Counting calories is miserable. Weighing rice. Searching a database for "sandwich". Confirming five screens. Ballpark skips all of it: take a photo, get a rough number, get on with your day. It won't be exact. Neither is your dinner. But you'll roughly know how you're doing, which is the part that matters.

No account, and nothing to set up. You open it and the camera is already pointed at lunch.

Two taps, and it's logged

You open the app and you're already in the camera. Tap the shutter. A card slides up with the dish, a rough number like ~780, and the range it probably sits in. Your food log saves itself, and there's an undo button for when the guess is nonsense.

That's the whole thing. Nothing to search or confirm, and no plate on a scale.

When it's wrong, tell it

One line does it. Type it, or hold the mic and say "the rice was half that", or "nah, it's a lamb kebab, huge one", and it has another go. Three chips do the quick version: smaller, about right, bigger.

You can skip the photo and just say what you ate, which is handy for the sandwich you already finished. Talking works as a calorie tracker too, and it doesn't count against your free photos.

Rough on purpose

Every number comes with a range and a hand-drawn wavy line that gets wavier the less sure it is. No decimals and no percentages. Nothing here pretends to be exact. Other calorie counting apps will tell you your lunch was 647. Ours says it was somewhere around 650, because that's the honest version.

Streaks count the days you logged something, never how you ate, and one missed day a week gets quietly patched. There's no red warning anywhere in this app.

A calorie counter for people who quit calorie counters

If you've tried a food diary before and lasted eleven days, this was built for you. Roughly right beats precisely abandoned.

Studies of food diaries keep finding the same dull thing: how often you log matters more than how exactly you log. Lasting past week two is the hard part, so that's what this is built for.

What you get: a photo calorie counter, a meal tracker that fits in your pocket, a day view with your rough total, and a week of history with the big Saturdays marked. Macros are there if you tap for them, protein and carbs and fat, roughly.

What you don't get, on purpose: barcode scanning, a food database to search, recipes, meal plans, micronutrients, or a quiz before you're allowed to use it. Every one of those is why the last calorie tracking app got deleted.

What's free

30 photo guesses a month, forever, plus as much typing and talking as you like. The counter is on screen before you run out, so the wall is never a surprise. No account, no email address.

Ballpark Pro

Unlimited photo guesses and a year of history. Yearly works out about 75% cheaper than paying monthly.

Payment is charged to your Google Play account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Cancel any time in Google Play under Payments and subscriptions. Prices are shown in your own currency in the app before you agree to anything.

Terms of use: https://getballpark.app/tos
Privacy policy: https://getballpark.app/privacy-policy

Your food log stays on your phone

Meals, photos, notes and numbers live in a database on your device. We don't keep a copy. Asking for an estimate sends the photo off to another company's model to be identified. We don't keep a copy, and nobody is building a library of your lunches. The privacy policy spells out exactly who sees what. Delete the app and your food diary goes with it.

Ballpark gives rough calorie estimates for everyday awareness. It isn't a medical device, and it isn't medical or dietary advice. If you need real precision, there are good apps for that and we'd rather you used one.