Budgie Diet
Dieting the smart way!
Free · In‑App Purchases
Rather than using fixed calorie targets that don’t flex with your actual activity, Budgie Diet uses your real calorie burn plus your past performance to estimate a budget for you - how much you can eat while still keeping to your goals.
Just one glance and it’ll tell you both how much it thinks you have left to eat for the day, and what you can eat right now without having nothing left for later! Not only that, it helps track your water and assess how your weight progress is doing against the goals you set.
Unlike some other calorie tracker apps, Budgie Diet is completely free and ad-free and always will be - no features are gated behind a subscription, you'll never see any ads, nothing will track you, you don't even have to register an account or even give your name! Budgie Diet takes just a minute to set up and can give you guidance instantly, and all your information stays private and on your device and on your iCloud.
Features include:
* Meaningful calorie targets and guidance, based on your goals and real-world activity data!
* Pick a calorie goal based on your needs and what you want to achieve! Tweak it at any time!
* Track your weight over time, and see estimates of how long it will take you to reach your goals!
* Log and track calories, water, macros and your weight, all from Budgie Diet!
* Search the free OpenFoodFacts database for packaged foods - no login required!
* Already log your food, water or weight with another app and like it? No problem - Budgie can grab data from Apple Health!
* Home and lock screen widgets, to see your current budget status at a glance!
* Charts that can show you your performance against your current goal - even from before you used Budgie Diet!
* Want to base your budget on your Apple Fitness move goal? No problem!
* Bulking? Turn on surplus mode and Budgie Diet will help you get your gains!
* Use Shortcuts to log food and water or check your budget, via Siri or via any other shortcut you choose!
* Complete privacy - no need for an account, and all your data stays private
* Syncs with iCloud to keep your data safe and secure
* One minute to set up, and Budgie Diet’s ready to go!
* No ads! No tracking! No nonsense!
* Cute bird mascot!
* Apple Watch companion app with quick food and water logging!
* Whales for some reason!
DISCLAIMER: Budgie Diet is for information purposes only, and its suggestions are not a substitute for professional medical advice. It's best to consult your doctor before starting any new diet plan. Weight changes achieved will vary depending on personal habits and other factors unique to individuals, and suggested results are for guidance only. Estimates created by Budgie Diet are inherently uncertain and will be based on data from multiple sources that could be inaccurate or totally wrong.
more A tiny release just for a couple of minor bug fixes!
3.6.1 Aug 29
Budgie Diet 3.6 doesn't have any amazing, high-profile new features, but it does have some minor new ones!
* Optionally set a single notification to remind you to log food - off by default, but turn it on if you want!
* Set times for each of your meals so the "log food" sheet will default to the right meal at the right time! Set your breakfast to 9pm if you like, who cares, it's your app!
As well as some minor UX tweaks and bug fixes!
3.6 Jul 30
One particular app got some controversy recently when they got rid of custom meals. Well guess what Budgie Diet now has - custom meals! Make a custom meal out of ingredients from your food list, generic foods or OpenFoodFacts, split it up into servings, log those servings!
Charts have had a makeover too - nicer to look at, work better, and you can see your water and macros day by day too!
Last but not least - a whole bunch of bug fixes and optimisations!
3.5 Jul 23
Version 3.4 adds a good helping of bug fixes and UX improvements from version 3.3, as well as the ability to scan barcodes to search OpenFoodFacts - just hit the barcode icon in the corner of "Add food!" There's also now an auto-suggestion list for food manufacturers, so you don't have to type the full name of your supermarket every time, as well as a couple of new integrations with Shortcuts, so you can pull your remaining budget and "can eat now" figures into your Shortcuts flows and ask Siri about them!
Version 3.3 has so many great new features, all around food logging! With this version I've aimed to make Budgie Diet exactly as feature rich as you want it to be, with lots of cool but optional new features! Or you can use it just as you did before! Up to you!
* Track your macros (carbs, fat and protein!) Or don't! Up to you!
* Save your regular foods! Log who makes them! Or don't! Up to you!
* Far better search - search all your saved and recent foods even easier than before! Or don't! Up to you!
* Included lots of common generic foods and ingredients so you can log them easily! Or don't! Up to you!
* All your existing logged foods come with you, and you can edit them to add the new stuff if you want to! Or don't! Up to you!
* Search the free OpenFoodFacts database for packaged foods to log! Or don't! Up to you!
* Use Shortcuts to log your saved foods, as well as quick calories! Or don't! Up to you!
* Don't care about saving foods or logging macros? Great - you can log quick calories just like you did before! Or don't! Up to you!
