iPhonePhoto calorie counter
Snap your meal. We’ll do the counting.
HeyCal recognises every food, estimates the portion and works out calories and macros from the Ciqual food database. Three seconds, no typing.
- 3,300 Ciqual foods
- ≈ 3 s per photo
- Apple Health
Pizza margherita · 2 slices
812 kcal
How it works
One photo, and it’s logged.
1Snap your plate
From above if you can. A photo from your library works too.
2Cal breaks it down
Each food is spotted, its portion estimated, then calculated with the official Ciqual values.
- 614kcal leftP38 gC61 gF19 g3
Your budget updates
Calories left, protein, carbs, fat: you know where you stand without typing a thing.
No photo? No problem.
Say it like you’d tell a friend.
Describe your meal in one sentence, in your own words. If something’s off, fix it in one sentence too: no need to start over.
A plate of spaghetti bolognese and a plain yogurt
Spaghetti bolognese, 380 g · Plain yogurt, 125 g
591 kcal
No parmesan, and half the pasta
Done: half the spaghetti, no parmesan.
406 kcal
Energy balance
What you eat, against what you burn.
The black line is what you ate. The dashed one is what you burned. The gap between them is your deficit, day after day, over 7, 30 or 90 days.
Your real expenditure, measured
After two weeks of meals and weigh-ins, HeyCal works out what you actually burn from your weight trend.
A gap isn’t a fast
A day with nothing logged is left out of your average instead of counting as zero.
One useful insight
For example: “On days above 8,000 steps, you eat 180 kcal less.”
Average deficit
−337kcal/day
9,412 steps
412 kcal burned · 60% counted
Smart
60% of active calories counted
Count it all
All active calories are added
Don’t count
Your budget stays the same
Your meals and weigh-ins are saved to Health too.
Apple Health
Your watch exaggerates. We don’t.
Watches often overestimate calories burned. In smart mode, HeyCal only adds 60% of your active energy to your daily budget: your steps count, without making you eat what you didn’t burn.
Real data
Official numbers, not guesses.
AI recognises the foods and portions. Calories and macros come from ANSES’s Ciqual 2025 table, France’s reference database: 3,300 foods, from croque-monsieur to skyr. When a dish isn’t in it, HeyCal marks it with “≈”.
ReliableSalmon, rice & avocado bowl
567 kcal
- Ciqual228 kcal
Cooked salmon
110 g
- Ciqual195 kcal
Cooked basmati rice
150 g
- Ciqual98 kcal
Avocado
60 g
- ≈ estimate≈ 46 kcal
Homemade poke sauce
20 g
Ciqual 2025 table (ANSES) · Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
On the web too
Your journal, on the big screen.
Log in at heycal.app with your HeyCal account to look back at your meals, insights and weight from your computer.
Privacy
Your plate is your business.
Zero ads
No ads in the app, and your data is never sold.
Your journal, your call
Without an account, it stays on your phone. With one, it’s hosted in Europe and you can export or erase it anytime.
Health stays Health
Your Apple Health data powers your budget, never marketing.
Pricing
Simple pricing.
3 days free with the annual plan.
Annual
3 days free€29.99per year
That’s €2.50 a month
- Unlimited photo scans, food by food
- Energy balance: what you eat against what you burn
- Your steps count, without overestimating
- One-sentence corrections, no retyping
- Your journal on heycal.app
Monthly
€7.99per month
Cancel anytime
- Unlimited photo scans, food by food
- Energy balance: what you eat against what you burn
- Your steps count, without overestimating
- One-sentence corrections, no retyping
- Your journal on heycal.app
Billed and cancelled through your Apple account, at least 24 hours before renewal.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Is HeyCal free?
HeyCal is a subscription: €29.99 a year with a 3-day free trial, or €7.99 a month with no commitment. You can cancel anytime from your Apple account settings.
How accurate is the photo analysis?
The AI is very good at recognising foods. Portions are estimated by eye, like a dietitian would from a photo, and values come from the Ciqual table. You can fix any detail in one sentence or adjust each ingredient’s weight.
Where do the nutrition values come from?
From ANSES’s Ciqual 2025 table, France’s reference food database: about 3,300 foods. When something isn’t in it (a brand, an exotic dish), HeyCal uses an estimate and marks it with “≈”.
Does HeyCal work with Apple Health?
Yes. HeyCal reads your steps, active energy and weight, and saves your meals and weigh-ins. You choose how many active calories count: 60% in smart mode, all of them, or none.
What about Android?
HeyCal launches on iPhone first. The Android version, with Health Connect, is on its way.
Can I see my data on a computer?
Yes. Log in at heycal.app with the same account as in the app (Apple, Google or email) to find your journal, insights and weight.
Hey Cal, shall we start?
Download HeyCal and snap your next meal.