Comparison

Kcal vs KcalCulator

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

Head to head
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
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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. A GLANCE, THEN GO Keep today's calorie balance on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Open barcode scanning, quick calories or favorite foods from the medium widget, the app icon or Shortcuts. FASTER EVERY DAY Copy a meal from yesterday or another date. Save foods as favorites and add the shown portion with one tap, with Undo if needed. Tap a food to adjust its amount first. 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 from first launch, then unlock logging with one purchase. No subscription, no automatic charge, 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. Your existing diary stays readable after the trial ends. CLEAR ABOUT PRIVACY Your diary is stored on your iPhone. Widgets receive only a local daily summary. 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.

About

KcalCulator

Features
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KcalCulator is a calm, beautiful way to track what you eat — built to stay out of your way and keep your data on your device. SCAN LABELS WITH YOUR CAMERA Point the camera at any nutrition label (English or Spanish). On-device text recognition fills in calories, protein, carbs, fat and more — no typing, no cloud. YOUR PANTRY, PHOTOGRAPHED Snap a product and Cal Culator cuts out the background automatically, turning your real food into the interface. Your most-used products live in a Frequent rail: logging a repeat meal is one tap. DISHES YOU ALWAYS MAKE Save a finished meal — photo plus the exact amounts you always use. Add the whole dish to your day in one tap; every ingredient is logged with its own values. A DAY AT A GLANCE A goal ring, three macro beams and a short note show where you stand. The ledger groups your day by meal, in a warm, paper-like design with serif numerals. HISTORY THAT'S HONEST A month calendar shows how each day went: green when you landed near your goal, amber when you were close, red when you were far — over or under. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics. No internet connection at all — everything is computed and stored on your iPhone. App Privacy: Data Not Collected. Cal Culator estimates figures from the data you enter and is not a substitute for professional medical or nutritional advice.

Screenshots

Kcal4 screens
KcalCulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: KcalCulator at none against Kcal's 1. On price, ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Kcal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. KcalCulator asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Kcal versus KcalCulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKcalKcalCulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZsombor TothZertyn LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Kcal

One-time1
  • Full Access$0.99
None

KcalCulator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kcal free?
Kcal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is KcalCulator free?
KcalCulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kcal or KcalCulator have ads?
Neither Kcal nor KcalCulator shows ads.

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