Your day at a glance
Today’s full nutrition
All tracked nutrients for today, from foods that list them. Values are estimates.
Fasting in progress
Meals
Room left in your budget
Saved on this device — your food log, goals, and settings are stored in this browser, so they’re still here when you close and reopen the tab. Past days are kept in your Diary. Photo results are fast on-device estimates; adjust any value before saving.
Log it in seconds
Suggested for you
Your most-logged foods, favorites, and recent meals — one tap to log again.
Snap your meal
Take or pick a photo. CalorieDash reads the plate on your device — colors, coverage, and portion cues — and drafts the calories and macros for you to confirm. Nothing is uploaded.
Describe your meal
Type it the way you’d say it — “2 eggs and toast”, “a chicken burrito bowl”, “half a bagel”. CalorieDash matches it against the built-in food database instantly.
Search foods
Built-in database of 150+ foods, your custom foods, plus live results from Open Food Facts. Premium also unlocks the Restaurant & brands database — 60+ chain and packaged favorites, badged with the brand name. Star a food to pin it to your favorites. Amounts work in servings, grams, or ounces — editing grams recalculates everything.
Barcode lookup
Type or paste a barcode number to look the product up in Open Food Facts, or scan it with your camera where your browser supports it.
Voice logging
Tap the mic and say your meal — “two eggs and toast with coffee”. It’s parsed exactly like Describe it, and you confirm before anything saves.
Quick add
Already know the numbers? Punch them in — two fields and you’re done.
Browse any day
Day
Water, weight, activity & fasting
Water
0 of 2,000 ml today.
Activity — burn from MET values
Burn is estimated from the Compendium of Physical Activities MET values and your body weight. Burned calories count against today’s budget as net calories on the Today screen.
Weight log
Log your weight to see the smoothed trend, your 7-day average, and week / month change.
Goal forecast Premium
Set a goal weight and CalorieDash projects an estimated date from your 7-day-average weight trend and your recent average daily net calories. It is an estimate based on your recent trend — real weight change is never perfectly linear.
Intermittent fasting timer
Pick a preset, start the timer, and it keeps running even if you close and reopen the app. Fasting is optional record-keeping only — it is not medical advice, and you should skip fasting and talk to a clinician if you are pregnant, under 18, have diabetes, or have a history of eating disorders.
Fasting history
Trends & statistics
Your week in review
Opens a clean one-page summary of the last 7 days — print it or save it as a PDF from your browser.
Achievements & streaks
Calories vs goal — last 7 days
Calories vs goal — last 30 days
Macro averages (last 7 days)
This week
This month
Saved meals, recipes & foods
Saved meals & recipes
One tap logs the whole meal. Build a recipe by adding foods below, or save any meal straight from the Diary.
Create a custom food
Your food joins search results and stays saved on this device. Enter values per 100 g, or per serving.
Full backup
Export everything — full log history, custom foods, recipes, saved meals, weight, water, activities, fasts, goals, and settings — as one JSON file, and restore it here anytime. This is separate from the single-day CSV export.
Everything else
App color Premium
Pick the accent color for the whole app — the calorie ring, the + button, tabs, bars, and buttons all follow it.
Sources & references
Where the numbers come from
CalorieDash is built on the same public bases the open-source trackers use:
- Daily targets — Mifflin–St Jeor equation. The Goals calculator estimates resting energy from sex, age, weight, and height, then applies an activity multiplier. It is the standard starting estimate used by dietitians.
- Food data — USDA FoodData Central & Open Food Facts. Built-in food values follow standard USDA-style reference nutrition per 100 g. Live search and barcode lookups query the Open Food Facts community database, and results are labeled with their source.
- Activity burn — Compendium of Physical Activities. Each activity carries a MET value from the Compendium; burn is estimated as MET × body weight (kg) × hours.
- Feature design — open-source trackers. Voice logging, extended nutrients, saved meals, and fasting follow Fud AI (GitHub); barcode and Open Food Facts flows follow Open Macros (GitHub); diary, trends, and MET activity follow OpenNutriTracker (GitHub); custom foods, recipes, and full backup follow Waistline (GitHub); suggestions and statistics follow Energize and the Privacy Friendly Food Tracker (GitLab / F-Droid).
- Restaurant & brand values (Premium database). Restaurant and packaged-brand figures are the chains’ and brands’ own published nutrition values for standard menu items, and they can vary by location, preparation, and recipe changes — treat them as close estimates and check the chain’s current nutrition page when a number matters.
All values in CalorieDash — photo estimates, database figures, Open Food Facts results, calorie targets, and activity burn — are estimates, not medical advice. Food labels and recipes vary; when a number matters, check the package or a clinician.
Your daily target
Calculate from your body
Uses the Mifflin–St Jeor equation — the same estimate most dietitians start from — times your activity level.
Or type it directly
Macro targets
Set protein, carbs, and fat as a % split of your calorie goal, or as exact grams. Optional goals for fiber and sodium show in Today’s full nutrition.
Day-of-week goals Premium
Give training days and rest days different calorie targets. When this is on, Today’s ring and “kcal left”, Insights averages-vs-goal, and your weekly recap all use the goal for that weekday. Macro targets scale with the day’s calorie goal unless you set fixed grams. Off by default — with it off, every day uses your main goal above.
Quick pattern — training / rest days
Tap your training days, set both calorie targets, and apply — it fills in all seven days at once.
Calorie estimates — photo, description, or database — are approximations, not medical advice.