Join over 10 million users who are using Cronometer to track their health and nutrition. If you have a technical question, bug report, feature request or just need some motivation, the community is here to help. Why does Cronometer not give the option to see calories versus kcal?

Understanding the Context

Answered 77 views 2 comments Most recent by Schaef55 November 2025 Processed foods: Track total carbs to avoid misleading labels and unwanted insulin responses. If unsure: Use a glucose or ketone meter to test how a food affects you. — Unless Cronometer somehow can account for these- adding a total carbs display would be ideal. Cronometer gives you the ability to scroll through granular details on up to 84 micronutrients, which is more than any other app on the market.

Key Insights

Take a deep dive on things like zinc and potassium or lysine and oxalate. Wondering how to log a food in Cronometer? Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3F4gDjBwLg I'm 6'3" and I exercise about 1-2 hour/day (playing tennis, hiking, running, lifting) so I know I'm consuming at least 2500 calories to maintain my weight at 185lbs. Any ideas for why my calories in Cronometer look so low? Has anyone else found this issue?

Final Thoughts

Cronometer says per FitBit I have burned 432 calories of 126 minute activity time and 433 calories of 74.3 walking time. Cronometer’s total burn for me right now is 2000 calories burned. Cronometer uses 1112 as my BMR. I don’t know how much FitBit calculates but believe there is a duplication of BMR. One metric a user can input is total calories consumed, and I'd love to be able to instead have them link their Cronometer account, and through a Cronometer API I'd retrieve their daily calorie consumption from their Cronometer account rather than have them input it in my application. Does cronometer offer this sort of API to developers?