Alternatives to Lose It!
A calorie counter and weight loss tracker with barcode scanning and photo food logging. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Lose It!
A calorie counter and weight loss tracker with barcode scanning and photo food logging.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Lose It!.
MyFitnessPal
A calorie and macro tracking app with a large food database, meal photo scanning and voice logging.
MyFitnessPal offers a very large food database with photo and voice logging plus GLP-1 dose logging, but carries advertising and stores data with the company.
fatsecret
A calorie counter and food diary app for tracking nutrition intake and weight loss progress.
fatsecret provides a free food diary and calorie counter on iOS, Android and the web, with meal plans and education in its Premium tier.
MyNetDiary
A calorie counter with a staff-verified food database, barcode scanning and up to 108 nutrients per food.
MyNetDiary adds a staff-verified food database with up to 108 nutrients per entry and free barcode scanning with no ads and no account required.
Yazio
A calorie counter and intermittent fasting tracker with food logging, recipes and fitness tracker sync.
Yazio pairs calorie counting with intermittent fasting timers for 16:8, 5:2 and 6:1 plans and includes over 3,000 recipes.
Cronometer
A nutrition tracker that logs food, exercise and biometrics down to individual vitamins and minerals.
Cronometer tracks up to 95 nutrients with verified lab-analysed data and logs biometrics, offering more detail than casual calorie counting needs.
Lifesum
A diet tracking app with structured eating plans such as keto, Mediterranean and high protein.
Lifesum centres on structured eating plans such as keto, Mediterranean and high protein, with some plans and features requiring payment.
MacroFactor
A macro tracker and diet coach that adjusts calorie targets by estimating your energy expenditure.
MacroFactor is a paid macro tracker with no free tier indicated, adjusting calorie targets to your estimated expenditure and running only on mobile.
Fooducate
A diet tracking app that scans packaged foods and grades them by nutritional quality.
Fooducate grades packaged foods by nutritional quality with a barcode scanner, focusing on food quality more than detailed macro planning.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Lose It! as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Carb Manager
A keto and low-carb diet tracker with net carb counting, meal plans and a recipe library.
Lose It! logs food by voice, barcode or photo with macro and water tracking, but is centred on weight loss rather than keto or low-carb diets.
Foodvisor
A nutrition app that logs meals from photos and offers personalised diet plans.
Lose It! supports photo, voice and barcode food logging with macro and water tracking on Android, iOS and the web, centred on weight loss.
OpenNutriTracker
Free and open-source calorie and nutrition tracker for mobile, focused on simplicity and privacy.
Lose It! adds voice, barcode and photo logging and syncs exercise from Apple Health and Google Fit, but is closed source with paid features.
Waistline
Libre calorie counter and weight tracker for Android, with a day-by-day food diary.
Lose It! adds voice, barcode and photo logging plus macro and water tracking across platforms, but it is closed source with some features on a paid plan.
Zero
An intermittent fasting app with a fasting timer, photo-based meal logging and a daily protein score.
Lose It! offers voice, barcode and photo logging with macro and water tracking on mobile and web, focused on calorie counting for weight loss.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Eat This Much
A meal planning service that builds daily and weekly meal plans around calorie, macro and budget targets.
openScale
An open-source Android app that tracks weight and body metrics and reads data from Bluetooth scales.
Withings App
A free health and fitness app for Withings scales, watches and monitors that also works without them.
