Three free Ayurvedic tools.
Useful on their own.
Check any food against your body type. Build a one-page Dinacharya in 60 seconds. Assess your Agni in five questions. Drop in, get an answer, leave — no email gate.
InnerVeda offers three free Ayurvedic tools: a Food Checker covering 300+ foods rated for Vata, Pitta, and Kapha; a Routine Builder that generates a personalised Dinacharya from your dosha and wake time; and an Agni Assessment identifying your digestive fire type (Sama, Vishama, Tikshna, or Manda) in five questions. All three are free, work without signup, and are sourced from the Charaka Samhita and other classical Ayurvedic texts.
Food checker
Tap any food — ghee, mango, oats — and see how it affects Vata, Pitta, and Kapha at a glance.
Routine builder
Build a one-page daily routine for your body type — wake time, meals, practice, wind-down. Print, stick on fridge.
Agni assessment
Five questions on hunger, tongue, sleep, energy. Find out where your digestive fire actually is — and the one thing to fix first.
What is an Ayurvedic tool?
Ayurveda is a 2,500-year-old system of medicine documented in compendia like the Charaka Samhita, Sushruta Samhita, and Ashtanga Hridayam. At its core is a constitutional framework — three biological humours (Vata, Pitta, Kapha) that combine in different proportions in every individual to produce constitutional uniqueness. What balances one constitution can aggravate another.
This is precise, useful knowledge — but classical Ayurveda assumed years of study under a qualified teacher. Most modern practitioners do not have that time. Ayurvedic tools translate the framework into instruments anyone can use: a food check that takes thirty seconds, a routine generator that takes a minute, an Agni self-assessment that takes five questions.
The tools do not replace classical study or professional consultation. They serve as a high-quality entry point, especially for the daily decisions where constitutional matching makes the biggest difference — what to eat, when to eat it, when to wake, when to wind down, what your current digestive state is asking for.
Free Ayurvedic tools vs other wellness apps
The wellness app market is large, but very few apps work at the constitutional layer. Here is how InnerVeda's tools compare to the most common alternatives.
| Feature | InnerVeda Tools | Calm / Headspace | Noom / MyFitnessPal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Constitutional matching | Vata × Pitta × Kapha for every recommendation | Generic, same content for everyone | Calorie target only |
| Food guidance | 300+ foods, rated for all three doshas | None | By calorie / macro only |
| Daily routine planner | Dinacharya by dosha + wake time | Sleep stories only | Calorie windows only |
| Digestive assessment | 4 Agni types, classical framework | None | Weight tracking only |
| Source authority | Charaka Samhita, Ashtanga Hridayam | Modern meditation teachers | Behavioural science research |
| Cost & signup | Free, no signup, no email gate | Free trial, then £49–£70/year | Free tier + paid coaching |
| Time to first answer | 30 seconds (food) · 60 seconds (routine) · 1 minute (Agni) | Onboarding required | Account setup required |
When practitioners actually reach for these
Before a grocery shop
Use the Food Checker to spot-check items you reach for habitually. Many practitioners discover a daily food is constitutionally wrong — a small swap produces noticeable shift within a week.
Designing a new morning
Use the Routine Builder when you want to reset your day. Generates a one-page Dinacharya you can print and post on the fridge — wake time, meals, practice, wind-down.
Digestion feels off
Use the Agni Assessment to identify whether your fire is currently slow, sharp, or variable. The result names one targeted intervention to start with — usually a meal-timing or temperature change.
Travel or season change
Use all three tools after travel, jet lag, or seasonal transitions. Constitutional state shifts in these periods; the tools surface what has changed and what to do about it.
After a meditation course
When you have started meditation but want to extend benefits into food and routine. The tools complete the Ayurvedic-yogic system that meditation alone does not.
Before seeing a practitioner
Use the tools to arrive at your first Ayurvedic consultation with self-knowledge. Practitioners often comment that prepared patients reach better outcomes faster.
Frequently asked
What practitioners ask before reaching for an Ayurvedic tool.
Ayurvedic tools translate the 2,500-year-old Ayurvedic framework into practical, daily-use instruments. Where classical Ayurveda required years of study, modern tools let you check a food against your constitution, build a routine matched to your body type, or assess your digestive fire (Agni) in under five minutes. They are useful because they replace generic wellness advice with constitutionally-matched guidance — what calms Vata can aggravate Kapha, and the tools handle that distinction for you.
