No Affiliate Disclosure

Calorie Rankings does not maintain affiliate accounts with any of the calorie tracking apps we review. This is a deliberate editorial decision, not an oversight. This page explains the reasoning.

What "no affiliate" means in practice

• No outbound links to apps pass an affiliate ID or tracking parameter
• We earn $0 if you sign up for any reviewed app through our links
• We have not signed affiliate agreements with any reviewed publisher (MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, MacroFactor, Cal AI, Foodvisor, Lifesum, Yazio, Lose It!, Carb Manager, Nutrola, FatSecret, Noom)
• We will not sign affiliate agreements with any reviewed app while we continue to publish reviews and rankings of that app

Why this matters

The majority of "best calorie tracker" review sites in 2026 are affiliate-revenue businesses. Their rankings are not independently determined — they are weighted by which apps pay the highest affiliate commission. This is not always disclosed clearly. The result: rankings that reward apps with aggressive affiliate programs (often the most expensive subscriptions) and under-rank apps that don't run affiliate programs (often the free or low-cost ones).

We rank by our published 100-point rubric and accept the cost of being smaller as a result.

What we cite, when, and why

We link to the apps we review (their websites, App Store, Play Store pages) because users need to reach the apps to evaluate them. These are plain, untracked, no-affiliate-ID links. We mark outbound app links rel="noopener nofollow" per standard editorial practice for non-endorsed outbound links.

We cite academic sources by DOI where available. We link to USDA FoodData Central for composition data. We link to the apps' published methodology pages where they exist. None of these links earn us revenue.

How we plan to monetize (eventually)

The site is currently founder-funded and pre-revenue. When we do monetize, the candidate paths are:

• Paid newsletter — subscription content for serious users (deeper benchmark data, weekly tracker industry analysis)
• Paid benchmark data — annual subscription to the underlying test data and raw CSV for users who want to replicate our analysis
• Industry research — funded by companies who want neutral third-party benchmarking, with full disclosure of funder and methodology

None of these revenue paths compromise the rankings. Affiliate revenue is structurally different — it directly rewards the publisher for sending users to specific apps, which creates a conflict of interest that other revenue models do not.

Disclosure of relationships

As of May 17, 2026, Calorie Rankings has no commercial relationships of any kind with any reviewed app publisher. If this changes, we will disclose the relationship on this page and in the affected review or ranking.

If you spot affiliate links on our site

Email editors@calorierankings.com with subject [AFFILIATE LINK]. We will remove the link, audit the page history, and post a correction explaining how it got there. The policy is "no affiliate" — we will treat any violation as a serious editorial failure.