# Kaeru – AI Calorie Tracking — Just Type What You Ate > Just Type What You Ate (iPhone/iPad app by Benjamin Lobmueller.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kaeru-ai-calorie-tracking/id6749073966 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Benjamin Lobmueller](https://appshunter.io/developer/1828692658) - Category: Health & Fitness, Sports - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 17 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2026-02-11 - Data updated: 2026-07-25 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kaeru-ai-calorie-tracking/id6749073966/reviews.md ## What is Kaeru? Kaeru makes calorie tracking effortless. Just type what you ate — "Avocado toast with poached egg" or "large oat milk latte from Starbucks" — and Kaeru estimates the calories and macros instantly using AI. No weighing, no barcode scanning, no searching through databases. Over time, Kaeru learns your habits and builds a personal food library tailored to you. Your regular meals become one-tap entries. Stay on track with a simple daily summary. If you use an Apple Watch or activity tracker, Kaeru compares your intake to calories burned through Apple Health. Whether you're trying to lose weight, maintain a healthy diet, or track intake alongside GLP-1 medication, Kaeru makes it simple. KEY FEATURES - Natural language food entry — type like you're texting a friend - AI calorie and macro estimation (protein, carbs, fat) - Personal food library that learns from your history - Daily progress view vs. activity burn (Apple Health) - Offline logging — track now, sync later - Privacy-first: your data stays on your device PREMIUM AI estimation and advanced features are available with Kaeru Premium (monthly or annual subscription). Prices may vary by region. Kaeru is designed to support healthy habits, but it isn't a medical device or a substitute for professional advice. Terms of Use: https://kaeruapp.net/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://kaeruapp.net/privacy.html ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Premium Yearly | $99.99 | per year | | Premium Monthly | $9.99 | per month | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4 — 2026-07-23 What's New in 1.4 (909) Bug Fixes - resolve automatic-signing conflict in Release configuration - fetch full history in TestFlight release workflow - rank autosuggest by typed-input coverage instead of binary matching - surface renamed entries in Spotlight and Siri search - stamp Spotlight reindex gate only after successful rebuild - flag preserved pricing loudly and fail on relist drift in scraper check - route all-stopword searches to the library instead of top suggestion - clear stale library detail when Siri opens a library destination - scope Spotlight rebuilds to their own domain - validate Spotlight taps on deleted foods and meals - show placeholders instead of stale burn data when HealthKit fetch fails - process Siri food logging in the background via container-owned orchestrator - bump meal usage when logged via Siri - report partial meal failures in Siri logging dialog - present manual-mode edit sheet after library log-again - fetch location once for meal library log-again loop - preserve existing macros when explicit-calorie estimation returns none - use fixed identity colors for macro progress bars - accept delisted models with preserved pricing in scraper check - stop budget widget flashing profile prompt on app foreground - price bare gpt-5.6 alias used for cost lookup - refresh OpenAI pricing with gpt-5.6 family rates - estimate macros for explicit-calorie entries instead of discarding them - make just-logged foods matchable by Siri's parameterized phrases - anchor meal delete dialog to its button and show concise meal names in Siri - make on-device Siri phrases matchable and queries diagnosable - remove dead 'snack' meal type from Siri meal-type filtering - resolve four final-review findings in Siri/App Intents layer - close Spotlight indexing trigger gaps and harden the indexer - Fix Claude review workflow model - Fix backend audit for trial PR - Fix OpenAI pricing scraper validation - Fix cache-hit meal metadata and GPT-5.5 pricing Features - widen Siri phrase vocabulary to 25 per ranking - add debug database export - pin gpt-5.6-sol and preserve last-known prices in scraper - switch AI prompt models to gpt-5.6 - add semantic and fuzzy matching to Siri entity queries - adopt iOS 27 SDK App Intents APIs behind dual-toolchain guards - route Spotlight search result taps to their entity screens - donate App Intents after direct user actions and add Shortcuts settings row - wire onscreen Siri context annotations onto entity views - add Spotlight indexing for foods, meals, and food entries - add open and search App Intents routed through the app router - add logging App Intents and App Shortcuts - add App Intents entities and queries for foods, meals, and entries - add stable FoodItem identifier with startup backfill migration - route App Intent navigation through router-backed tab state - register App Intents dependencies at app startup Other - Prepare App Store version 1.4 - test: add AppIntentsTesting suite for the App Intents layer (iOS 27 SDK) - refactor: extract shared FoodEntrySubmissionService from MainView - Harden trial credit pipeline accounting - Stabilize backend dependency checks - Account trial credits per food item - Prepare App Store version 1.3 - Prepare TestFlight build 841 - Add personalized meal type history context - Add backend dependency cooldown check - Allow GPT-5.5 models and restore CI gates - Protect queued replay from stale pipeline passes - Show burn-budget macro history charts - Update website screenshots and app metadata ### 1.3 — 2026-06-03 Kaeru 1.3 focuses on better history, faster relogging, and more reliable AI estimation. - New macro history charts for calories, protein, carbs, and fat, with burn-budget context from Apple Health. - Food Diary Export can create shareable PDF reports with date ranges, calorie trends, and macro summaries. - Meal grouping is smoother, with better grouped-meal continuity, component estimates, and one-tap relogging from the Meal Library. - AI estimation is more reliable for branded and restaurant foods, including better recovery when official sources provide calories but omit core macros. - Failed entries now show Estimate Anyway from the row, edit screen, and processing log when Kaeru can still make a useful estimate. - Queue and background-processing fixes reduce stale, interrupted, or duplicate food-entry work. - App metadata, privacy details, subscription recovery, and backend model/pricing configuration were updated. ### 1.2.1 — 2026-04-13 Food Diary Export - Export your food diary as a beautifully formatted PDF - Choose any date range and share or save - Includes calorie trend charts and macro breakdown summaries - Available from History tab or Settings Meal Grouping - Group food entries into named meals (e.g., "Poke Lunch") - Re-log entire meals with one tap from the meal library - View meals tab in Library alongside individual foods - Summed macros shown for grouped meals in the daily view Improved Food Library - Canonical unit corrections: display units (tsp, cups) now preserved correctly - Better food identity tracking from AI search results - Parsed food names shown in linked entries - Collapsible breakdown panels for a cleaner view Reliability - Better handling of interrupted entries when app goes to background - Improved subscription recovery for TestFlight users - Hardened AI estimation pipeline with better fallbacks - Async queue processing recovers more reliably after interruptions Other Improvements - Privacy policy updated - Data deletion page added - Autosuggest improvements for grouped meal re-logging ### 1.2 — 2026-03-15 Macro Tracking - Track carbs, protein, and fat alongside calories - Set daily macro targets in Settings - Progress bars show macro intake vs. targets - Macros displayed in food library entries and edit views - AI estimates macros alongside calories for every food entry - View macro reasoning details in the food edit screen Improved Accuracy - Smarter cache matching for faster, more accurate repeat entries - Better autosuggest with brand and quantity handling - Food library learns macro profiles over time Reliability - Queued entries now recover automatically after interruptions - Fixed subscription purchase flow on some devices - Improved offline entry retry behavior Other Improvements - Attach logs when contacting support - Fraction display improvements (fifths, sixths) - Food library shows nutrition cards with macro breakdown ### 1.0 — 2026-02-11 No release notes. --- *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 2026-07-25.*