Basalis: Calorie Tracker
Your real maintenance, found
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Now with Apple Health, progress photos, and portions that learn how you actually serve food. Two weeks free.
Photograph your meal. Basalis works out what is on the plate and where your
week is heading.
MOST TRACKERS GUESS. FORKCAST TELLS YOU WHICH.
Every food is labelled Database or Estimated, so you can see which numbers
came from real USDA reference data and which are the model's best guess. No
other tracker is honest about that difference — and once you stop believing
the numbers, you stop logging.
IT LEARNS YOUR PORTIONS
Drag a portion once and Basalis remembers. Your rice bowl is the size it is
every time, so after a handful of corrections it starts closer than any
general model could. All of it happens on your device, from your own data.
IT MEASURES WHAT YOU BURN — IT DOESN'T ASSUME
Most apps estimate your maintenance calories from a textbook formula that can
be hundreds of calories wrong for any one person. Weigh in for two weeks and
Basalis works out your real number from what you actually ate against what
the scale actually did. Connect Apple Health and it reads your real activity
too.
FOOD FROM EVERYWHERE
Biryani, jollof, pho, dal, naan — Basalis handles the food people actually
eat, not just packaged Western groceries. 3,398 foods from USDA FoodData
Central, plus a model that recognises dishes no database lists.
SEE THE CHANGE
Add a progress photo whenever you like and watch the timeline build. The
numbers tell you what happened; this shows it.
YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
No account. No signup. No password. Your log lives on your device and syncs
through your own iCloud — we cannot read it. Meal photos are deleted after
seven days automatically. Export everything to CSV whenever you want.
FORKCAST PLUS
- Unlimited photo analyses (the free plan covers three a day)
- A second opinion from a more accurate model on crowded plates
- Apple Health, so your budget uses real activity instead of an estimate
Everything else — photo logging, the USDA database, portions that learn,
the weight forecast, progress photos and CSV export — is free.
WHERE THE NUMBERS COME FROM
Basalis cites every calculation it makes. Food values come from USDA
FoodData Central. Your resting rate uses the Mifflin-St Jeor equation, your
protein target follows published sports-nutrition reviews, and the weight
forecast uses the standard 7,700 kcal per kg figure. Tap Sources & References
in Settings, or the link beside any figure in the app, to open the original
research.
SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS
- Plus Monthly: auto-renewable, one month per period
- Plus Yearly: auto-renewable, one year per period
- Two weeks free, then the price shown on the purchase screen for your
country. Prices are set per region, so the amount you see in the app is
the amount you pay.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The
subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours
before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple
Account settings at any time. Cancel before the free trial ends and you are
not charged.
Privacy Policy: https://jimith007.github.io/forkcast-site/privacy.html
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Basalis gives general fitness guidance and estimates. Photo-based calorie
figures are approximate. It is not a medical device and does not provide
medical advice. Talk to a doctor before making significant changes to your
diet.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Two days of the coach, and a keyboard you can always get out of.
- The coach is now a two-day trial rather than three questions a week. Three
rationed questions made people hoard them and ask nothing useful; two days of
asking whatever you like is a trial of the coach instead of a trial of your
question-writing. The clock starts the first time you open it, not when you
install, so setting up on Friday does not cost you the weekend.
- Every number field has a Done button. Weight, height, minutes, calories: some
of them had no way to put the keyboard away, which on a small screen meant the
Save button was underneath it.
- The day rolls over while the app is open. Leaving it running overnight used to
show yesterday's totals until you forced it closed.
- The daily check-in changes something. It asked whether you were good to train
and then no calculation read the answer; a rest day now moves the day's
calorie target instead of being a question for its own sake. You can also
change the answer, which you could not before.
The developer, Jimith George, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Jimith George
- Size
- 3.3 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 3 more
- English, German, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Monthly $15.00
- Yearly $99.00
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jimith George
