Best YAZIO Alternatives 2026 (Calorie + Fasting Apps)
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TL;DR - Best YAZIO Alternatives 2026
• Why people leave: missing food entries and rough AI estimates need hand-correcting, YAZIO publishes no weekly recalculation of your calorie target, and the photo scanner sits behind PRO.
• Best if you have plateaued: MacroFactor recalibrates your targets from your real weekly trend.
• Best if fasting is the point: Simple and Fastic put fasting education first.
• Best for home-cooked and oil-heavy meals: NutriScan asks how the meal was cooked and how much oil went in, and gives you 5 free photo scans a week.
• How to choose: name the one YAZIO gap that actually affects you, then pick the app that closes it.
A median of 70 percent of users abandon health and lifestyle apps within the first 100 days, and the reasons cluster into six categories: technical and functional issues, privacy concerns, poor user experience, content and features, time and financial costs, and needs that outgrow the app (Kidman et al., 2024). As a NutriScan nutritionist who tests every major calorie and fasting app at least once a year, I see this with YAZIO regularly: the app earns strong ratings overall but loses users who hit one of three specific gaps.
YAZIO is a legitimate starting point. Fortune named it the Best Intermittent Fasting App with Calorie Tracking for 2026 and gave it a Fortune score of 4 out of 5 (Fortune, 2026), and Trustpilot users rate it 4.7 out of 5 from about 6,000 reviews (Trustpilot, checked August 2026). PRO lists at about $47.90 a year, though YAZIO runs a $23.90 twelve-month SKU and other promotions at the same time, and the plan bundles fasting protocols (16:8, 14:10, 5:2, 6:1 and 1:1), 2,900-plus recipes, an AI photo scanner, and calorie tracking in one interface. If any of that sounds like it might work for you, our YAZIO PRO worth-it review breaks down the full plan. But "complete for most" is not "right for your situation." If food entries you cannot find, a stalled target, or a paywalled scanner describes you, this guide covers seven alternatives matched by goal.
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🔍 The one YAZIO gap that quietly stalls weight loss (revealed near the end)
Why People Are Leaving YAZIO in 2026 🔍
YAZIO's ratings stay high because it serves its core users well. The friction builds when you fall outside that core profile.
Reason 1: Foods You Cannot Find, Estimates You Have to Correct
YAZIO advertises a 4 million-plus food database, and for a lot of people that is plenty. Its App Store reviews still carry the other experience: "it doesnt have as many food options as other apps. it simply doesnt have some popular foods, and the calories can be inaccurate when you look them up." Neither YAZIO nor any competitor publishes coverage by cuisine or by country, so nobody can hand you a number here. What you can do is check your own five most-logged meals in the search box before you commit a year.
The AI photo scanner is meant to route around search. YAZIO documents it as a way to capture calories by photographing the meal (YAZIO help centre), and a photo estimate is still an estimate you check before saving. Mixed dishes are where that check costs the most time, because a plate with four components gives a scanner more to guess at than a grilled chicken breast.
If your regular meals are mixed plates rather than single ingredients, the correction lands on most logs rather than the occasional one.
Photo logging should save time. When the scanner misses your regular meals, it adds a manual edit to every plate.
Reason 2: No Published Weekly Recalculation of Your Target
YAZIO publishes no weekly recalculation of your calorie target. Its PRO feature list offers a custom calorie plan and long-term trend insights (App Store listing), and nothing that describes recalibrating the target from your weight trend. So when you lose 5 kilograms and your maintenance calories fall with them, nothing in the app tells you the number should move.
MacroFactor and Carbon do publish that loop: they read your weekly weight trend against your logged intake and update your TDEE estimate on a rolling basis. A 2026 scoping review of 46 calorie-counting apps found adherence falls off sharply, with MyFitnessPal self-monitoring dropping from 5.4 to 1.4 days a week between weeks 4 and 12, and named limited food databases and manual entry among the barriers, with personalization and automation among the factors that made an app acceptable to users (Dugas et al., 2026).
A target that stays put is fine while it produces results. When results slow, you are troubleshooting it yourself.
Reason 3: The Photo Scanner Is PRO Only
YAZIO's free tier covers calorie and macro tracking, food ratings and visual history. AI food tracking is not in it. YAZIO lists "AI food tracking" under PRO benefits, where its AI "recognizes ingredients and portions" (YAZIO help centre).
