ControlMyWeight vs Calorie Counter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ControlMyWeight
Track your food intake and exercise to achieve your weight goals. This app offers a comprehensive food database, barcode scanning, and progress charts to help you manage weight loss, gain, or maintenance. It supports offline use and detailed nutritional tracking.
- Personalized calorie and workout targets
- Accurate food database
- Barcode scanner
- Progress charts
- Offline diary for meals and exercise
- Recipe calorie calculation
- Nutritional tracking (fat, sugar, protein, etc.)
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Lose weight and get healthy with CalorieKing. Our food & exercise diary is the easiest and most accurate available. We understand that managing your weight isn’t easy. If you lose weight on a diet, you often gain it right back when you stop! Let us use our years of experience to help you achieve your goals! FEATURES: • Know exactly how much you should eat and workout to reach your weight goal. • Powered by America’s most accurate food database. • Barcode scanner • See yourself progress with motivating charts. • Quick and easy to use diary for tracking meals and exercise. Works offline. • See how many calories are in your favorite recipes! • Support for weight loss, weight gain and weight maintenance. • When you've reached your goal weight, your calorie target changes to maintenance level. • Track more than calories and carbs: Fat, sugar, sodium, cholesterol, fiber, protein, calcium and much more. Start a new life today with ControlMyWeight!
Calorie Counter
Easily track your daily calorie intake without the need for registration. Start logging your meals immediately to support healthy eating habits. An optional premium plan removes ads and unlocks all features.
- Easy calorie counting
- No registration required
- Immediate use
- Ad-free premium option
- Unlock all features with premium
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Simply and easy-to-use calorie counter app. No registration required. So you can start using this app immediately. ■About Premium Plan This plan removes ads and unlocks all features. If you reinstall the app or switch devices, you can restore your purchase status for free. Please restore it from within the app using the same Apple ID you used for purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: ControlMyWeight at 24K against Calorie Counter's 369. ControlMyWeight also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Calorie Counter's advantage is review sentiment (81% vs 69%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. ControlMyWeight sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and Calorie Counter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for ControlMyWeight against 4.7 for Calorie Counter. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ControlMyWeight has 24K ratings behind it against 369, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of ControlMyWeight's written reviews are positive against 81% of Calorie Counter's.
ControlMyWeight ships an update every 6 weeks, Calorie Counter every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ControlMyWeight | Calorie Counter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (24K ratings) | 4.7 (369 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.8% of reviews | 80.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24K — better | 369 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CalorieKing | Daiki Tsukuda |
Customer experience
ControlMyWeight
Calorie Counter
User reviews
ControlMyWeight
From 24K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Straightforward design and navigation
- 💡 Ability to create and track custom recipes
- 🚀 Convenient for repeat meals
- 👍 Helps with weight loss and health goals
Room to improve
- 🐛 Barcode scanner not working for many items
- 🐛 Limited food database, requiring manual entry
- 🐛 Difficulty editing or modifying recipes
- 🐛 Lack of integration with other apps and health data
- 🐛 Ads and login issues for paid users
Calorie Counter
From 369 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Extremely simple and intuitive interface
- ⚡ Fast and lightweight app
- 💰 Completely free with minimal ads
- 🎯 Does exactly what it's designed to do
- 🔒 No account creation required
Room to improve
- 📱 No cross-device synchronization
- 📊 Graph/chart display has alignment issues
- 🔤 Spelling error ('Cart' instead of 'Chart')
- 📢 Ads present in free version
- 🔧 Limited customer support and contact options
Bugs and requests
ControlMyWeight
Reported bugs
3 issues- Freezing or crashing issues, especially after iOS updates
- Login problems and inability to access account
- Inconsistent or missing nutritional information for some foods
Requested features
5 requests- Add more exercise options beyond just common activities
- Ability to track macros, vitamins, and minerals separately
- Integration with Apple Health or other fitness apps
- Option to disable automatic exercise calorie deduction
- Improved barcode scanning and food database coverage
Calorie Counter
Reported bugs
4 issues- Graph display shifts zero point on certain days
- Subscription cancellation option not visible
- App will not sync across Apple devices
- No way to add weight tracking without logging a calorie entry
Requested features
10 requests- Save favorite meals for faster logging
- Ability to add entries to past days
- Protein and macro tracking
- Monthly and yearly chart views
- Long-term tracking data sorting (weeks, months, years)
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- Burned calories counter
- Water intake tracking
- Data export functionality
- Countdown calorie feature based on daily targets
- Ad removal option for paid version
In-app purchases
ControlMyWeight
- Remove Ads$1.491 Month
- Remove Ads$3.993 Months
- Remove Ads$11.991 Year
Calorie Counter
- Premium Plan$9.99
Questions
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