Choose Cicolator if…
- You only want to count calories, not every nutrient.
- You'd rather open the app and log, with no sign-up.
- You don't want ads.
- You want your food diary kept on your own devices and iCloud.
← Cicolator
Cicolator vs Cronometer
Cronometer is a detailed nutrition tracker: 95+ nutrients, a curated database of over a million verified foods, and syncing with nearly every health device. Cicolator only counts calories and keeps it quick, with no account or ads, and your data stays on your devices and in your iCloud. Here's how they compare, and who each is for.
Choose Cronometer if…
- You track macros, vitamins, and minerals, not just calories.
- You'd rather search a curated food database than read labels.
- You use Android, log from a browser, or want an Apple Watch app.
- You want detailed charts and biometrics, or to share your data with a dietitian.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Cicolator | Cronometer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free. An optional tip jar unlocks nothing. | Free, with a Gold subscription. |
| Ads | None. | In the free version. Gold removes them. |
| Account | None. Open the app and start logging. | Yes. Your diary is kept in your Cronometer account. |
| Your data | On your devices and in your own iCloud account. No servers, analytics, or third parties. | Encrypted and stored on Cronometer's servers, with third-party analytics. |
| Food database | None, on purpose. Calories come from labels, your favorites, and your meals. | 1 million+ lab-analyzed or verified foods, curated by its team. |
| Barcode scanning | Free. Finds favorites you've saved. | Free. Looks up products in its database. |
| Nutrition labels | Read with the camera or a photo, on your device. | When a scanned barcode isn't found, it can fill in a new food from a photo of the label. |
| Photo and voice logging | Magic Entry estimates a described meal with on-device Apple Intelligence. | Photo and voice logging are Gold only. |
| Home-cooked meals | Weigh the finished dish, then weigh your plate. Cook Again keeps the ingredients for next time. | Recipes by servings, or weigh the cooked dish and log portions by weight. |
| Nutrients | Calories only. | 95+ nutrients, including macros, vitamins, and minerals. |
| Exercise | Not tracked. You set your own daily calorie goal. | Logged in the app or imported from devices. |
| Apple Health | Every entry is saved to Health. Cicolator never reads from it. | Reads and writes Health, including Apple Watch activity and sleep. |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, and Mac. | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android, and the web. |
Compared as of November 2026, from each app's own website, help pages, privacy policy, and App Store listing. Features change, so check Cronometer's site for its latest.
Calories, not 95 nutrients
Cronometer is built for people who want to see everything: every vitamin, mineral, and biometric, charted over time. That's a lot to wade through if your plan is simply to eat fewer calories than you burn. Cicolator keeps one number per entry, and your day comes down to what you've eaten and what's left.
Both weigh the pot
Weighing a finished dish is the right way to count home cooking, and both apps support it. Cronometer lets you set a cooked weight on a recipe and log portions by weight. Cicolator builds its Meals tab around it: weigh the dish once, weigh your plate each time, and Cook Again keeps every ingredient for the next batch, so you only weigh the new total.
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