Comparison

Minimal Calorie Tracker vs ZenRuns

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

Head to head
About

Minimal Calorie Tracker

This app offers a simple and efficient way to monitor calorie intake. It features a clean design, customizable goals, and seamless syncing across devices. Focus on your nutrition without unnecessary complexity.

Highlights
  • Streamlined meal logging
  • Minimalistic design
  • Customizable calorie goals
  • Seamless iCloud syncing
  • Focus on nutrition
Features
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Welcome to Minimal Calorie Tracker, where simplicity meets efficiency in calorie tracking. Our app is crafted for those who seek a straightforward approach to monitoring their calorie intake, without any added clutter. • Streamlined Tracking: Log your meals in seconds. No complications, just simplicity. • Minimal Design: Experience our clean and minimalistic design that keeps your focus where it should be - on your nutrition. • Customizable Goals: Tailor your calorie goals to suit your personal health journey. • Seamless iCloud Syncing: Your data is always with you, synchronized effortlessly across all your devices using iCloud.

About

ZenRuns

Features
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Running apps turned running into a spreadsheet. ZenRuns is a running journal — log your run in 2 seconds, build your rhythm and find joy in running. Runners who show up regularly — even with imperfect sessions — build lasting fitness. Chasing perfect data slows you down. ZenRun tracks what matters: did you show up? HOW IT WORKS - Log a run in 2 seconds. Pick your distance, enter your time, done. Use your Apple Watch or not. Run however you want, log it when you're back. - Weekly rhythm rewards showing up. Run twice a week to keep your rhythm going. Not pace. Not distance. Just being there. - 100 milestones to celebrate your journey. Your first 5K, your 100th run, a year of consistency, and beyond. - Circles, not leaderboards. Share your journey with up to 10 close friends. Build accountability and have some joyful competition. - Scenic run photos. Capture the joy of outdoor runs. Tag photos to distance markers. Build a visual album of your running journey over time. WHAT ZENRUNS DOES NOT DO - No GPS tracking. You could run without your phone. - No live pace alerts buzzing your wrist. Find your joy in running. - No leaderboards against strangers. - No heart rate zones, cadence, VO2 max, or vertical oscillation. WHO IT'S FOR - You run 2–5 times a week and want to keep doing that for years. - You value the running mindfulness as much as the physical fitness. - You've used tracking apps but yet you have not figured out how to stay consistent. - You care about running - You believe the best run is the one you actually did. BUILT BY A RUNNER, NOT A FITNESS COMPANY I've started and stopped running more times than I can count. I hardly ran at all in 2025. Then, at the beginning of this year, I set a simple goal: run 1,000km. Just to see if the habit could finally stick. I built ZenRun during the same period — alongside the runs, through the weeks of motivation and the weeks I nearly quit again. Every feature exists because it was important for me. 200km in, both the habit and the app are still going. No subscriptions. No ads. Just a runner building the tool they wished existed. Inspired by Born to Run, Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, and the growing movement of runners leaving their GPS watches at home. EARLY ACCESS — HELP BUILD ZENRUN ZenRuns is being built in the open. You're not downloading a finished product — you're joining a small group of early runners whose feedback directly shapes what ZenRuns becomes. Vote on features, suggest ideas, and see what's coming next on our feedback board. Share your thoughts at zenrun.featurebase.app or email support@zenrun.co. Every piece of feedback makes ZenRuns better for the next runner. Your joyful running journal.

Screenshots

Minimal Calorie Tracker4 screens
ZenRuns4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: ZenRuns at 3 against Minimal Calorie Tracker's 1. ZenRuns also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Minimal Calorie Tracker versus ZenRuns: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinimal Calorie TrackerZenRuns
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (52 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings52 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndres GandaraAseem Munshi

In-app purchases

None

Minimal Calorie Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

ZenRuns

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minimal Calorie Tracker free?
Minimal Calorie Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ZenRuns free?
ZenRuns is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Minimal Calorie Tracker or ZenRuns have ads?
Neither Minimal Calorie Tracker nor ZenRuns shows ads.

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