges per practitioner and never counts clients. At 150 active clients that is roughly ₹12,000 a month against ₹1,999.
The food is not in the database. Type the name.
AI fills 20 fields from a food name, finishes an empty meal slot, writes a recipe from a dish, and reads a packaged label from a photo. This is the part a working practice uses every day, not a demo. Zoconut publishes no AI features at all.
Food data you can name and cite
IFCT 2017, INDB and six more sources, 17,000+ foods at 80+ nutrients each, with Hindi names and katori portions. Zoconut does not publish which database it uses or how deep it goes.
Diwali is not a compliance failure
Mark a festival, a wedding, travel or a fast. The day gets its own target and guidance, and adherence pauses instead of recording a failure your client could not avoid.
Or type the whole week, if that is how you work
The Shorthand sheet takes a week as lines of text, parses the quantities you wrote, and still prints calories and macros when you want them. A second way to plan, for the practitioners who prescribe by typing.
Your tradition, in its own words
Record rasa, virya, vipaka and guna on a food, prakriti and vikriti on a client, and read the day by heating against cooling. MealStack supplies the vocabulary. Every value stays yours.
What Zoconut does that we do not
You use it every day, so you already know this list. Here it is from us, in writing.
- A native app on the App Store and Play Store, and a white-label version of it
- Wearable sync from Apple Health, Fitbit, Garmin and Mi Band
- Commission on lab test bookings taken inside the client app
- Courses, workshops and challenges with leaderboards
- Video calling built into the product rather than a meeting link
If your practice runs on those five, Zoconut is the better fit today and we will tell you so on the call. If it runs on the hour you spend building a plan, read on.
Feature by feature
Checked against Zoconut's own pages in October 2026. Where they do not publish a capability it is marked "not published", not "not available".
| Feature | MealStack | Zoconut |
|---|---|---|
| Food and nutrition data | ||
IFCT 2017 (NIN Hyderabad) MealStack carries 17,000+ foods from IFCT, INDB, USDA & global food databases. Zoconut does not publish which database it uses. | ||
INDB (ICMR-NIN) | ||
80+ nutrients per food | ||
Hindi and regional food names | ||
Indian portions (katori, roti, idli) | ||
ICMR food exchange lists | ||
Cooking yield and nutrient retention factors Rice absorbs water, roti loses it. MealStack adjusts for 11 cooking methods. | ||
Set your own katori and portion sizes Override any platform portion for your whole practice, or per food category. | ||
Allergen and nutrient alert policies | ||
| Building the plan | ||
Visual plan builder | ||
Text-first planning sheet Type the week the way you already write it. Quantities parse as written, linking a food is optional. | ||
AI plan generation | ||
AI meal fill and swaps | ||
AI recipe generation | ||
Nutrition label photo scanner | ||
Plan templates | ||
Recipe builder | ||
Version history with restore | ||
Festival, travel and fasting days Nine Indian templates. Adherence pauses on a flexible day instead of recording a failure. | ||
| Clinical | ||
SOAP and ADIME notes | ||
Structured assessments | ||
Nutrient target packs and reference intervals | ||
Lab report photo extraction | ||
Practice vocabulary (Ayurveda pack) Rasa, virya, vipaka, guna, prakriti, vikriti, agni and koshta, recorded by you. MealStack classifies nothing itself. | ||
| What your client sees | ||
Client app | ||
Installs without an app store | ||
Push notifications | ||
In-app messaging | ||
Food diary | ||
Client self-booking | ||
Shopping list from the plan | ||
Works offline | ||
Hide calories and macros per client Practice default, per client, per plan, per export. Useful in eating disorder recovery. | ||
| Practice and money | ||
Unlimited clients on every plan Zoconut bills one credit per client per month. MealStack never counts clients. | ||
Free plan | ||
GST invoicing with SAC codes | ||
Razorpay and UPI | ||
Installments | ||
Team roles and permissions | ||
Audit log | ||
| Where Zoconut is ahead today | ||
Native app on the App Store and Play Store | ||
Wearable sync (Apple Health, Fitbit, Garmin, Mi) | ||
Commission on lab test bookings | ||
Courses, workshops and challenges | ||
Video calling inside the product | ||
Email drip campaigns | ||
What each one costs
The difference is the shape, not the sticker. One grows with your caseload, the other with your team.
MealStack Pricing
(INR · Indian-first)- 3 active meal plans
- IFCT food database
- 50 AI credits
- No card needed
- 2 seats included
- Unlimited meal plans
- IFCT + INDB + USDA
- 350 AI credits/seat
- Client portal
- 1,200 AI credits/seat
- Reports and analytics
- Your branding only
- Audit logs
- 5 seats included
- White-label portal
- Custom reports
- API access
Zoconut Pricing
(USD · Western market)- Credits on top of the plan
- Credits do not carry forward
- 3 day trial
- ₹60 to ₹120 per client month
- Quarterly commitment
- No free plan
- Branded app ₹2,00,000 extra
- Plus ₹89,900 a year to keep it
- No free plan
Zoconut bills a quarterly plan plus credits, where one credit is one client for one month. Its own FAQ quotes ₹60 to ₹100 per credit in one answer and ₹80 to ₹120 in another. At ₹80 and 150 active clients that is about ₹12,000 a month. MealStack Pro is ₹1,999 a month and covers two dietitians with clients unlimited. Both figures exclude GST. Check the credit bundle on your own invoice before you compare.
Move ten clients, not two hundred
Start free and keep Zoconut running. Bring the ten clients who message you most, build a week for each, and compare the two on your own caseload before you move anything else. Your Zoconut credits are quarterly, so the overlap costs you nothing.
- Unlimited clients on every plan
- 17,000+ foods with IFCT and INDB
- AI plan drafting
- SOAP and ADIME notes
- GST invoicing