Free, with the limits printed on the box
Plenty of apps say free and mean fourteen days. Calolean's free plan is the entire product. The only thing metered is the AI, because each request costs us real money — so here are the actual numbers.
Free
For anyone who wants to track properly without paying for the privilege.
- Around 10 AI food scans a day
- Around 12 coach conversations a day
- Around 5 on-device form checks a day
- Unlimited manual and search-based logging
- The complete exercise library with demonstrations
- Diet, macro, water and step tracking
- CSV export and one-tap account deletion
Supported by clearly labelled sponsored cards
Premium
For people using it every day who would rather pay than see ads.
- No sponsored cards anywhere in the app
- Around 50 food scans a day — five times the free allowance
- Around 62 coach conversations a day
- Around 25 form checks a day
- Everything in the free plan, unchanged
- New features first
Not yet purchasable — payments are still being built
Everything, compared
| Feature | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| AI food scans per day | ~10 | ~50 |
| Coach conversations per day | ~12 | ~62 |
| Form checks per day | ~5 | ~25 |
| Manual food logging | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Exercise library | Full access | Full access |
| Diet, water and step tracking | Included | Included |
| Goal and macro planning | Included | Included |
| CSV export and account deletion | Included | Included |
| Sponsored cards | Shown | Removed |
| Price | ₹0 | To be announced |
Daily figures are approximate because the allowance is a shared budget rather than three separate counters — a day of heavy form checking leaves fewer scans, and vice versa. The window rolls forward continuously rather than resetting at midnight.
Why it is free, and how that stays true
Every AI request in Calolean costs money — a fraction of a rupee, but a real fraction, multiplied by every scan and every question. Alongside that sits a fixed monthly infrastructure bill that does not care whether anyone signs up.
Three things pay for that. Sponsored cards, which are labelled and targeted only from a short whitelist of food and fitness categories — never from your chat text, your photos or anything personal. Occasional affiliate links on genuinely relevant products, marked as such. And eventually Premium subscriptions.
What will not happen: selling your data, which is not a business we are in; or hollowing out the free plan later to force upgrades. If the free tier ever has to change, the change will be announced before it happens, not discovered.
The daily limits exist for one reason — a handful of automated scripts could otherwise spend a month of budget in an afternoon. They are set well above what an enthusiastic daily user will hit.