Caaals is a calorie and nutrition diary for people who want to lose weight, eat better, or simply understand what’s on their plate. Type a meal, snap a photo, or scan a barcode — we do the math and score the day, then get out of the way.
Most calorie trackers feel like a dashboard that follows you home. Caaals is a quieter alternative — a calorie and nutrition diary for people who want to lose weight or eat better without an app that yells about streaks, badges, or what they should be doing at 6:14 PM on a Tuesday.
Closer to a notebook than an app. Open it, log a meal, close it.
The four lanes
i. By text
“Two eggs and sourdough” is enough. Caaals reads it and fills in the calories, macros, and the rest. No searching, no scrolling.
Median parse · 4.2 secondsgrilled chicken,
jasmine rice,
a little broccoli.
ii. By photo
Snap your plate. Caaals identifies what’s on it and estimates the nutrition. Tweak if you’d like, then move on with your evening.
No perfect lighting requiredA bowl of pasta, tomato and basil.
486kcal·14 / 68 / 16
iii. By barcode
For the packaged stuff — over a million products from Open Food Facts and the USDA, looked up in a tap.
Open Food Facts + USDAiv. By hand
For the recipe your grandmother taught you that no database will ever get right.
For the spreadsheet-mindedBuilt around the goal you actually have
Set targets for weight loss, maintenance, or muscle gain — Caaals figures out your daily calories and macro split, then helps you stay close to them, calmly. Track your weight when you feel like it; we smooth the trend so one heavy weigh-in isn’t the story.
The score that makes Caaals different
Every other tracker stops at calories and macros. Caaals goes one step further. The daily nutrition score is a calm 0–100 read that weighs your calories and macros against your goals, looks at fibre, sugar, and sodium, and considers how processed the food was — using the NOVA classification used by nutrition researchers worldwide.
A 600-calorie homemade lentil soup and a 600-calorie fast-food meal aren’t the same thing, and Caaals is the only diary that knows it. The score won’t shame you for either — it just gives you an honest read on the day, so you can make a different choice tomorrow if you’d like.
We score the day, not the person.
It reads, most days, like this.
I lost the weight I wanted to lose. I just didn’t notice the app doing it.
Logging a meal feels like writing a postcard, not filing a tax return.
I finally know what “ultra processed” actually means in my week.
On the desktop
If you live in Raycast, this is the fastest path in. Hit ⌘-Space, describe a meal, press enter — the numbers land in your diary before you’ve touched your phone.
Wherever you write.