No subscriptionno in-app purchasesno paywall

Free calorie counter app

A calorie tracker app that costs nothing. Log a meal with a photo, a few typed words, your voice, a nutrition label or a barcode, and get calories, macros and 80+ nutrients.

How it works

Free to download. Supported by ads.

A white bowl of rice, salmon, cucumber, edamame and seaweed salad on a pink surface

A stack of pancakes with blueberries and banana slices on a red plate

A wooden bowl of raspberries, blueberries, grapes and strawberries on a checked cloth

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Free, with no subscription

better. is free to download and free to use. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no premium tier, no paywall: every feature is available to everyone. Ads pay for the app: a full-screen ad when you open the app, with meal estimates, and now and then when you mark a planned meal as eaten. Ads never receive your meals, photos or health data. Your ad choices change the type of ad, never the number.

Five ways to log a meal, and a clear view of where each number comes from.

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photo

Log with a photo

Take a picture of your meal and get calories, macros and nutrients for each item. Add a short note for a tighter number.
Photo calorie counting
a bowl of mac and cheese

text

Log by typing

Type a few words like a bowl of mac and cheese.
Log meals
voice

Log with your voice

Say what you ate. The app turns it into text you can edit, and nothing is sent until you confirm.
Log meals
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label

Scan the label

A nutrition label is read on your device and the image is never sent to a server. Unreadable fields show as unknown and you can type them.
Log meals
barcode

Scan a barcode

Get the product's per-100 g values. If it is not found, scan the label or enter it by hand.
Log meals

More than calories

Besides calories and macros, better. tracks 80+ nutrients, from fiber and sugar to vitamins, minerals and fatty acids. Which values are known varies by food, and unknown is never shown as zero.

Calories
protein
carbs
fat
fiber
sugar
vitamins
minerals
fatty acids

See all nutrients

A bowl of spinach salad with strawberries, seen from above

Questions before the numbers

When a portion is unclear, better. asks, all at once on one screen, with at most five questions. If you are not sure, it assumes, says so and lets you correct any amount.

How it works

A blue bowl of seafood pasta on a wooden table with a knife and fork

Everything else in the app

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How it works

Log a meal
Take a photo, type a few words, say it, scan a label or scan a barcode.
Answer a few questions, if asked
If a portion is unclear, all questions come at once on one screen.
Check the estimate
See each item with its source. Correct any amount; your correction wins.
Save
Save the meal and see where it went. A half-finished meal comes back as a draft.
See your progress
Today shows calories, macros and water. Close the day for a summary.

How does better. count calories from a photo?

Price and ads

A tall sandwich with ham, cheese, tomato and lettuce on a white background

FAQ

Yes. better. is a free calorie counter app: free to download and free to use, with no subscription. It is supported by ads.

No. There is no subscription, no in-app purchase, no premium tier and no paywall. Every feature is available to everyone.

Ads pay for the app, so it can stay free. You see a full-screen ad when you open the app, with meal estimates, and now and then when you mark a planned meal as eaten. Ads come from one ad partner.

A full-screen ad when you open the app, with meal estimates, and now and then when you mark a planned meal as eaten. Setup, the camera and label scanner, and widgets show no ads. Your ad choices change the type of ad, never the number.

No. Ads never receive your meals, photos or health data. The ad network only shows ads and does not get what you log.