MyFitnessPal alternatives in November 2026: nine apps, sorted by what you want instead

What is the best alternative to MyFitnessPal?

The best alternative to MyFitnessPal depends on why you want to leave. As of November 2026: for free barcode scanning, MyNetDiary or Cronometer. For a lower price with meal planning included, BiteTracker at $33.60 a year. For verified food data and micronutrients, Cronometer. For calorie targets that adjust themselves, MacroFactor or Carbon Diet Coach. For a simpler calorie budget, Lose It!.

We make BiteTracker, so we are not neutral. Every price and feature listed for another app comes from its own website, help center or US App Store listing, checked on November 12, 2026. Prices are US list prices before promotions; confirm them before you subscribe.

Why people look for a MyFitnessPal alternative

MyFitnessPal's free tier still covers food and exercise logging, saved meals, copying meals and importing recipes from the web. The complaints are mostly about what moved to paid plans, and what those plans cost.

• Barcode scanning has needed Premium since 2022.
• Premium costs $79.99 a year or $19.99 a month. Paid month by month, a year comes to $239.88.
• Meal plans with grocery lists need Premium+, at $99.99 a year.
• The free tier shows ads.
• Meal Scan photo logging and voice logging are Premium features, and they work in the mobile apps only.
• The database is community-built. Entries MyFitnessPal has reviewed carry a check mark, and the rest vary in quality.

Nine MyFitnessPal alternatives compared

MyFitnessPal is in the last row for reference. On a phone, scroll the table sideways.

Free alternatives with barcode scanning

If the scanner paywall is your main complaint, you do not need to pay anyone. MyNetDiary's free tier has no ads, includes barcode scanning and a shopping list, and runs on the web as well as on your phone. Cronometer's free tier includes unlimited scanning and tracks up to 95 nutrients, with ads and charts limited to the last seven days. FatSecret and Carb Manager scan for free too.

On a Galaxy phone, Samsung Health is entirely free. If you wear a Fitbit or Pixel Watch, Google Health keeps food search and barcode scanning free. Our ranking of the best free calorie tracking apps compares all twelve free tiers.

Cheaper paid alternatives

If you are happy to pay but not $79.99, two plans cost less than half of that. BiteTracker is $33.60 a year, or $7.19 a month, with one plan and every feature in it: barcode scanning, photo and text logging, a meal calendar and Instacart ordering. Carb Manager Premium is $39.99 a year and is built around keto and low-carb eating.

The gap is wider if you want meal planning, because MyFitnessPal puts it in Premium+. Against Premium+ at $99.99, BiteTracker costs $66.39 less a year. Cronometer Gold and MyNetDiary Premium, at $59.99 each, sit in between. The cheapest calorie tracking apps ranks every plan and shows what a year costs on each monthly plan.

Alternatives with more reliable food data

A crowd-built database is large, but the same food can appear many times with different numbers. If you have been burned by a wrong entry, look at how each app sources its data.

Cronometer says its nutrition information comes from lab-analyzed sources such as the USDA and NCCDB rather than crowdsourced entries, and that submitted foods are verified. MyNetDiary describes its database as staff-verified, and FatSecret says its database is entirely human-verified. In any app, a barcode scan or a recipe you entered yourself is more reliable than a search result, which is why reading the nutrition label is still worth knowing.

Alternatives that adjust your targets for you

MyFitnessPal sets a calorie goal and leaves it alone until you change it. MacroFactor, at $71.99 a year, estimates how many calories you burn from your weight trend and intake, and adjusts your targets each week. Carbon Diet Coach, at $99.99 a year, does adaptive weekly macro coaching and explains its changes. Neither has a free tier or a web version that we could find, and neither offers meal plans.

BiteTracker takes a lighter approach: a weekly report compares your weight trend with what your log predicted, and suggests an updated target for you to accept or ignore.

Alternatives with meal planning and grocery ordering

If you came to MyFitnessPal for logging and now want planning too, you have a few options. BiteTracker includes a meal calendar in its only plan: drag recipes and saved meals onto the week, watch calories and protein add up for each day, and send the ingredients to Instacart. Carb Manager Premium has keto meal plans, and MyNetDiary Premium and FatSecret Premium have meal planners.

Planning also makes logging faster, because most of the diary is filled in before you eat. The one-hour weekly meal plan shows the routine.

What you lose by leaving MyFitnessPal

Be honest about the costs before you move. MyFitnessPal has the largest food database of any tracker and connects with more than 40 fitness apps and devices, so an obscure packaged food or an unusual device is more likely to be supported there. It also holds your history: years of logs, saved meals and recipes.

Most trackers, BiteTracker included, cannot import that history automatically. In practice you need much less of it than you think. Your targets, your current weight and the ten or so meals you log most often cover the first week, and the rest comes back as you eat.

• Write down your calorie and macro targets and your latest weight.
• Re-create your most frequent foods, meals and recipes on day one.
• Reconnect Apple Health or Health Connect so steps and weight carry over.
• Subscriptions do not move with you. Cancel the old one in the App Store, Google Play or on the website, wherever you bought it.

Where BiteTracker fits

BiteTracker is the alternative to choose if you want the paid features without the paid tiers. For $33.60 a year you can describe a meal in a sentence, snap a photo, scan a barcode or search, plan the week on a calendar and order the ingredients through Instacart. It runs on iPhone, Android and the web, and people aged 24 and under pay $21 for the first year of an annual plan.

It is not the right pick for everyone. There is no free tier after the trial, the food database is smaller than MyFitnessPal's, and it tracks the main label nutrients rather than dozens of vitamins and minerals. Our BiteTracker and MyFitnessPal comparison sets the two side by side, and the best calorie tracking apps covers all 18 apps we checked.