If photo logging is the reason you downloaded a tracker at all, that ordering is backwards: you pay for the year, then find out how the scanner handles your food. Most of this list does the same thing. Cronometer puts Photo Log behind Gold, MyFitnessPal puts meal scan behind Premium, Lose It puts Snap It behind Premium. NutriScan gives you 5 photo scans a week on the free plan, so you can point a camera at your own meals before deciding.
One thing to clear up, because it gets repeated on lists like this one: YAZIO does ship an Apple Watch app. You download it from the Watch App Store, log in on the watch, and it needs watchOS 9 or later (YAZIO help centre). Wrist access is not one of YAZIO's gaps.
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YAZIO vs 7 Alternatives: Quick Comparison 📊
| App | Annual Price | Free Photo Scan | Fasting Timer | Adaptive Coaching | Smartwatch App | Database |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YAZIO PRO | $47.90 list | PRO only | 16:8, 14:10, 5:2, 6:1, 1:1 | Not published | Yes (Apple Watch) | 4M+ items |
| MacroFactor | $71.99 | Paid only | Not published | Yes | Not published | Verified, global |
| Simple | Not published | Not published | AI-guided | AI coach (Avo) | Not published | Not a calorie counter |
| MyFitnessPal | $79.99 | Premium | Premium | No | Yes (Apple Watch, Wear OS) | 20M+ entries |
| Cronometer | $59.99 | Gold only | Gold | No | Yes (view only) | 84 free, 95 on Gold |
| Fastic | $12.99 to $79.99 SKUs | Not published | Fasting-first | No | Not published | Not a calorie counter |
| Lose It | $79.99 | Premium (Snap It) | Not published | No | Not published | 50M+ claimed |
| NutriScan | $59.99 | 5 a week, free | Yes, free | No | No | Global, plus cooking prompts |
Prices above are standard US prices as of mid 2026 and change by region. Cells marked "Not published" mean the vendor says nothing either way, which is different from a confirmed no. Note the 2026 change: Lose It moved Premium from $39.99 to $79.99 and dropped its monthly plan entirely (Lose It Membership Tiers & Pricing), so it now costs the same as MyFitnessPal. YAZIO's list price sits at the low end of this set and YAZIO discounts on top of it, so a switch usually costs more than staying. Pick the one that closes your gap, not the one with the smallest number.
Figure 1: Annual list price on each app's yearly plan. Simple is missing because it publishes no annual price at all. Treat these as ceilings rather than what everyone pays: YAZIO runs a $23.90 twelve-month SKU alongside the $47.90 one, and Fastic's App Store SKUs run down to about $12.99.
1. MacroFactor - Best If You Have Hit a Plateau
Best for: YAZIO users whose results have stalled and who need week-by-week recalibration.
MacroFactor ($71.99 per year, 7-day trial) is the right switch when your results have flatlined. The one thing YAZIO does not publish and MacroFactor centers its whole design around is automatic calorie recalibration based on your actual results. The trial runs 7 days and starts through your app store, so whether a card is collected depends on your platform.
The app reads your weekly weigh-ins against your logged intake, then updates your TDEE estimate from real-world trend data rather than a formula. Lost weight faster than expected? The target adjusts up to avoid an overshoot. Scale stuck for two weeks? It reads the signals and recalculates. You do not have to figure out what changed.
Three modes decide who sets the targets. Coached hands you numbers from the algorithm and updates them weekly. Collaborative lets you steer those numbers while keeping the algorithm's input. Manual leaves the targets entirely to you. MacroFactor publishes no fasting feature anywhere on its site, so it is not a like-for-like replacement for fasting-first users. It does have photo logging, but nothing in MacroFactor is free, so you cannot try it without subscribing. At about $24 more per year than YAZIO PRO's list price, the adaptive coaching is the upgrade you are actually buying. If you want a research-based starting point before you switch, our free online macro calculator sets your baseline in under a minute.
Where it beats YAZIO: Weekly adaptive targets that move with your results, instead of a static number.
Limitation: No published fasting feature, and no free tier after the trial.
2. Simple - Best If Fasting Is Your Primary Goal
Best for: Fasting-first users who want AI habit coaching over daily calorie precision.
