Calorie Counter vs Cality
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calorie Counter
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Track calories with just a photo. CaptainCal uses AI to recognise your meal, estimate the portion, and log calories, protein, carbs and fat in seconds. No searching, no weighing, no guesswork. Finally, a calorie tracker that knows your food. Machboos, mandi, harees, saloona, balaleet, luqaimat, karak. Western apps have never heard of them. CaptainCal was built in the Gulf, for the Gulf, with a curated database of Khaleeji and regional dishes and realistic local portion sizes. HOW IT WORKS 1. Answer a few quick questions and get a personal daily calorie and macro plan. 2. Snap a photo of any meal. The AI identifies each item on the plate, even mixed platters. 3. Review, adjust if needed, done. Photo to logged meal in under 10 seconds. WHY CAPTAINCAL - AI photo scanning: point your camera at any plate and get calories, protein, carbs and fat instantly - Gulf food database: hundreds of curated Khaleeji and regional dishes, plus popular local chains and delivery favourites - Arabic-first: full Arabic interface with proper RTL, not a translated afterthought. Switch between Arabic and English anytime - Ramadan mode: your day restructures around suhoor and iftar, targets adjust for fasting, and streaks respect fasting days instead of breaking them - Barcode scanner for packaged products, including common GCC brands - Fast manual search in Arabic or English, with favourites and recent meals for one-tap logging - Progress dashboard: daily calorie ring, macro bars, weight trend and weekly summaries WHO IT IS FOR Whether you want to lose weight, build muscle or just understand what you eat, CaptainCal gives you a plan and makes sticking to it effortless. If you have ever quit MyFitnessPal-style manual logging out of boredom, this is the tracker you will actually keep using. NOTE CaptainCal provides estimates for informational purposes and is not a substitute for professional medical or dietary advice. Food scanning requires a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Cality
Log meals by snapping photos, typing, or scanning barcodes. It details ingredients, allows adjustments, and calculates calories and macros. Includes a built-in gym log for tracking workouts, routines, and personal records.
- AI-powered meal logging via photo, text, or barcode
- Detailed ingredient breakdown and calorie calculation
- Integrated gym workout logger with set tracking
- Rest timer and workout routine management
- Import workout plans from links or photos
- Syncs with Apple Health for comprehensive tracking
- Multi-language support
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Calorie counting that shows its work. Snap a photo, type what you ate or scan a barcode. Cality lists every ingredient with its grams, lets you fix anything that's off, and adds up the calories and macros in front of you. PHOTO, WORDS OR BARCODE • Snap your plate: Cality names the dish, finds each part of it and estimates how much is there. When something isn't clear, it asks instead of guessing. • Type it or say it: describe a meal in your own words, in your own language. Cality understands amounts like "half", "two" or "a glass". • Scan a barcode, or photograph the nutrition label when there's no barcode. • Nothing is saved until you confirm it. SEE THE MATH, CHANGE THE MATH • Change the grams or the count, or pick half, one or one and a half portions. • Add or remove an ingredient: forgot the dressing? Add it. • Tap Fix Results and write something like "cooked in butter" to update the estimate. • The AI identifies the food. Calories are calculated from food composition data for the grams you confirm, not read off the photo. TRAIN: A GYM LOG BUILT IN • Log every set: weight, reps and set type, with your last numbers in front of you. Logging workouts is always free. • A rest timer that follows you to the Lock Screen, with a quiet alert when rest is over. • Routines and week-by-week programs. Start today's workout in one tap. • Import a plan from a TikTok, Instagram or YouTube link, a photo or a PDF, and Cality turns it into routines you can edit. • Photograph a gym machine to see the exercises it's for, with a short animation of each. • Personal records, the muscles you trained, and strength charts over time. • Share a routine or program with a code or QR; friends save it to their own Cality. • Finished workouts add their burned calories to your day and save to Apple Health. THE REST OF YOUR DAY • A plan built around you: daily calories, protein, carbs and fat from your age, height, weight, activity and goal. Change them any time. • Apple Health: steps and workouts adjust today's budget; meals, water and weight can sync back to Health. • Water in one tap, and your weight over weeks and months. • Meal, water and weigh-in reminders that fit your routine, plus goal coaching in your own numbers: the weight still to go, the weeks to your goal, the calories left today. You can pause daytime meal reminders during Ramadan. • A weekly summary and a PDF report to share with a coach or dietitian. 15 LANGUAGES Cality speaks English, Arabic, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Malay. Switch any time. Arabic is fully right-to-left, with Western or Arabic numerals. YOUR HEALTH DATA ISN'T THE PRODUCT Your meals, weight and Apple Health data are never sold or used for advertising. Delete your account and your data from inside the app at any time. SUBSCRIPTION Cality is free to use: plan, manual and barcode logging, water, weight, workout logging, Apple Health and reminders, plus 2 AI logs a day, 3 routines, 3 machine scans a week and 1 plan import. Cality Pro, monthly or yearly with a 3-day free trial for eligible new subscribers, unlocks unlimited AI logging (photo, label, typed and voice), unlimited routines, machine scans and plan imports, strength charts, the full weekly report with AI analysis, your measured burn, micronutrients, full history and PDF reports. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in your Apple ID settings. Prices vary by country and are shown in the app before you buy. Cality gives estimates for general wellness and is not medical advice. Terms of Use: https://cality.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://cality.app/privacy Support: support@cality.app
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Verdict
Calorie Counter and Cality are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Calorie Counter sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Cality sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calorie Counter | Cality |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 137 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Saad Aamir | Aiman Mahmood |
In-app purchases
Calorie Counter
- CaptainCal Pro$3.997 Days
- CaptainCal Pro3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- CaptainCal Pro$4.997 Days
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- CaptainCal Pro3 Days trial$7.997 Days
- CaptainCal Pro$7.997 Days
- CaptainCal Pro$8.991 Month
- CaptainCal Pro2 variants$24.993 Months
- CaptainCal Pro3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- CaptainCal Pro$29.991 Year
- CaptainCal Pro3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- CaptainCal Pro$39.991 Year
Cality
- Cality Pro Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Cality Pro Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year








