Is Cal AI: Calorie Scanner free?

Short answer: free to download, free to log manually forever, with three free AI scans to try the camera on your own meals — and no ads anywhere. Here is exactly where the line between free and Premium runs.

What’s free, permanently

• Manual logging, unlimited. Add meals by hand as long as you like — with your daily calorie target, macro bars, streaks, water and steps all included.
• Three AI scans. Photo or voice — the full scanning experience, identical to Premium, on your own plates. They never expire, so there’s no countdown pressure.
• No ads. The free tier of Cal AI: Calorie Scanner is completely ad-free — unlike most classic trackers, where free means banner ads.
• Goal setup. Your calorie and macro targets are computed from your profile during onboarding, free.

What Premium unlocks

• Unlimited AI photo & voice scans — the ten-second logging, every meal.
• Your full meal history, kept forever instead of a recent window.
• 90-day trends — weekly averages, weight pace and projections.
• The web dashboard — everything synced to the big screen at calaiscanner.com.

Current prices are listed on calaiscanner.com and inside the apps — this page stays about what you get, not what it costs today.

The honest way to decide

Use the three free scans on three typical meals — not three salads. A takeaway box, a home-cooked plate, a restaurant dinner. If the estimates feel useful and the ten-second flow beats your current logging (compare it with the database-first way), you’ll know Premium is worth it before spending anything. If manual logging suits you, the free tier is a complete, ad-free tracker on its own — see how accurate the scans are before you test.