Comparison

SelfOS vs Calorize

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

Head to head
About

SelfOS

This app combines self-care and productivity tools in a single, calming interface. Track your health, manage daily tasks, and build habits with a unique growing bonsai visualizer. All your data is stored locally for privacy.

Highlights
  • Growing bonsai visualizer
  • Home screen widgets
  • Health tracking (sleep, water, nutrition, activity)
  • Daily task and goal management
  • Calendar import
  • Habit tracking
  • Data export
Features
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SelfOS brings your whole day into one calm place — self-care and productivity, together at last. A BONSAI THAT GROWS WITH YOU Plant your tree on day one. Every day you show up — a glass of water, a completed task, a good night's sleep — it grows: new stages, fireflies and blooming. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN New: widgets. Your bonsai with its streak, water with a +1 glass button, today's meals, sleep, activity, a Today list where you tick tasks and habits right on the screen, and a custom widget you assemble yourself. YOUR HEALTH, IN FULL • Watch and tracker sync — sleep with stages, workouts and steps arrive on their own through Apple Health • Water — one-tap glasses, daily goal, gentle reminders • Nutrition — calories and nutrients, barcode scanner, your own dishes and favorites, a fair calorie goal that counts your steps and workouts (food search powered by FatSecret) • Sleep — duration and stages, a sleep score, night heart rate, HRV, breathing and blood oxygen, notes and trends • Activity — steps, workouts, active minutes YOUR DAY, IN ORDER • Daily tasks with subtasks, time blocks and repeats • Goals with steps, deadlines and photo covers • Calendar import — events from your phone become daily tasks, up to 30 days ahead with auto-refresh • Habit categories with daily check-ins and schedules • Shopping lists that sync into your day SEE THE WHOLE STORY • Weekly and monthly stats for every module • Calendar: open any date and see the full picture of that day • Full Data Report — export your story PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your data lives on your phone. No account required, no ads, no tracking. Health data never leaves your device. Anonymous crash and usage statistics only — and you can turn that off with one switch. Before changing phones, save a backup file in Profile → Export data. PREMIUM Free forever: all 8 modules with generous limits, the full bonsai story and all widgets. Premium unlocks unlimited tasks, goals, habits and lists, repeating tasks, sleep details with the sleep score, detailed nutrients, photo backgrounds, calendar import on autopilot, health widgets in the calendar, data export and more. 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. Monthly, yearly or one-time lifetime purchase — subscriptions auto-renew, cancel anytime in Settings. Care first — focus follows. SelfOS is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. Consult a healthcare professional before starting a diet or exercise program. Terms: https://selfosapp.com/terms-of-use.html Privacy: https://selfosapp.com/privacy-policy.html

About

Calorize

Log your food intake effortlessly using AI. Simply speak, type, or use your camera, and the app automatically records calories and macros. Get personalized insights into your eating habits and track progress with supportive analysis.

Highlights
  • AI-powered food logging via speech, text, or camera
  • Automatic calorie and macro estimation
  • Personalized daily and weekly eating habit analysis
  • Recipe builder and water/weight tracking
  • Apple Watch integration for quick logging
  • Barcode scanning for food identification
Features
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Say what you ate. It's logged. Calorize is a calorie tracker with an AI assistant called Mira. No search, no forms — speak, type or point the camera, and the entry lands in your diary with calories and macros. WHAT MIRA DOES • Logs from plain speech — "eggs and coffee" goes into breakfast • Edits in the same chat — "remove the bread", "make it 400 g" • Copies meals — "same lunch as Monday" • Estimates the portion when you're vague • Learns your usual foods and portions from your own history YOUR DAY AND YOUR WEEK, READ BACK TO YOU Mira analyses what you actually ate and explains it: what's working, what's drifting, and the one change worth making. Supportive, never scolding. ALSO IN THE APP • Photo and barcode recognition • Recipe builder for your own dishes • Water, weight and body measurements • Workout log • Peptide protocols with a dose-to-syringe calculator ON YOUR APPLE WATCH • Watch app — tap, say what you ate, lower your wrist; it buzzes when the entry is in • Complications — today's calories on your watch face: circular, corner, inline or rectangular • Smart Stack — the same ring and count, one swipe from the watch face PLANS Free — the diary, the food database, recipes, and a starter allowance of Mira's chat. Premium — a much larger daily allowance of Mira, plus her memory, custom macro goals, workouts, water and extended nutrients. Max — everything in Premium, with a bigger memory and the largest daily allowance. SUBSCRIPTIONS Premium Monthly, Premium Yearly, Max Monthly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://calorize.ai/en/privacy Support: hey@calorize.ai

Screenshots

SelfOS4 screens
Calorize4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: SelfOS at none against Calorize's shown. Calorize's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 3) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. SelfOS sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Calorize sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SelfOS against 4.9 for Calorize. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calorize has 21 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SelfOS ships an update every 2 weeks, Calorize every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SelfOS versus Calorize: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSelfOSCalorize
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.9 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings321 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB25 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperViktoriia SmyrnovaLialia Sakhno

Customer experience

SelfOS

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Calorize

All ratings21 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SelfOS

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$5.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$89.99
5 purchases

Calorize

Subscriptions5
  • Calorize Premium$9.991 Month
  • Calorize Max$17.991 Month
  • Calorize Premium$49.991 Year
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  • Calorize Premium7 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Calorize Max$119.991 Year

Questions

Is SelfOS free?
SelfOS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Calorize free?
Calorize is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SelfOS or Calorize?
SelfOS is rated higher. SelfOS averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Calorize averages 4.9 from 21 ratings.
Do SelfOS or Calorize have ads?
Calorize shows ads; SelfOS does not.
Which is updated more often, SelfOS or Calorize?
SelfOS ships an update every 2 weeks, and Calorize every 10 days. Most recently, SelfOS was updated on November 9, 2026 and Calorize on November 13, 2026.

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