Calorific - What do calories look like?
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health & Fitness | Free | Nic Mulvaney Ltd | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
IN THE NEWS:
“A giant truth bomb that pours its radioactive reality down on all the food lies we tell ourselves” - The Atlantic
“Instead of tracking your daily calorie intake, which can be more than tedious, the Calorific app simply shows you what 200 calories worth of food looks like along with the weight of the portion.” - Sydney Morning Herald
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Why 200 calories? Because it's a nice portion size and makes it easy to recognise how many calories you are eating without needing to check the labels.
You’ve probably been told at some point how many calories you need to consume each day. But the concept of a calorie can be hard to grasp and understanding what foods contain how many calories can be even more difficult.
So what does 200 calories of any given food or drink actually look like? Well it turns out it's a whole lot of spinach but only half a spoon of peanut butter!
Each food has been meticulously researched, weighed and photographed in high definition.
** Unlocking gives you ALL 182 photos across the app, including the festive foods.
Features:
• Over 180 beautiful retina photographs
• 42 festive foods
• Sort by name, weight or food type
• Compare interesting foods side by side
• View as grams, ounces or descriptions
• Instant search
• Suggest foods for future updates
Lookout for our SPECIAL OFFERS in the app to unlock all photos.
Reviews
Good but option for ounces/cups too?
Sade A.
Well designed and gives good info, but it would be nice to have an option for non metric measurements as well. Haven't bought the full list of photos but would if there were US measurements included as well.
Major scam. Do not buy.
timsmit
$3 for 20 pictures. I should have paid more attention. Then, I got charged $10.64 on my Amex instead of the ripoff $2.99. Still checking with apple and Amex.
NOT free
MimSmith83
Caution or if you request to unlock all photos there is an automatic charge. App Store needs to remove this app is deceiving.
Lame.
Calm222
Seriously lame. There's only a few pictures and then you have to buy to unlock the rest. The "rest" is just a few more, nothing substantial and I literally deleted it just after downloading it. I want my dollar back.
Do not buy.
Reducky4me
I didn't expect these pictures to cost money when the same information can be found free on a Google search (weight and calories) and on a national health government website. It's only a few pictures worth 4$. Nope! Don't waste your money.
Interesting
crosbieclan
I found this interesting. Whether or not you but added pics, you start to get the idea. And though this is in metrics, it is easy to find conversions on google. 2.76 lbs of celery to 200 cal? Hungry?
Inaccurate
Schlar
Honestly I don't think a lot of these photos are correct. Look at brown vs. white rice for example. The concept of this app doesn't work if it doesn't have pics of every possible food. And charging for a few pics is a silly way to make some money. Overall: fail
Not free, most pictures locked
Nicknamechosenpleasetryagain
Who will pay for that? I can just google it in less time than looking in this stupid app
Not accurate
Sandyaz123
I question the accuracy of the calorie counts. There is no way 1.5 oranges have 200 calories when an orange is 45 calories a piece for a medium sized orange. 2.5 red bell do not have 200 calories peppers when 1 red bell has 30-40. This app must be more accurate if it's purporting to inform people about calorie count by showing photos. I wouldn't purchase additional photos.
