Balanza is a free calorie counter with a photo. Take a picture of your plate, describe it in words or scan a barcode, and the AI works out the calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber and calcium for you. No typing, no searching through databases.
A DAILY TARGET THAT ADJUSTS ITSELF
Log your first meal, describe yourself in one sentence, and Balanza works out your daily calorie and protein target. Then it does what no static calculator does: every week it compares what you logged with how your weight actually moved, and corrects the target. Your body is the measurement, not a formula.
TRAINING DAYS
A second set of daily targets for the days you train. One tap under the date switches the day to a training day, and the ring turns blue. Tap the middle of the ring to switch between calories left and calories eaten.
A FOOD DIARY BY MEAL
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, each with its own card. Saved meals for the things you eat again and again, and a personal food list that learns from you: the second time you type a food you already logged, the answer is instant and free. Popular local dishes from your country answer instantly and free too, when you search or describe a meal. Search the food database right from your food list. The last seven days sit on the home screen: tap a day you missed to fill it in.
WEIGHT AND WAIST TRENDS
A weigh-in a day, a smoothed trend that ignores the daily noise, an estimated date for your goal, and a weekly overview in plain sentences: what you ate, how the weight moved, and what seems to have had an effect. At the start of each week, a summary card waits for you on the home screen. A table of every weigh-in with a monthly summary. And a weight widget for your iPhone home screen, with a reminder on weigh-in mornings.
WATER, SUGAR AND QUICKER LOGGING
The add screen opens with a field on top: type what you ate, or tap the big photo button. Your foods, barcode, saved meals and nutrition labels are one tap away. A glass on the home screen fills up as you drink, toward a daily goal based on EFSA guidance, with an optional reminder, in ml or fl oz. Sugar sits on the home screen as an upper limit: under 10% of your calories, as the WHO recommends. The add screen suggests what you usually eat at this hour, one tap to log it.
INTERMITTENT FASTING WITHOUT A TIMER
The fast is measured straight from your diary: it starts after the last food you logged and ends with the next one. Nothing to start, nothing to stop.
SET IT UP YOUR WAY
Metric or imperial units, your choice of the first day of the week, and the hour a diary day starts, handy if you eat late at night.
NO ACCOUNT, NO SIGN-UP
Your data is tied to an anonymous id only. A recovery code brings it back on a new phone. Export everything to a file whenever you want, delete everything in one tap.
ELEVEN LANGUAGES
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Greek, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Slovak, Czech, Russian and Arabic, switchable in Settings.
FREE
Everything described here is free to use. One small ad at the bottom of some screens covers part of the running costs.
Every number Balanza works out is cited to its source inside the app, with a medical disclaimer. Balanza is not a medical device and does not replace a doctor or a dietitian.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://balanza.pages.dev/privacy
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