Comparison

Calorie Diff vs CalBal

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

Head to head
About

Calorie Diff

Easily track your daily calorie balance by viewing active, rest, and dietary intake. See your surplus or deficit at a glance, with optional macro tracking and historical data for the past month.

Highlights
  • Calorie surplus/deficit visualization
  • Active, Rest, and Dietary calorie tracking
  • Optional macro tracking (Carbs, Fats, Protein)
  • 7, 14, and 30-day calorie history
  • Apple Health integration
Read full description

This app is for users like me who want a quick glance at their daily calories. We have many nutrition apps out there, but not all of them display the complete picture, I wanted to easily be able to see whether or not I was sitting in a surplus or a deficit depending on my current training/nutrition goals. My preferred nutrition app only pulls in exercises, ignoring rest and general active calories, only giving part of the picture. This app simply pulls in the Active, Rest and Dietary calories from Apple Health and displays the combined Burned Calories, Consumed Calories and the difference between them. We optionally also display the 3 macros, Carbs, Fats and Protein, this can be enabled in the settings tab, where you will also need to set your goal values per day. On the history tab, you are able to view a list of your calories over the last 7, 14 and 30 days. --------------- Requirements --------------- This app requires that the device has the Apple Health app installed and access to the following permissions: - Active Energy - Resting Energy - Dietary energy Optionally, for those who also wish to view their Macros within the app, we would need the following permissions: - Carbohydrates - Protein - Total Fats ---------------------- Supported languages ---------------------- English German Spanish Hindi Arabic Portuguese French Russian Japanese Korean Malay Vietnamese Turkish Tamil Italian Polish Ukrainian Romanian Dutch Thai Hungarian Czech Swedish Hebrew Slovak Danish Finnish Norwegian Chinese (Simplified)

About

CalBal

This app analyzes your calorie balance by integrating with Apple Health, providing daily, weekly, and monthly trends. It helps you understand the connection between your diet, activity, and weight to achieve your health goals.

Highlights
  • Integrates with Apple Health
  • Daily, weekly, monthly energy balance trends
  • Real-time calorie balance updates
  • Weight history tracking
  • Adjustable Resting/BMR calories
  • No manual calorie entry required
Features
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CalBal is a free companion app to your favorite food logger. It reads calorie and weight data from Apple Health, so your food, activity, and body weight entries can come from the apps and devices you already use. CalBal reads food, activity, resting calories, and weight from Apple Health, then turns them into daily, weekly, and monthly energy-balance trends. Your daily goal and live calorie balance update in real time, so you can accurately steer each day while it is still happening. Track how your active calories, dietary calories, resting calories, and weight history fit together over days, weeks, and months. Instead of focusing on a single daily number, CalBal helps you see the bigger picture: how consistent calorie balance connects to real changes over time. A key part of CalBal is the ability to fine-tune your Resting/BMR calories. Generic estimates are useful starting points, but they often miss the mark because every body is different. Your true resting burn can vary based on metabolism, body composition, age, training, dieting history, and health factors. By recommending and adjusting this value, CalBal can give you a more realistic picture of your calorie balance instead of relying only on broad formulas. With CalBal, you can: • View daily, weekly, and monthly calorie balance trends • Compare dietary, active, and resting calories • Track weight history alongside calorie data • Better understand whether your calorie targets match your actual progress • Fine-tune Resting/BMR calories for more personal, accurate insights • Use Apple Health data to keep your tracking simple and connected CalBal is built for people who want more than rough estimates. Whether your goal is weight loss, maintenance, or performance, the app helps you connect your habits to your results with clearer, more adjustable calorie tracking. SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS CalBal offers an optional Watch Premium subscription to unlock the Apple Watch app and complications. • 7 day trial • Monthly: $0.99 per month • Annual: $5.99 per year These prices are for US customers. Pricing in other countries may vary. Payment will be charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms & Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://calbalapp.com/privacy Health Disclaimer: https://calbalapp.com/health-disclaimer

Screenshots

Calorie Diff4 screens
CalBal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Calorie Diff at none against CalBal's 2. Calorie Diff also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.2). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. CalBal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Calorie Diff asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Calorie Diff against 5.0 for CalBal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calorie Diff ships an update fortnightly, CalBal every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Calorie Diff versus CalBal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalorie DiffCalBal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB6 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperReme Le HaneAARON DANIEL LOWE

Customer experience

Calorie Diff

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CalBal

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Calorie Diff

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

CalBal

Subscriptions2
  • Watch Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Watch Premium Annual$5.991 Year

Questions

Is Calorie Diff free?
Calorie Diff is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CalBal free?
CalBal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Calorie Diff or CalBal?
Calorie Diff and CalBal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Calorie Diff or CalBal have ads?
Neither Calorie Diff nor CalBal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calorie Diff or CalBal?
Calorie Diff ships an update fortnightly, and CalBal every 9 days. Most recently, Calorie Diff was updated on October 9, 2026 and CalBal on October 7, 2026.

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