Ballpark
the ~perfect calorie tracker
Some meals, you can measure.
Some meals, you can’t.
Ballpark is a full calorie and macro tracker built for real life. Scan, weigh, or look up a meal when the information is there, and get an honest estimate when it isn’t.
The best of both worlds
Exact when it can be, honest when it can’t.
Scan a barcode or nutrition label, search our database of more than six million products, or weigh something out. Be as precise as you want, and Ballpark tracks it exactly. Take a photo, add a caption, or just describe what you had, and those become estimates that keep their likely range.
A day built from both kinds of evidence is still useful. Ballpark tells you what you need to know to make the right decision at the end of a long day.
When a photo isn’t enough...
A camera can’t see everything. But you were there.
If something isn’t clear from your photo or description, Ballpark can ask one question per dish. It only asks when the answer would change the estimate, and you can always say you don’t know and keep the wider range.
If you don't know, that's okay too. A question you can’t answer never gets between you and logging your day.
Portions, done right
“I had half of that, none of that, and maybe a third of that.”
Ballpark gives you an estimate for everything on the table, then you drag a slider on each dish to say how much was yours. Calories, protein, and the likely range all move together.
No made-up ingredient lists, no fake gram amounts, just whole dishes and what you actually remember.
The feedback loop
Pick a starting point, then let your weight correct it.
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Start somewhere reasonable
Answer a few questions and Ballpark suggests a calorie and protein target, plus a range that counts as close enough.
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Weigh in and build your trend
Weigh yourself as little as once a week. Even if you don’t log every bite, Ballpark lets the scale fill in the rest: it looks past daily noise to see what your weight is actually doing.
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Make a change (or don’t)
When your weight doesn’t line up with your goal, Ballpark suggests a small change and shows its work. Nothing changes unless you say so.
The philosophy
Getting in the ballpark is pretty much all that really matters.
Most of what other trackers add past that point is a distraction. Ballpark leaves it out, and here's why.
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No exercise calories added back
Wearable burn estimates are the least reliable number in fitness, and eating them back is the most common way a good deficit disappears. Ballpark reads your weight from Apple Health and nothing else.
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No carb and fat targets
Hitting your protein goal has real benefits and evidence behind it, so protein gets a target. No protein-matched trial has shown an advantage to any particular carb or fat split, so Ballpark shows you carb and fat totals without a goal.
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No guilt, no nagging
Ballpark is designed to work with you, even when you don’t track perfectly every day. No algorithm here depends on having complete nutrition data, and nothing in Ballpark will ever badger you into logging a meal.
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No account required
Just open the app and get started. There's nothing to sign into, you can back your data up to iCloud, and you can export all of it to a file any time.
Every calculation and citation behind these choices can be found on the methods page.
Get Ballpark for iPhone.
Free to download, with manual logging, barcode scanning, and food search always free. Photo and description estimates come with three free tries, then Ballpark Unlimited at $7.99 a month or $39.99 a year with a three-day free trial.