Daily Calorie Tracker vs Calorie Stepdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Calorie Tracker
This app offers a straightforward way to monitor your daily calorie consumption. It allows for custom categories, quick calorie logging, and flexible serving size adjustments. Data syncs via iCloud, and a companion watch app is available.
- User-defined categories
- Quick Log option
- Customizable servings
- Adjustable serving size
- iCloud data sync
- WatchOS app
- Open source
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Daily Calorie Tracker (DCT) is a minimalist app for tracking your daily caloric intake. Features include: * Simple model of user-defined categories and servings. * ‘Quick Log’ option to add a raw calorie amount to a category. * Define your own servings, with handy presets. * Conveniently adjust serving size (aka intensity) when logging calories. * Your data syncs with your private iCloud account when a network connection is available. * An independent WatchOS app, so you can leave your phone at home. * Available separately as an independent iOS app. * Fully open source, where code is licensed with Mozilla Public License 2.0. DCT prioritizes convenience, quick interactions, and the basic needs of the casual calorie counter.
Calorie Stepdown
This app helps you manage your daily calorie intake to reach your goals. Set a daily limit and log your food to stay within your target. Once you hit zero, you've successfully met your goal for the day.
- Set daily calorie goals
- Log food items
- Track remaining calories
- Reach zero to complete day
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Calorie Stepdown is a daily calorie tracker to help you meet your daily calorie goals. Set your maximum allowed calories for the day and then add food items accordingly. When you reach zero, you're done!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Calorie Stepdown at every 2 days against Daily Calorie Tracker's fortnightly. Daily Calorie Tracker's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.2). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Daily Calorie Tracker against 5.0 for Calorie Stepdown. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Daily Calorie Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Calorie Stepdown every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Calorie Tracker | Calorie Stepdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OpenAlloc LLC | Greg Cheong |
In-app purchases
Daily Calorie Tracker
No in-app purchases
Calorie Stepdown
No in-app purchases
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