* Backup and restore - save all your Budgie Diet data to a file and save it as a backup or import it to a new device! Or don't! Up to you!
* Better "can eat now" estimation so you'll definitely have room for dinner later! Or don't! Up to you...?
3.4 Jul 17
Version 3.3 has so many great new features, all around food logging! With this version I've aimed to make Budgie Diet exactly as feature rich as you want it to be, with lots of cool but optional new features! Or you can use it just as you did before! Up to you!
* Track your macros (carbs, fat and protein!) Or don't! Up to you!
* Save your regular foods! Log who makes them! Or don't! Up to you!
* Far better search - search all your saved and recent foods even easier than before! Or don't! Up to you!
* Included lots of common generic foods and ingredients so you can log them easily! Or don't! Up to you!
* All your existing logged foods come with you, and you can edit them to add the new stuff if you want to! Or don't! Up to you!
* Search the free OpenFoodFacts database for packaged foods to log! Or don't! Up to you!
* Use Shortcuts to log your saved foods, as well as quick calories! Or don't! Up to you!
* Don't care about saving foods or logging macros? Great - you can log quick calories just like you did before! Or don't! Up to you!
* Better "can eat now" estimation so you'll definitely have room for dinner later! Or don't! Up to you...?
And that's in addition to all the cool new stuff from version 3.0!
3.3 Jul 14
In addition to all the cool new features in 3.0 (below), Budgie Diet now has a companion app for Mac! Open Budgie Diet on your iPhone to sync it and then you can see your budgets on your computer, log food and log water!
Version 3.2 includes various bug fixes and enhancements, including more meaningful weight loss/gain trend analysis for smaller deficits/surpluses, displaying weight loss targets as a range rather than an absolute figure, minor UI bugs being corrected, and fixes to the Apple Watch app to make it a little bit more responsive and work a bit better.
Budgie Diet has been completely revamped for version 3.0, with all sorts of cool changes!
- Track and log your weight in Budgie Diet, with predictions as to how long it will take to reach your goal weight!
- Split your budget up by meals, with individual budgets for each based on your overall budget!
- Customise your meals - add them, remove them and reorder them!
- The Apple Watch app is completely revamped - log quick calories and water straight from your wrist!
- Your water goal flexes with your activity, to replace hydration you lost during exercise!
- Speaking of water, that can now display in both American and imperial fl oz rather than just ml!
- Everything now syncs via iCloud - secure backups for all your Budgie Diet food logging!
- A brand new, friendlier first time set up! - Significant recoding and bug fixes throughout - more reliable and faster!
- Now completely open source!
- Still has lots of whales for some reason!
And unlike some other calorie trackers, Budgie Diet is still completely free, totally private, doesn't require an account to use it, and has a wonderful iOS-focused user experience. One small note is that the mode to ignore Apple Health data has been removed. This is to make it simpler to implement new features in the future for the majority of users who turned on Apple Health syncing. You can still deny Budgie Diet access to your health data, but some features may not work as well or at all.
3.2 Jul 7
In addition to all the cool new features in 3.0 (below), Budgie Diet now has a companion app for Mac! Open Budgie Diet on your iPhone to sync it and then you can see your budgets on your computer, log food and log water!
Budgie Diet has been completely revamped for version 3.0, with all sorts of cool changes!
- Track and log your weight in Budgie Diet, with predictions as to how long it will take to reach your goal weight!
- Split your budget up by meals, with individual budgets for each based on your overall budget!
- Customise your meals - add them, remove them and reorder them!
- The Apple Watch app is completely revamped - log quick calories and water straight from your wrist!
- Your water goal flexes with your activity, to replace hydration you lost during exercise!
- Speaking of water, that can now display in both American and imperial fl oz rather than just ml!
- Everything now syncs via iCloud - secure backups for all your Budgie Diet food logging!
- A brand new, friendlier first time set up! - Significant recoding and bug fixes throughout - more reliable and faster!
- Now completely open source!
- Still has lots of whales for some reason!
And unlike some other calorie trackers, Budgie Diet is still completely free, totally private, doesn't require an account to use it, and has a wonderful iOS-focused user experience. One small note is that the mode to ignore Apple Health data has been removed. This is to make it simpler to implement new features in the future for the majority of users who turned on Apple Health syncing. You can still deny Budgie Diet access to your health data, but some features may not work as well or at all.
3.1 Jul 5
Budgie Diet has been completely revamped for version 3.0, with all sorts of cool changes!
- Track and log your weight in Budgie Diet, with predictions as to how long it will take to reach your goal weight!
