# Melby: Calories & Recipes — Food Journal & Meal Tracking

> Food Journal & Meal Tracking (iPhone/iPad app by Serdar CIRAK.)

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- Developer: [Serdar CIRAK](https://appshunter.io/developer/6796973910)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Food & Drink
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 39 MB
- Languages: American English, Turkish
- Released: 2026-09-01
- Data updated: 2026-10-31

## What is Melby?

Find something to cook and keep track of what you eat. Melby brings recipes and calorie tracking together, with nutrition details for your meals and kitchen tools to help you prepare them.

FIND YOUR NEXT RECIPE
Browse recipes from Turkish and international cuisines. See ingredients, cooking times and nutrition per serving before you start. Check how each ingredient contributes to the calories, then follow the cooking steps. A selection of recipes is free; Melby Pro unlocks the full collection.

ADD YOUR OWN RECIPES
With Melby Pro, save the dishes you make at home. Add ingredients by weight to calculate calories and macros for the whole recipe, per serving and per 100 grams. Set the number of servings and cooked weight, write your steps and add your own photo. Log a serving in your food diary, and save your favorite recipes for another day.

TAKE YOUR INGREDIENTS SHOPPING
Send recipe ingredients to your shopping list with Melby Pro. Adjust the servings before adding them; matching ingredients with the same unit are combined. Add other items, edit quantities, check off what you buy and share your list.

LOG YOUR MEALS
Search the food catalog, scan a barcode or take a photo of your meal. Photo analysis estimates the foods and portions; review and adjust the results before saving. Melby Pro also lets you add meals by typing or speaking.

KEEP YOUR RECORDS TOGETHER
See your daily calories, protein, carbs, fat and fiber. Log your water and weight, and follow your weight trend. If you allow access to Apple Health, Melby can read your steps and active energy. Activity above your selected level can add to that day's calorie target.

Build a logging routine with daily quests, badges and levels. Join the optional leaderboard to compare logging habits rather than body weight. Export nutrition reports as PDFs and food, water and weight records as CSV files.

FREE AND MELBY PRO
The free version includes core logging and tracking tools, a selection of recipes and one photo analysis per day. Ads may appear. Melby Pro includes all recipes, personal recipes, recipe favorites, shopping lists, quick text and voice entry, weekly AI insights and 10 photo analyses per day. Pro has no ads. Photo analysis and remote AI features need an internet connection; daily limits apply.

No Melby account is required. Your records are stored on your device and can sync to your Apple account's private database when iCloud is enabled. Information and confirmation screens explain remote analysis before you send data.

Nutrition and portion values may include estimates. Melby does not provide medical advice and is not intended to diagnose or treat medical conditions.

Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple account's subscription settings. A one-time purchase option is also available.

Privacy: https://melby.melbyapp.deno.net/privacy
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yearly | $6.99 | per year |
| Monthly | $0.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lifetime | $19.99 | one-time |


## Is Melby safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Melby.

## Is Melby legit?

Melby: Calories & Recipes has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Melby is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.2.0 — 2026-10-31

Melby has a fresh new look! Alongside our redesigned interface and iPad support, we’ve added new ways to organize your recipes, prepare your shopping, and track your daily nutrition.

A FRESH DESIGN AND iPAD SUPPORT
• A new Melby logo and app icon.
• A redesigned launch screen that reflects our new identity.
• A lively, consistent lime and forest green color palette.
• Refreshed menus, meal logging buttons, and food and meal icons.
• Refined transitions and icons that respond to your touch.
• Improved text and surface readability in light and dark appearances.
• Use Melby on iPad to access your recipes, shopping list, and daily food diary.

YOUR RECIPES, ALL TOGETHER
• Find your way around with Discover, My Recipes, and Favorites.
• Open your shopping list directly from the top of the Recipes screen.
• Save recipes you love using the heart on each recipe card.
• Search ready-made recipes and filter by food type.

