Calorie Buddy: AI Health Coach1.20.0 - App Store

Lose weight at a pace you choose. Tell Buddy your goal weight and you get a daily calorie target and a date to aim for - then snap a photo or just say what you ate, and Buddy does the counting. Gaining or maintaining? Same science, same Buddy.

Calorie Buddy is an AI health coach: every meal logged in seconds - calories, macros, vitamins and minerals included. Ask anything, anytime; Buddy answers 24/7 with real nutrition knowledge.

YOUR GOAL, YOUR NUMBERS
- Your goal weight and your pace become one daily calorie target
- Weigh in and Buddy reads your real burn from the scale - and offers a better target when your results call for one. Nothing changes unless you say so
- True Balance: what your week of logging says about your weight, checked against what the scale says
- Track your progress - weight trend, measurements and badges

WHAT YOU CAN DO
- Talk or type - Buddy, your AI coach, logs meals and answers questions 24/7 (hands-free voice included)
- Snap a photo of your meal for an instant calorie and nutrition estimate
- Scan barcodes and nutrition labels - the maker's own numbers, in any language
- Scan recipes to break down their nutrition
- Save your own meals - build a batch once, say how many servings it makes, and log one at a time
- See vitamins and minerals, not just calories - spot what your days are missing
- Your usuals become one-tap chips - the app notices what you repeat and offers it
- Craving something? Get smarter swaps that still hit the spot
- Plan your week - AI-drafted meals, workouts, and one shopping list
- See movement next to meals - Apple Health steps, workouts and daily burn
- Evenings & sleep - on-device insights into what late caffeine or a nightcap does to your nights (works with sleep data from Apple Watch or your sleep tracker)
- Calories-left widgets for your Home and Lock Screen
- Intermittent fasting timer - a wall clock you can trust

YOUR DATA IS YOURS
What you scan, type or say is sent to our AI provider de-identified - it can't tell who you are, and it's never used to train AI models or to track you. Your data is never sold.

Calorie Buddy is designed to make healthy living simpler and more approachable. No complicated tracking or overwhelming plans - just smart tools to help you stay informed and build better habits over time.

Our goal is to help you feel stronger, healthier, and more confident while spending less time logging and more time living. Real progress still takes consistency and effort, but we'll provide guidance, insights, and helpful tools along the way.

Calorie Buddy is here for you and never gives up on you.

Questions, feedback, or ideas?
Contact us anytime at hello@ginnypix.com

DISCLAIMER: Calorie Buddy does not provide medical or healthcare advice and is not a medical device: it does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical condition. All nutritional information and recommendations are intended for informational purposes only. Please consult a qualified professional before making major changes to your diet, nutrition, or fitness routine.

Membership unlocks everything above - photo scans, Buddy, weekly plans, Health score and Day Fit. The yearly plan starts with a free trial. Cancel anytime.

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Version History Saved meals now take tags — Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, or a word of your own like Bulk or Cut, up to six per meal — and My meals grows a row that filters by them, your most used first.

Your weight opens into a full page from Progress: a taller chart back to your first weigh-in, first, latest and change beside your target, the scale against your plan week by week, and every weigh-in listed.

Buddy is steadier: a long conversation opens where you left it, and every day you’ve talked with Buddy stays in your history.

Small fixes and polish throughout. 1.20.0 1d ago Arrange Quick log in the order you want — the row starts at your first pin. A weigh-in from a smart scale counts even when the app was closed. Our Instagram and TikTok are on Home, with tips and what's new.

Small fixes and polish throughout. 1.19.0 6d ago A meal high in sugar or salt now shows a small mark in your diary — and inside the meal, tap the note or the sugar figure to see which ingredient carries it, the honey apart from the oats. Change the one that matters and the numbers follow.

Progress puts what your plan expected next to what your scale measured, over the same days — numbers, not verdicts — and a quick weigh-in is one tap from Home.

Monday brings last week in two lines and one focus for the week ahead, offered, never assigned.

Small fixes and polish throughout. 1.18.0 Oct 7 Cook once, log all week: a saved meal can now be a whole batch. Say how many servings it makes and every log is one serving, with the numbers already split.

See what’s in every meal — each ingredient with its own amount and calories — and tap a meal to log it, plan it ahead or adjust it first.

Foods you log again keep their weight, so grams are always there when you want them.

Small fixes and polish throughout. 1.17.0 Oct 5 Starting out is clearer: your plan’s first screen speaks to the goal you set, and the free trial says exactly when it ends and what it costs after — nothing is charged before then.

