Completely free.
FreeCal is a full calorie and macro tracker for iOS. Search a food database, scan a barcode, photograph your plate, or just type a number. Set your own calorie and macro targets, or let the app work them out from your weigh-ins. Every feature is included.
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iPhone · US · autumn 2026
Log a meal in a few seconds.
Search packaged and restaurant foods with real serving sizes. Scan a barcode. Take a photo of your plate. Type a number with quick add. Your favourites, and whatever you usually eat at this time of day, sit at the top of the sheet, and you can copy a whole day across when yesterday looked the same. None of it sits behind an ad or a paywall.
The log sheet. Scan, search, photo and quick add, with your favourites underneath.
Photo scan. Your first three scans are free. After that, each one costs a short ad, and you can always search for the food instead.
Set your own numbers, or have them worked out for you.
Manual. Calories and macros typed in, with the split checked against the calorie figure.
Already know your calories and macros? Type them in. FreeCal never changes a number you set. Enter grams of protein, carbs and fat and the screen adds them up at 4, 4 and 9 kcal per gram, so your macros and your calorie target always agree. You can pick this on the goal step or switch to it any time from Settings.
Don't know your numbers? FreeCal can work them out. It uses your weigh-ins and what you log to estimate what you actually burn, then reviews your calorie and macro targets every two weeks and tells you in a sentence when one changes. The burn estimate is visible in either mode, and if you'd rather your targets stayed put, switch to manual.
Adaptive. Estimated burn, six weeks of weight trend, and this week's numbers.
Weight trend without the daily noise.
Daily weigh-ins jump around. FreeCal draws the trend underneath them, shows how fast it's moving, and counts the days this week you landed on target. Go over one day and the calorie ruler keeps going, in hatching. There's no red number, and the rest of the week's targets stay where they were.
Over by 325. The ruler fills to the target and hatches past it.
A week of adherence. One day went over.
Free, or $19.99 a year without ads.
Every row below is in the free app. No Ads removes the banner, the daily full-screen ad, and the ad before a photo scan.
Yearly, $19.99
$1.67 a month, billed once a year.
Lifetime, $49.99
One payment. Nothing renews.
These are the prices we plan to launch at, in USD. Apple handles billing, tax and cancellation. For comparison, MacroFactor is $71.99 a year and MyFitnessPal Premium is $79.99.
Your diary stays on your phone.
Your food log and weigh-ins are stored on your phone, and in Apple Health if you turn that on. They are never sent to an ad network. There is no account to create, and you can export everything as a CSV whenever you want. iOS will ask once whether FreeCal can track you across other apps. Say no and you get the same ads, just less targeted.
Where the ads are, how often, and which advertisers we block →
What's locked in the free version?
Nothing. Every feature is in the free app. Paying removes the banner, the daily full-screen ad, and the ad before a photo scan.
Is it as good as MacroFactor?
MacroFactor is the best-rated app in this category and charges $71.99 a year. FreeCal has the same feature list, including adaptive targets and photo scan, and charges nothing. It is also brand new, so there are no reviews to point you to yet.
Android? Outside the US?
iPhone only and US only at launch. The food database and the ad rates are both built for the US.
Will the ads be diet pills?
No. We keep a blocklist with the ad network covering diet pills, fat burners, appetite suppressants, detox products, weight-loss supplements and before-and-after body ads. If one gets through, every ad has a report button and we add the advertiser.
Does my food diary go to an advertiser?
No. What you eat and what you weigh stay on your phone and are never sent to an ad network.
Every feature is free.
$0 with ads · $19.99 a year without · $49.99 once
iPhone · US · autumn 2026