Calority
A calorie tracker without a subscription
For anyone leaving MyFitnessPal, Yazio, Lifesum or Lose It
Most people who find this page are not looking for another calorie tracker. They already had one. Then the thing they used every day moved behind a subscription, or an ad started playing in the middle of logging dinner, or the app asked them to make an account to see numbers they typed in themselves.
Calority is the answer to that specific annoyance. It is a calorie and macro diary for Android. It is free, it has no ads, it has no account, and it works with the internet switched off.
What is free, and what that means in writing
Free tiers shrink. That is the whole reason you are reading this. So here is the commitment, stated plainly rather than buried in a settings screen:
- Logging is free and stays free. Foods, dishes, meals, calories, protein, carbs, fat and fiber, your daily goals, the dashboard, the home screen widget. All of it, with no counter running out.
- No ads. Not now, not later. There is no ad SDK in the app at all, so there is nothing to switch on when money gets tight.
- No account. There is no sign-up, because there is no server to sign up to. Your diary is a database on your phone.
- Your data is never the hostage. Backup, restore and CSV export are built in and will never move behind a payment. If you want to leave, you can take everything with you.
Calority is supported by voluntary donations. That is the business model. There is no second one waiting in the wings.
Questions worth asking any tracker before you switch
Not just this one. If you are about to spend weeks of logging inside an app, these are the things that decide whether you will still be there in six months.
| The question | Calority's answer |
|---|---|
| Does it work with no signal? | Yes, completely. Logging, dishes, goals, the dashboard and the widget are all on-device. The internet is only used when you search a food or scan a barcode. |
| Can it log a repeated meal quickly? | Recent and frequent foods come first, a home-cooked dish is saved once and logged by the gram afterwards, and a whole past meal can be copied into today in one action. |
| Who can see what I eat? | Nobody. The diary never leaves the phone. Only a food search or a scanned barcode goes out, to Open Food Facts, and only at the moment you search or scan. |
| Can I get my data out? | A full backup of the database, and a CSV of your diary for a spreadsheet. Both free, both built in. |
| Will it interrupt me? | No ads, no streaks, no badges, no notifications nagging you about a broken chain. |
| Does it fit the rest of my health apps? | Optional Health Connect sync, off by default, write-only. Calority never reads anything back. |
What Calority does not do
Worth knowing before you install, so you are not disappointed on day two.
- There is no import from your old app. You start with an empty diary. Your foods and dishes build up again over the first week or two, and from then on logging is fast. This is the real cost of switching, and pretending otherwise would waste your time.
- Android only. There is no iOS version.
- No photo-of-your-plate calorie guessing. Calority can read the nutrition label on a package with the camera, which is a printed table and can be read exactly. Estimating a cooked meal from a photo is a different thing, and the published accuracy is not good enough to build a diary on.
- Food data comes from Open Food Facts, an open database. Coverage is strong in Germany and France and thinner elsewhere. When a product is missing or wrong, you add or correct it yourself, and it stays yours.
Moving over
- Install Calority and set your daily calorie and macro goals. There is a calculator if you would rather not pick numbers yourself.
- Log the next few days normally. The foods you eat often will start appearing at the top on their own.
- Build your three or four regular home-cooked meals as dishes once. That is the step that makes everything afterwards quick.
- Add the home screen widget if you like seeing the day without opening anything.
MyFitnessPal, Yazio, Lifesum and Lose It are trademarks of their respective owners. Calority is not affiliated with them. This page describes what Calority does; what any other app does is for its own makers to say.