Comparing plans is simpler, with yearly and monthly side by side and the saving spelled out.

Small fixes and polish throughout. 1.16.4 Oct 1 Same breakfast as yesterday? Tell Buddy and it logs it again from your own diary — same food, same numbers, no retyping.

Buddy now logs the numbers you give it, like a label value or a weight, instead of its own guess. And it can remove an entry from today when you ask.

Meal reminders now say what they’re for, and a tap opens logging for that meal.

Your energy estimate leans on your scale, so your calorie target follows real results. 1.16.3 Sep 29 Forgot to log yesterday? Open any earlier meal, tap Eat again and pick the day it belongs to — even one that has already passed. It lands there as eaten, no re-dating by hand.

Buddy respects your arithmetic. State your amounts and they stand, and when you correct it, it fixes things right there instead of promising “next time”. 1.16.2 Sep 27 Fixed a crash some of you hit the moment the app opened. 1.16.1 Sep 12 Made to fit how you actually eat

What Calorie Buddy suggests without being asked now follows the diet you chose. Vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, paleo or low-carb — the foods it offers to close today's gap, and the ones it names in an evening nudge, are only ever food you would actually eat. Anything on your avoid list stays out of it.

A good day to move

After a stretch of still days, one quiet line when you open the app. Anything counts — a short walk, a stretch. No programme, no target, and never a word about the days behind you.

Corrections you can see coming

Fix an entry and you see exactly what changes, field by field, before any of it is saved. And anything Buddy logs or plans for you can be undone right where it happened. 1.16.0 Sep 11 Why today feels the way it does

Your nights explain a lot about your cravings and your energy, so Calorie Buddy now reads them next to your diary. Before bed, a word when the coffee you had at four will still be with you at lights-out. In the morning, how long you slept next to what came before it, and what your own pattern says. Ask Buddy why you are craving sugar and the answer comes from your night, not from nowhere.

Every food says what it carries

Alcohol, caffeine, high salt or sugar, plenty of protein or fibre, on every food, before you log it. 1.15.0 Sep 9 Day Fit, unfolded

Your score, then everything that lifts it: the foods that close today's gap, sized to exactly what you still need, the nutrient running thin and the one food that brings it back, and a plan for the rest of the day with Buddy. Tap a food, log it at that size, done. 1.14.0 Sep 8 Photo scans, twice as fast

A plate comes back in seconds, not a minute.

Little things

Long food names show in full, a scanned photo stays put while its result lands, and the buttons step aside while you type. 1.13.1 Sep 7 Facts at a glance

A food can now tell you what it carries: alcohol, caffeine, high salt or sugar, high protein or fiber — and what's high for your own targets. Short facts on each food, worked out from the nutrition you already see: the label in a word, never a judgement.

A drink with alcohol gets a small glass in your diary, so a beer never hides among the beverages.

Turn on Food notes in Beta features to see them before you log, on each entry, and as small marks in your diary. 1.13.0 Sep 3 Your diary is smooth the moment you open the app. 1.12.2 Sep 2 Every workout counts now.

- Workouts from Apple Health count toward your badges, so the sessions from your watch add to your progress
- Changing an amount is faster: type it straight in. Switching between portions and grams keeps the same amount of food 1.12.1 Sep 1 Scan a barcode we don't know yet? Photograph its label and name the product once — from then on that barcode works, for you and everyone else.

- Name new products as you log them — the next scan finds them instantly
- Tell us what one piece weighs and log "3 pieces" instead of counting grams
- Hold any day in the Energy balance chart — its whole burn, in numbers
- Progress charts pan through five weeks, averages following the week in view — the fasting strip pans too
- New on Progress: Day Fit history — five weeks of days, each scored and tinted by its tier
- Day streaks now count all the way to 365 — and say 365+ past it
- A photo scan that breaks off mid-way now quietly tries again
- Switching portion sizes keeps vitamins and minerals exactly in step
- Granting Health access closes the sheet by itself

Plus the usual round of fixes and polish. 1.12.0 Aug 28 Your daily usuals, pinned. The morning tea, the vitamin stack — pin them once and they wait in your Quick log row, one tap from logged.

