Comparison

The Simplest Calorie Tracker vs Kcal

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

Head to head
About

The Simplest Calorie Tracker

Easily log your daily food intake, track calories, and monitor macronutrients without unnecessary clutter. Set personalized nutrition goals and visualize your progress over time with insightful trends. This app offers a straightforward approach to maintaining your dietary habits.

Highlights
  • Fast food search
  • Manual calorie and macro entry
  • Custom recipes
  • Daily nutrition goals
  • Health and nutrition trends
  • Daily logging streaks
Features
Read full description

Track calories, macros, meals, and progress without the clutter. Free to use, with no sign-up required — open the app and start tracking right away. Optional Premium upgrades are available if you want them, never required. The Simplest Calorie Tracker makes food logging quick and easy, helping you stay consistent with your nutrition goals. Features include: - Fast food search with thousands of USDA foods - Barcode scanning for packaged foods (Premium) - AI Meal Scan for editable nutrition estimates from a photo (Premium) - Manual calorie and macro entry - Optional fiber tracking - Custom recipes with multiple ingredients - Saved foods and recipes for quick logging - Serving-size and gram-based tracking - Daily calorie, macro, fiber, and water goals - Apple Health step tracking, goals, and streaks - Active calories, workouts, and weight tracking with Apple Health (Premium) - Manual exercise and weight logging (Premium) - Health and nutrition trends, history, and progress insights - Daily logging streaks and reminders - Custom themes and iCloud backup Simple, fast, and built to make everyday tracking easier. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Kcal

Effortlessly track your calorie and macronutrient intake with a streamlined interface. Log meals quickly through various methods like scanning, searching, or AI estimation, and view your progress at a glance.

Highlights
  • Multiple logging methods (scan, search, photo, AI, text, manual)
  • At-a-glance calorie and macro overview
  • Fast meal logging
  • Save favorite foods and recipes
  • Privacy-focused, no account required
  • No ads or tracking
Read full description

Kcal is a calorie and macro tracker stripped down to what matters. Log what you eat, see what's left, and move on with your day. LOG YOUR WAY Scan a barcode, search food databases, photograph a nutrition label, get an editable AI estimate from a meal photo or description, or enter nutrition yourself. When you already know the calories, use Quick calories without filling in macros. FASTER EVERY DAY Copy a meal from yesterday or another date. Star foods as favorites and reuse your recent portions. Keep your own foods and recipes in a small library. EVERYTHING AT A GLANCE One fixed home screen shows remaining calories, protein, fat and carbs against your goals, and four simple meal cards. Swipe sideways to browse your diary. YOUR DATA, YOUR BACKUP Export your diary, food library, recipes, favorites and settings to a backup file. Review a backup before restoring it; existing data is kept and identical items are skipped. ONE-TIME PURCHASE Try the full app free for 7 days, then unlock it with one purchase. No subscription, no ads and no account required. AI photo estimates, meal descriptions and nutrition-label reads share an allowance of 10 successful requests per day, during the trial and after purchase. CLEAR ABOUT PRIVACY Your diary is stored on your iPhone. Food searches and barcodes are sent to the relevant food databases. AI photos and meal descriptions are sent to Groq only with your permission; your full diary and goals aren't included. You can withdraw AI sharing permission in Settings. Exported backups are saved wherever you choose. AI nutrition values are estimates. Review and edit them before saving.

Screenshots

The Simplest Calorie Tracker4 screens
Kcal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: The Simplest Calorie Tracker at 63 against Kcal's 2. Kcal's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. The Simplest Calorie Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Kcal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kcal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Simplest Calorie Tracker has 63 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of The Simplest Calorie Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kcal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Simplest Calorie Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Kcal every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
The Simplest Calorie Tracker versus Kcal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Simplest Calorie TrackerKcal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (63 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings63 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaul KhayetZsombor Toth

Customer experience

The Simplest Calorie Tracker

All ratings63 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral4.8%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative0.0%

Kcal

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

The Simplest Calorie Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
1 purchases

Kcal

One-time1
  • Full Access$0.99

Questions

Is The Simplest Calorie Tracker free?
The Simplest Calorie Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kcal free?
Kcal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, The Simplest Calorie Tracker or Kcal?
Kcal is rated higher. The Simplest Calorie Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 63 ratings, while Kcal averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do The Simplest Calorie Tracker or Kcal have ads?
Neither The Simplest Calorie Tracker nor Kcal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Simplest Calorie Tracker or Kcal?
The Simplest Calorie Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Kcal every 4 weeks. Most recently, The Simplest Calorie Tracker was updated on November 5, 2026 and Kcal on November 5, 2026.

Other comparisons