Calorie Buddy: Food Tracker
CHRISTOPHER TYLER SCHNELL Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Calorie Buddy: Food Tracker is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by CHRISTOPHER TYLER SCHNELL. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated October 25, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 43 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 25
- 2026 · v1.6
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About Calorie Buddy: Food Tracker
Log food in seconds with a photo, barcode, Nutrition Facts label, or quick description. Calorie Buddy is built around one idea: calorie tracking should take as little effort as possible. Take a photo of your meal and let Calorie Buddy estimate calories and macros. Eating something packaged? Scan the barcode or Nutrition Facts label to use available product information and printed nutrition values. Or simply type what you ate, like “coffee and a bagel.” ## Set Goals Without Guessing Not sure how many calories or macros to aim for? Calorie Buddy can help estimate starting daily targets based on your body, activity, and goal. Choose from: • Lose Fat • Maintain • Build Muscle Calorie Buddy suggests calories, protein, carbohydrates, and fat while keeping the result fully editable. If you already know your targets, you can enter them manually instead. Track your weight over time and update your goals as your needs change. Optional Apple Health integration can use recent weight and active-energy information as additional context. Activity calories remain separate from your food target and are not automatically “eaten back.” ## Understand Packaged Foods For packaged foods, Calorie Buddy can also help you understand what’s inside. View parsed ingredients and Worth Knowing information for supported ingredients, including why an ingredient is used and relevant scientific or regulatory context. ## Faster Over Time Foods you eat regularly are easy to reuse, so logging becomes faster instead of making you repeat the same work. Saved meal photos can remain associated with your meal history, and account-backed food and goal data can be restored when you sign back in. ## See Your History Clearly View your recorded calories and macros across daily, 7-day, and 30-day views. Calorie Buddy distinguishes recorded food from days with no logged data instead of treating missing information as zero intake. Features include: • AI-assisted food photo logging • Barcode scanning • Nutrition Facts label scanning • Ingredient information and Worth Knowing insights • Text-based food logging • Guided calorie and macro goals • Lose Fat, Maintain, and Build Muscle goal options • Manual calorie and macro targets • Weight tracking and progress • Optional Apple Health integration • Calories, protein, carbs, fat, and additional nutrition fields • Reusable previously logged foods • Daily food history • 7-day and 30-day nutrition views • Light, dark, and Aero themes • Optional daily reminders Calorie and nutrition estimates, calculated goals, product information, and activity information are provided for informational and general-wellness purposes and may not always be exact. Package formulations can change, so important product values should be verified against the physical label. Privacy Policy: https://workable-wallaby-906.notion.site/CalorieBuddy-Privacy-Policy-33e8767b07448019b0b6cc88a1acb6e6 Support: https://workable-wallaby-906.notion.site/Calorie-Buddy-Support-3448767b07448069960afa21418adedf
What’s new
Version 1.6 · Updated October 25, 2026
Calorie Buddy 1.1 brings major improvements to food logging, nutrition accuracy, goals, and progress tracking. • Improved AI food estimates now break meals into individual items and calculate totals more reliably. • New “How estimated” details show the foods and portions used to calculate an estimate. • Better handling of multi-item meals, branded foods, and restaurant items. • Guided goals now support Lose Fat, Maintain, and Build Muscle—including building muscle while staying around the same weight. • Calculated calorie and macro goals can now be edited directly before saving. • Improved barcode scanning makes it clearer when package nutrition should be verified with the Nutrition Facts label. • Scan Nutrition Facts labels and view ingredient information and Worth Knowing insights for supported ingredients. • Track weight and optionally use Apple Health for weight and activity context. • Improved meal-photo reliability, history, syncing, navigation, camera behavior, and overall performance. This release also includes extensive bug fixes and reliability improvements throughout the app.
App privacy
The developer, CHRISTOPHER TYLER SCHNELL, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Health & Fitness: Health
- Contact Info: Email Address
- Identifiers: User ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Other User Content
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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