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Free Android app · in testing

The calorie app that knows what nasi lemak is.

Snap your plate. Calorie Cat splits it into its parts and counts each one, rather than handing you a single number for the whole thing. Your cat eats the same meal you do.

Mochi the cat standing in an attic room, saying I am sooo hungry, above the day's calories and a Snap food button
MochiLives in an attic that changes with the time of day, and gets hungry when you have not logged anything.
The reminders screen showing glasses of water, a medicine section and water reminders every two hours
Water and medicineSet once. Seven reminders a day is the default, and every time can be changed or removed.
The Family on WhatsApp screen, with a consent tickbox and a field for the name used in messages
Family on WhatsAppOff until it is switched on, with a tickbox that has to be agreed to first.

A plate is not one number.

Most apps ask you to find your dinner in a list and accept whatever figure comes back. But nobody eats a standard portion of sambal, and the egg being fried instead of boiled moves the total more than the rice does.

So the app breaks the plate up, shows you what it thinks each part is, and then asks the two or three questions that actually change the answer.

Download for Android · 126 MB How to install →

Android only for now, and still a testing build. iPhone comes after.

Nasi lemak

One plate
Coconut rice290 kcal About a cup, cooked in coconut milk
Sambal80 kcal Two tablespoons — the one worth asking about
Fried anchovies60 kcal
Fried peanuts55 kcal
Half an egg, boiled39 kcal Fried instead? That is roughly 50 more
Cucumber4 kcal
528 kcal An example of how a plate gets split. Figures are approximate.
Then it asks: how much sambal, closer to one spoon or three? Fried egg or boiled? Each answer moves the number, so the total is yours rather than an average of everyone else's.

It already speaks your food.

Type it in Malay or in English. You should not have to translate your own dinner into American before an app will count it.

nasi lemak roti canai teh tarik kangkung belacan char kuey teow mee goreng laksa ayam percik kuaci cendol nasi kerabu rendang and the usual international list
  • Barcodes for anything packaged, so a tub of yoghurt takes one scan.
  • Fifty Ayurherbs recipes are built in — smoothies, breakfast bowls, drinks, salads and snacks — one serving each, no added sugar, already costed out and ready to log in a tap.
  • Saved foods, favourites and quick add for the breakfast you eat four days out of five.
  • Edit it later. A calendar holds your history day by day, and portions can be corrected after the fact.
The calendar screen for October, with logged days marked and totals for days logged, days on track and average calories
The month, not the dayEvery day you logged, colour-coded against your goal. Tap any date to go back and fix a portion.
A settings row reading Mochi's voice, with English and Bahasa Melayu options
In Bahasa or in EnglishThe cat reads your reminders aloud. The interface itself is in English for now.

An app you still open on day nine.

Most food diaries are abandoned in the first fortnight. Not because the numbers were wrong — because there was no reason to come back.

So there is a cat. It lives in an attic that changes with the time of day, it eats every meal you log, and its shape follows your week: slim, normal, or frankly chonky. It has moods. It responds when you pet it. It writes you a letter once a week.

None of this makes a single calorie more accurate. It makes you still be there in a fortnight, which matters more.

  • Daily missions, coins and streaks, with streak freezes for the days life gets in the way.
  • Levels and room decorations that unlock as you keep going.
  • A shop for decor, toys and treats — including the Ayurherbs ruby jelly one.
  • Meal ideas on request, fitted to the calories you have left for the day.
  • Goals set for you from age, height, weight and activity, or by hand. There is a floor the goal will not go below, and anyone under eighteen gets a maintenance goal rather than a weight-loss target.

“Dah makan ubat?”
You ask every night. You still do not really know.

If your mother or father turns it on, Calorie Cat can send you a plain daily summary: what they ate, how much water they drank, which medicines they took and at what time. The cat does the reminding, gently, out loud, in Bahasa or in English. They tap Taken. You stop guessing from four hours away.

Off until they say yes. Family sharing starts switched off. Up to five family members, chosen on their phone, by them. Every summary opens WhatsApp with the message already written so they read it before it goes. Nobody is watched without agreeing to it first.

Big buttons, a simple time picker, no account to create, and a voice that reads the medicine name aloud — because the person using it may not enjoy phones very much.

