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No, Cal AI is free to download, but logging food opens a paywall: a 3-day free trial, then an auto-renewing subscription. Cal AI's website prints no price. Apple's listing shows five, from $2.99 to $29.99, without saying which is weekly, monthly or yearly.
Take the trial if you want to see whether logging meals by photo suits you, and you will set a reminder to cancel before day three.
Pay if you still log by photo most days when the trial ends, and you have read the price and billing period on the store's confirmation screen.
Skip it if you want a calorie tracker you can keep using without paying, because Cal AI has no free plan to fall back on after the trial.
prices checked 2026-10-05 · by dan scutaru
| plan | price | what matters |
|---|---|---|
| Download | $0 | Listed as free with in-app purchases. Logging food opens the paywall. |
| Free trial | $0 for 3 days | The start of a subscription. It renews unless you cancel in your phone's settings. |
| Unlimited, on iPhone | $2.99, $5.99, $9.99, $19.99 or $29.99 | Apple's US listing prints five prices and no billing period. |
| Subscription, on Android | $9.99 to $59.99 per item | Google Play prints a range only. |
Yes, as soon as you want it to do anything. The App Store lists Cal AI as free with in-app purchases, and the same listing says in capitals that food scanning analysis results require a subscription. Cal AI's help page describes what an account without a subscription sees: tap the + button to log food and the paywall opens.
What costs nothing is the download, the setup questions and a 3-day trial.
Cal AI's website shows no price, so the app stores are the only official source. Apple's US listing has in-app purchases named Unlimited at $2.99, $5.99, $9.99, $19.99 and $29.99, with no word on which is weekly, monthly or yearly. Google Play says $9.99 to $59.99 per item.
Review sites most often report $9.99 a month and $29.99 a year. Both amounts are on Apple's list, but we could not confirm the billing periods on an official page. Read the period on the confirmation screen before you approve anything.
Yes, 3 days, advertised on calai.app. It is the start of a subscription, not a separate free mode. Cal AI's help page covers cancelling a subscription and a free trial in the same answer, and says you keep getting charged until you cancel.
Not in the app. On iPhone: Settings, your name, Subscriptions, CalAI, Cancel Subscription. On Android: Google Play, profile icon, Payments & subscriptions, Subscriptions, CalAI, Cancel. Deleting the app cancels nothing. Refunds go through Apple or Google.
MyFitnessPal has a free plan and Cal AI does not, but MyFitnessPal keeps its own photo logging, Meal Scan, in Premium, along with barcode scanning. They are also one company now. MyFitnessPal announced on March 2, 2026 that it had acquired Cal AI and would keep it as a standalone product.
Codes exist, and Cal AI's help page gives the rules: you can only enter one during signup, and it cannot be applied once you have bought a subscription. The page does not say what a code is worth.