Weight Loss Tracker vs Ember
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weight Loss Tracker
Easily track your calorie intake, macros, and meals with AI-powered food and nutrition label scanning. Achieve your weight loss goals faster with personalized meal planning and progress visualization.
- AI food and meal scanning
- Nutrition label scanning (OCR)
- Calorie and macro tracking
- Meal planner
- Progress tracking and charts
- Apple Watch integration
- iCloud sync
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See your progress. Find your rhythm. Reach your goal. Meet Weight Loss Tracking Buddy (WLTB), your personal companion for losing, gaining or maintaining weight. Set meaningful goals, log food in seconds and understand your progress. SEE YOUR FINISH LINE Choose a goal weight and a weekly pace or target date. Follow your progress, celebrate milestones and switch to maintenance when you reach your goal. TRENDS, NOT WOBBLES Explore interactive weight charts, pinch to zoom, inspect weigh-ins and see your trend line. Pro adds longer history and detailed charts for calories, macros and body progress. STOP GUESSING CALORIES (PRO) Snap a meal for AI calorie and macro estimates, or scan a nutrition label without typing it in. Log meals, save your favourites and track protein, carbs, fats, sugar, fibre and salt. KNOW WHAT'S LEFT TO EAT (PRO) See your daily calorie budget and macro targets at a glance. Apple Health can factor activity into your daily budget. YOUR WEIGHT, IN SYNC (PRO) Sync weight and food with Apple Health, and bring in weigh-ins from compatible apps and scales. MORE THAN A NUMBER (PRO) Track fasts with Live Activities, Dynamic Island updates and reminders. Record body measurements and compare before-and-after progress photos. MADE FOR YOUR DAY Reorder your dashboard cards, use Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets and log weigh-ins with Apple Watch. Siri and Shortcuts make logging quicker. Prefer weight-only tracking? Switch calorie tracking off. YOUR DATA, YOURS Keep WLTB records in sync with iCloud, import past weigh-ins, export CSV files and back up your data. Track your weight for free. Upgrade to Pro for food logging, advanced charts, fasting, Apple Health and more. Food scan estimates are for information only, not medical advice. Terms: https://weightlosstrackingbuddy.com/terms-of-service/ Privacy: https://weightlosstrackingbuddy.com/privacy-policy EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ember
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Ember Understand your emotions. Test your assumptions. Build healthier patterns. This is your safe space, and yours alone. Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking, no analytics. Completely private by design. Name what you feel Emotions are harder to manage when they feel vague and overwhelming. The interactive feeling wheel helps you identify exactly what you are experiencing, choosing from 78 feelings across seven core areas. Naming a feeling is the first step to understanding it. Reframe in the moment We often believe the first story our mind tells us. When difficult feelings arise, we guide you through questions that help you examine that story and find a more balanced perspective. This is not about forcing positivity. It is about seeing the full picture. The more often you practise, the more natural it becomes. Test your predictions We all make predictions that hold us back: "It will go badly", "I won't cope", "People will judge me". These feel completely true, and they stop us from trying. Experiments let you write down what you expect, set a timeframe, and record what actually happens. Over time, you build up real evidence about how things go, not just how your mind says they will. Plan small steps When we feel low, we stop doing the things that help us feel better. The less we do, the worse we feel. Activity planning breaks that cycle. Schedule small, manageable activities across four life areas: achievement, connection, enjoyment and meaning. The motivation often follows the action, not the other way around. Prepare for tough moments Difficult moments are harder when they catch you off guard. Create coping plans tied to specific triggers and emotions, so you have a strategy ready before you need it. Get to know your parts Sometimes we feel pulled in different directions at once. Part of you wants to try, but another part holds you back. We help you name and understand those different parts of you, each with their own wants, fears, and ways of showing up. The better you know them, the more compassionately you can respond when they take over. See your patterns Track your emotional landscape over time with reports that reveal which feelings come up most and how your awareness grows. Ground yourself when it's urgent When a moment feels overwhelming, choose box breathing to slow your nervous system with a guided four-second cycle, or use the 5–4–3–2–1 technique to reconnect with your senses. Both are available from any screen, one tap away. Light and Dark theme Pick the colour scheme that suits you best Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gavangh.com/ember/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ember at every 4 days against Weight Loss Tracker's every 5 weeks. Ember also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Weight Loss Tracker's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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. Weight Loss Tracker sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days and Ember sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Weight Loss Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, Ember every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weight Loss Tracker | Ember |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (72 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 81.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Danny Law | Gavan Grenville-Hunt |
In-app purchases
Weight Loss Tracker
- Pro Subscription$1.497 Days
- Pro Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
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- Pro Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Pro Six Months7 Days trial$9.996 Months
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Pro Yearly$23.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro AccessFree
Ember
- Ember Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Ember Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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