Calory
A simple way to track calories
$2.99 From Funn Media, LLC, calory.app Made for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch Needs iOS 11.0 or later
We all know how weight loss works: you need to burn more calories than you ingest. Calory can’t help with the former, but it can keep track of your calorie intake so you know exactly how much energy you need to expend.
The app works on iPhone and iPad, and there’s an Apple Watch version, too. It uses your age, height, and weight to calculate a daily calorie target for you based on your weight gain or loss goals, and you then enter your calorie intake into the app to track your progress. You can do that on iPad, iPhone, or Watch, and the app supports Siri Shortcuts, and
can send and receive data to and from Apple Health on your iPhone. It provides a range of feedback tools including daily, weekly, monthly, and annual reports.
The big drawback for many calorie counting apps is that you have to know how many calories are in your food — not always easy. That’s one of the reasons MyFitnessPal is so popular: it has a huge database of meals that enables you to tell it what you ate and let it calculate the calories, and it has a barcode scanner for you to get the nutritional information from a range of packaged foods. Those features are coming to Calory, but not just yet: for now it uses the USDA food database, which contains thousands of food items compared to MyFitnessPal’s eleven million. Then again, MyFitnessPal is based on a subscription — Calory is a straightforward flat fee of $2.99.
THE BOTTOM LINE. Calory is an effective calorie tracker, but it’s basic against rivals.