Dietary calories
Calories you ate, usually written to Apple Health by a food tracking app.
Help Center
Guides and answers for CalBal.
Use these guides to connect Apple Health, understand your calorie balance, tune resting calories, and troubleshoot missing data.
Getting set up
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Allow Apple Health access
When CalBal asks for permission, allow access to dietary calories, active calories, resting calories, and weight so the app can build your daily balance.
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Keep logging in your usual apps
Continue entering food, workouts, and weight in the nutrition, fitness, scale, or Apple Watch apps that already write to Apple Health.
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Open CalBal after data syncs
CalBal reads Health data after it is available on your device. If a recent meal or workout is missing, give the source app a moment to finish syncing.
Reading your balance
Active calories
Calories from movement and workouts, often supplied by Apple Watch or a fitness app.
Resting calories
Your estimated baseline burn. This is the value CalBal can help you fine-tune over time.
Trend views
Daily, weekly, and monthly views help separate real direction from normal day-to-day noise.
Tuning Resting/BMR calories
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Watch several days of trend data
A single day can be noisy. Use weekly or monthly patterns before changing your resting calorie adjustment.
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Compare balance against weight movement
If your calorie balance and weight trend consistently disagree, your resting calorie estimate may need a small adjustment.
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Make small changes
Adjust gradually, then watch the next trend period. CalBal is meant to support clearer tracking, not rapid or extreme changes.
Troubleshooting
Food calories are missing
Confirm your nutrition app is writing dietary energy to Apple Health and that CalBal has permission to read it.
Workout calories are missing
Check that your fitness source is writing active energy to Apple Health, then reopen CalBal after the data syncs.
Weight is not updating
Make sure your scale app or manual Health entry is saving body weight, and verify that CalBal can read weight data.
Permissions need changing
Open the Health app or iOS Settings, find CalBal under Health data access, and update the categories CalBal can read.
FAQ
Does CalBal replace my food tracker?
No. CalBal is designed to work with the apps and devices you already use by reading compatible data from Apple Health.
Why does today look incomplete?
Today may be missing meals, workouts, weight entries, or delayed Health syncs. Trend views become more useful as the day and week fill in.
Can I use CalBal without an Apple Watch?
Yes, as long as Apple Health has the data CalBal needs. An Apple Watch can help with active and resting calorie data, but other compatible sources may work too.
Does CalBal store my Apple Health data on a server?
CalBal is built around data you authorize through Apple Health and does not store it's own copy. See the Privacy Policy for details about data handling.
What should I do if numbers look wrong?
First check the source data in Apple Health. CalBal can only calculate from the data available to it, so duplicate, missing, or delayed entries can affect totals.
Still need help?
Email support@calbalapp.com