Comparison

Cal Plus vs Benchplate

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

Head to head
About

Cal Plus

This app uses AI to help you track nutrition and workouts. It offers instant food recognition via scanning, personalized coaching, and community features for motivation. Plan meals, discover recipes, and monitor progress effortlessly.

Highlights
  • AI Coach & Smart Insights
  • Instant Food Recognition (Scan Barcodes/Photos)
  • Live Workout Tracking (800+ Exercises)
  • Menu Scan for Restaurant Analysis
  • Recipe Finder from Pantry Photos
  • Groups & Accountability
  • Habit Tracker
Features
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Cal Plus – FREE AI Smart Nutrition & Workout Tracking Made Simple Transform your health with Cal Plus, an intelligent nutrition and fitness tracking app with your own personal AI Coach and community groups that make staying consistent effortless. What makes Cal Plus special: Instant Food Recognition Scan barcodes or snap photos to instantly log calories and nutrients. Live Workout Tracking Log workouts in real time from 800+ exercises. Track sets, reps, and calories burned, automatically adjusted to your daily goals. AI Coach & Smart Insights Get personalized tips, meal recommendations, workout guidance, and healthier alternatives that adapt to your goals, habits, and lifestyle. Groups & Accountability Join or create groups to share meals, react, comment, and view daily progress together, helping friends stay consistent and motivated. Menu Scan Scan restaurant menus to analyze calories and nutrients instantly. Get personalized suggestions that fit your daily goals when eating out. Recipe Finder Take a photo of ingredients from your pantry or fridge and generate smart recipe ideas with full nutrition breakdowns. Smart Meal Planning Plan meals and create grocery lists with ease. Progress Tracking Visualize your nutrition and training journey with clear analytics and daily summaries. Habit Tracker Build streaks for habits like water, steps, veggies, or cutting back on alcohol. Most of them fill themselves in from what you already log. Daily Insights & Reports Stay motivated with guidance that grows smarter as your AI Coach learns from you. Whether you are counting calories, building muscle, losing fat, or building better habits, Cal Plus keeps everything simple. With AI guidance, live workouts, recipe discovery, menu scanning, and group accountability in one place, making better decisions becomes easier every day. EULA - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy - https://calplus.app/privacy-policy.html

About

Benchplate

Features
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Benchplate is a nutrition tracker built for people who train. Most food apps stop at calories and three macro bars. Benchplate tracks the whole picture — protein, carbs and fat alongside fibre, minerals and vitamins, each with its own target or upper limit, and each shown only if you want to see it. WHAT YOU GET • Calories, macros and a full micronutrient catalogue, with reference values one tap away • Barcode scanner backed by the Open Food Facts database, plus a nutrition-label scan for products without a barcode • Your own food library and meal templates — log a repeat meal in two taps • Say what you ate, also with Siri, the Action Button or Control Center • Recipes with AI search, cooking mode, meal prep and a weekly plan with shopping list, or import your own from a link, photo or text • Water, protein per meal, body measurements, and warnings for intolerances and allergies • A weekly review that shows where the week actually went • Progress photos and a weight history with trend line • Switching from another app? Bring your meals and weight along via Apple Health or an export file • My Trainer: share your week with your personal trainer, only with your consent APPLE HEALTH Benchplate reads your steps from Apple Health and, only if you switch it on, your workouts and your weight. A workout turns the day into a training day with a higher calorie target. If you like, Benchplate also writes the nutrition of everything you log back to Apple Health. GOALS THAT KEEP UP Tell Benchplate how fast you want to move, in kilos per week, and it adjusts. Every week it recalculates your calorie target from your real weight trend and pulls protein, fat and the energy-dependent nutrient targets along with it. No redoing the maths after every phase change. AI WHERE IT EARNS ITS PLACE Photograph a meal or just describe it, and get nutrition values you can log straight away. The Coach answers questions about your day or your week from your own data and proposes calorie, macro, nutrient and step targets you can apply in one tap — it already knows your height, age and activity level, and it remembers what matters to you, on your device only. KEEP THE STREAK A streak counts every day you hit both your calories and your protein, with enough tolerance for normal fluctuation. A reward waits at 100 days. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything lives in your own private iCloud account and syncs across your devices. No analytics SDKs, no advertising networks, no third-party trackers, no password to remember. Only optional features send anything off your device: the AI ones, where nothing personal is stored, and the trainer connection, which shares exactly what you agree to. Widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen, an Apple Watch app and Share to Benchplate included. Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch and Polish. Three days free, then a monthly or yearly subscription. That subscription is the entire business model — there is no advertising or data angle behind it. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Benchplate gives estimates for everyday use and is not medical or dietary advice. Terms of Use: https://benchplate.com/terms Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://benchplate.com/privacy

Screenshots

Cal Plus4 screens
Benchplate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cal Plus at 16.0 against Benchplate's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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. Cal Plus sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year and Benchplate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cal Plus ships an update every 4 days, Benchplate every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Cal Plus versus Benchplate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCal PlusBenchplate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.6K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDilsahib Singh BhatiaRichard Marschner

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Cal Plus

Subscriptions1
  • Cal Plus 12 months Ad Free$19.991 Year
One-time3
  • Streak Restore$0.99
  • Call your Coach - 10 minutes pack$1.99
  • Cal Plus Life Time Ad Free$39.99
2 purchases

Benchplate

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$79.901 Year

Questions

Is Cal Plus free?
Cal Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Benchplate free?
Benchplate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cal Plus or Benchplate have ads?
Neither Cal Plus nor Benchplate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cal Plus or Benchplate?
Cal Plus ships an update every 4 days, and Benchplate every 6 days. Most recently, Cal Plus was updated on October 30, 2026 and Benchplate on October 31, 2026.

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