KcalMe vs DietSensor Weight loss
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KcalMe
This app helps you track daily calorie intake using a unique 3D calorimeter and augmented reality. Visualize your food portions in 3D and see your avatar change based on your consumption. It focuses solely on calories for simplicity and a positive approach to weight management.
- 3D calorie intake tracking
- Augmented reality food visualization
- Barcode scanning with 3D portion definition
- Extensive North American food database
- User profile settings and weight tracking
- 3D avatar updates based on calorie intake
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Recommended by Dr A. Cocaul, a leading MD and nutritionist, KcalMe is the first 3D calorimeter to transform the way you keep track of your daily calorie intake for french food and beverages: - UNIQUE: Open Food Facts Barcode Nutrient Base support enhanced with 3D portion definition (more than 350.000 products) - UNIQUE: Augmented reality support: take a snapshot of your food or drink, and set its amount in 3D with your finger (KcalMe Premium) - Snapshot support for entries and historic (KcalMe Premium) - Its extensive and unique database in 3D covers more than 14,000 of the most widely consumed food and beverage items in North America. - Its simple and user friendly search feature enables you to visualize in 3D the most widely consumed foods and beverages - Nutrient data tracked has been voluntarily limited to calorie intake to keep KcalMe easy to use unlike other more complicated applications. No need to keep track of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins or other nutrient data which only specialists understand and make it harder to determine what to eat. - Its positive straightforward approach avoids counterproductive guilt ridden rhetoric often found in other applications. - Seeing your 3D avatar change as you eat and drink during the day makes it easy to understand the calorie impact of what you eat. This fun and user-friendly tool will help you to evaluate the global calorie intake associated to your meals and therefore assess their compatibility with your chosen weight target, without making an obsession of it or generating unnecessary guilt. To help you to manage your meals, your 3D avatar is updated after each food or beverage selection so that you keep track at all times of you calorie intake versus your assigned objectives. LEARN TO PLAY WITH CALORIES WHILE HAVING FUN! Main features: SELECTION OF USER PROFILE: - Profile Settings (age, weight, gender, physical activity level) - Weight curve with target - BMI (Body Mass Index) calculation - Compliant with Health app for food calories HEALTH APP: - Compliant with Apple Health app for consumed calories DATABASE: - Over 14,000 products referenced (foods and beverages). Includes both commercially prepared and homemade items. - Accurate calorie data based on the latest release of the USDA Nutrient Data Library - Access to most common sports: calorie definition is done thru duration and effort that defined dynamically (KcalMe Premium) - Instant search engine supporting synonyms. Ex: by typing in “noodle”, you will have access to items containing “pasta” PACKAGING AND CONTENT : -240 dynamic 3D pictograms to represent typical food and beverage packaging types -Intuitive selection of quantities and packaging in 3D by simply sliding your finger. -Simple explicit display of the selected quantity (ex: half a cup instead of 4 fl oz) -Optional Morphing effect applied to your 3D avatar when exceeding daily calorie allowance. LOGBOOK AND FAVORITES : Logbook retracing day-to-day calorimetric history (KcalMe Premium) -Global history indicator and histogram featuring your progress (KcalMe Premium) -Add or Delete logbook food entries (KcalMe Premium) -Email your logbook in HTML format (KcalMe Premium) -Possibility of selecting favorites -Quick access to selected favorites FOOD AND BEVERAGE EDITOR (KcalMe Pro): This food and beverage editor enables you to associate to a selected name: -A packaging chosen among more than 240 dynamic pictograms -Its origin (homemade or commercially prepared) -An amount or volume -The number of calories (Kcal) per 100 grams. Newly edited items are automatically added to your favorites and can be accessed through the search feature. If desired by the user and once reviewed new entries will be integrated and made available in future releases of KcalMe. Meet us at http://www.kcalme.com to share your experience with us. Warning: continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
DietSensor Weight loss
This app uses AI-powered insights and nutrition science to help you achieve permanent weight loss. It focuses on smart food choices and reprogramming your metabolism, rather than restrictive dieting. Personalized meal suggestions and guidance are provided to support your specific health and fitness goals.