CREATE YOUR OWN RECIPES
• Add a name, notes, cover photo, and preparation steps.
• Choose ingredients from the food catalog or your custom foods, then adjust their weight in grams.
• Set servings, preparation time, and total cooked weight.
• View calculated nutrition for the whole recipe, per serving, and per 100 grams.
• Choose a serving amount and meal to add your recipe to your diary.
• Editing a recipe later won’t change your past diary entries.

BUILD YOUR SHOPPING LIST
• Add ingredients from ready-made recipes and your own recipes.
• Choose how many servings to prepare and get adjusted ingredient quantities.
• Select only the ingredients you need.
• Combine quantities when the same ingredient is added in the same unit.
• Add items manually and edit their names, quantities, and units.
• Mark items as purchased, clear completed items, and share your list.

NOTIFICATIONS AND SOUNDS
• More natural, clearer reminder messages.
• Open the relevant screen directly from meal, water, and report notifications.
• Add 250 ml of water using the quick action on a water reminder.
• Refreshed app and notification sounds.

BETTER ORGANIZED SETTINGS
• Separate destinations for appearance and language, notifications, and sound and haptics.
• View notification permission status and open system settings when needed.
• Edit meal times from the notification settings screen.
• See progress and results when restoring Pro purchases.
• Find privacy, data, and support options more easily.

MORE IMPROVEMENTS
• Refined photo selection, analysis loading, results, and error screens.
• Improved readability at larger text sizes and accessibility sizes.
• Clearer information before sharing data, with expandable details.
• Export support for personal recipes and your shopping list.
• Fixed an issue where changing age in Settings did not update the age used in calculations for profiles with a saved birth year.

Creating and editing personal recipes, recipe favorites, and shopping list actions are included with Melby Pro. Existing free ready-made recipes remain available. After your subscription ends, you can still view and export your existing personal recipes.

### 1.1 — 2026-09-30

Your progress now comes with a level and a rank.

• Levels and XP: Every day you log your meals, complete your quests, reach your water goal, earn a badge or stay active earns you XP. Your level never goes down.
• Six ranks: Warm-up, Pace, Rhythm, Endurance, Marathon and Ultra. Reaching a new rank gets its own celebration.
• A redesigned Progress screen: your level, quests, badges and leaderboard, all on one screen. Tap any card to open the full details.
• New sounds and an app icon that fits dark mode.
• Performance and stability improvements.

### 1.0.7 — 2026-09-21

Your daily calorie goal now keeps up with how much you move.

• Movement from Apple Health: see your steps and active energy on the Journal. On days you move more than your chosen activity level, the extra is added to your calorie goal, and it never goes down.
• A new Movement page in Profile shows your last 7 or 30 days.
• It's free, and your Health data never leaves your phone.
• Fixed: the Journal no longer stays on yesterday after midnight.

### 1.0.6 — 2026-09-09

You can now add what you ate by saying it, or typing it on a single line.

• Voice and text quick add (Melby Pro): say "2 eggs 1 bagel" and let Melby do the rest. Familiar foods are added instantly, even offline, and your audio isn't recorded.
• The add screen shows every route together again: photo, list, barcode, gallery and the foods you log most for that meal.
• Fixed an issue where the keyboard stayed open while the meal camera opened.

### 1.0.5 — 2026-09-07

Meal times now move by the quarter hour. A few bugs are fixed too.

• New meal time picker: drag along the day and the time steps quarter by quarter, with a small tap at every stop. If you eat breakfast at half past eight, you can finally say so — it used to be whole hours only. All three meals sit on the same line, so you can see how they fall against each other.
• Reminders turn on the moment you allow notifications. You used to give permission and then still have to flip three switches in Settings.
• You can pick every answer on "What gets in your way?" Anything past the second one was silently dropped.
• The keyboard no longer opens on top of the camera.
• What you avoid now sorts recipes too. Skip meat and meat recipes move to the end of the list — they aren't removed, you might be cooking for a guest.
• Rows in Settings and your profile respond anywhere you tap, not just on the text.

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