Eat anything.
Hit every macro.
Stop choking down dry chicken and rice. CaloCook builds a real recipe around any meal you're actually craving — engineered to land your protein, carbs, and fat on the gram.
The unfair advantage
Tell it what you actually want to eat.
Every other app makes you bend your meals around your macros. CaloCook flips it: type the meal you're craving and it builds the recipe — engineered to hit the targets calculated from your body and goal.
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Type any meal
Burger and fries, ramen, tiramisu — anything goes.
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We do the maths
Targets calculated from your stats; recipe engineered to match.
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Cook, log, move on
One-tap logging. No spreadsheets. No food shame.
How it works
From craving to recipe in under a minute.
No complicated setup. No food you hate. Four steps from "what should I eat?" to a recipe that hits your targets.
Set your targets
Tell CaloCook your goal — cut, bulk or maintain — and your daily protein, carbs and fat.
Pick your meal
Type any dish you're craving. Anything from a smash burger to butter chicken to tiramisu.
Recipe engineered
We build a recipe that matches your calorie and macro targets — adjusting on the fly for what's already logged.
Cook & log
Follow the recipe. One-tap log. Watch the rings close on today's dashboard.
Everything you need
One app. Total control.
CaloCook isn't a glorified food diary. It's a complete nutrition system built around the way you actually eat.
Calorie-First Tracking
Calories sit at the centre of every recipe and your daily dashboard — hit your number every day without thinking.
Macro-Matched Recipes
Type any meal you're craving. CaloCook builds a recipe engineered to match the calorie and macro targets it calculates from your body stats and goal.
Cook With What You Have
Tell CaloCook the ingredients in your kitchen and your remaining macros — it builds a real recipe around what you've already got.
Editable Recipes
Don't like an ingredient? Chat to swap it, change the macros, or rewrite the method — everything recalculates live as you edit.
Dietary & Allergy Safe
Vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, keto — plus allergen lockouts. Set it once and every recipe respects it.
Disliked Foods
Hate olives, mushrooms, or cilantro? Add them to your blocklist and they'll never appear in a CaloCook recipe again.
Weekly Meal Planner
Plan your full week so you always know what's coming — and what it costs you in calories.
Smart Shopping List
Your meal plan auto-builds your shopping list. No guessing, no forgetting, no waste.
AI Food Scanning
Snap a photo of any meal to instantly identify it and log the calories and macros. Tracking on the go.
Meal History Calendar
Every meal you've logged on a full calendar. Track any day, any week, any trend.
Stats & Analytics
Deep breakdowns of calorie intake, macro splits, streaks, and trends — all in one place.
Apple Health Sync
Reads steps and calories burned from Apple Health for a complete daily energy picture.
See it in action
Built to help you eat better.
A focused interface designed to get out of your way — so you can plan, log, and cook without friction.
How we compare
Built for cooking, not just logging.
Tracking apps tell you what you ate. CaloCook tells you what to cook — engineered for your goal.
| Feature | CaloCook | MyFitnessPal | Lose It! | Manual tracking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build a recipe around what you're craving | ||||
| Recipes engineered to your calorie & macro targets | ||||
| Cook with the ingredients you already have | ||||
| Edit any recipe after it's generated | manual | |||
| Dietary preferences (vegan, vegetarian, keto…) | ||||
| Allergy lockouts (nuts, shellfish, soy…) | ||||
| Disliked-foods blocklist | ||||
| Calorie & macro tracking | manual | |||
| Food photo scanning | ||||
| Weekly meal planner | ||||
| Auto shopping list from meal plan | ||||
| Apple Health sync | ||||
| Built for cooking, not just logging |
Feature comparison reflects publicly documented capabilities at time of publication.
The methodology
The maths behind the meals.
CaloCook isn't guessing. Every recipe is built on the same nutrition science used by registered dietitians and sports nutritionists — wrapped in an app that feels effortless.
Mifflin-St Jeor BMR baseline
Daily calorie and macro targets start from the Mifflin-St Jeor equation — the most accurate predictor of basal metabolic rate in clinical literature — then layered with activity, goal, and Apple Health data.
Recipes engineered to your targets
Every recipe is built to match the calorie and macro targets calculated from your body stats and goal. In the rare cases where a target isn't scientifically possible (e.g. very low-fat targets with naturally fatty ingredients), the recipe flags it so you can swap.
Macro splits for your goal
Protein targets follow ISSN guidance (1.6–2.2g/kg for active adults). Carbs and fat are balanced to your remaining calories, with sensible floors so you never starve a macro.
Verified ingredient database
Every ingredient pulls from USDA FoodData Central and curated brand databases — nutrition data based on actual values, not rounded estimates.
Dietary, allergy & dislike filters
Your dietary preferences, allergens, and disliked foods are applied as hard constraints before a recipe is generated — so unsafe or unwanted ingredients are never suggested in the first place.
Editable after generation
Every recipe is fully editable. Chat to swap an ingredient, adjust the macros, or rewrite the method — calories and macros recalculate live so your day stays in target.
Photo scanning with vision AI
Food photo recognition uses a vision model fine-tuned on a large culinary dataset, with a verification step so unusual plates fall back to manual confirmation.
Simple pricing
Start free. Stay forever.
Try CaloCook free for 7 days through the App Store — plans from just $2.49 a week.
Basic
- 3 recipes per day
- All core features
- Meal planner & shopping list
- 7-day free trial
Premium
- 5 recipes per day
- Everything in Basic
- Priority recipe generation
- 7-day free trial
Do I need to know anything about macros to use it?+
Nope. CaloCook calculates your targets from your goal, age, weight and activity. You just type the food you want.
Can it cope with allergies and dietary restrictions?+
Yes — set preferences for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, keto, and common allergens (nuts, shellfish, eggs, soy, sesame, dairy and more). Every recipe respects them.
What if I already have a recipe I love?+
Add it to your library. CaloCook will adjust it to fit your remaining macros, so a favourite always works for your day.
Does the photo scanner actually work?+
Very well — it recognises thousands of dishes and ingredients. For unusual plates it falls back to a quick manual confirmation.
Will my data sync with Apple Health?+
Yes. CaloCook reads steps and active calories, and writes back nutrition data — so your Health app stays in sync.
Your move
Ready to eat what you actually want?
Download CaloCook and start your 7-day free trial today. Subscription via Apple — cancel anytime.
Cancel anytime · No food shame · No spreadsheets