# Basalis: Calorie Tracker — Your real maintenance, found > Your real maintenance, found (iPhone/iPad app by Jimith George.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/basalis-calorie-tracker/id6803118076 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jimith George](https://appshunter.io/developer/6803118079) - Category: Lifestyle, Health & Fitness - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 3 MB - Languages: American English, German (Germany), Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish - Released: 2026-09-06 - Data updated: 2026-11-06 ## What is Basalis? Photograph your meal. Basalis works out what is on the plate and where your week is heading. MOST TRACKERS GUESS. FORKCAST TELLS YOU WHICH. Every food is labelled Database or Estimated, so you can see which numbers came from real USDA reference data and which are the model's best guess. No other tracker is honest about that difference — and once you stop believing the numbers, you stop logging. IT LEARNS YOUR PORTIONS Drag a portion once and Basalis remembers. Your rice bowl is the size it is every time, so after a handful of corrections it starts closer than any general model could. All of it happens on your device, from your own data. IT MEASURES WHAT YOU BURN — IT DOESN'T ASSUME Most apps estimate your maintenance calories from a textbook formula that can be hundreds of calories wrong for any one person. Weigh in for two weeks and Basalis works out your real number from what you actually ate against what the scale actually did. Connect Apple Health and it reads your real activity too. FOOD FROM EVERYWHERE Biryani, jollof, pho, dal, naan — Basalis handles the food people actually eat, not just packaged Western groceries. 3,398 foods from USDA FoodData Central, plus a model that recognises dishes no database lists. SEE THE CHANGE Add a progress photo whenever you like and watch the timeline build. The numbers tell you what happened; this shows it. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account. No signup. No password. Your log lives on your device and syncs through your own iCloud — we cannot read it. Meal photos are deleted after seven days automatically. Export everything to CSV whenever you want. FORKCAST PLUS - Unlimited photo analyses (the free plan covers three a day) - A second opinion from a more accurate model on crowded plates - Apple Health, so your budget uses real activity instead of an estimate Everything else — photo logging, the USDA database, portions that learn, the weight forecast, progress photos and CSV export — is free. WHERE THE NUMBERS COME FROM Basalis cites every calculation it makes. Food values come from USDA FoodData Central. Your resting rate uses the Mifflin-St Jeor equation, your protein target follows published sports-nutrition reviews, and the weight forecast uses the standard 7,700 kcal per kg figure. Tap Sources & References in Settings, or the link beside any figure in the app, to open the original research. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS - Plus Monthly: auto-renewable, one month per period - Plus Yearly: auto-renewable, one year per period - Two weeks free, then the price shown on the purchase screen for your country. Prices are set per region, so the amount you see in the app is the amount you pay. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings at any time. Cancel before the free trial ends and you are not charged. Privacy Policy: https://jimith007.github.io/forkcast-site/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Basalis gives general fitness guidance and estimates. Photo-based calorie figures are approximate. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Talk to a doctor before making significant changes to your diet. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Yearly | $99.00 | per year | | Monthly | $15.00 | per month | ## Is Basalis safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Basalis. ## Is Basalis legit? Basalis: Calorie Tracker appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Basalis is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4 — 2026-09-24 Two days of the coach, and a keyboard you can always get out of. - The coach is now a two-day trial rather than three questions a week. Three rationed questions made people hoard them and ask nothing useful; two days of asking whatever you like is a trial of the coach instead of a trial of your question-writing. The clock starts the first time you open it, not when you install, so setting up on Friday does not cost you the weekend. - Every number field has a Done button. Weight, height, minutes, calories: some of them had no way to put the keyboard away, which on a small screen meant the Save button was underneath it. - The day rolls over while the app is open. Leaving it running overnight used to show yesterday's totals until you forced it closed. - The daily check-in changes something. It asked whether you were good to train and then no calculation read the answer; a rest day now moves the day's calorie target instead of being a question for its own sake. You can also change the answer, which you could not before. ### 1.3 — 2026-09-18 Forkcast is now Basalis. Same app, same data, same subscription — nothing to do and nothing lost. The name just says what it actually does: most calorie apps hand you a maintenance figure from a formula, and this one measures yours from what you ate against what the scale did. ### 1.2 — 2026-09-16 Fixes, mostly from people using it rather than from a test suite. - Typing a number works. Every field started on 0, so asking for 5 minutes gave you 50. They start empty now and show what they want instead. - You can fix what you logged. Tap any entry to correct it or delete it. Deleting used to be hidden behind a long press, and a mistyped calorie figure was permanent — it dragged your average and your maintenance estimate with it. - Meal photos look right. Thumbnails were being squeezed without smoothing, and the estimate screen letterboxed anything that was not landscape. - The coach reads as a screen rather than a page of blue links. - Large text works. The calorie ring's label was spilling over the ring, and quick-add cards were cutting off their calorie figure. - Forkcast is for adults, and now says so: the age question starts at 18. The coach already refused to advise anyone younger, because deficits during growth are a bad idea; the plan builder should never have disagreed with it. - Exporting no longer rewrites your whole log every time you open Settings. - Your two free weeks are actually offered, once, after your plan is built. ### 1.1 — 2026-09-09 A coach that reads your logs, and four things every other tracker leaves out. - A coach that already knows your numbers. It opens on what your week actually did, and answers questions about your own intake, trend and training rather than in general. It will not answer medical questions, and says so plainly. - Ten lessons that end. Energy balance, protein, why the scale lies on a Monday, plateaus, eating out. Every figure cited to its source. - Fibre, sugar and salt, now that the food database carries them. Water logged in glasses and bottles rather than millilitres. - Recipes: enter a cooked dish once with its servings, log a portion in two taps with the macros already divided. - Sets, reps and weight against every exercise, with what to put on the bar next time and your weekly sets per muscle group. - Barcode scanning for packaged food. - Tape measurements with the instructions attached, and the answer when the scale is flat but your waist is not. - Sleep, steps and resting heart rate from Apple Health, including what a short night does to how much you eat. The eating window is read from what you logged, so there is no timer to start and nothing to forget. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-06 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Basalis | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [MaxWell Realty Home Search](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/maxwell-realty-home-search/id1067976583) | 4.7 (19) | Free | Lifestyle | | [Flow-Coloring Book for Adults](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/flow-coloring-book-for-adults/id6759331501) | 4.6 (143) | Free | Lifestyle | | [Yapper Live](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yapper-live/id6754517686) | 4.2 (46) | Free | Lifestyle | | [Motorola Family Space](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/motorola-family-space/id6449675881) | 1.6 (21) | Free | Lifestyle | | [Day Counter — Countdown Timer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/day-counter-countdown-timer/id1499976509) | 4.7 (463) | Free | Lifestyle | | [Sanctuary Psychic Reading](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sanctuary-psychic-reading/id1417411962) | 4.8 (44,138) | Free | Lifestyle | ## More apps by Jimith George - [Offeratory](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/offeratory/id6820632454) - [Offeratory Events](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/offeratory-events/id6822884750) All apps by Jimith George: https://appshunter.io/developer/6803118079 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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