- AI-based dietitian coaching
- Personalized meal plans
- Metabolism reprogramming
- Blood sugar spike analysis
- Food quantity guidance
- Intermittent fasting support
- Muscle mass development
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DietSensor will help you discover the principles for permanent weight loss validated by nutrition science and explained by our AI based dietitian Are you looking for a nutrition solution to permanently manage your weight, gain muscle or manage a health problem? You will discover and apply principles unknown to the public and even contrary to the beliefs conveyed by the weight loss industry *** VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SEE ALL OUR APPS Weight Loss, Intermittent Fasting, Keto, Sports Nutrition, Diabetes, Nash, Oncology, Cardiology, Epilepsy *** ● 1. Drastically restricting calories and exercising more has been shown to always fail in the long run. For permanent weight loss, 80% of your progress will come from your food choices. Sport will be optional, but not mandatory! ● 2. Make meals compatible with your long-term lifestyle with the help of IA, without unsustainable deprivation or starving yourself. Occasional excesses are not only allowed but mandatory with DietSensor which is also a scientifically proven truth to prevent metabolism slow down! ● 3. Reprogram your metabolism by intelligently using your hormones to trigger the unloading of body fat. Learn about your blood sugar levels and how to adjust the spike in blood sugar after meals which drives insulin, the fat storage hormone. DietSensor will allow you to see this peak before eating and to correct it! You will be able to create ideal meals aimed at fueling your body and not storing body fat! ● 4. Our AI based coach will let you know the foods to eat according to your weight goal. Unlike light, bland and boring diets, you will be able to eat your preferred natural, tasty and nutritious foods, such as meat, eggs, cheese or even chocolate. ● 5. To help you create the meal perfectly suited to your weight goal, the app can provide suggestions for your next meal, pre-established meal plans as well as your shopping list for coming meals. ● 6. You will have indications on the food quantities to maximize chances that your metabolism acts effectively towards the weight you are aiming for. DIETSENSOR ADAPTS TO YOUR OBJECTIVE ● Do you want to lose weight? Instead of following a restrictive diet, DietSensor creates an ultra-personalized program based on your profile and food preferences. ● Do you practice intermittent fasting? You probably want to know what to eat after fasting, the app will guide you. ● Need to develop your muscle mass? Calculate your personal protein needs and eat the right amount with our suggestions. ● Need to control blood sugar spikes after meals, whether you have diabetes or not? Analyze your own meals with the app to anticipate your blood sugar spike. The app tells you how to reduce spikes before you eat (>iOS 16). ● Need to make the right food choices to reduce your bad cholesterol, your hypertension or the side effects of chemotherapy? DietSensor was designed with doctors and dieticians for this purpose. HEALTH APP ● Connect the Apple Health app and import your weight and exercise automatically. Export your meals AWARDS ● Voted the most innovative App in the world at CES 2016 ● Second place in the Publicis90 global innovation competition PRICES & TERMS OF USE To use the application, you will need to subscribe to one of the PREMIUM packages. We offer several subscription options with automatic renewal. Payment will be billed to your iTunes Account upon confirmation of purchase or at the end of the trial period if there is one. The subscription will renew automatically unless automatic renewal is stopped at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. Renewal will not result in a cost increase. Manage your subscriptions after purchase in your Account Settings See Terms of use (EULA): https://www.dietsensor.com/terms-and-conditions/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DietSensor Weight loss at 4.6 against KcalMe's 3.0. DietSensor Weight loss also leads on ratings volume (154 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). KcalMe's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. KcalMe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DietSensor Weight loss sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DietSensor Weight loss holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DietSensor Weight loss has 154 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 80% and 80% positive.
KcalMe ships an update every 5 days, DietSensor Weight loss monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KcalMe | DietSensor Weight loss |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.6 (154 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 154 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 423 MB | 422 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 3D-minded | DietSensor, Inc. |
Customer experience
KcalMe
DietSensor Weight loss
In-app purchases
KcalMe
- KcalMe Premium$8.99
DietSensor Weight loss
- 1 week of meal feedback$9.997 Days
- Premium 3 month$29.993 Months
- 3 Months$29.993 Months
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- Premium 6 months$39.996 Months
- 1 year$39.991 Year
- Premium 1 month$39.991 Month
- Premium Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Ultimate Yearly$49.991 Year
- Premium yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- 1 year3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- 12 Months$49.991 Year
- Premium 1 year7 Days trial2 variants$99.991 Year
- 7 days Meal Plan$4.99
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