Calico: AI Nutrition Tracker
Salt and Light Strategies LLC Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Calico: AI Nutrition Tracker is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Salt and Light Strategies LLC. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 44 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Aug 19
- 2026 · v3.0
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About Calico: AI Nutrition Tracker
Understand your food without obsessing over it. Calico is an AI-powered nutrition tracker that helps you see what’s in your meals — without weighing every ingredient, searching endless food databases, or turning eating into a numbers game. Simply snap a photo of your food and Calico estimates calories, protein, carbs, fats, vitamins, minerals and more in seconds. Less logging. More understanding. Snap. Scan. Understand. Tracking nutrition shouldn’t feel like homework. With Calico, you can: • Take a photo of your meal • Let AI identify the food • See estimated calories and macronutrients • Explore vitamins and minerals • Track your nutrition over time • Discover where your diet may be strong — and where there may be room for improvement No complicated manual entry. No searching through thousands of foods. Just take a photo and get useful nutritional insight. More than a calorie counter Calories only tell part of the story. Calico helps you look beyond a single number and understand the wider nutritional picture of your meals. See estimated: • Calories • Protein • Carbohydrates • Fat • Fiber • Vitamins • Minerals • Micronutrients Whether you want to improve your diet, support your fitness goals, eat more balanced meals or simply learn more about what you’re eating, Calico makes nutrition easier to understand. Nutrition without the pressure Food tracking can become overwhelming. Calico is designed differently. The goal isn’t perfect eating. It’s better awareness. Instead of making you feel guilty about individual meals, Calico helps you understand patterns and make better decisions over time. No food shaming. No perfection required. Just useful information that helps you make choices that work for you. Meet Gentle Mode Want the benefits of nutrition tracking without focusing heavily on numbers? Gentle Mode offers a softer way to understand your eating habits. Focus on nutritional balance, trends and useful insights without feeling like every meal needs to hit a perfect target. Because healthier habits should be sustainable — not stressful. Built for real life You don’t always have time to weigh ingredients or manually build every meal. Calico is designed for the food you actually eat. Breakfast at home. Lunch at work. Dinner at a restaurant. A snack on the go. Just snap a photo and keep moving. Why Calico? • AI-powered food scanning • Fast calorie and macro estimates • Vitamins and micronutrient insights • Minimal manual logging • Gentle Mode for lower-pressure tracking • Simple, easy-to-understand nutrition insights • Designed around long-term habits rather than perfection • Private and secure nutrition tracking See the bigger picture One meal doesn’t define your health. Patterns do. Calico helps turn individual meals into a clearer view of your overall nutrition, helping you understand what you’re eating and make more informed choices over time. Whether your goal is better nutrition, more protein, improved energy, fitness support, healthier habits or simply greater awareness, Calico gives you a simpler way to understand your food. Your food already tells a story. Calico helps you understand it.
What’s new
Version 3.0 · Updated August 19, 2026
We’ve made Calico even simpler, faster, and smoother. • Improved AI food scanning and nutrition insights • A cleaner, more intuitive tracking experience • Performance and reliability improvements • Bug fixes and general polish throughout the app Keep snapping, learning, and building better habits — without the pressure.
App privacy
The developer, Salt and Light Strategies LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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