Comparison

Calometric vs Byte Coach

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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Meet the new Calometric: a beautifully rebuilt calorie and macro tracker that makes every meal easier to understand. 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 database that is 10Ɨ bigger and still 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

Byte Coach

Features
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Most calorie apps assume you want to be precise. Byte Coach starts from the opposite assumption. You already know when you've overdone it. You don't need to weigh the chocolate — you need to know you went over by roughly 1,000 calories and how to handle tomorrow. Opening an app for the seventeenth time to log exact grams is exactly what makes people quit. So Byte Coach works the way you actually talk: snap a photo, say it out loud, or type it the way you'd tell a friend. Your coach figures out the rest. Every morning: a recap of yesterday and a focus for today. Every midday: a quick check on where you stand. Every Sunday: a full week in review with charts. Not a ledger. A coach. KEY FEATURES • Photo logging — point your camera at any meal, anywhere in the world • Voice logging — speak naturally, your coach understands • Text logging — type it the way you'd tell a friend • Apple Health sync — steps, active calories, and weight flow in automatically • Garmin & Strava — workouts and activity sync daily • Morning summaries, midday nudges, weekly review charts • Exercise modes — track burns separately or subtract from your daily budget • 7 languages — English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch • Challenges — compete with friends on water, protein, steps, or calorie adherence PLANS Start with a 7-day free trial of Base. Cancel any time before it ends. Base ($4.99/mo): photo logging (5/day), daily summaries, Garmin & Strava sync, friend challenges Plus ($9.99/mo): adds unlimited photos, voice logging, weekly review charts Free: text logging stays available after the trial — keep your friends list, meal sharing, and Apple Health sync Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Subscription, or in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://byte-coach.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://byte-coach.com/terms

Screenshots

Calometric4 screens
Byte Coach4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Byte Coach at Free against Calometric's $14.99. Byte Coach also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Calometric's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Byte Coach is free to download; Calometric costs $14.99 up front. Calometric sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Byte Coach sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calometric ships an update every 3 days, Byte Coach every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences Ā· 4 level
Calometric versus Byte Coach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalometricByte Coach
Price$14.99Free — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRicardo Dantas GoncalvesNils Rohwer

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Calometric

One-time1
  • 100 Cloud Scans$4.99
4 purchases

Byte Coach

Subscriptions4
  • Byte-coach Base7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Byte-coach Plus$9.991 Month
  • ByteCoach Base - Yearly$39.991 Year
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  • ByteCoach Plus - Yearly$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Calometric free?
Calometric costs $14.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Byte Coach free?
Byte Coach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Calometric or Byte Coach have ads?
Neither Calometric nor Byte Coach shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calometric or Byte Coach?
Calometric ships an update every 3 days, and Byte Coach every 9 days. Most recently, Calometric was updated on October 8, 2026 and Byte Coach on October 12, 2026.

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