Pensum

Pensum is a free calorie and macro tracker built for serious tracking: fast logging, measured energy expenditure, and food data you can check. No ads, no account, no paywall, no streaks.

Logging is quick because the work happens on your device. Search runs against a bundled catalogue, so results appear as you type and everything works offline. Recent foods remember the grams you used last time, favorites keep your staples one tap away, and you can select several foods and log them in one go. Portions come as real serving sizes sourced from the food databases themselves. The interface is modern and minimal, a dark design built around the numbers, with none of the mascots, confetti or gamification the big trackers ship.

Most apps hand you a formula and call it your TDEE. Pensum measures it from your own diary and weigh-ins and updates it every time you step on the scale, so your calorie target follows what your body actually does. Apps that offer a measured TDEE usually charge a subscription for it; in Pensum it is free today, and early users keep it.

The food data is curated rather than crowdsourced noise: a 16,358-food catalogue built from USDA, the German BLS and the Swiss Food Composition Database, with millions of Open Food Facts barcode products on top. Every search result shows which database it came from and how many of the 18 tracked vitamins and minerals it reports, and calories, macros and micros are each flagged verified, partial or estimated, so you can pick the better entry before you log it.

When you would rather not type, scan a barcode, photograph a nutrition label and let AI read it (vitamins and minerals included), snap a meal photo for a gram estimate, or dictate recipe ingredients. Photo estimates are flagged as the estimates they are; we benchmarked where they fail and published the numbers.

The rest is here too: recipes and meals, weight tracking with goal projection, trends and a monthly recap, a home-screen widget, Health Connect sync, CSV export, and importers that read MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, MacroFactor and Lifesum exports. English and German, metric and imperial.

Everyday tracking is free with no ads and no account, and the diary is local-first: it stays on your device, with no third-party tracking and no selling data.