Simple hides the numbers.Navilo Health makes them painless.

Simple made a deliberate choice that most of this category avoided: hide the numbers. Instead of a calorie total, you get a rating for your meal, some friendly feedback, and a fasting timer that explains what your body is doing while you wait. For people who find calorie counting stressful or have a difficult history with it, that design is thoughtful.

Navilo Health takes the opposite bet. We think the numbers are useful, and the reason people hate them is the typing, not the maths. So we start with the camera: snap the plate and get items back with calories, protein, carbs and fat in a couple of seconds.

Simple is fasting-first and it shows: a polished timer, clear explanations of each fasting stage, mood and hunger check-ins, and coaching that keeps the tone encouraging rather than clinical. If intermittent fasting is the main thing you’re doing, Simple handles it better than we do.

The gentleness is real too. No red numbers, no guilt, no sense that you failed a spreadsheet. Some people need exactly that.

A meal score is a nudge, and it stops there. If your meal scores well but the weight is not moving, Simple can’t tell you whether you’re eating 1,800 or 2,600 calories, because it never measured. That vagueness is comfortable at first and frustrating by month two, when you want to know what to change.

It’s also food and fasting only. No GPS run, walk or ride tracking, no workout log, no sleep tracking, and only limited barcode and voice logging when the camera is not practical. The rest of your day stays outside the app.

Navilo keeps the friendly part and adds the facts. Snap the plate, see the rings, correct what looks off. Track a run and you get a map, splits and pace beside the meal that fuelled it. Sleep sits next to your snacking, the fasting timer shares the same dashboard, and the AI coach reads all of it, so answers come from your real numbers. Streak freezes and buddy challenges catch the week that goes sideways.

Simple runs about $50 a year for a fasting timer, meal ratings and coaching. Add a real calorie tracker, a run app and a sleep app on top and you’re into several subscriptions with separate histories.

Navilo starts free with an optional Premium tier, and food, fasting, runs, sleep and water live in one history.

Fasting is your main focus, and seeing calorie numbers does you more harm than good. The fasting content and calm tone are the best reasons to pick Simple.

You want to know your intake without the typing, plus a fasting timer, GPS runs, sleep and a coach in the same app.