Circa means approximately
Understand the calories in the food you actually eat.
Including the way you make it. Made for the meals food databases miss — your mum's stew, last night's curry, the stir-fry you make your way. Describe it, see what Circa assumed, fix what's off.
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Circa is for adults 18 and over. Nutrition figures are estimates for general guidance, not medical or dietary advice. Sources are listed in the app.
Type it like a note
A journal, in the words you would actually use.
Your sandwich, your rice and stew, your homemade dinner depends on the ingredients and portions you actually ate. Tell Circa in quantities you already use — two slices, a plate, half a bowl, a cup — or point the camera at it. The more you say, the fewer assumptions it has to make.
Know what's in your own cooking
One sentence becomes one meal, broken into its items.
“Two eggs fried in butter, two slices of toast and a cup of tea with milk.” You get one meal with an estimated portion, calories, protein, carbs and fat for each item — and the 5 assumptions it took to get there, named on the meal itself rather than buried.
See what it assumed
Fix what's off.
An assumption is not a caveat hidden in small grey type — it is the product. Circa names the ingredients and quantities behind every estimate, so you can see the one that is wrong and change it.
It assumed one tablespoon of cooking oil absorbed by the bowl you ate, rather than the total oil used in the pan. You used two. Change the amount and the meal total follows — from 734 to 854 kcal, before you save it.
Changing one amount keeps the rest of the meal as it was. Saving an estimate does not turn it into a measurement, so a corrected meal still carries the mark that says it was estimated.
What it's good at
Food as it is actually made and eaten.
Home cooking
The stew, the curry, the stir-fry — meals no packaged-food database knows. Describe them in the portions you use: a plate, a bowl, two rotis, a cup.
Restaurant and takeout
Describe your order the way you would describe it to a person, then check what the estimate assumed.
Photos, when typing is a chore
Take one or pick one from your library, then check the words Circa read from it before it estimates.
Being corrected
Change an amount, or say what was different — the ingredients, or how it was cooked — and Circa estimates the meal again.
Honest uncertainty
Every number is an estimate and looks like one. Saving a meal does not turn it into a measurement.
Keeping your words
What you typed is kept as you typed it. If an estimate fails, your sentence and your photo are still there — nothing to retype.
A plan built on your weight and goal
Targets that show their working.
Lose fat, maintain or gain. Set a goal weight and see a steady path to it, with daily calories, protein, carbs and fat worked out for you — not a generic diet template. Each number comes with the reason behind it and its sources, and nothing changes unless you change it.
Your plan, and how it's going
Weigh in by hand, or bring it in from Health.
See your weight over time against your goal, and how far there is to go. Apple Health is optional and read-only: Circa reads your body weight to add weigh-ins, and writes nothing back to it.
Saved meals
Save your version. Log it again.
Your usual breakfast, your regular order, your own recipe. Save the corrected version with its items and assumptions, then log it again without starting over — no new analysis, and nothing to correct twice.
Also
The small things, where you need them.
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with the calories left today.
- Daily reminders at set times, or none at all.
- Share any meal as an image.
Circa Pro
Estimating meals needs a subscription.
Estimating meals from text and photos needs Circa Pro, a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. New subscribers may be offered a free trial. Pro includes up to 500 meal estimates a month, or 50 during the trial. Prices for your country are shown in the app before you subscribe.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it anytime in your Apple Account settings.
Your data, explained
Clear about the data that makes Circa work.
Circa needs an account, your profile and plan, the meals you log, your meal photos and subscription information to do its job. Its Privacy Policy sets out what is collected, what is sent to the services that produce an estimate, what stays on your device, and what deleting your account removes.