Cicolator vs Calnue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cicolator
Easily track your daily calorie intake with features like AI-powered meal descriptions, barcode scanning, and custom recipe portioning. Personalize your experience with themes and set daily calorie goals.
- AI-powered meal logging
- Barcode scanner for food items
- Custom recipe calorie calculation
- Daily calorie intake summary
- Save favorite foods
- Personalizable themes
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Cicolator is designed to make calorie logging simple! Add favorites, scan barcodes, portion meals, log using AI, and more! - Calorie Tracking: Pick a date and create a log entry for what you've eaten and how many calories it contains. - Magic Entry: Sometimes you don't have access to nutritional information. Describe your meal and Cicolator will estimate it for you using AI. - Daily Summary: Quickly see your calorie intake and how close you are to your daily limit. - Meals: Tracking a snack is easy enough, but what about your favorite recipe? Add the ingredients up, divide it by weight or servings, and then log your portions. - Favorites: Save frequently logged items as a favorite for easier entry. - Barcode Scanner: Use your camera to get nutritional information from product barcodes. - Daily Calorie Intake: Have a specific calorie goal? Raise or lower your goal within Settings. - Themes: Personalize your experience by changing the color scheme
Calnue
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Calnue is a calorie counter and food diary for tracking daily calorie intake, meals and workouts. Set a daily calorie goal, log food manually and see your calorie balance over time. Log food offline, with no account required. LOG IN SECONDS • Quick manual entry: calories, meal, source, notes and tags • Meals and workouts in one log • Smart defaults pick the right meal from the time of day • Reuse tags like "office lunch" or "home cooked" to spot patterns SEE HONEST TRENDS • Today at a glance: intake, burned and kcal left toward your goal • Daily, weekly and monthly trend charts with your goal line • Month report: goal adherence, streaks, highest and lightest days, weekday averages • A friendly mascot that cheers you on and never guilt-trips you YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • Everything lives on your device and, when iCloud is on, in your private iCloud database • No Calnue account, no server, no data sold. Your log is not the product • Export your full history as CSV or JSON anytime • Import a JSON export to restore your log or move it from another phone • Erase all data whenever you want FITS YOUR LIFE • Apple Health workout import: workouts appear in your log automatically • Home screen widget shows today's progress at a glance • Spotlight search finds your entries from anywhere • A daily reminder so logging becomes a habit • Works with VoiceOver, larger text and Increase Contrast • Light and dark appearance WHY MANUAL LOGGING? Because awareness is the habit. Typing "640" for that rice bowl takes three seconds, keeps you honest, and works for every cuisine. No barcode database gaps, no photo AI guessing wrong. Calnue gets out of your way and lets the habit do the work. A small banner ad keeps Calnue free. Your log data is never shared with advertisers. Start today: set a goal, log your next meal, and watch an honest picture of your eating build itself, calmly.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cicolator at none against Calnue's shown. Calnue's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cicolator ships an update every 6 months, Calnue weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cicolator | Calnue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Featherhour LLC | MAD OVER TECHNOLOGY |
In-app purchases
Cicolator
No in-app purchases
Calnue
No in-app purchases









