Free Vegan Tools
The kit
Eight tools. All free, all instant.
Protein & Nutrient Calculator
Enter your weight and training load. Get a daily protein target, key micronutrient goals, and a sample day of real food that hits them.
Ingredient Label Scanner
Paste any ingredients list. We flag the animal-derived entries and the ambiguous ones — E-numbers, hidden dairy, insect dyes — with a swap for each.
Is It Vegan? Product Directory
Search brand-name products or scan a barcode. We flag the animal-derived ingredients and point you to a substitute.
30-Day Challenge Tracker
One small task a day for a month, with progress saved in your browser. Habit-building, not willpower.
Travel Phrasebook
"I'm vegan" and five follow-up phrases in 20 languages, copyable to your phone before you order.
7-Day Meal Planner
A full week of plant-based meals with an auto-generated shopping list you can actually take to the shop.
AI Swap Wizard
Type any animal ingredient and get the plant-based substitute that does the same job — with ratios and flavour notes.
Personal Impact Dashboard
See the animals, water, land and emissions your choices spare over days, months and years.
Ingredient Checker
Look up a single ingredient by name and find out, in one line, whether it's vegan.
Why
Tools beat willpower.
Almost nobody abandons a plant-based diet because they stopped caring about animals. They abandon it because a Tuesday got busy, the fridge was empty, a label was confusing, or a menu abroad was a wall of unfamiliar words. Those are logistics problems, and logistics problems have tools.
So each of these does one narrow job well. The calculator settles the protein question with numbers instead of argument. The scanner answers the supermarket question in three seconds. The tracker turns a vague intention into thirty small, finished things. The phrasebook removes the fear of ordering in a language you don't speak.
Nothing here asks for an email, an account, or a payment, and nothing you type is sent to us. Use one, use all eight, or bookmark the two that fit your week.
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Which tool solves which problem
Most people do not stall on plant-based eating because they were unconvinced. They stall on small, concrete friction: not knowing how much protein they actually need, not being able to decode an ingredients list in a supermarket aisle, losing momentum in week two, or standing in a restaurant abroad without the words to explain what they eat. Each tool here removes one of those specific frictions.
They are deliberately small. There is no account, no paywall and no data leaving your browser — calculations run locally and anything you keep, like challenge progress or a shopping list, is stored on your own device. That means you can close the tab and come back without having handed over an email address, and it means the tools work the same whether you are curious or already three years in.
Used together they cover the practical arc of a change: work out your targets, learn to read labels, plan a week of food, track a month of habit-building, and carry the language you need when you travel. None of them require you to have decided anything in advance.
| If you are stuck on | Use | Takes | You get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Am I getting enough protein? | Protein & nutrient calculator | 2 minutes | A daily gram target and a sample day of real food that reaches it. |
| Is this product vegan? | Label scanner and product directory | 1 minute | Flagged animal-derived and ambiguous ingredients, with a swap for each. |
| What do I actually cook this week? | 7-day meal planner | 10 minutes | A week of meals and a consolidated shopping list you can tick off. |
| I lose momentum after a fortnight | 30-day challenge tracker | 1 minute a day | One small task daily, with progress saved locally in your browser. |
| How do I order abroad? | Travel phrasebook | 2 minutes | Six essential phrases in twenty languages, ready to copy to your phone. |
| Does any of this add up? | Impact dashboard | 3 minutes | Your own emissions, land, water and animal figures from what you have swapped. |
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What these tools deliberately do not do
Being clear about the limits is what makes the outputs usable. Every tool here is a starting estimate, not a clinical or regulatory instrument.
- They do not replace medical or dietetic advice, especially in pregnancy, childhood or managed illness.
- They do not guarantee a product is vegan — formulations change and manufacturing lines are shared.
- They do not require or store an email address, and nothing is uploaded to a server.
- They do not track you, and there are no advertising or analytics identifiers attached to the results.
- They do not assume you are already vegan, or that you intend to become one.
- They do not score you. There is no streak to lose and no penalty for a missed day.
- They do not sell anything, so a recommendation is never a paid placement.
- They do not hide the method — every calculation is explained on the tool's own page.
A sensible order to use them in
- 1
Set your numbers
Run the protein and nutrient calculator once. Knowing your actual target ends the single most common worry before it starts.
- 2
Learn the label vocabulary
Paste two or three ingredient lists from things already in your cupboard into the scanner. Recognising the terms is a skill you keep.
- 3
Plan one week
Use the meal planner to build a week you would genuinely eat, then take the generated shopping list to the shop.
- 4
Start the thirty days
Begin the challenge tracker on a normal week rather than a holiday, so the habits you build match your ordinary life.
- 5
Check the impact
After a month, look at the dashboard. Seeing the cumulative effect of small swaps is what sustains them past the novelty.
- 6
Pack the phrasebook
Before you travel, copy the phrases for your destination. Being able to ask precisely is the difference between a good meal and a plate of chips.
Sources: Poore & Nemecek (Science, 2018), FAO, USDA FoodData Central, Mekonnen & Hoekstra (2011).
Questions about the tools
Do I need an account?
Is my data sent anywhere?
How accurate is the protein calculator?
Can the label scanner be wrong?
Will my challenge progress survive on a different device?
Are they free?
Method and sourcing
Protein and micronutrient targets follow national dietary guidelines and sports-nutrition consensus statements; emissions, land and water factors in the impact dashboard derive from Poore & Nemecek (2018) and FAO datasets; the label term list is maintained against manufacturer ingredient declarations and EU E-number designations. Each tool page states the assumptions behind its own output so you can check the working.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Are these vegan tools free?
Do the tools store my data?
How accurate is the ingredient label scanner?
How much protein do vegans need?
Can I use these tools on my phone?
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