Support the project

Calorie.one is free. An account is free, logging is free, the calculator and the blog are free. There is no paywall planned for core tracking — a calorie tracker you stop using because a trial ran out isn't tracking anything.

It isn't free to run, though. Every meal you analyze makes a real AI call that costs real money, and photo analysis costs more than text. The USDA database lookups are cheap; the recognition step is not. Right now that bill is paid out of pocket, which is why anonymous visitors get three analyses a day instead of unlimited.

The honest long-term plan: keep tracking free, and eventually offer optional paid extras for people who want more — heavier AI features, longer history analysis, that kind of thing. Nothing you currently use will move behind a paywall.

The best ways to support the project today cost nothing: use the app, tell someone who counts calories about it, and report the bugs you hit. A well-written bug report is genuinely worth more to us than a coffee.