The Simplest Calorie Tracker vs Kcal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Fast food search
- Manual calorie and macro entry
- Custom recipes
- Daily nutrition goals
- Health and nutrition trends
- Daily logging streaks
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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/
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
The Simplest Calorie Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Kcal every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | The Simplest Calorie Tracker | Kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (63 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Khayet | Zsombor Toth |
Customer experience
The Simplest Calorie Tracker
Kcal
In-app purchases
The Simplest Calorie Tracker
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
Kcal
- Full Access$0.99
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