ControlMyWeight vs calorie.ai
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.ai
Effortlessly track your calorie and macro intake with AI-powered features and an extensive food database. Set customizable goals, log meals quickly, and monitor your progress to achieve a healthier lifestyle.
- Effortless calorie and macro tracking
- Customizable goals
- Extensive food database
- AI-powered food search
- Barcode scanning
- Exercise and weight tracking
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calorie.ai - making calories simple. Welcome to calorie.ai, your new companion in achieving a balanced and healthy lifestyle. Focused on simplicity and driven by advanced AI features, our app is here to make your weight loss/gain journey straightforward and enjoyable. Why choose calorie.ai? Achieving your fitness goals shouldn't be a burden. At calorie.ai, we're committed to making it easy for you to take control of your health and fitness. Whether your aim is to shed a few pounds, build muscle, or simply embrace a healthier lifestyle, we're here to facilitate each step. Key Features: - Effortless Calorie and Macro Tracking: Say goodbye to cumbersome tracking processes. With calorie.ai, monitor your calorie and macro intake effortlessly. - Customizable Goals: Set and modify your calorie and macro goals according to your personal preferences and fitness objectives. - Extensive Food Database: Access over 1.5 million verified food items, ensuring accurate and comprehensive tracking. - AI-Powered Food Search Engine: Find and log your meals seamlessly with our advanced AI-powered food search engine. - Free Barcode Scanning: Quickly add food items to your diary with our hassle-free barcode scanning feature. - Quick Add & Manual Entries: For those unique or homemade items, our app allows quick add and manual entry features for accurate tracking. - Saved Foods + Meals: Save your favorite foods and create re-usable meals to more conveniently track your calories. - Exercise Tracking: Had an intense workout? Track them in our app in order to adjust your calorie goals for the day. - Weight Tracking: Monitor your weight on a weekly, monthly, and yearly timeline to see your progress and make adjustments as you go. The calorie.ai application is more than just a calorie tracker. It's your personal health and fitness assistant, equipped with AI-driven features to streamline your calorie tracking and nutritional monitoring process. Whether you are venturing on a weight loss journey, aiming to gain muscle, or keen on maintaining a robust and healthy lifestyle, calorie.ai is crafted to support you at every juncture. Our platform is user-friendly and efficient, enabling you to keep a close eye on your daily calorie intake and nutritional macros with ease. Tailored to meet individual needs, calorie.ai empowers you with customizable goals and a rich database, fostering a simplified yet effective approach to health and nutrition management. Start using calorie.ai today, and embark on a journey towards a happier, healthier, and more balanced life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: calorie.ai at none against ControlMyWeight's 3. calorie.ai also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). ControlMyWeight's advantage is ratings volume (24K vs 7.9K) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. ControlMyWeight sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. calorie.ai asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for ControlMyWeight against 4.7 for calorie.ai. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24K and 7.9K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of ControlMyWeight's written reviews are positive against 83% of calorie.ai's.
ControlMyWeight ships an update every 6 weeks, calorie.ai weekly. Both last shipped on November 9, 2026.
| Parameter | ControlMyWeight | calorie.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (24K ratings) | 4.7 (7.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.8% of reviews | 82.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24K — better | 7.9K |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CalorieKing | SSNB, LLC |
Customer experience
ControlMyWeight
calorie.ai
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.ai
From 7.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Completely free
- 👍 Simple and Elegant
- 👍 Simple easy to use calorie tracker
- 👍 Free and Perfect
- 👍 Amazing app without any ads for free
Room to improve
- 🐛 Not able to put in normal items
- 🔍 Serving size units
- 🐛 Needs work
- ⚠️ Countdown would be handy
- ⚠️ Would be the best by far if
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.ai
Reported bugs
4 issues- Needs work
- Completely inaccurate
- Consistently overwrites previous entries
- Actually they do share your info
Requested features
9 requests- Send calories, food log to file or a way send documents to dietitian
- Data export either pdf or doc form
- Show the remaining caloric values instead if just the percentage
- Calendar view (show the entire months progress on one page color coded to which days met the target values)
- Ability to re-run the questionnaire that runs on first use
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- iPhone widgets for this app so that even wi though having to open the app we could get a glance on our micronutrients intake
- Garmin compatibility
- Ability to add custom foods and quickly add them
- Ability to pull single (vs full day) past entries into the current day
In-app purchases
ControlMyWeight
- Remove Ads$1.491 Month
- Remove Ads$3.993 Months
- Remove Ads$11.991 Year
calorie.ai
No in-app purchases
Questions
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