No account. No ads. No trackers.

Ayurherbs sells a jelly. This app exists because the people who buy it were already counting what they eat, and already wondering whether their parents had taken their tablets.

Your diary stays on your phone

Your meals, your weight, your medicine list: written to your own phone, not to an account on a server. Nothing to sign up for, no password to lose. Back up to a file when you change phones — food photos are not included in the backup.

What does leave, and why

Three things, only when you use them. A barcode goes to Open Food Facts, the open food database, to be looked up. A meal photo goes away to be recognised and is not stored afterwards. Reminders arrive through Android's notification service, as they do for every app.

No advertising, no trackers

There is no ad network in the app, no third-party analytics and nothing counting which screens you open. The only thing we sell sits on this website, and you are free to ignore it.

Free to use

No trial that expires, no card to enter, nothing behind a paywall. And because your diary is written to your own phone rather than to an account we hold, whatever happens to the app, what you have logged stays yours.

Calorie Cat is a food diary and a reminder, not a medical device. Calorie and nutrient figures are estimates and will not match a laboratory. Medicine reminders are a convenience and should never be the only thing standing between someone and their medication. Nothing in the app is medical or dietary advice — speak to a doctor, pharmacist or dietitian about anything that matters.

Questions

Can I download it yet?
Not from the Play Store. It is in testing on Android, and places in the test are handed out over WhatsApp a few at a time. The iPhone version comes after Android settles down.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up and no login, which also means there is no password to lose and no database of diaries sitting on a server somewhere.
Does it cost anything?
No. There is no trial to expire and no card to enter. Photo recognition is capped at five a day, because each one costs us something to run; search, barcode and quick add are unlimited.
Will my parents be tracked without knowing?
No, and this was deliberate. Family sharing is off until the person holding the phone switches it on. They pick who sees it, up to five people, and each summary opens WhatsApp with the message written so they read it before sending. If they turn it off, it stops.
Does it give medical or dietary advice?
No. It counts what you tell it and reminds you of what you asked to be reminded about. It is not a medical device, and the calorie goal it suggests is a general calculation, not a plan made for your body by somebody qualified to make one.
Does it work in Bahasa Melayu?
Food can be searched by its Malay name, and the cat reads reminders aloud in Bahasa Melayu or English.
Does it work without internet?
The food list, quick add, your history, the reminders and the cat all work offline. Two things need a connection: recognising a photo, and looking a barcode up against Open Food Facts. Both fail gracefully — you can always type the food in instead.
Installing it

Three steps, and one warning you should expect.

Calorie Cat is not in the Play Store yet, so you install it from the file below. That is normal for an app still in testing, but it does mean Android will stop and ask you something.

  1. Tap the download buttonIt is 126 MB, so do it on wifi if you can. It will land in your Downloads.
  2. Open the file, and let your browser install itAndroid will ask whether to allow this browser to install apps. That prompt is Android doing its job, not something going wrong.
  3. Open the appNo account, no email, no sign-up. The cat is waiting.

Why the warning is right

Malaysians are told never to install an APK file somebody sends them. That advice is correct and you should keep following it — installing files from WhatsApp forwards and strangers is how people lose their bank accounts here.

What is different: you came to our own website, the file is served from ayurherbs.my over an encrypted connection, and we publish its fingerprint below so you can confirm it is the exact file we built. If any of those three is missing, do not install it.

The fingerprint

Every file has one, and it changes if even a single byte does. Ours is:

666616654fe7bd436d2adb5ad8131f759f64bd10c548169b81d9dac170d3b1fc

Build of 29 October 2026. Because this is not from the Play Store it will not update itself — message us and we will tell you when a new one is ready.

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If you would rather we walked you through it, or you are setting it up for a parent, send us a message and a person will answer.

The Ayurherbs Botanical Jelly box, 20g by 15 sachets
The product

The jelly the cat gets as a treat.

Ayurherbs Botanical Jelly combines mixed berry and pomegranate flavour with selected botanical ingredients in a sachet. Read the full ingredient list, the directions and the suitability information before deciding whether it fits your routine.

RM79 for 15 sachets. Two boxes RM150.

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