# Calorific - What do calories look like? — user reviews > 135 indexed App Store user reviews of Calorific by Nic Mulvaney Ltd, rated 3.10/5 from 22 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calorific-what-do-calories-look-like/id828929865/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calorific-what-do-calories-look-like/id828929865.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of Calorific? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Helpful for visual learners - 🚀 Clever idea - 💡 Potential for additional features - 👍 Beautiful UI - 👍 Useful for portion control **Cons** - 🐛 Inaccurate calorie information - 🔒 Limited free content, requires payment for full access - 🔍 Limited food selection - 🔍 Missing common foods - 🔍 Needs more variety of cuisines - 🔍 Plate size not specified **Commonly reported bugs** - App freezes on loading screen after recent update - Paid upgrades not restoring across devices - Keyboard issues when trying to make in-app purchases **Most requested features** - Add more foods to the database - Include a mini game to test calorie knowledge - Add an alphabetical list for easier food search - Integrate with popular calorie tracking apps - Provide options to view in different measurement units ## Newest reviews (10 of 135) ### 3/5 — Naja... *2019-09-04* Weder auf iOS10 Bildschirm angepasst, noch verstehe ich die Preispolitik. Bilder sind ganz nice, mehr auch nicht. ### 3/5 — Correct? *2018-10-25* Some things seem correct and others are not. For instance 1 large egg is 72 calories. This app show approximately 1.5 eggs as 200 calories. WRONG. ### 2/5 — Only shows 200 calories and needs money for all photos! *2017-04-12* . ### 3/5 — How big is the plate *2017-02-17* That would help a lot ### 4/5 — Has potential *2016-04-20* If the calculation is accurate then this is a GREAT way to figure out how much you are eating. Need more verity though so please add more! ### 5/5 — ✅✅✅ *2016-01-11* Really clever idea. Can't wait for more! ### 4/5 — I like it! *2016-01-01* This is very helpful for visual learners! I notice many European foods are listed; we could use more common American options, too. I appreciate being able to visually compare volumes of different foods with the same caloric value. This is a useful app for retraining my estimations of what I'm eating! ### 3/5 — Plate size? *2015-12-19* What is the size of the plate? Seems important if the whole app is using scale to guide you. ### 5/5 — Actually Accurate *2015-12-17* I read some reviews about the accuracy, like the one about the 1.5 oranges. If you actually READ the amount of grams, it said 431g I believe. If you actually look up the calories of that specific gram amount, it is indeed about 200 calories. Maybe they weighed the oranges with the peel (as the picture shows), so maybe they got the incorrect visual amount because of that. I feel this app is very well done! ### 2/5 — Buggy *2015-11-06, version 1.6* I too cannot purchase pictures. The search screen takes over the iTunes pop up. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Hmm *2018-07-28* Who cares about calories? ### 1/5 — Very slow *2018-01-29* Paid for the app but very disappointed. The app takes forever to load the images and content! ### 1/5 — A bit pointless *2017-01-14* Expected this app to maybe have increments of a 100 calories to show you how much each looks like, but no, it's just a slideshow of photos containing foods that equal 200 calories, and you have to PAY to see all the photos. Outrageous ### 1/5 — Wrong info... *2016-11-29* A quickly looked at some images and I found some wrong info... example Brown Rice vs. White Rice... They show that you can have more white rice than brown rice?? Something like 5x more (not sure anymore because I deleted the app quickly after that...) Not a good app to rely on. ### 1/5 — Poor game *2016-07-25* Complete waste of time don't bother to download! You can't do anything without buying the full app furthermore it won't allow you to track what you're eating and put it in a diary. ### 1/5 — Not useful *2016-06-17* If this were combined with a calorie tracking app it would be useful. ### 1/5 — Unlocking *2016-05-10* Has no instructions how to unlock foods...does this involve in app purchase? Banner just says, connect to Internet..doh!!😩 ### 1/5 — Little usefulness *2016-03-05* First off, the calorie content is extremely inaccurate. For example, it says two and a bit more potato is 200 kcal, whereas in fact 1 common potato is about 110 kcal. There are also very little food varieties. The plate size is unidentified. Even to the same food, different variation could vary a lot in terms of their energy. I so regretted paying money for this app. I mean I like the fact that you make it very vivid and visualized, but there are so many errors and potential improvement that could've been made. ### 1/5 — Completely useless and inaccurate. *2015-12-27* Two and a half carrots equals 200 calories? On what planet? None of these were even close to accurate. ### 1/5 — Limited *2015-11-21, version 1.6* How is pizza not in this? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 被六级听力安利了 *2021-10-24* 感觉听起来真的蛮好用的！ ### 5/5 — 无 *2020-04-24* 我也是听了六级听力被安利的哈哈哈哈哈 没想到真的有 ### 5/5 — Love the idea *2020-03-23* It does what it says. The idea is pretty neat and clever, and the UI is beautiful! It trains my eyes into a natural calorie-counting device with no effort, helping me make better choices when I decide what to eat. It has potential. More foods can be added to the list; many of them are still missing; it can become a complete reference. And you could include extra features to make it more engaging and interesting; for example a mini game that asks user to pick the item with lowest calories from the two given foods of the same size (almost similar to app’s “compare” section). On the downside, finding food is frustrating; needs an added simple alphabetical word list. There’s sadly no email to contact developers directly. And the giant mismatching photo of spinach is slightly on my nerve! Is that a bug, or simply your favourite food? :) Anyway, it needs an update. At the moment it looks like an orphan app with no future: too risky to pay to unlock. ### 5/5 — Negative Reviews Show Why App Needed *2018-07-07* I was concerned about the low ratings on this app. Then I read the negative reviews. They were filled with people's misconceptions about how many calories common foods have. As someone who has been diligently tracking the calories in every possible food I can eat and finally successfully lost 40 lbs in the last 8 months, going from 28% body fat to 11% body fat, I can vouch that these pictures are accurate. I think people are especially thrown by the amount of calories in bread products. "Really? A bagel has over 200 calories??" Yes, really. Moments of shock and calibration like this have been the building blocks of my success over the last 8 months and apps like this help spread that knowledge. ### 5/5 — 无 *2018-06-13* 听六级听力安利来下载的 哈哈哈 ### 5/5 — App with an educational purpose *2017-04-11* Simple app that shows you what "calorie density" really is ! A smart way to engage people into making a healthier choice. I guess it can be as a client tool for dietitian or health professionals:) ### 5/5 — 中文版 *2017-03-16* 希望可以推出中文版的 谢谢 ### 5/5 — Fantastic Idea *2017-02-09* Its a great way to make comparisons between food calories and weights ### 5/5 — All u need *2016-04-28* This app is all u need to to develop a very accurate sense of how much calories are there in ur food. Without callculating and weighing ur food. Awesome. ### 5/5 — Visually pleasing *2016-01-19* THIS IS AN AMAZING IDEA !!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-03.*