foodoo vs Cal AI
Cal AI is a photo-first calorie counter: snap a meal and get calories and macros, with a simple, focused app.
Where Cal AI is stronger
- A very large audience and a lot of App Store ratings — plenty of other people's experience to go on.
- Everything is about one goal, losing weight: if that is all you want, there is nothing else on the screen.
Where foodoo is different
A photo, a sentence or your voice
The AI reads the dish and the portion; calories and nutrients come from laboratory data wherever it can. 3 analyses a day are free.
How food makes you feel
A short question after meals, then your own patterns: what keeps you full, steady or sleepy — and a forecast for every meal.
Numbers are optional
“No numbers” mode hides calories everywhere and talks about plants, processing and how you feel instead.
More than a diary
A pet that eats what you log, chats with the people you eat with, a child's food diary kept together, and a GLP-1 mode.
Feature by feature
| Feature | foodoo | Cal AI |
|---|---|---|
| Start without an account | ||
| Log from a photo (AI) | ||
| Log by typing a sentence (AI) | ||
| Log by voice | ||
| Barcode scanner | ||
| AI analyses on the free plan | 3 a day | |
| Target that follows what you really burn | ||
| Vitamins and minerals against your norms | ||
| How meals make you feel | ||
| Fullness and energy forecast | ||
| “No numbers” mode | ||
| A companion pet | ||
| Chats with people you eat with | ||
| A child's food diary, shared | ||
| GLP-1 mode | ||
| Report for your doctor | ||
| Apple Health | ||
| Android | ||
| iPad | ||
| Apple Watch | ||
| Mac | ||
| No ads | ||
| Premium, a month | $2.99 | $9.99 |
| Premium, a year | $29.99 | $29.99 |
Which one is for you
Pick Cal AI if
you only want a number from a photo for weight loss and nothing more.
Pick foodoo if
you want AI logging that is also free every day, nutrients beyond macros, a forecast after each meal and patterns of how food makes you feel — on iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV too.
Moving from Cal AI
Export Cal AI's diary as CSV and upload it, or send screenshots of your diary — foodoo reads them. You see a preview first and nothing is written until you confirm.
Questions
Is foodoo free?
Yes. Everything in foodoo is free to use, with 3 AI food analyses a day. Premium ($2.99 a month or $29.99 a year) removes the daily AI limits.
Can I move my diary from Cal AI?
Export Cal AI's diary as CSV and upload it, or send screenshots of your diary — foodoo reads them. You see a preview first and nothing is written until you confirm.
Is foodoo more accurate than Cal AI?
The AI recognises the dish and the portion; wherever possible, calories and nutrients come from laboratory data rather than the AI's guess, and any result can be put right with one sentence. No photo-based estimate is exact — the portion is the hardest part, so foodoo also learns from your own corrections.
Try foodoo
Free, with 3 AI analyses a day. On iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Android.
Based on each app's public pages and store listings (October 2026). Features change; “partly” also covers what we could not confirm. Prices are US list prices before trials and discounts. MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, Lose It!, MacroFactor, Cal AI, Yazio, Lifesum, FatSecret and Foodnoms are trademarks of their owners; foodoo is not affiliated with them.