Most apps track food or training. Very few track both.

Price: cheaper than the food trackers, about the same as a gym app

calog Premium is €29.99 a year. MyFitnessPal Premium is €79.99 and Bevel Pro is €99.99 — so calog costs roughly a third of what the nutrition trackers charge, while also logging training.

It is not the cheapest app on this page. Hevy Pro is €26.49 a year and is a better pure strength logger than calog — but it does not track food at all. Among the apps that do both, calog is the least expensive.

There is also a €1.99 weekly plan, which exists so you can try a full week properly rather than racing a trial countdown.

The free plan is an allowance, not a demo

Free gives you 15 meal logs, 30 photo analyses, 10 sport sessions, 17 meal evaluations, 20 edits and 100 ingredient corrections a day, plus unlimited barcode scanning and the entire food and exercise library. Those reset every day and never expire.

Barcode scanning being free is worth calling out, because it is not the norm: MyFitnessPal lists barcode scanning as a Premium feature. calog also carries no advertising on any plan — which is the main reason it has no commercial interest in your data.

The sharpest contrast is photo logging. YAZIO moved its AI photo recognition behind the Pro paywall — its help centre states the feature “was originally available free to all users and is now part of Yazio Pro”. calog gives you 30 photo analyses a day on the free plan.

That said, Bevel and Hevy also have real free tiers and we would rather say so. Hevy allows unlimited workout logging free, capping routines at four and history at three months; Bevel’s free plan is close to its full tracking product. YAZIO’s free tier is ad-supported.

Simple to use, detailed underneath

calog is one input box. You do not search a database, scroll a result list, or pick a serving size from a dropdown — you write, say, photograph or scan what you had, and it resolves. Across 27,000 logs in the last month, that took 965 milliseconds on average.

Underneath that one box the detail is all still there: macros and micronutrients on every meal, every ingredient listed with its own quantity and unit, every component editable, and entries checked against public nutrition data marked as verified. Simple surface, full detail one tap down.

That is the trade most trackers get backwards. A large database is only an advantage if finding the right row in it is fast, and searching is exactly the step that makes people stop logging by week three.

One log for both halves of the day

A meal and a training session land on the same timeline, on the same date, in the same app. YAZIO also puts activities in its diary, so co-location alone is not the difference — the difference is depth. calog carries 511 exercises with target muscles and a form guide, 476 of them with video, plus 75 ready routines. YAZIO offers a 200+ activity picker for burning calories, not a training plan.

Calo then reads both halves together, which is the only way a review of your day is worth reading — 9,000+ of those day reviews have been written so far.

The library is there from day one: 6,400+ foods, 498 curated meals with full recipes, 511 exercises of which 476 have a video form guide, and 75 ready routines you can copy or rebuild. Apple Health brings steps, active energy and recorded workouts in on their own.

So which should you use?

If you only lift, use Hevy. If you only log packaged food and want the biggest database, use MyFitnessPal. If you want tracking to happen passively from wearables, use Bevel.

If you eat and train and want both in one place — logged in seconds rather than searched for, with the detail still there when you want it, for €29.99 a year with a free plan you can genuinely live on — that is what calog is for.