Yes. All three InnerVeda tools — the Food Checker, Routine Builder, and Agni Assessment — work without signup, without an email gate, and without any paywall. They are designed as a free entry point into Ayurveda. If they help and you want personalised long-form guidance, the body type quiz and Companion app are available, but the tools themselves remain free.
An Ayurvedic food checker works on a different axis from conventional nutrition. It does not replace calorie tracking or medical dietary advice. What it does is map foods against the three doshas (Vata, Pitta, Kapha) using classical texts (Charaka Samhita, Sushruta Samhita) and centuries of clinical observation. It tells you whether a food increases or decreases each dosha. For medical conditions, consult a qualified practitioner or dietitian; for everyday constitutional matching, the food checker is reliable and well-established.
Dinacharya is the Ayurvedic framework of daily routine, described in classical texts as one of the three pillars of health alongside food and brahmacharya (proper use of energy). The Charaka Samhita and Ashtanga Hridayam map specific times of day to specific dosha-dominant periods. A routine builder applies these timings to your constitution and wake time, producing a personalised one-page schedule. Most practitioners report better sleep and digestion within two to three weeks of consistent dinacharya.
Agni is the Ayurvedic term for digestive fire — the metabolic capacity that transforms food into nutrients and waste. Classical Ayurveda identifies four Agni types: Sama (balanced), Vishama (variable, Vata-driven), Tikshna (sharp, Pitta-driven), and Manda (slow, Kapha-driven). The Charaka Samhita treats Agni as the root of health: 'When Agni is strong, the food digests well and the person remains in good health.' The Agni Assessment identifies which type you currently have and suggests one targeted intervention to rebalance.
Helpful but not required. The Food Checker and Routine Builder both work better if you know your constitution, but each tool includes a body-type lookup option, and the Agni Assessment works independently of dosha knowledge. If you do not know your body type, the free two-minute body type quiz at /body-type-identification is the recommended starting point.
No, and they are not intended to. The tools provide constitutional guidance for daily wellness — diet, routine, digestive patterns. For acute symptoms, chronic conditions, pregnancy, post-surgical care, or significant imbalance, a qualified Ayurvedic practitioner (BAMS or equivalent) can offer personalised consultation, pulse diagnosis, and herbal protocols that no software can replicate. Treat the tools as a high-quality entry point, not as a substitute for professional care.
Calm and Headspace focus on meditation and sleep — they do not address food, daily routine, or digestion. Noom focuses on calorie tracking and behavioural change — useful for weight goals but unaware of constitutional differences. InnerVeda's tools work specifically at the constitutional layer: matching food, routine, and digestion to your body type. The traditions are complementary, not competitive.
Yes. Every recommendation in the tools is sourced from the Charaka Samhita, Sushruta Samhita, Ashtanga Hridayam, or Bhavaprakasha — the foundational compendia of Ayurvedic medicine. Where modern research corroborates classical claims (alternate nostril breathing on autonomic balance, intermittent fasting on Agni, circadian rhythm on digestion), the tools cite both. Where modern research is silent, the classical sources are cited directly.
The tools run entirely in your browser. The Food Checker, Routine Builder, and Agni Assessment do not save your data to any server. If you take the body type quiz (a separate flow), your dosha is stored only in your browser's local storage to personalise future visits — never sold, never shared with third parties.
The tools work better when matched to your constitution.
Two minutes. No signup. The quiz identifies your Vata-Pitta-Kapha proportions and unlocks personalised guidance across the Companion app, meditations, and food guide.
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Beyond the tools
300+ foods rated for body type
Beyond the spot-check tool — every common food with full Ayurvedic profile, Sanskrit name, taste, virya, and dosha effects.
242 guided sessions matched to body type
Constitutionally calibrated breathwork, mantra, yoga nidra. Daily practice, morning rituals, sleep preparation.
Long-form Ayurveda articles
Classical foundations: doshas, prakriti vs vikriti, the five elements, the three gunas, ritucharya, dinacharya.
21-day body-type arcs
Three structured programmes — Vata balance, Pitta calm, Kapha ignite. Daily 15-minute practices building constitutional change over three weeks.