Fun Calorie Tracker vs Waddle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fun Calorie Tracker
This app makes healthy eating and exercise fun with a playful AI companion. It offers personalized workouts, quick meal logging with photo scanning, and a unique reward system that turns healthy habits into a collectible world.
- AI meal scanner
- Personalized workout plans
- Quick meal logging
- Collectible sticker maps
- Recipe inspiration
- Progress visualization
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Luko makes healthy eating and working out feels like play Luko is a tiny dragon with a big heart, with an AI meal scanner and personalized workouts. Watch your progress turn into something you can actually see, collect, and come back to tomorrow. PERSONAL TRAINER IN YOUR POCKET No generic workout library. No digging through hundreds of routines. Luko learns your goals, fitness level, available equipment, schedule, and the kinds of training you actually enjoy — then curates a personalized training plan around you. Each day, Luko turns that plan into a workout built for where you are now. It’s 100% personalized training just for you — not just another list of exercises. LOG MEALS IN SECONDS Snap a photo, describe what you ate, or type it in. Luko estimates calories and macros. Need inspiration? Find recipe ideas with Luko when you’re not sure what to eat next. TURN HEALTHY DAYS INTO A COLLECTION Luko is built to make progress feel visible. Log meals and complete workouts to unlock animal companions across collectible sticker maps. Instead of watching another chart go up and down, you’re building a little world out of the habits you keep. And yes, Luko will be there for it. A BUDDY, NOT A MEDICAL DEVICE Calorie, macro, and workout estimates are for general wellness purposes and may not be exact. Luko is not a medical device and does not replace professional medical advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Waddle
This app offers gentle running plans for beginners, featuring guided intervals and GPS tracking. It adapts to your pace and allows adjustments, with a friendly goose mascot to motivate you. Build a consistent movement habit towards your fitness goals without pressure.
- Guided run/walk intervals
- GPS outdoor activity tracking
- Adaptive training plans
- Workout scheduling and reminders
- Progress tracking and badges
- Route planning and replays
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Meet your new running buddy. It’s a goose. It honks. Waddle to Run turns beginning—or beginning again—into something a little less intimidating. Choose your goal, tell us what feels manageable, and get a gradual walking or run-walk plan designed to fit your week. Follow guided intervals, track outdoor activities with GPS, plan favorite routes, and watch small sessions add up over time. Miss a day? The goose saved your spot. Need to walk? That was always allowed. Build toward a regular movement habit, a 20-minute jog, your first 5K, or a 10K—without treating every workout like a test. Along the way, you can: • Hear run and walk cues • Track distance, pace, time, and routes • Adjust sessions when they feel too hard • Schedule runs and receive reminders • Collect badges and unlock goose gear • Create private route postcards and replays • Save completed workouts to Apple Health Running is hard enough. Your running app doesn’t need to yell at you. Waddle. Jog. Honk. Repeat. Waddle to Run is free to download. Waddle Premium access, available through an auto-renewable subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase, is required to start guided runs and unlock personalized plans, run tracking, Progress, route postcards and replays, Live Activities, and goose outfits. Pricing and any available trial are shown before purchase. Terms of Use: https://spammusubitech.github.io/waddle-to-run/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://spammusubitech.github.io/waddle-to-run/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Fun Calorie Tracker at every 2 days against Waddle's every 6 days. Waddle's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Fun Calorie Tracker sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Waddle sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fun Calorie Tracker against 5.0 for Waddle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.
Fun Calorie Tracker ships an update every 2 days, Waddle every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fun Calorie Tracker | Waddle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 196 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | +17 |
| Developer | Zentari Labs Inc | Spam Musubi Technologies |
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Fun Calorie Tracker
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In-app purchases
Fun Calorie Tracker
- Luko Gold Weekly$3.997 Days
- Luko Gold Monthly2 variants$9.991 Month
- Luko Gold3 Days trial$34.991 Year
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- Luko Gold Annual$49.991 Year
- Luko Gold3 Days trial$49.991 Year
Waddle
- Waddle Premium Weekly$1.997 Days
- Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
- Premium Annual — Final Offer$9.991 Year
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- Waddle Premium Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Premium Annual — Special Offer$19.991 Year
- Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Premium Annual$39.991 Year
- Waddle Premium Lifetime$24.99
- Waddle Premium Lifetime$49.99
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