Comparison

Lifie vs CalNote

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Lifie

Track calories, macros, and exercise with personalized goals and smart reminders. Log custom meals and analyze body measurements with detailed nutritional information and progress graphs. Achieve your health and fitness objectives with ease.

Highlights
  • Personalized goals and recommendations
  • Fast calorie and macro tracking
  • Exercise and steps tracking (Apple Health sync)
  • Smart reminders and suggestions
  • Detailed body measurements and analysis
  • Extensive food database with nutritional info
  • Custom meal and food creation
Features
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Lifie is designed based on inputs from our valuable users, professional dietitians, and personal coaches so it offers all for you: **Personalized goals and recommendations, fast and easy calorie and macro tracking, exercise and steps tracking synchronized with Apple Health, smart reminders and suggestions, detailed body measurements and analysis, 1000s of foods with detailed nutritional information, and many more great features tailored for you** **Reach Your Goals Fast and Easier: Lose weight, gain weight or keep fit. Lifie is the only app you need to achieve your health and fitness goals fast and easier. **Keep Your Calories and Macros on Track: Lifie allows you to track your calories and macros with its clear and intuitive user interface by simply logging your foods and exercises. **Meal-based Goals and Suggestions: Lifie allows you to follow your own meal routine and offers you meal-based goals and suggestions that keep you on track towards your goal. **Custom Meals and Foods: Lifie allows you to create your own meals and foods to boost food logging and diet planning. **Calorie Tracking Routine Option: You can track calorie intake meal-free or meal-based depending on your daily habits and routines. **Motivated with Smart Reminders: Smart reminders that you can set based on your daily routines help you log your meals, water, and exercises and boost your motivation. **1000s of Foods with Confirmed Nutrition Details: Lifie food database contains 1000s of foods and branded products with calorie and macronutrient information confirmed by our successful dietitians. **Track and Analyze All Body Measurements: You can track a set of different body measurements including weight, body fat ratio, body mass index, waist, chest, and arm. You can visualize your progress with beautiful graphs in one-month, three-month, and all-time periods. **Boost Your Activity with Easy Tracking: You can track your daily exercises and steps. Lifie calculates your burned calories precisely synchronized with Apple Health and solves the problem of double-counting in other health and fitness applications. Lifie app contains the following subscription options for premium features such as unlimited custom meals, extensive macro and micro nutritional information for foods, smart suggestions for food log, smart reminders, tracking all body measurements, ad-free experience, etc.: - 1-month subscription - 3 months (quarterly) subscription - 12 months (annual) subscription iTunes Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscription automatically renews with the same price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can go to your iTunes Account settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your iTunes Account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms and Conditions: https://lifieapp.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://lifieapp.com/privacy.html Today is the first day of a healthy life.  Download Lifie now!

About

CalNote

Effortlessly track your daily calorie and macronutrient intake by simply typing what you ate, snapping a photo of your meal, or scanning a restaurant menu. This intuitive food notebook provides instant calculations and visual progress tracking to help you achieve your health goals.

Highlights
  • AI Food Camera for instant calorie tracking
  • Smart Menu Scanner for restaurant options
  • Natural language food entry
  • Visual progress tracking
  • Streak building for daily tracking
  • Goal setting for weight and muscle
Features
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Track calories like taking notes. Type "grilled chicken and rice" → get calories + macros Snap a photo of your plate → instantly calculated Scan a restaurant menu → see calories for every option No barcode scanning. No food searching. Just type, snap, or scan. HOW IT WORKS: Open the app Type what you ate, snap a photo, or scan a menu Get calories, protein, carbs, fat → instantly Like texting a friend or sending a photo. That simple. UNDERSTANDS HOW YOU EAT: "Big bowl of cereal" - understands "A photo of your burger" - understands "A complex restaurant menu" - understands No rigid formats. Just type or snap naturally. FEATURES: AI Food Camera: Snap your plate to track calories instantly Smart Menu Scanner: Scan any menu to find the best options Next Meal Suggestions: AI recommends what to eat next based on your remaining calories and macros Daily calorie & macro tracking Weight tracking with progress charts Set goals (weight loss, muscle gain, maintenance) Build streaks to stay consistent Apple Health Integration Clean interface, zero ads Start with 3-Day Free Trial. Upgrade when you're ready. PREMIUM: $9.99/month Unlimited AI Camera & Menu Scans Unlimited entries Next Meal AI Recommendations Advanced insights & weekly reports Full Meal History Weight Progress Tracking Apple Health Integration Not a diet app. Think of it as a food notebook. As easy as Apple Notes, but for tracking meals and hitting your goals. "Only calorie app I've stuck with for months" - Sarah M. "Like Apple Notes for food, makes total sense" - Emma C. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/"

Screenshots

Lifie4 screens
CalNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: CalNote at freemium against Lifie's subscription. CalNote also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Lifie's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.7) and ratings volume (91 vs 15). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lifie sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per year and CalNote sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.19 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lifie holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lifie has 91 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Lifie's written reviews are positive against 100% of CalNote's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lifie ships an update every 3 weeks, CalNote every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Lifie versus CalNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLifieCalNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (91 ratings) — better4.7 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings91 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB137 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperMobifiqueOgan Kurtulus

Customer experience

Lifie

All ratings90 ratings
Positive97.8%
Neutral1.1%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative8.3%

CalNote

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Lifie

Subscriptions9
  • Lifie Premium$7.991 Year
  • Lifie Premium7 Days trial$7.991 Year
  • Lifie Premium$9.991 Month
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  • Lifie Premium7 Days trial2 variants$9.991 Month
  • Lifie Premium$14.991 Year
  • Lifie Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Lifie Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Lifie Premium$24.993 Months
  • Lifie Premium$49.991 Year
10 purchases

CalNote

Subscriptions10
  • CalNote Weekly Subscription$3.197 Days
  • CalNote Pro Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • CalNote Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
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  • CalNote Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • CalNote Pro Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • CalNote Pro Monthly3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • CalNote Yearly Subscription$39.991 Year
  • CalNote Yearly Pro$49.991 Year
  • CalNote Pro Yearly3 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • CalNote Pro Annual7 Days trial$69.991 Year

Questions

Is Lifie free?
Lifie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CalNote free?
CalNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lifie or CalNote?
Lifie is rated higher. Lifie averages 4.9 out of 5 from 91 ratings, while CalNote averages 4.7 from 15 ratings.
Do Lifie or CalNote have ads?
Neither Lifie nor CalNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lifie or CalNote?
Lifie ships an update every 3 weeks, and CalNote every 11 days. Most recently, Lifie was updated on November 3, 2026 and CalNote on October 30, 2026.

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