Free, on purpose.
Calorie Calculator is a calorie counter and health tracker for iPhone and Android, built by one developer and given away because a monthly subscription is a real decision for a lot of people. This page explains who makes it, how it stays free, and what happens to your data.
A solo project, not a venture-funded growth product.
No locked features. Ads pay for it, and they never gate one.
Local-first storage, with sync as an option you switch on.
Everyone deserves a good one, whatever their budget.
This is the reasoning the app itself shows you during setup, before you agree to install anything. It is repeated here because a promise is worth more when it is easy to check.
Most of the people around the developer cannot justify another recurring fee — not because they do not care about their health, but because one more monthly charge genuinely matters. Students counting every cent should not be priced out of a decent tracker.
Too many health apps put their best parts behind a paywall. Here, AI photo logging, barcode scanning, macro targets, weight trends, progress photos, steps, water and fasting are all in the free app.
Tracking only works if it is short enough to repeat when you are tired. That is why a meal can be a photo, a sentence or a barcode, and why the estimate arrives editable rather than final.
Four commitments, in practice.
Trust comes from specifics, not slogans. These are the four that are worth checking against what the app actually does.
No subscription to use it
The app carries ads, disclosed before you agree to install, and adjustable through the ad privacy choices in Settings. Watching an ad is never what unlocks a feature — that is the bargain, and it is meant to hold.
Local-first, by default
Your log lives in a database on your phone, so the app works with no signal. Meal photos are analysed and then discarded; body progress photos never leave the device. An account is optional, and can be deleted with its data.
Built for iPhone and Android
The same app, the same features, on both stores. Steps can be read from Apple Health or Health Connect — read-only, with your permission, and never written back.
Your data can leave
Export the whole log as a JSON backup and restore it elsewhere, and export body photos as a separate archive. An app you cannot leave is not really free.
Three layers, one product story.
Each part of the site should help users understand the app better, not pull attention away from it.
The daily job: log food four ways, and track calories, macros, weight, body photos, measurements, steps, water and fasting.
Twenty calculators for the planning that happens once — TDEE, calorie deficits, macros, BMI, hydration, heart rate zones — with nothing to install.
Plain explanations of the questions behind the numbers: how big a deficit should be, whether BMI means anything, what to do when the scale stalls.
Contact us.
Emailziepakker@gmail.com
LocationSelangor, Malaysia
Main productCalorie Calculator app for iPhone and Android
Common questions.
Who makes Calorie Calculator?
One developer, Azizi, working solo from Selangor, Malaysia. There is no company behind it and no investor expecting the free tier to convert.
How does a free app pay for itself?
Advertising, disclosed during setup and adjustable in Settings. Your food logs are not sold, and no feature is locked behind watching an ad.
How does privacy work?
Your log is stored on your device. Meal photos are sent for analysis and discarded once the estimate returns; body progress photos never leave the phone at all. Cloud sync is opt-in, and the account can be deleted with its data.
Why are there tools on the website too?
Some things you work out once and then stop thinking about — your maintenance calories, a macro split, a hydration target. Those belong in a browser calculator, not as clutter in a daily tracker.
Is the app available on both stores?
Yes, on the App Store and Google Play, with the same features on each.