Fortune named Simple its Best Intermittent Fasting App Overall for 2026 and YAZIO its Best with Calorie Tracking. Both carry a Fortune score of 4 out of 5 (Fortune, 2026).
Simple does not publish an annual price. Its own FAQ says only that prices vary by subscription length, Fortune's table lists $29.99 a month for premium with no free trial, and testers who bought the annual plan report it working out under $5 a month (Everyday Health). Budget for a range and read the checkout screen before you tap.
The core difference is emphasis. YAZIO treats fasting as one feature next to calorie tracking. Simple treats fasting as the primary driver, with AI coach Avo providing daily actions, habit challenges, and behavioral prompts that go beyond a timer countdown. Its App Store listing sells weight loss "without calorie counting": food logging exists, but the main feedback loop is fasting consistency, Simple's Nutrition Scores, and behavioral education. If you want the two apps side by side, we compared them in YAZIO vs Simple.
For users who found YAZIO's calorie side mostly noise and mainly used the fasting timer, Simple offers more in the fasting education layer without the calorie overhead.
Where it beats YAZIO: Fasting-first coaching from Avo, not a timer bolted onto a calorie counter.
Limitation: No standard free trial, and calorie tracking is secondary.
3. MyFitnessPal - Best for a Global Food Database
Best for: Users who keep hitting missing entries and want the broadest crowdsourced database.
MyFitnessPal ($79.99 per year, 7-day free trial) is the most direct fix for foods you cannot find. Its database runs to over 20 million entries. Lose It claims 50M+ on its own pricing page, so treat "biggest" as a marketing race rather than a settled fact, and note that neither vendor publishes a breakdown by cuisine or by restaurant menu.
Where YAZIO sends you to manual entry for a dish it does not carry, MyFitnessPal usually has a community-submitted version of it. Entry quality varies because the database is largely crowdsourced, and branded packaged products hold up better than someone's homemade recipe. The real trade is breadth against verification: Cronometer's smaller database is lab-analyzed or verified, MyFitnessPal's is wide and wants a second look.
MyFitnessPal also ships Apple Watch and Wear OS apps with quick-add, which is a convenience rather than a fix for a YAZIO gap, since YAZIO has a watch app of its own. Premium ($79.99 per year) adds barcode and meal scan plus custom macros and goals; meal planning and the 1,500-recipe library sit in Premium+ at $99.99 per year (MyFitnessPal Premium). Premium also carries an Intermittent Fasting Tracker with preset patterns including 14:10, so fasting does not have to stay behind in YAZIO. The tradeoffs: $32 more per year than YAZIO PRO's list price, and a free tier with barcode scanning behind the paywall.
Where it beats YAZIO: A much broader crowdsourced database, plus watch apps and a fasting tracker on Premium.
Limitation: Pricier than YAZIO, and crowdsourced entries need occasional double-checking.
4. Cronometer - Best for Micronutrient Tracking
Best for: Users who want nutrient depth and a free tier that never expires.
Cronometer ($59.99 per year for Gold) does something neither YAZIO PRO nor most trackers attempt: it tracks up to 84 nutrients on the free plan and up to 95 on Gold, from a database of over 1 million lab-analyzed or verified foods. Cronometer publishes no Gold trial. The permanent free tier answers the same question a trial would.
YAZIO tracks calories, macros and nutritional values, and sells deeper food analysis inside PRO. Cronometer puts vitamin D, zinc, omega-3, potassium, magnesium, B12 and dozens more next to the basics on the free plan. That depth matters if you manage PCOS, a thyroid condition, a diabetes-adjacent pattern, or simply want to know whether your diet covers the full nutritional picture.
What is not free is worth knowing before you switch. The Fasting Timer, Photo Log and Voice Log are all Gold features (Cronometer Gold). Free reports look back 7 days. The Apple Watch app shows a snapshot of your intake, remaining energy and targets rather than a way to log from the wrist (Cronometer). At $12 more per year than YAZIO PRO's list price, Gold earns its place for anyone who has wondered about their B12 status or wants to spot iron gaps in a vegetarian diet.
Where it beats YAZIO: Nutrient depth on a free plan that does not expire, plus full raw-data export.