- Split your budget up by meals, with individual budgets for each based on your overall budget!
- Customise your meals - add them, remove them and reorder them!
- The Apple Watch app is completely revamped - log quick calories and water straight from your wrist!
- Your water goal flexes with your activity, to replace hydration you lost during exercise!
- Speaking of water, that can now display in both American and imperial fl oz rather than just ml!
- Everything now syncs via iCloud - secure backups for all your Budgie Diet food logging!
- A brand new, friendlier first time set up!
- Significant recoding and bug fixes throughout - more reliable and faster!
- Now completely open source!
- Still has lots of whales for some reason!
And unlike some other calorie trackers, Budgie Diet is still completely free, totally private, doesn't require an account to use it, and has a wonderful iOS-focused user experience.
One small note is that the mode to ignore Apple Health data has been removed. This is to make it simpler to implement new features in the future for the majority of users who turned on Apple Health syncing. You can still deny Budgie Diet access to your health data, but some features may not work as well or at all.
3.0 Jul 4
Added facility to edit existing calorie entries - just tap in the Food page!
2.2 Mar 22
Small bug fixes and a tweak to the new default calorie weighting to be a little more generous in the morning!
2.1.1 12/24/2025
Big change to the default budget weighting! Budgie Diet now takes into account your activity level against your daily average when predicting calories - in short, the more you're actually exercising, the more it predicts (and the less you're actually exercising, the less it predicts) - this will make Budgie Diet a lot more accurate on days when you exercise less than usual.
If you don't like this change, you can change it back by going into the settings screen > Budget weighting options and then choosing to weight as "Default (old)".
I also fixed a small bug with the calories add screen!
2.1 12/22/2025
Fixed a bug where checking your budget between midnight and 4am would crash the app
2.0.8 12/14/2025
"Unlocked" the food entry screen so you can add and manage food for future dates, in case you like to plan ahead
2.0.7 09/17/2025
New icon for iOS 26
2.0.6 09/16/2025
Bugs fixed! Text on the main page simplified and made more useful! Meal totals added to the food list on the Today page!
2.0.5 04/14/2025
Unfortunately, fixing some bugs also introduced new bugs. These bugs have now also been fixed!
2.0.4 04/04/2025
Bug fixes
2.0.3 04/04/2025
VERSION 2.0, and some major feature improvements!
Now you can log water through Budgie Diet, as well as seeing your current Apple Watch activity right on the Today screen!
When logging food, you can save time by reusing entries you've put in before!
Log food and water through Apple Shortcuts!
Budgie Diet has had a load of internals recoded so it's now faster and more reliable!
The icon has also been updated so if you use tinted or dark mode icons from iOS 18, it'll fit your colour scheme!
- Minor version 2.0.2 has critical bug fixes.
2.0.2 03/25/2025
VERSION 2.0, and some major feature improvements!
Now you can log water through Budgie Diet, as well as seeing your current Apple Watch activity right on the Today screen!
When logging food, you can save time by reusing entries you've put in before!
Log food and water through Apple Shortcuts!
Budgie Diet has had a load of internals recoded so it's now faster and more reliable!
The icon has also been updated so if you use tinted or dark mode icons from iOS 18, it'll fit your colour scheme!
2.0.1 03/24/2025
VERSION 2.0, and some major feature improvements!
Now you can log water through Budgie Diet, as well as seeing your current Apple Watch activity right on the Today screen!
When logging food, you can save time by reusing entries you've put in before!
Log food and water through Apple Shortcuts!
Budgie Diet has had a load of internals recoded so it's now faster and more reliable!
The icon has also been updated so if you use tinted or dark mode icons from iOS 18, it'll fit your colour scheme!
2.0 03/24/2025
Bug fixes
1.3.4 03/19/2025
Bug fix to calculation of average calories
1.3.3 03/07/2025
Added a feature to change when Budgie Diet should expect your evening meal to be, so you always have your full remaining budget available for it!
NOTE: This does also change the default time from 8pm to 6pm, which will mean your budget might be higher than normal earlier in the day - if you would like to change this back, just go to "Evening meal time" in Settings!
1.3.2 03/06/2025
Minor bug fixes and optimisations. Also added a new option to the advanced weighting settings page
1.3.1 01/04/2025
- The option to use your Apple Fitness Move goal instead of average calories burned to set your budget!
- Option to set a cap on your budget if you regularly burn a lot of calories and don't want to eat them all back!
- Bug fixes and improvements!
1.3 01/03/2025
A tiny release just for a couple of minor bug fixes!
more Version 3.6.1 Aug 29
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