Healthy Widgets vs Calorie Estimator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Healthy Widgets
Display your health data directly on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Visualize trends with customizable charts and support for over 90 health metrics.
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Supports over 90 health data types
- Built-in widget editor
- Customizable charts and date ranges
- Display recent readings and trends
- Customized coloring and display units
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Healthy Widgets is the best way to surface your health data to the Home Screen and Lock Screen. Healthy Widgets integrates with the Health app to support over 90 health data types, and with a built-in widget editor, there are more ways than ever to personalize your experience. Recent data: • The system small widget will display recent readings for metrics, such as your current Step Count, Active Energy burn or most recent Heart Rate reading. • This data can also be surfaced on the Lock Screen. Charts and Date Ranges: • The Home Screen widget will display trends in your data over a specified date range, such as the course of the day, past week, or month. * Select various chart types to display your data and set customized coloring and display units. Support • Have a bug report or feature request? Get in touch at https://healthyapps.dev/contact. Terms of Use: https://healthyapps.dev/terms Privacy Policy: https://healthyapps.dev/privacy-policy
Calorie Estimator
This app estimates your daily calorie balance by integrating data from Apple Health, including food intake from other apps and energy expenditure from fitness devices. It provides a real-time view of your calorie deficit or surplus, with options for custom resting calorie values.
- Integrates with Apple Health
- Tracks food intake from connected apps
- Monitors energy expenditure from fitness devices
- Real-time calorie deficit/surplus estimation
- Custom resting calorie values
- iOS widget support
- Apple Watch app
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Calorie Estimator helps you track your daily energy balance by comparing several datapoints from Apple Health. This includes food tracked from external food apps and your energy expenditure (recorded by fitness devices such as your Apple Watch). This gives you a real-time estimate of whether you're in a calorie deficit or surplus. You also have the option to set a custom value for your daily resting calories, meaning you can still approximate your net calories without wearing a fitness device all day. Simply wear it for your workouts and ensure you have an accurate daily estimate configured in the app. Please note, this app does not save information back to Apple Health. Place an iOS widget on your Home Screen or track the numbers as they change throughout the day on the Apple Watch app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Calorie Estimator at 100% against Healthy Widgets's 57%. Calorie Estimator also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Healthy Widgets's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Healthy Widgets costs $1.99 and Calorie Estimator $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Calorie Estimator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Healthy Widgets's written reviews are positive against 100% of Calorie Estimator's.
Healthy Widgets ships an update every 2 months, Calorie Estimator every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Healthy Widgets | Calorie Estimator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HealthyApps LLC | Joshua Yan Ho Chan |
Customer experience
Healthy Widgets
Calorie Estimator
In-app purchases
Healthy Widgets
No in-app purchases
Calorie Estimator
No in-app purchases
Questions
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