Comparison

Grow vs Calorie Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Grow

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Grow is a creative journal for capturing how life feels, what needs to be done, and what you want to remember, all in a space you can draw, shape, and make your own! Add a quick note, mood, task or event as the day unfolds. Attach a photo or drawing to liven things up and make your journal a bit more you! Star important tasks, check things off, carry unfinished tasks forward, and plan ahead with future-dated entries and repeating tasks or events. Gather related entries in project journals, or simply let each day take its own shape. Your plants and drawings can also fill a cozy room you arrange by hand, turning your journal into a place that feels personal. Features: - Notes, moods, tasks, events, photos, and drawings - Tasks that carry forward or repeat - Planning for future days - Habit and mood tracking over time - Day, month, and year views Optional iCloud sync keeps entries, habits, projects, repeating schedules, photos, and drawings up to date across your devices. Grow is quick when you need it, expressive when you want it, and flexible enough to hold both your plans and your life.

About

Calorie Tracker

Track calories, macros, weight, water, and workouts with a focus on privacy. This app offers a global food library, auto-scaled macros, and optional Apple Health integration. It provides a daily calorie budget and motion-based workout tracking without requiring an account or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Global food library with custom entries
  • Auto-scaled macros and daily calorie budget
  • Weight and water tracking
  • Motion-based workout calorie estimation
  • Intermittent fasting timer
  • Optional Apple Health integration
  • Privacy-focused, no account required
Features
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Calorya - Calorie Tracker, Macros & Weight Loss, Built for Privacy Calorya is a 100% free calorie and protein tracker — no account, no subscription, no ads. Track calories, macros, weight, water, intermittent fasting, and workouts in one beautifully designed iPhone app. Personal logs stay on your phone, with no account, analytics SDKs, ad SDKs, or Calorya backend. WHY CALORYA - Worldwide food library — global dishes, drinks, restaurant menus, household staples — sized as you'd actually order them. - Daily calorie wallet that ticks down as you eat. Food equivalents like "≈ 3 rice cups left" make your budget feel real. - Genuinely private: personal logs stay local. Barcode, Maps, and App Store lookups contact their named providers. No account required. - Dark-mode first. Built with Apple's native stack - SwiftUI, SwiftData, HealthKit, Vision. FOOD & MACRO TRACKING - Log meals in seconds. Search a curated global library, scan barcodes (Open Food Facts), tap a recently-logged item, or add your own. - Auto-scaled macros: protein, carbs, fat, fiber per portion. - Restaurant menus from popular chains, sized to real serving portions. - Photo-based custom food entries. - Daily kcal cap so a runaway log can't blow up your day. WEIGHT TRACKING - Manual entry always available as a fallback. - Trend chart with target line and full per-entry weight log. - Reads/writes Apple Health so it stays your single source of truth. WORKOUTS & DAILY BURN - One-tap workout presets auto-scaled by your body weight. - Live camera-based motion tracker estimates calorie burn from your skeleton's movement - no wearable required. - Daily burn ring combines logged workouts with HealthKit active energy. - Motion mini-games that double as movement. INTERMITTENT FASTING & HYDRATION - Fasting timer with presets (16:8, 18:6, 20:4, OMAD) and a custom target. - Water log with an adjustable daily glass goal. - Both ride alongside calories in one unified daily readout. WALKS - "WALK TO A REAL PLACE" - Suggests nearby parks, cafes, and tracks with round-trip distance. - One tap opens Apple Maps for directions. - Save your favorite loops for repeating. ACCOUNTABILITY - Stake a reward with a partner (or commit to yourself) across 30, 60, 90, or 120 days. - Hit your goal → a shareable completion certificate is yours. APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION (OPTIONAL) - Reads steps, workouts, sleep, weight. - Writes weight back to Apple Health. - Off by default: turn it on only if you want it. PRIVACY YOU CAN VERIFY - No accounts, no logins, no email harvesting. - No analytics SDKs (no Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Firebase, Amplitude). - No advertising SDKs. - No servers collecting your data. - Photos for OCR are processed in memory and discarded - never uploaded. - Barcode lookups send only the scanned number. BUILT FOR IPHONE AND IPAD - Native SwiftUI app, dark-mode first. - iPad layout caps the content column for comfortable reading width. - First-class HealthKit, Vision, and Apple Maps integrations. PERFECT IF YOU WANT - A free food tracking app with no account and no subscription gate. - A calorie counter and protein tracker that respects your time and your data. - A macro tracker that auto-scales protein, carbs, fat, and fiber per portion. - A weight loss app that pairs honest math with concrete daily targets. - An intermittent fasting tracker that lives next to your meals. - A nutrition app that actually keeps your data on your iPhone. Calorya is free of accounts, ads, and analytics. Track your food, your weight, and your training - your data stays yours. Let us know if you encounter any issues. We will fix it right away! Support: calorya@qnsub.com Follow @choloasis on X for updates. © 2026 QnSub Tech Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Grow4 screens
Calorie Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Grow at Free against Calorie Tracker's $4.99. Grow also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Calorie Tracker's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Grow is free to download; Calorie Tracker costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grow ships an update every 3 months, Calorie Tracker every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Grow versus Calorie Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrowCalorie Tracker
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating—4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB93 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPrairie Dog SoftwareOna Pacholo Asis

In-app purchases

None

Grow

No in-app purchases

None

Calorie Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grow free?
Grow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Calorie Tracker free?
Calorie Tracker costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Grow or Calorie Tracker have ads?
Neither Grow nor Calorie Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grow or Calorie Tracker?
Grow ships an update every 3 months, and Calorie Tracker every 4 days. Most recently, Grow was updated on October 7, 2026 and Calorie Tracker on October 17, 2026.

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