MyFitnessPal Alternatives (2026): Free Options Compared

By Alex Lawrence, qualified nutritionist · Fact-checked against sources on 30 October 2026 · Updated 30 October 2026

If you want a free MyFitnessPal alternative with barcode scanning, Cronometer and Get Gains (Android) both include it on their free plans; if you’re happy to pay, Nutracheck is cheaper in the UK and MacroFactor adjusts your targets for you.

We make Get Gains, which is one of the six alternatives below. Every fact about other apps comes from their own website, help centre or App Store listing, checked on 30 October 2026. MyFitnessPal is still a strong app, and we say where it beats us.

Why people look for a MyFitnessPal alternative

Most people look elsewhere because MyFitnessPal’s free plan no longer includes some tools they want. Its own plan comparison lists these as Premium-only (MyFitnessPal Help):

the barcode scanner and Meal Scan
ad-free logging
macros and calorie goals by meal, and different goals by day
intermittent fasting
data export

Premium costs £15.99 a month or £64.99 a year in the UK (MyFitnessPal Premium). The free plan still covers food and exercise logging, measurements, your own foods and recipes, and macro goals by percentage. So if you log by searching rather than scanning, free MyFitnessPal may be all you need.

The six alternatives at a glance (free features)

This table shows what you get without paying, based on each app’s own pages.

App	Ongoing free plan	Barcode scan free	Stand-out free feature	Platforms
Cronometer	Yes	Yes	Over 80 nutrients tracked	Web, iOS, Android
Get Gains	Yes	Yes	Gym workout and supplement logging	Android (iOS soon)
Lose It!	Yes	Moving to Premium	Daily calorie budget	Web, iOS, Android
Yazio	Yes	Not listed as Pro	Food diary (fasting and recipes on Pro)	iOS, Android
Nutracheck	No (7-day trial)	Paid plan	UK foods with photos	Web, iPhone, Android
MacroFactor	No (7-day trial)	Paid plan	Adaptive targets (paid)	iOS, Android

Each alternative in brief

Here’s what each app does better or worse than MyFitnessPal for a free or budget user.

Cronometer

Cronometer is the strongest free option if you care about nutrition detail. Its free Basic account includes unlimited barcode scanning, a database of over 1 million entries and tracking of over 80 nutrients and compounds, on web, iOS and Android (Cronometer free version). The free plan limits insights to a 7-day view. Gold, which removes ads and adds photo and voice logging, costs $10.99 a month or $59.99 a year in US dollars (Cronometer Gold).

Get Gains

Get Gains is our app. The free plan covers nutrition, workout and body-weight logging, the food database with barcode scan, progress charts, PBs and 1RM, supplement tracking with reminders, and up to 3 routines and 5 custom exercises, with no ads. Paid tiers are Pro (£10.99 a month or £109.99 a year, for AI tools like Snap Meal photo logging) and Titan (£17.99 a month or £144.99 a year, 7-day free trial, for the Gains Coach, adaptive TDEE and Health Connect wearable sync). The catch: it’s Android only for now, it’s far newer than MyFitnessPal, and it can’t import your MyFitnessPal history.

Lose It!

Lose It! is the simplest switch if you mainly want a daily calorie number. Its free Basic plan gives you a personalised calorie budget and its food database, which it puts at over 50 million items (Lose It! pricing). Premium is $79.99 a year in US dollars. Like MyFitnessPal, it’s moving barcode scanning to Premium, so don’t switch for free scanning alone.

Yazio

Yazio suits people who fast or want recipes. Its homepage says you can track food “manually or by barcode” (Yazio), and barcode scanning isn’t on its list of Pro features. Pro adds AI photo tracking, all fasting plans, over 3,000 recipes and automatic activity sync (Yazio Pro). Its site doesn’t give one fixed price; the UK App Store listing shows several Pro plans in pounds and notes that the app contains ads.

Nutracheck

Nutracheck is a UK app with no ongoing free plan, but it’s cheap: £6.99 a month or £29.99 for 12 months, after a 7-day free trial (Nutracheck Prices). It tracks calories and 7 key nutrients, has a barcode-scanning app for iPhone and Android, and keeps a website diary in sync (Nutracheck Apps and devices). It costs less a year than MyFitnessPal Premium.

