MyFitnessPal alternatives: prices and honest picks

The pricing, before anything else

Our app, Peasy, has a free tier: every AI log is free for the first 3 days, then free users get 1 AI log (voice, text or photo) a day, while barcode, search, nutrition-label, restaurant and saved-meal logging stay free and unlimited. Peasy Plus unlocks unlimited AI logging, starts with a 7-day free trial, and is listed on the US App Store at $6.99 and $29.99 (checked 11 November 2026).

This belongs at the top rather than the bottom. A large share of people searching for a MyFitnessPal alternative are searching for a free one, so the free limits of every app on this page, ours included, are stated rather than buried. Note that on MyFitnessPal's own comparison table, barcode scanning, meal scan and voice logging sit in Premium.

What the main alternatives cost

Every big tracker is free to download and charges for its paid tier. On the US App Store on 10 November 2026, MyFitnessPal Premium listed at $19.99 a month or $79.99 a year, Cronometer Gold at $10.99 a month or $59.99 a year, MacroFactor at $11.99 a month or $71.99 a year, FatSecret Premium at $14.99 a month or $59.99 a year, and Lose It! Premium at $39.99 a year.

These are the headline prices each app lists in its App Store in-app purchases; each app also shows older or discounted price points, and prices differ by country and change often, so check the price shown in the app before you subscribe. Ratings are the App Store's own averages on the same date. MacroFactor has no free tier beyond its trial; the others have a free version with fewer features.

• MyFitnessPal Premium: $19.99 a month, $79.99 a year (App Store rating 4.7 from about 2.4 million ratings)
• Cronometer Gold: $10.99 a month, $59.99 a year (4.8 from about 100,500 ratings)
• MacroFactor: $11.99 a month, $47.99 for six months, $71.99 a year (4.8 from about 23,900 ratings)
• FatSecret Premium: $14.99 a month, $28.99 a quarter, $59.99 a year (4.7 from about 15,500 ratings)
• Lose It! Premium: $39.99 a year; lifetime options also listed (4.8 from about 784,000 ratings)
• Peasy (ours): free tier with unlimited barcode logging and 1 AI log a day; Peasy Plus listed at $6.99 and $29.99 (checked 11 November 2026), with a seven-day trial

Who should stay on MyFitnessPal

If you rely on barcode scanning across a very large packaged-food catalogue, on syncing to a wearable or to Apple Health, on exercise and step tracking in the same place as food, or on the community and recipe features, stay — or move to another tracker of comparable scale. A smaller app does not replace catalogue size or an integration ecosystem, and switching to one that lacks them creates work rather than removing it.

It is worth being blunt about this on a page published by an app maker. Database breadth is a function of years of accumulated entries and corrections, and no new app has it. Neither does ours. If catalogue coverage is the thing you use most, the honest options are the other established trackers in the category — Cronometer, FatSecret, Lose It, MacroFactor and similar — not a lighter tool. Their feature sets and pricing change often enough that any figure printed here would be wrong within months, so check current terms directly and check specifically whether the feature you are leaving over sits behind their paywall too.

Why so many people are looking right now

Search demand for a MyFitnessPal alternative was close to nothing for most of the past year and then rose sharply over roughly the last quarter. The searches that rose alongside it are about pricing and about barcode scanning, which points at features moving behind the paid tier rather than at a gradual drift of opinion.

This matters for how much weight to give any recommendation you read, including this one. A surge of this shape produces a lot of hastily written comparison content aimed at people leaving in a hurry. The useful question is not which app a listicle ranked first, it is which specific capability you lost and whether the replacement you are considering actually has it.

The friction most people are actually escaping

For a large group, the problem was never the tracker's features — it was that logging a meal meant searching a database, picking between near-identical entries, and confirming a portion, several times a day. That is roughly a minute of fiddly work per meal, and it is the reason most food logging is abandoned within weeks rather than the reason it is disliked.

If that describes why you stopped, a like-for-like replacement will not help you. Another database-first tracker gives you the same search-and-disambiguate loop with a different logo on it. The thing worth changing is the input method, not the vendor.

What voice and photo logging changes

Peasy is built the other way round: you say a normal sentence — "two eggs, toast and a flat white" — or photograph the plate, and confirm the entry it produces. When a meal is vague it asks one clarifying question rather than showing you a list of twelve similar results to choose between, and the Today screen leads with the calories and macros you have left.

Search is still there when you want it, along with barcode and nutrition-label scanning for packaged food, restaurant menus, saved meals and one-tap re-logs, a personal calorie goal, streaks, weight charts and a home-screen widget. An Apple Watch app logs by dictation, Siri and Shortcuts work, meals sync to Apple Health, and history exports as CSV or PDF.

What ours does not do

It is iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch only, with no Android or web version. It does not sync directly with Garmin or Fitbit (exercise calories come in through Apple Health), it does not track workouts or steps itself, and it has no community, forum or recipe library. Its food catalogue is younger than MyFitnessPal's, and AI logging beyond 1 a day needs Peasy Plus.

Those are the reasons someone would be right to choose something else, so they are listed together rather than scattered. If you need Android, a community, or the deepest packaged-food catalogue, an established tracker fits better, and we would rather say so here than after you have started a trial.

If you need free, here is the honest set

Several established trackers run usable free tiers, and open-source options exist for people who want to keep their own data. A notes app or a spreadsheet with date, meal and a rough calorie figure is also free and works better than most people expect.

The thing to verify before committing to any free tier is whether you can export your history, because that is where free plans most often stop — and food logs get more valuable the longer they run. Check that the export exists, that it opens, and that it contains dates and quantities rather than a summary, before you have months of data you cannot move.

Moving your history across

Export your MyFitnessPal data before you cancel anything, confirm the file opens and contains what you expect, and keep it somewhere independent of any app. No tracker imports another's history in a way that preserves everything, so treat the export as an archive you keep rather than something you expect to load in.

Then run the old and new app in parallel for a week or two while your old subscription is still active. Overlapping the two is the only way to find out whether the replacement handles the foods you actually eat, and doing it before you cancel means the answer is cheap to act on.

How to test any replacement in a week

Log your three most repetitive meals and one restaurant meal, on a normal weekday rather than a planned one. If logging those four takes under a minute each and the numbers look sane, the app fits your life. If it takes longer than the tracker you left, no feature list will fix that.

Do it during a trial, and set a reminder a day before the trial ends. Deciding while you still have both options open is worth more than any comparison table, including the ones on this page.