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You check the meal before it counts

Take a photo of your plate or type a few words. Burn splits the meal into foods, portions and calories and lists each one. Foods that need a portion are marked, and you pick it in one tap. Change a portion, swap a food or add one it missed. Nothing is logged until you confirm. Photo and text logging are part of Burn Pro.

Your real daily burn, from your own numbers

Calorie formulas are a starting point. After at least two weeks of logging, with a few weigh-ins, Burn’s weekly check-in estimates how many calories you actually burn a day. It shows how sure it is and explains how it worked it out. Your target changes only when you choose to change it. The check-in is free.

A diary that is free to use

Food search, barcode scanning, nutrition label scanning, quick add, recipes, saved foods, macros, weight trend, streaks and workouts are free. Today shows the calories you have left in one ring, with protein, carbs and fat below. Workouts come in from Apple Health, or you type them, such as “30 min walk”.

Burn Pro adds photo and text meal logging, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and a personal maintenance range. Ending Pro keeps every record you saved.

Where your data goes

There is no Burn account and no sign-up. Your diary is kept on your iPhone and in your iPhone’s own backups. Burn keeps no copy of it on a server.

When you ask Burn to analyze a meal, the photo or description you chose goes through Burn’s service to the AI provider, Z.ai, which the app names before your first scan. Burn resizes the photo and removes its metadata first, and Burn’s AI service does not save meal photos or descriptions. Your diary, weight and Health records are not sent. Food and barcode searches use Burn’s own lookup service.

Burn reads from Apple Health only when you allow it, and writes nothing to it. Anonymous usage statistics and crash reports are on by default and can be turned off in You › Your data & privacy › Privacy and sharing. The full policy: burn.campflame.dev/privacy.

What it does not do

AI results are estimates and can be wrong; you check them before they count. Burn gives estimates, not medical advice. There is no sync between devices, no Apple Watch app, no meal plans and no voice logging. It runs on iPhone and is in English.

From the team behind Laytr

We also make Laytr, which 9to5Mac ran in its Indie App Spotlight on 29 August 2026 and TechCrunch covered on 2 October 2026.

Using the artwork

You may use the icon and screenshots to write about Burn. Two of the App Store images (the camera and the meal review) are composed from the real app screens; the plain screens above have them exactly as the app draws them.

Contact

Mostafa Talaat, maker of Burn: mtalaat@campflame.dev. Support: burn.support@campflame.dev.