Calx

Photograph a meal. See what is in it.

Calx reads the calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat in a meal from a photo. If a portion is off, say so and the figure changes. Your log keeps itself, and your weight shows as a trend, not whatever the scale said this morning.

Get Calx on Google Play For Android. Free to download, with an optional subscription.

Grilled chicken, rice and salad

640cal

  • Protein48g
  • Carbohydrate62g
  • Fat20g

Something off? Correct it.

An estimate you can correct, not a measurement.

Your weight, as a trend.

Body weight moves a kilo or two a day on water alone, so the difference between two mornings on the scale is mostly noise. Calx smooths every weigh-in and reports the change in the trend: the rate, and where it is heading.

−0.4kg a week Trend over six weeks
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Scale readingsTrend

What it does.

Four things, each one checked against the next.

  • Meals from a photo

    Take a picture and get an estimate in seconds. If a portion or an ingredient is wrong, say so in words and the estimate is corrected. Corrections never cost a scan.

  • Search and barcodes

    Look a food up in a nutrition database, scan a packaged product's barcode, or describe a workout in your own words and have it read into minutes and effort.

  • Weight as a trend

    Every figure Calx quotes about your weight, the change, the rate and the projection, comes from the smoothed trend rather than from any single reading.

  • Works with Health Connect

    With your permission, your steps and active calories appear beside your food log. Exercise is credited net of what your body burns anyway, so an hour of walking is counted once.

Built with care.

A calorie counter can do harm. These are the rules Calx keeps whatever you ask of it.

  • A floor under every target.No plan, and no target you type in, goes below a safe daily minimum. The app shows the stored figure, not the typed one.
  • Going over is not a failure.The ring never turns red. Over is said in plain words, in ordinary ink, and tomorrow is a new day.
  • Different under 18.No weight-loss goal, no target weight and no adult BMI ranges for anyone still growing.
  • Your data stays yours.No ads, nothing sold, nothing shared with advertisers, and you can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app.

240 over today. Stated in words, in the same ink as everything else. No red, no verdict.