MacroFactor

MacroFactor is a paid app with no free tier (UK App Store). It earns its place here because its expenditure estimate adapts to your real intake and weight changes, it has a barcode scanner, and it has no ads. It costs $11.99 a month or $71.99 a year in US dollars (MacroFactor Help), after a 7-day trial.

Moving your data out of MyFitnessPal

You can only download a full export from MyFitnessPal if you have Premium or Premium+ (MyFitnessPal export help).

With Premium:

On the website, go to Reports, then Export. In the apps, look for Export on the Nutrition or Progress page.
Pick a date range and confirm your email.
You’ll get a zip file of three CSV files: nutrition (summarised by meal), progress (weight and measurements) and exercise.

On the free plan, MyFitnessPal offers two options instead (export or share your diary):

Printable report: on the website, open Food, then View Full Report (Printable), choose your dates and save it as a PDF. This isn’t available in the apps.
Diary sharing: give someone ongoing access to your diary.

Privacy request: depending on where you live, you may also have a right to a copy of your data in a portable format, which you can request through MyFitnessPal’s Privacy Request Center (MyFitnessPal privacy rights).

Tips before you switch:

Export before you cancel Premium, while you still have access.
Note your current calorie and macro targets. You can also re-check them with our calorie deficit calculator and macro calculator.
Check the new app’s help pages for whether it can import a CSV. Don’t assume it can.
Your saved custom foods and recipes may not carry over, so note the ones you use most.

Get Gains vs MyFitnessPal

MyFitnessPal is bigger, older and on more platforms; Get Gains puts barcode scanning, gym training and supplements on its free plan.

Feature	MyFitnessPal	Get Gains
Barcode scan	Premium	Free
Gym workout logging, PBs and 1RM	Exercise logging free; workout routines Premium	Free (up to 3 routines)
Supplement tracking	Not on its plan comparison	Free, with reminders
Ads on the free plan	Yes	No
AI photo logging	Meal Scan (Premium)	Snap Meal (Pro)
Paid price (UK)	£15.99/month or £64.99/year	Pro £10.99/month or £109.99/year
Platforms	iOS, Android, web	Android (iOS coming soon)
Food database	”Over 18 million global foods”	Smaller and newer
Track record	”20 years of expertise”	A much newer app

Where MyFitnessPal is better: a much larger food database (MyFitnessPal), iPhone and web apps, many device integrations, and years of maturity. Its yearly Premium price is also lower than our yearly Pro price.

Where Get Gains is better: barcode scanning, workout logging and supplement tracking are free, so a lifter who logs both food and training needs one app instead of two.

If you’re cutting, our guide to how a calorie deficit works and the protein calculator will help you set targets in any app.

Should you just stay on MyFitnessPal?

Staying is a sensible choice if the free plan already covers how you log. If you search for foods rather than scan them, use the web diary, or own an iPhone and an Apple Watch, free MyFitnessPal still does the core job well. Paying for Premium can also make sense: at £64.99 a year it costs less than a year of our own Pro tier. Switching apps has a cost too. You lose your saved foods and habits, and the first few weeks of logging in a new app are slower. Move only if a specific missing feature, like free barcode scanning or gym tracking, matters to you every day.

Which alternative should you pick?

Choose by the one feature you’d miss most from MyFitnessPal Premium.

Free barcode scanning and lots of nutrients: Cronometer.
Free barcode scanning plus gym and supplement logging: Get Gains, if you’re on Android.
A simple calorie budget: Lose It!.
Fasting and recipes: Yazio.
A cheap paid UK option: Nutracheck.
Targets that adjust to you: MacroFactor.

For a wider look, including MyFitnessPal itself, see our best calorie counter apps UK comparison.

How we compared

We compared free features, prices and platforms from each app’s own website, help centre or App Store listing on 30 October 2026. We didn’t test the apps hands-on, so we don’t rate scan accuracy or ease of use. Prices change and can vary by country and by offer, so check before you pay. If tracking food ever starts to feel stressful, Beat offers support.

How we wrote this: drafted with AI assistance, then fact-checked against the sources below and edited by Alex Lawrence. Read our editorial policy. We make Get Gains, so weigh our view accordingly.