# Plate Maths: Calorie Counter — Macro tracker & food diary > Macro tracker & food diary (iPhone/iPad app by Harvey Butters.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/plate-maths-calorie-counter/id6819287993 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Harvey Butters](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801254445) - Category: Health & Fitness, Food & Drink - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 19 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-11-03 - Data updated: 2026-11-05 ## What is Plate Maths? Plate Maths is a calorie counter and food diary that asks what you're actually doing first, then does the arithmetic properly. Cutting, gaining, holding steady: it's the same maths in every case. Only the target changes. So the app asks rather than assumes, and it never quietly nudges you towards eating less. THE STARTING NUMBER, AND WHERE IT COMES FROM The app starts you at roughly twenty-four calories per kilogram of bodyweight for men and twenty-two for women. Each week you can check in, and the target moves with what your own weeks show. That first number is a starting point, not a truth, and the app says so. You can also skip it and log with no target at all. LOGGING THAT DOESN'T TAKE ALL EVENING Scan a barcode and the product is looked up in Open Food Facts, a free open database. Two hundred everyday foods come built in, with figures taken from the US government's FoodData Central tables. Not in the list? Add a food from its pack label: the app checks the numbers add up before saving it. No label at all? Type what you ate, with or without a calorie figure. WHAT IT COST IN THE SHOP When you scan a product, the app shows a recent UK shop price if another shopper has reported one to Open Prices in the last 90 days, with the shop and the date. If there isn't one, it says so, and you can note what you paid. Your own prices stay on your phone. CALORIES, LOW CARB OR KETO Choose which numbers come first. Switching later loses nothing. FREE Plate Maths is free. No subscription, no ads, no account, no daily limit. NO ACCOUNT. YOUR DIARY STAYS ON YOUR PHONE There is no login and no server of ours holding your food diary. A scanned barcode number is sent to Open Food Facts to look up the product, and to Open Prices to look up recent shop prices; camera images and diary entries are not sent. The app itself has no analytics and no advertising. Open Food Facts and Open Prices may log request details such as your IP address, under their own privacy policies. WHAT IT WON'T DO It won't set you a deficit you didn't ask for. It won't call food good or bad. It has no streak to break and no badge to lose. You can hide any number you'd rather not see. If you have an eating disorder or are recovering from one, calorie tracking can make things worse. That's true of every app in this category, this one included, and it's worth saying out loud. ## Is Plate Maths safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Plate Maths. ## Is Plate Maths legit? Plate Maths: Calorie Counter has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Plate Maths is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 1 release) ### 1.0 — 2026-11-03 No release notes. ## More apps by Harvey Butters - [Current: The Daily Charge](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/current-the-daily-charge/id6808661201) - [Building Bed Debt](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/building-bed-debt/id6808720802) - [The Intensity App](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-intensity-app/id6815660889) - [Riper: Fruit Ripeness Check](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/riper-fruit-ripeness-check/id6819624778) All apps by Harvey Butters: https://appshunter.io/developer/6801254445 --- *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 2026-11-05.*