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Cal Counter · new on the App Store
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Cal Counter turns a photo of your plate into calories and macros in seconds. Free to use.
Hey, I'm Dustin.
I'm a software engineer building apps on my own with no investors or team. Cal Counter is the first one.
Follow @heydstn on TikTokBetter apps without the corporate cost
In the early days of the internet, people built cool things and gave them away. Then companies started optimizing for extraction, to pay for massive dev teams that ship features at a snail's pace. I benefited from the people who gave software away back then, and I want to return the favor.
I still have to support myself, so not everything can be free. But every app I build will be useful without paying. Premium features sit behind a paywall; they should never be necessary to get value out of what I make.
I don't have investors or a team. It's just me and I pay for everything out of my own pocket.
Apps
Cal Counter
On the App StoreMy first app is Cal Counter — a dieting app built to make weight loss or muscle gain journeys frictionless. I built Cal Counter because during my own fitness journeys, I would get fed up with how inefficient other apps were or how the most basic features were behind a paywall. Cal Counter is fully functional with the free version, and provides state of the art food analysis for paid users.
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Not startedI'd rather ship one small thing that works than five that almost do. When there's a second app, it'll show up here — with its own policies, on the same terms as the first.
Cal Counter is live
It's on the App Store now. Free to use — the paid tier adds state-of-the-art food analysis, but you don't need it to get value out of the app.
Questions or bugs? I read every email myself.