Kanso Calorie & Macro Tracker vs The Optimization Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kanso Calorie & Macro Tracker
Effortlessly log meals with AI camera, voice, or text input. Track fitness, hydration, and intermittent fasting. Set smart goals and customize your dashboard for a personalized health journey.
- AI food scanning
- Voice and text logging
- Barcode scanning
- Fitness regimen tracking
- Hydration tracker
- Recipe macro calculation
- Intermittent fasting timers
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Kanso is a complete health management app — free, with no ads. Track your food and macros, your strength/cardio/yoga training, supplements, medications, and menstrual cycle, all in one place. Tracking just one thing doesn't help. Your training changes what you should eat; your cycle changes what you crave. Kanso keeps your whole health in one picture, with trends that spell out the connections in plain English — like how your protein lines up with your training days. LOG YOUR WAY • Photo, barcode, voice, or typed entry — every meal lands in the same picture • USDA-verified nutrition data, never crowd-sourced entries • Custom calorie, macro, and micronutrient targets — your numbers, not generic ones • Recipe URL importer for home cooking TRAINING + NUTRITION, TOGETHER • Strength, cardio, and yoga logs right next to your food • Intermittent fasting timers and hydration tracking • Supplements, medications, and menstrual cycle tracking • 30-day Apple Health / Health Connect sync for steps and weight UNDERSTAND YOUR PATTERNS • Trends that connect the dots across food, training, and cycle • Unlimited history — patterns get clearer the longer you track Free. No ads. Your whole health, one picture. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
The Optimization Lab
This private app provides OptiLab coaching clients with their personalized fitness and nutrition plans. Track daily protocols, supplements, training, and check-ins. Access educational resources and monitor progress through phases and lab results.
- Daily protocol breakdown
- Supplement and timing details
- Phased plan progression
- Weekly check-in logging
- Exercise and set tracking
- Calorie and macro targets
- Lab result uploads
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This is the private app for OptiLab coaching clients. If you're working with me, this is where your whole plan lives. WHAT'S INSIDE Your protocol, laid out by day Every supplement and every item in your plan, with the amount, the timing, and how to take it. Morning, pre-training, with meals, before bed. You open it and you know exactly what today looks like. Your phases Your plan runs in phases. You can see the one you're in right now, what's coming next, and what we've already knocked out. If a training block and a protocol phase are running at the same time, you'll see both side by side. Weekly check-ins Your next check-in sits right on the home screen. Weight, photos, sleep, energy, training, digestion, how the week actually went. Send it in, I review it, and you get your adjustments back. Training Your program day by day, with your exercises, sets and notes. Log what you did so we're both looking at the same numbers. Nutrition Your calorie and macro targets for the phase you're in, plus the structure around them. Labs and bloodwork Upload your results, see your testing schedule, and know when your next panel is due. Bloodwork drives a lot of the calls I make, so it lives right next to the rest of your plan. Library The education that goes with your plan. Lectures, guides and resources so you understand the reasoning behind what you're running. Performance League See how your consistency stacks up. Show up, hit your check-ins, stay on plan. WHO THIS IS FOR This app is for active OptiLab clients only. You'll need the login you get when you start coaching with me. If you're not a client yet and you want to be, apply through the OptiLab website. HOW I COACH I work with physique athletes, competitors in contest prep, and people who just want to look, feel and perform better. Everything's individual. It's built from your bloodwork, your check-ins and how your body actually responds, and it gets adjusted week to week. This app is where all of that comes together, so you always know what you're doing today and why. A NOTE ON YOUR HEALTH Nothing in this app replaces your doctor. Keep your physician in the loop on anything medical, and tell me about any changes to your health or medications.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Optimization Lab at none against Kanso Calorie & Macro Tracker's 2. The Optimization Lab also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). Kanso Calorie & Macro Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Kanso Calorie & Macro Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. The Optimization Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Optimization Lab holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kanso Calorie & Macro Tracker has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Kanso Calorie & Macro Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, The Optimization Lab every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kanso Calorie & Macro Tracker | The Optimization Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Enso Labs | Natan Behrendt de Carvalho |
Customer experience
Kanso Calorie & Macro Tracker
The Optimization Lab
In-app purchases
Kanso Calorie & Macro Tracker
- Kanso Pro Monthly1 Year trial$0.991 Month
- Kanso Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
The Optimization Lab
No in-app purchases





