Alternatives to MyFitnessPal
A calorie and macro tracking app with a large food database, meal photo scanning and voice logging. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
MyFitnessPal
A calorie and macro tracking app with a large food database, meal photo scanning and voice logging.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as MyFitnessPal.
Lose It!
A calorie counter and weight loss tracker with barcode scanning and photo food logging.
Lose It! offers voice, barcode and photo logging with macro and water tracking, focused on weight loss, with some features in a paid plan.
Cronometer
A nutrition tracker that logs food, exercise and biometrics down to individual vitamins and minerals.
Cronometer uses lab-analysed, verified data covering up to 95 nutrients and records biometrics, giving more detail than a general calorie counter.
fatsecret
A calorie counter and food diary app for tracking nutrition intake and weight loss progress.
fatsecret provides a free food diary on iOS, Android and the web, focused on weight loss with Premium meal plans and education.
MyNetDiary
A calorie counter with a staff-verified food database, barcode scanning and up to 108 nutrients per food.
MyNetDiary has a staff-verified database of over 2 million foods, free barcode scanning with no ads, and no account required, though its community is smaller.
Yazio
A calorie counter and intermittent fasting tracker with food logging, recipes and fitness tracker sync.
Yazio combines calorie counting with intermittent fasting timers and over 3,000 recipes, and syncs steps and activities from fitness trackers.
Lifesum
A diet tracking app with structured eating plans such as keto, Mediterranean and high protein.
Lifesum structures food tracking around named diet plans such as keto and Mediterranean, with some plans requiring payment.
MacroFactor
A macro tracker and diet coach that adjusts calorie targets by estimating your energy expenditure.
MacroFactor is paid with no free tier, runs only on mobile and adjusts calorie targets to your estimated energy expenditure.
OpenNutriTracker
Free and open-source calorie and nutrition tracker for mobile, focused on simplicity and privacy.
OpenNutriTracker is free, open source and privacy-focused, but offers fewer features and a smaller food database than MyFitnessPal.
Also worth comparing
These listings name MyFitnessPal 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.
MyFitnessPal offers a very large food database with photo and voice logging for general calorie and macro counting, but carries advertising and is not focused on keto.
Fooducate
A diet tracking app that scans packaged foods and grades them by nutritional quality.
MyFitnessPal has a very large food database with photo and voice logging for calorie and macro counting, but carries advertising and does not grade food quality.
Foodvisor
A nutrition app that logs meals from photos and offers personalised diet plans.
MyFitnessPal also offers photo meal scanning plus voice logging and a very large food database, adds a web version, but carries advertising and has no dietitian access.
Waistline
Libre calorie counter and weight tracker for Android, with a day-by-day food diary.
MyFitnessPal has a very large food database and runs on web, iOS and Android, but it is closed source, stores data with the company and carries advertising.
Zero
An intermittent fasting app with a fasting timer, photo-based meal logging and a daily protein score.
MyFitnessPal replaces the simple Protein Score with full calorie and macro tracking from a very large database, runs on the web, and carries advertising.
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.
Open Food Facts
A collaborative open database of food products with a barcode scanner app for ingredients and nutrition.