- Pin any food or a whole meal — a pinned meal logs as one entry, vitamins and minerals included
- Every food page now shows a Pin to Quick log row — pin it right where you see it
- Chips show a checkmark once you've logged today, and ask before logging twice
- You decide when each pin shows first: breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack or all day
- Manage your pins from the Quick log row — add by search, recents, favorites or meals
- Or just tell Buddy — "pin my morning tea" — and the chip appears
- Every training day counts — however often you train, a hard session lands the ring on amber

Plus the usual round of fixes and polish. 1.11.1 Aug 23 New: your first 30 days are free — no card, nothing recurring. Decide once you've actually used the app.

• Planned meals now show on the calorie ring, so you can see at a glance whether the day still fits.
• Struggling to hit protein without overshooting calories? Tap the protein line on Home for foods you already eat that fit what's left.
• Planning fixes: suggestions land in the slot you tapped, plans can be removed, long ingredients wrap, and planned meals sit at the top of your diary in meal order.
• Week planning starts tomorrow — today has its own tab.
• Shopping list is now opt-in per meal, with share and clear.
• Editing a planned meal no longer swallows the Log button.
• Better food search: eggs, butter and other staples rank first, and portions are accurate.
• Meal sections follow the day: breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner.
• Invite friends is now open to everyone. 1.11.0 Aug 22 Fixes and stability improvements:
• Workouts imported from other apps now count fully toward Burned
• Fasting chart and history now measure your fasts the same way
• Improved search for branded foods
• The progress photos feature has been discontinued
• Small fixes and polish throughout 1.10.0 Aug 20 You're in charge of the numbers.

• Your daily target changes only when you say so — when your results point to a new one, it's your call.
• A faster start: fewer questions, and Apple Health connects in a tap.
• Performance improvements and fixes throughout. 1.9.1 Aug 14 Your scale has opinions. This update teaches it honesty.

• Why did the number jump overnight? Spoiler: it's water, not fat. The new "What the scale really says" page explains what's really moving — one tap from your weight chart.
• Optional morning weigh-in reminder — smart enough to stay quiet on days you've already weighed.
• Trained hard and ate more? Your chart now shows when your training covers it — with your real deficit in plain numbers, not a guilt-red bar.
• The caffeine curve is now open to everyone: see what's still in your system before bed.
• Smarter quick-log suggestions — that one holiday snack no longer haunts your home screen.
• Life got busy? A single gentle reminder welcomes you back. Easy to switch off. 1.9.0 Aug 13 Your health is more than meals — this update connects the rest.

• Your whole health picture: one place shows what each Apple Health category powers, and connects everything in a single tap. Your data stays yours — never sold, never used for advertising.
• Widgets are here: calories left on your Home and Lock Screen, macros with scan shortcuts, and an Ask Buddy tile. Find them under Profile > Widgets, with a how-to-add guide.
• Evenings & sleep: ten clean nights build your personal baseline — then see what caffeine or alcohol evenings actually do to your deep sleep and overnight recovery. Computed on your iPhone, never uploaded.
• Search remembers your food: everything you've scanned or logged is findable by name again — and the products you scan help every other user find them too.
• Scan once, fixed for everyone: product not found? Scan its label right there and the app learns that barcode, for you and everyone after you.
• Buddy in your headphones: hands-free voice chat now works with AirPods and Bluetooth headphones. 1.8.0 Aug 12 This update is all about the scanner.

• Point at any package with its nutrition label showing — the printed values land in your diary, whatever language the label speaks
• Tap to focus, and sharper close-ups (Pro iPhones switch to macro automatically)
• The Food label mode fills in name, brand and full nutrition from one photo
• Change your pace any time — past days keep the goal they were lived under
• Day Fit now shows your pace while the day is open, with the verdict at day's end
• Hundreds of foods now carry full vitamin and mineral panels 1.7.0 Aug 10 Buddy just got a memory — and the app comes to iPad:
• Calorie Buddy now runs natively on iPad
• Your Buddy chats are saved on this device, day by day — browse them with the new history button
• Conversations survive app restarts — pick up right where you left off
• Buddy now sees the protein, carbs and fat of your planned meals — smarter planning advice
• Only you can see your chats, and you can turn history off anytime in Settings 1.6.2 Aug 9 A focused round of fixes:
• The app now opens instantly with your data — no more waiting for the diary to load
• Meal photos no longer push the meal page off the screen
• Suggest a meal sizes dinner to what's left of your day
• Over target today? Buddy can rebalance just today's meals
• Starting a Keto, Lower Carb or high-protein plan now offers matching macro targets
• Health scores read your exact ingredient list — and reply in your language
• Dark-theme fixes and a smarter goal-weight suggestion in onboarding 1.6.1 Jul 29