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Cal AI Review: Fast Photo Logging Behind a Hard Paywall

The 3-day trial and what the Free label really covers

The store listing says it plainly: food-scanning results require a subscription, so Free describes the download, not the product. An onboarding questionnaire comes first, and Play reviewers say the price appears only after it, with the trial asking for payment details up front. The developer's help page treats the + button as the paywall trigger: tapping it opens the purchase screen until a subscription is restored. Store listings show in-app purchases from $9.99 to $59.99 on Google Play and from $0.99 to $29.99 on the App Store. These are regional and can change, so read the paywall before paying. Cancelling happens in Google Play or iPhone Settings, not in the app, and deleting the app does not stop billing.

Snap, scan, speak or type: Fix Results in practice

Logging starts at a camera screen with a Scan food mode. The result card lists each detected item with its own calories, such as blueberries 8, syrup 12 and pancakes 595 in the store screenshot, then totals calories, carbs, protein and fat and adds a health score out of 10. Fix Results sits next to Done, so a wrong guess can be edited before the entry is saved. The same flow takes barcodes and typed descriptions, and the privacy notice mentions voice logging. The developer says the phone's depth sensor estimates food volume, yet its support page concedes about 80 percent accuracy. Reviewers agree that portions and mixed home-cooked dishes are the weak spot, and one reported the same meal landing 400 calories apart on different days.

Streak Restore, lost histories and a health-data trail

The App Store lists a Streak Restore purchase at $0.99, which fits a pattern in Play reviews from August to October 2026: streaks resetting despite daily logs, and reinstalls that came back empty even with the same sign-in, although the help page says data lives in the cloud. The privacy picture is heavier than a food diary suggests. The notice lists date of birth, gender, height, weight, BMI and progress photos, and Apple's label marks device ID and advertising data as used for tracking. Google's Data safety card says data is encrypted in transit and can be deleted on request. Notifications draw complaints too: a Family Plan upsell kept appearing for a reviewer who had already paid for a year.