Free Health & Fitness Calculators
Check your BMI, daily calorie needs, body fat percentage, ideal weight and water intake in seconds. Choose kilograms or pounds, centimetres or feet, on any tool. The tools calculate on your device and do not send your measurements to our server.
BMI Calculator
BMI calculator page: the formula, the chart and what the categories mean
Calorie / TDEE Calculator
Calorie and TDEE calculator page: how BMR, activity and deficits fit together
Body Fat Calculator
Body fat calculator page: how to measure, and the percentage charts by age and sex
Ideal Weight Calculator
Ideal weight calculator page: where the formulas came from and what to use instead
Water Intake Calculator
Water intake calculator page: daily targets by weight, and where the eight-glass rule came from
Each calculator on its own page
The same tool, with the formula written out, the reference charts and the questions people actually ask about it.
Read the guides
What each formula is doing, where it was derived, and the situations where it gives the wrong answer.
What BMI Actually Measures, and Where It Falls Apart
Learn how adult BMI is calculated, where its categories come from, and why it cannot diagnose health or distinguish muscle from fat.
BMR vs TDEE: Which Number Should You Actually Eat To?
Understand estimated resting energy, daily expenditure and calorie scenarios without treating BMR as a personal minimum intake.
How Big Should a Calorie Deficit Be?
Compare calorie-deficit examples and learn why fixed calorie rules cannot promise a weekly weight-loss result.
Picking an Activity Multiplier Without Fooling Yourself
See how activity multipliers change TDEE, why step counts are only context, and how to avoid counting exercise twice.
The Navy Body Fat Method: How to Measure It and How Wrong It Can Be
Measure for the traditional Navy circumference equations, understand their units, and avoid treating body-fat estimates as a diagnosis.
Why Ideal Weight Formulas Disagree With Each Other
Compare Devine, Robinson, Miller and Hamwi formulas, including their different outputs and why none defines a personal ideal weight.
How Much Water You Actually Need Per Day
Understand total water from food and drinks, the assumptions in the water calculator, and why there is no universal bottle target.
Why the Scale Jumps Two Kilos Overnight
Learn how water, food and measurement conditions affect scale weight, and when an unexplained change needs medical advice.
How Big Should a Calorie Surplus Be?
Compare small calorie-surplus scenarios and understand why extra food cannot predict a specific amount of muscle gain.
How Much Protein You Actually Need Per Day
Put protein research ranges in context, calculate an example intake, and understand why study averages are not personal prescriptions.
Why Your Calorie Count Is Wrong, and by How Much
Understand serving sizes, food logs and watch estimates without assuming a fixed error percentage applies to your calorie count.
Why Weight Loss Stalls, and What to Change First
Review a weight-loss plateau without automatically cutting calories, blaming tracking or assuming metabolism is permanently damaged.
About these calculators
BMI is body weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Daily calories use the Mifflin-St Jeor equation for resting metabolism, multiplied by an activity factor to give total daily energy expenditure (TDEE). Body fat uses the U.S. Navy circumference method. Ideal weight shows the Devine and Robinson formulas alongside the healthy-BMI range. Water intake is estimated from body weight plus an allowance for exercise. These are general estimates for healthy adults and do not replace medical advice.