You can leave the phone in your pocket: Siri knows five Kalorika phrases and runs them without opening the app. She says the answer out loud — handy when driving, cooking, or on the watch.
Before you start
The Kalorika app on your iPhone, signed in — without that Siri will say you need to sign in first. There is nothing to set up: the phrases are there as soon as the app is installed. Siri has to be turned on in the iPhone’s settings.
The five phrases
Every phrase has to contain the word “Kalorika” — that is how Siri knows which app you mean. Say “Hey Siri” and one of these:
- “How much is left in Kalorika” — Siri tells you how many calories are left for today, or by how much you are over.
- “A glass of water in Kalorika” — adds a glass, 250 ml, and says how much you have drunk today.
- “Log food in Kalorika” — Siri asks what to log. Answer in one sentence: “oatmeal, 60 grams, with milk and a coffee”. The entry lands in the diary and Siri reads the assistant’s answer — what was logged and how much is left.
- “Log my weight in Kalorika” — Siri asks how many kilograms and logs today’s weight.
- “Today’s weight in Kalorika” — says whether today’s weight is logged, and what it is.
The words can move around: “Kalorika, how much is left”, “Add a glass of water in Kalorika”, “Kalorika, log my weight” work too.
Your own shortcut
All five actions are in the Shortcuts app — open it, tap ”+” and search for Kalorika. They build what the ready phrases do not cover:
- water in your own portion — the “Log water” action takes millilitres, for instance 500 for a bottle;
- a meal you eat often — the “Log food” action with the text filled in beforehand, under a name of your own: “My breakfast”;
- a button on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen or the Action button — any shortcut can be put there from Shortcuts.
If Siri did not get it
If she opened a search or another app, the phrase did not contain “Kalorika”, or she heard it as something else; say it again more clearly. If the wrong food was logged, correct the entry in the app’s chat in plain words: “it was 200 g, not 100”. Siri sometimes drops the decimal in a weight: “seventy-two point four” is safer than “seventy-two four”.
What Siri cannot do
Photos and barcodes are only in the app. Logging food by voice is an assistant action like a message in the chat: it counts towards the daily limit, and an estimate is still an estimate — say the amount out loud. The phrases work in the language Siri speaks: English, Russian or Ukrainian.