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Calorie Apps That Let You Hide the Numbers

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If you want to keep tracking but stop seeing calorie numbers, Cronometer, Gympal and Ori all have settings that hide most or all of them. If you’d rather not track calories at all, See How You Eat is a photo food diary with none, and AteMate is a photo journal where calories are optional. We checked every feature below on each app’s own website or help pages on 24 September 2026.

In brief

  • Cronometer lets you switch off its calorie summary, hide calories from your targets, and hide the calorie chart. Changing the number next to each food needs its paid Gold plan.
  • Gympal has a single Hide Calories switch that removes calories from foods, meals, your diary and daily totals, while still showing protein, carbs and fat.
  • Ori's Stealth Health setting hides calorie, macro and weight numbers across supported screens and uses plain language instead. It's in the free version.
  • See How You Eat is a photo food diary with no calorie counting. AteMate is a photo journal where calories and macros are optional.
  • We couldn't find a setting to hide calories in MyFitnessPal. Its Premium dashboard lets you add nutrient views, but calories stay.

Which apps let you hide the numbers?

There are two different things people mean by this. Some want to keep tracking, just without staring at the numbers. Others want to stop counting calories altogether. The apps split the same way.

App What you can hide Built around
Cronometer Calorie summary, calorie target, calorie chart. Per-food numbers with Gold Detailed nutrition tracking
Gympal Every calorie figure, with one switch. Macros stay Gym and macro tracking
Ori Calories, macros and weight, with plain language instead Calm tracking (weekly adjusting target in Premium)
See How You Eat No calories to hide Photo food diary
AteMate Calories are optional, and you can skip them Photo journal with mood and habits

Checked on each app’s own site or help pages, 24 September 2026. Features change, so check the app before you download.

Apps that track calories but let you hide them

Cronometer is one of the most detailed nutrition trackers around, and the team wrote openly back in 2021 about people who find calories unhelpful. In the mobile app you can open the More tab, go to Display, and turn off Show Energy Summary, which removes the calorie summary from the top of your diary. You can also hide Energy from your nutrient targets and remove the calorie graph from your charts. If you pay for Gold, you can change the number shown next to every food to something other than calories. It’s a good fit if you care about vitamins and minerals and want calories out of the way rather than gone.

Gympal is a workout and nutrition app with the simplest version of this. Its Hide Calories switch, in the Account tab’s settings, removes calories from food products, comparisons, meals, your diary, daily totals and meal editing screens. Protein, carbs and fat still show as normal. It suits people who lift and would rather think in macros.

Ori is our app and we have a setting called Stealth Health which hides calorie, macro and weight numbers across supported screens, and replies in plain, food-based language instead, so you might be told there’s room for a snack rather than how many calories are left. Some edit screens still let you take a deliberate peek. Stealth Health is part of the free version. The weekly target that adjusts to your weight trend is in Premium.

Can you hide calories in MyFitnessPal?

Not as far as we could find. People often ask this about MyFitnessPal, so we checked its help centre. Its Premium help page describes adding nutrient views to the macro card on your Today tab, such as heart healthy or carb conscious views, but calories stay at the top of the screen. We couldn’t find a setting that hides them. MyFitnessPal suits people who like seeing every number, and it does that very well.

Is there a food tracker without calories?

See How You Eat is a photo food diary. You take a picture of each meal instead of logging calories, and the app helps you look at what’s on your plate, like how much of it is vegetables or protein, and notice patterns over the day. It’s a gentle option if counting has started to feel like a job.

AteMate is a photo journal first. You snap your meal and add a quick note on mood, sleep, movement or water. Its own site puts it simply: no measuring, no math, no logging every bite. Calories and macros are there if you want them, but the app treats them as optional, and you can skip them. It also has an AI coach that looks for patterns across your weeks.

Recovery Record is different from everything else here. It’s built for people managing an eating disorder or worried about eating, weight or shape. You can record meals, thoughts and feelings, and use it on your own or linked with a treatment team. If that sounds like you, we’d point you to it before any calorie app, including ours. Talking to a doctor is a good first step too, and in the UK Beat offers free support, as does the National Alliance for Eating Disorders in the US.

How do you choose?

If you… Try
Want detailed nutrition, just without the calorie rings Cronometer
Lift, and want macros with no calories Gympal
Want to keep tracking calories and weight without seeing the numbers Ori
Want to stop counting and just notice what you eat See How You Eat, or AteMate skipping the optional calories

If numbers make tracking feel heavy, you’re far from alone, and we looked at what the research says about that in is calorie counting bad for your anxiety. If it’s the number on the scale that’s the problem, we compared the scales and apps that hide it in how to weigh yourself without seeing the number. And if you mainly want something lighter than the big trackers, see apps like MyFitnessPal, but simpler.

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