Comparison

CalTracker vs BORGCoach

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

Head to head
About

CalTracker

Effortlessly track your food intake by simply taking a photo of your meal. AI analyzes ingredients, portion sizes, and nutritional information in seconds. Offers personalized goals, health insights, and support for quitting smoking and drinking.

Highlights
  • AI photo analysis for calorie and macro breakdown
  • Barcode scanner for packaged foods
  • Personalized calorie and weight goals
  • BMI and waist circumference tracking
  • Apple Health integration
  • Support for quitting smoking and drinking
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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Snap. Analyze. Done. CalTracker makes calorie counting as easy as taking a photo: point your camera at your meal and the AI identifies ingredients, portion sizes, calories, and macros in seconds. No more endless database searches, no weighing, no math. HOW TO LOG YOUR MEALS • Photo analysis: AI breaks down every ingredient with grams, calories, protein, carbs, fat, sugar, and fiber • Barcode scanner: log packaged products in seconds via the Open Food Facts database • Text entry: just describe what you ate • Instant matches: 200+ common foods built right into the app — no AI needed, works offline • Favorites and "Log again" for the things you eat all the time • Forgot to log something? Browse back through your days and add it anytime RESTAURANT MODE Snap up to 5 pages of a menu and the AI recommends the best dish for your goal, with a calorie estimate for every item. YOUR GOALS, YOUR PLAN • Personalized calorie target based on height, weight, age, sex, activity level, and body type • Goals for losing, maintaining, or gaining weight • Calorie ring, macro overview, weekly and monthly charts with a goal line • Streaks and smart reminders keep you on track STAY ON TOP OF YOUR HEALTH • BMI and waist circumference with easy-to-understand ratings • Weight tracking with a target weight • Apple Health integration: active calories automatically increase your daily budget • Allergy and intolerance alerts: the AI flags meals that may contain problematic ingredients • Personalized feedback for every meal: why you should (or shouldn't) eat it • 20 evidence-based nutrition tips to read whenever you like QUIT SMOKING & DRINKING Ready to stop? CalTracker has your back: track smoke-free or alcohol-free days, cigarettes or drinks avoided, money saved in your currency, calories cut, and the milestones that mark your body's recovery. Includes an SOS breathing exercise for when cravings hit hard. ALWAYS WITH YOU • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets showing your calorie progress • iCloud sync: your data is backed up and available across all your devices • Available in 26 languages CALTRACKER PRO 5 AI analyses are free. After that: unlimited analyses with CalTracker Pro for $1.99/month, cancel anytime. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Barcode scanner, instant matches, and all statistics stay free forever. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://caltracker.mattomedia.de/datenschutz.html Note: Calorie values are AI estimates and are not a substitute for medical advice.

About

BORGCoach

Features
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BORGCoach is an AI running coach that makes sense of all your health and training data, then builds one adaptive plan around your race, fitness, and consistency goals. Connect Garmin or Apple Health, or start without a watch. Raw numbers don't make you faster. BORGCoach reads your sleep, readiness, HRV, training load, recent runs, and even the wind, works out how they fit together, and turns them into a plan that changes when you do. Slept badly, missed a day, or caught a headwind? The plan adjusts and tells you why. Most training apps assume you want exactly one thing. Real life is messier. You might want a faster 10K, to lose a few kilos, and to run consistently, and those goals pull against each other. BORGCoach holds several goals at once and balances the trade-offs in a single weekly plan, with the right detail for each goal. START WITH A CONVERSATION BORGCoach opens with a short chat. It asks a few useful questions, explains what each answer changes, runs a quick plain-language safety check, and shows you a personalized starter plan before you create an account. ONE PLAN THAT ADAPTS TO YOU • Set a race date, a pace, a distance, or a weight target, or just build an aerobic base • See a seven-day schedule with today front and center • Your plan responds to sleep, readiness, recovery, and weather, including wind speed • Adjust your long-run day and available days, and the plan adapts safely • Regenerate the week in a tap when life changes TODAY Open the app to see your next session, your readiness, and your coach's read on both. Everything is cached for instant loading and refreshed in the background. A COACH THAT SHOWS ITS WORK BORGCoach explains its decisions in plain language, checks in as you go, and keeps a coach journal of reflections and adaptations. After meaningful sessions it offers post-run coaching. You can always see why this week looks the way it does. PROGRESS Track personal records and predicted times, weekly distance, and consistency and recovery milestones, each with an explainable measurement. Rewards are private. There are no public leaderboards. YOUR DATA, MADE USEFUL Connect Garmin Connect to sync activities, sleep, HRV, training status, body composition, devices, badges, and gear. On iPhone you can also connect Apple Health for read-only activity, workout, sleep, and fitness signals. The Android companion app reads Health Connect. Your data syncs across your devices. With no watch or health source, log complete, modified, or skipped sessions by hand with effort, feel, and notes. Coaching works from day one. ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN Send today's workout to your watch, and keep your next session in view with widgets. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your BORGCoach account is the home for coaching, and your data is isolated to it. Passwords are hashed with Argon2id and source credentials are encrypted. We never sell your data. FOR IPHONE, IPAD, AND MAC One universal app, with Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and Reduce Motion support built in. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Available in English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and Swedish. START FREE Start with the Free plan, or take a two-week free trial of Premium with the yearly subscription and cancel anytime before it ends. The monthly subscription has no free trial. After the trial, the yearly subscription renews annually at the price shown unless you cancel before renewal. Apple determines offer eligibility. BORGCoach provides fitness coaching, not medical advice. Always consult a qualified clinician before starting or changing an exercise program. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

CalTracker4 screens
BORGCoach4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: BORGCoach at 3 against CalTracker's 1. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. CalTracker sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and BORGCoach sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CalTracker ships an update fortnightly, BORGCoach every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
CalTracker versus BORGCoach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalTrackerBORGCoach
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermattomedia KGKamau Wanguhu

In-app purchases

1 purchases

CalTracker

Subscriptions1
  • CalTracker Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
2 purchases

BORGCoach

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly Coaching$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly Coaching14 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is CalTracker free?
CalTracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BORGCoach free?
BORGCoach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CalTracker or BORGCoach have ads?
Neither CalTracker nor BORGCoach shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CalTracker or BORGCoach?
CalTracker ships an update fortnightly, and BORGCoach every 8 days. Most recently, CalTracker was updated on October 31, 2026 and BORGCoach on October 31, 2026.

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