About Calories Journal

Calories Journal is a food tracker built around photographing your meal rather than hunting through a database. Point your camera at a plate, or describe what you ate in plain language, and you get calories and macros in seconds.

Meals are analysed by a nutrition model working from USDA reference data. It estimates portions from what it can see, which is genuinely hard — a photo cannot show what is underneath, and cooking oil is invisible.

That is why every estimate lands in an editable form before it is saved. Treat the numbers as a well-informed starting point, not a measurement, and correct anything that looks off. Over a week the averages matter far more than any single meal. The exact formulas behind your daily targets are on the methodology page.

Calories Journal is a general wellbeing tool. It is not a medical device and does not give medical, dietary, or clinical advice. If you have a health condition, are pregnant, have a history of disordered eating, or are making significant changes to how you eat, please talk to a doctor or a registered dietitian. See the full disclaimer.

Your log belongs to you. You can export it as a spreadsheet at any time from the Diary and Progress screens, and you can permanently delete your account and everything in it from Settings.