Comparison

Calometric vs Tare

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

Head to head
About

Calometric

Log your meals effortlessly using photos, voice, or barcode scanning. Track calories and macros with on-device intelligence and a privacy-focused design. Syncs across Apple devices and offers extensive customization.

Highlights
  • Photo meal scanning
  • Barcode scanning
  • Voice logging
  • Nutrition label OCR
  • On-device intelligence
  • Customizable goals
  • Apple Watch companion app
Features
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Calometric is a calorie and macro tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch. One purchase, no subscription, and 100 photo scans included. Snap a meal, scan a barcode, speak, search, or read a nutrition label. Every result is a starting point you can review and edit before it reaches your food diary: foods, portions, servings, calories, carbs, protein, fat, and saturated fat when it is known. A FOOD DATABASE BUILT TO GROW Food search is now powered by a catalog of more than 5,000 foods and growing, so more foods are ready when you need them. Search for one food or type a whole meal; Calometric can turn it into editable foods before you save. Recent Foods puts the custom foods you use at the top of search, and recently viewed catalog foods remain available when you are offline. FIVE WAYS TO LOG • Photo: Take a meal photo for an editable calorie and macro estimate. With your permission, Calometric sends a resized copy to cloud AI for analysis. • Barcode: Scan packaged food and look it up in the community-maintained Open Food Facts catalog. • Voice: Say what you ate with on-device transcription on supported devices and languages. • Search: Find, adjust, and log foods with the growing database and offline fallback. • Nutrition Label: Point your camera at a nutrition label to read calories and nutrients on your device. TURN DAILY LOGGING INTO A CLEARER PICTURE • Set calorie, macro, and saturated-fat goals • See progress at a glance and follow weekly trends • Save favorite meals, copy meals you eat often, and reuse your own foods • Create a nutrition report for any date range, then preview, print, or share the PDF • Keep unknown saturated-fat values unknown instead of treating them as zero CALOMETRIC ON IPHONE AND APPLE WATCH The refreshed Dashboard puts every way to log in one place, with larger controls and text that follows your Dynamic Type size. On Apple Watch, Quick Add offers your own recent favorites and foods. Put calories, carbs, protein, fat, or saturated fat on your watch face, then keep your day moving. ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Your purchase unlocks the whole app with no subscription: every way to log, your full history, goals, reports, widgets, and the Apple Watch app. It also includes 100 photo scans that never expire. Only photo scans use a scan. Barcode, voice, search, and nutrition-label logging never do. When you want more photo scans, optional 100-scan packs are available in the app. Photo scanning allows up to 20 scans per day. YOUR CHOICES, CLEARLY EXPLAINED • No Calometric account or login required • Voice transcription and nutrition-label reading run on your device • Photo analysis processes content in the cloud only after separate permission • Barcode lookups contact Open Food Facts • Meal-history sync through your private iCloud database and Apple Health sync are optional Privacy Policy: https://calometric.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Snap. Know. Thrive.

About

Tare

This app helps you track your daily food intake, calories, and macronutrients. It offers detailed insights into vitamins, minerals, and personalized target adjustments based on your progress. Features include workout logging, fasting schedules, and progress reports.

Highlights
  • Calorie and macro tracking
  • Offline food logging
  • Vitamins and minerals tracking
  • Personalized target adjustments
  • Fasting schedule support
  • Workout logging (beta)
  • Progress reports
Features
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Track what you eat. Learn what you burn. Tare is a calorie and macro tracker that runs on your iPhone and stays there. No account to create, no ads, no analytics. Your food log lives on your device and, if you want it to, in your own iCloud. One payment. No subscription. EVERY DAY • Log food from three sources — a built-in food index that works offline, USDA FoodData Central, and Open Food Facts — or scan a barcode, or point your camera at a nutrition label • Watch calories, protein, carbs, and fat fill against your goals as the day goes on • Build your own foods, recipes, and meal templates once, then log them in a tap • Sort your day into meal categories you name, color, and order yourself • Track water with quick-add buttons sized to your own glass BEYOND CALORIES • Over 20 vitamins and minerals tracked alongside your macros, each against its daily value • Short on iron, calcium, protein, or fiber? Tap it and Tare tells you what to eat to close the gap, ranked from your own foods first • Already on target? The same tap shows which foods got you there TARGETS THAT KEEP UP • Tare learns what you actually burn from your weight trend and what you log, then suggests new targets each week. You accept them or you don't • Body fat from a smart scale lets it tell muscle from fat, so a recomposition stops reading as standing still • Your weight is smoothed into a trend, so one heavy dinner doesn't read as a setback FASTING AND SUPPLEMENTS • Run a fasting schedule with a Lock Screen timer, and correct a fast that started or ended at the wrong moment • Keep supplements in timing groups with reminders, and log the water you take them with WORKOUTS (BETA) • Log sets, reps, and weight with a rest timer on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and log the next set from there • Start the workout Up Next builds from your gym's equipment, your goal, your time, and which muscles have recovered — and see why it chose each exercise — or save your own • 600+ exercises with how-to animations, and a muscle figure that shows what each workout trained • Records per exercise, Apple Watch workouts in History, Fitbod import, and finished workouts written to Apple Health • Off by default: turn it on in Profile → Workouts. Needs iOS 26.4 REPORTS AND CHECK-INS • Weight, body composition, calories, macros, and micronutrients over one, three, or six months • A daily check-in on energy, mood, sleep, and hunger, and what those move with ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for calories and macros • Apple Watch logs water and supplements, shows your day, your fast, and the set you are on during a workout, with a calorie ring complication IN YOUR LANGUAGE • English, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish — every screen, number, and reminder, on iPhone, widgets, and Apple Watch • Food search understands all five: the built-in food index knows everyday foods by their names in each language • It opens in your iPhone's language, and you can change it in Profile → Language & Region • Translations are built into the app. Choosing a language sends nothing anywhere PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION • No account, no tracking, no advertising or analytics frameworks • Sync runs through your own iCloud account, which we cannot read • Apple Health is optional, and every data type is permitted separately • Export everything you have recorded as CSV, whenever you like One purchase. No subscription. No ads. iPhone, iPad, watch. Tare is not a medical device and does not provide medical, dietary, or nutritional advice. Food data comes from USDA FoodData Central and Open Food Facts and is provided as-is. Exercise data by RepDB (repdb.co).

Screenshots

Calometric4 screens
Tare4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tare at 80% against Calometric's 0%. Tare also leads on price ($6.99 vs $14.99) and iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Calometric costs $14.99 and Tare $6.99 up front. Calometric sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tare sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Calometric versus Tare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalometricTare
Price$14.99$6.99 — better
Rating—4.1 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.017.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRicardo Dantas GoncalvesOLEG VELB

Customer experience

Calometric

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%

Tare

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Calometric

One-time1
  • 100 Cloud Scans$4.99
2 purchases

Tare

One-time2
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • Full Access (one-time)$6.99

Questions

Is Calometric free?
Calometric costs $14.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Tare free?
Tare costs $6.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Calometric or Tare have ads?
Neither Calometric nor Tare shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calometric or Tare?
Calometric ships an update every 2 days, and Tare every 2 days. Most recently, Calometric was updated on November 7, 2026 and Tare on November 5, 2026.

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