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Looking for a MyFitnessPal alternative?

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MyFitnessPal is one of the best-known ways to track what you eat, and its free version still covers the basics. But some features, like logging a meal from a photo, come with its paid plans. If you’re weighing your options, here’s what MyFitnessPal’s plans include today, what to look for in another tracker, and where Nutramigo fits and where it doesn’t.

What MyFitnessPal’s plans include

We checked each app’s own pages on September 30, 2026. Prices are in US dollars, and MyFitnessPal notes that pricing varies by country and plan length (plan comparison).

  • Free. Logging food and exercise, seeing your macronutrients, setting calorie and macro goals by percentage, and creating your own foods, meals and recipes. In MyFitnessPal’s words, “the core of MyFitnessPal is free, and it stays that way because ads help pay for it” (ads).
  • Premium: $19.99 a month or $79.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial if you’ve never had Premium. No ads, plus Meal Scan (logging a meal from a photo), the barcode scanner, voice logging, goals by meal and by day, and on iPhone an AI Coach (Premium, 2026 summer release, Coach, plan comparison). Meal Scan is “a Premium-only feature” (Meal Scan), and the barcode scanner has needed Premium since October 1, 2022 (barcode scanner).
  • Premium+: $24.99 a month or $99.99 a year. Everything in Premium, plus a meal planner and grocery lists, in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia (Premium+, Meal Planner).

So logging meals from a photo takes Premium, and meal plans as well take Premium+.

What to look for in a food tracker

The best tracker is the one you keep using. A few things make that easier:

  1. Fast logging. A photo or a sentence takes seconds. A barcode scanner is quicker for packaged food, and a food database helps when you want exact numbers.
  2. Honest estimates. A photo can’t be weighed, so numbers from a photo are estimates. Look for easy ways to correct them, like choosing a smaller or bigger portion.
  3. A target that fits you. Look for a daily calorie and protein target worked out from your body and your goal, rather than one number for everyone.
  4. Your usual meals, one tap away. If you eat the same few breakfasts and lunches, logging them again should be instant.
  5. The choice to hide the numbers. Some people would rather keep track of what they eat without seeing calories.
  6. A look back. A short summary of your week shows patterns that single days hide.
  7. Room to grow. If you might want meal plans later, check whether they cost extra.
  8. Privacy. Check what happens to your meal photos, and whether you can delete them.

Other trackers people compare

  • Lose It! Premium is $79.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial for new users, and Lose It! says most people are offered discounts in the app (membership pricing, offers).
  • Cronometer. The free Basic plan includes a barcode scanner. Gold, at $10.99 a month or $59.99 a year, adds photo logging and an AI coach, and removes ads (Cronometer Gold).

Prices change, so check each app’s own page before you decide.

Where Nutramigo fits, and where it doesn’t

Nutramigo is a nutrition assistant you talk to, and you can use it just to track what you eat: choose “Track what I eat” when you start, and no meal plan is made. It fits if you want:

  • A photo or a few words. Snap your plate, or tell Amigo “two slices of pizza for lunch.” He estimates the calories and protein, and you can pick a smaller or bigger portion. In our own test on 23 cafeteria plates whose ingredients had been weighed, half of the estimates were within 14% of the real calories, and some were further off (more about logging meals).
  • Your day and your week. Today shows what you’ve eaten against your target and what’s left. A week after your first meal, Amigo sums up your week with one suggestion.
  • Log again. Your usual meals are one tap away, with their numbers.
  • Just the foods. Hide the calories if you’d rather not see them.
  • Meal plans when you want them. They come with Premium, not a separate plan.

And where it doesn’t fit:

  • No barcode scanner or food database. If you mostly log packaged foods, or you want numbers from a database, MyFitnessPal or Cronometer will suit you better.
  • No exercise tracking, and no syncing with fitness apps.
  • An invite-only beta. You join the waitlist first.
  • In your browser. It’s a web app you add to your home screen, not a download from an app store.

You can try it free before you pay (pricing), and the calorie tracker page shows how it works.

Making the switch

  • Write down your usual meals. Your go-to breakfasts and lunches are the first ones to log in a new app. After that, they’re one tap away.
  • Note your current target. Keep it handy, so you can compare it with the one a new app works out for you.
  • Run both for a week. Log in both, and keep the one that’s easier to stick with.
  • Save what you want to keep. On the free plan, the printable report on MyFitnessPal’s website lets you print your diary or save it as a PDF (printable report).

Whichever you choose, the tracker that works is the one that fits your day.