FreeCal

FreeCal is a calorie and macro tracker for iPhone in which every feature is free. You can log a meal by searching a food database with real serving sizes, scanning a barcode, photographing your plate, or typing a number with quick add. Favourites and the foods you usually eat at that time of day sit at the top of the log sheet, and a whole day can be copied across when yesterday looked the same.

Targets work two ways. If you already know your calories and macros, type them in and FreeCal never changes them; it checks the protein, carb and fat split against the calorie figure so the numbers always agree. If you don't, the adaptive mode uses your weigh-ins and your food log to estimate what you actually burn, reviews your calorie and macro targets every two weeks, and tells you in a sentence when one changes. The progress screen draws the weight trend underneath noisy daily weigh-ins, shows how fast it is moving, and counts the days you landed on target, with no red numbers when you go over.

The free app is supported by ads: one banner under the first meal, one full-screen ad a day that never appears while logging, and a short ad before each photo scan after the first three. Diet pills, fat burners, detox products and before-and-after body ads are blocklisted. Planned pricing for removing ads is $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year or $99.99 once. Your food log and weigh-ins stay on your phone (and in Apple Health if you turn that on), there is no account to create, and everything can be exported as CSV.

FreeCal is not in the App Store yet. It launches in autumn 2026, on iPhone and in the US only. Food data comes from the fatsecret Platform API and barcodes from Open Food Facts. FreeCal is built by Andrew Pierce, who also runs TheSaaSDir.