Limitation: The fasting timer and photo log are both Gold, and free reports only look back 7 days.
4 of 7 compared. Still ahead: a fasting specialist, the photo-and-voice logger, the cooking-aware scanner, and the one YAZIO gap that quietly stalls weight loss.
5. Fastic - Best for Fasting Education and Community
Best for: Fasting-first users who want courses, body-stage science, and a community to stay consistent.
Fastic's top annual SKU is $79.99, but the App Store carries concurrent SKUs down to about $12.99, so what you pay depends on the offer you land on. It is the fasting specialist here. Where YAZIO PRO treats fasting as one feature beside calorie tracking, Fastic is built entirely around it.
Fastic Academy is an in-house library on fasting, nutrition and habit building. Protein Fasting and a real-time Body Status view show what is happening physiologically at different points in a fast, which helps you understand why the fast matters, not only that you are doing it. Challenges and Buddies, its community features, are core product rather than add-ons. Fastic publishes no count of fasting plans; the ones it names on its own surfaces are 5:2 and OMAD alongside Protein Fasting. It claims over 30 million users across platforms, while Google Play alone shows 10M+ downloads and a 4.4 out of 5 rating from more than 421,000 reviews (Google Play, checked August 2026). We put the two head to head in YAZIO vs Fastic.
Fastic is not a calorie tracker the way YAZIO is. Logging exists, but the interface prioritizes fasting-state awareness. For users who mainly used YAZIO's fasting programs and found the calorie side extra friction, Fastic is the more focused option.
Where it beats YAZIO: A full fasting curriculum plus a community, versus a single fasting feature.
Limitation: Weak as a calorie counter, and its top SKU costs $32 more a year than YAZIO PRO's list price.
6. Lose It - Best If You Want Photo and Voice Logging in One Plan
Best for: YAZIO users who are tired of manual search and want both a photo scanner and voice entry included at the base paid tier.
Lose It ($79.99 per year) used to be the budget entry on lists like this one. It is not anymore. Premium went from $39.99 to $79.99 in 2026 and the monthly plan was removed, so the annual charge is the only way in and it costs $32 more per year than YAZIO PRO's list price, exactly what MyFitnessPal costs. Lose It runs a free trial through the app store but does not publish how long it lasts.
Snap It lets you photograph a meal and get an estimated calorie count, similar to YAZIO PRO's AI scanner but included in the base Premium plan rather than a higher tier. Say It adds voice logging, so you can describe what you ate out loud without searching a database. For anyone who found YAZIO's manual search tedious, these two input methods cut logging friction significantly. Two input methods for $32 more per year is the trade you are actually making.
Premium also covers automatic syncing with smartwatches and fitness trackers, though Lose It names no brands on its pricing page, so check your own device before you commit. Fasting is the gap: Lose It publishes nothing about fasting in either tier. If you left YAZIO for more fasting depth, do not assume it is waiting here. If you plan to stay for years, the Lifetime plan at $299.99, or $229.99 for existing Premium members, works out cheaper than four renewals.
Where it beats YAZIO: Photo and voice logging both included in the base paid plan.
Limitation: No published fasting features, and the 2026 price rise removed its cost advantage.
7. NutriScan - Best If Your Meals Depend on How They Were Cooked
Best for: YAZIO users whose regular meals are home-cooked, mixed or oil-heavy, where the calorie count turns on the cooking as much as the ingredients.
NutriScan ($59.99 per year or $9.99 per month, with a 7-day trial that starts through your app store) puts two questions in front of the estimate that most scanners skip.
The photo scan flow asks how the meal was cooked, with 11 options (Not Sure, Mixed, Deep-fried, Air-fried, Stir-fried, Oven-baked, Roasted, Steamed, Boiled, Grilled, Raw), and how much oil went in, with four levels (No Oil, Low Oil, Default / Medium Oil, High Oil). The same plate of vegetables is a different food steamed than deep-fried, and a scanner that never asks has to average across both. A tablespoon of vegetable oil is about 120 calories on its own (USDA FoodData Central), so a curry, a stir-fry or anything shallow-fried can carry 100 to 200 calories a serving that a photo cannot see. Our meal scan guide walks through the full flow.
NutriScan's photo scan: Home > Camera Icon > Click Picture > Crop Picture, then confirm cooking method and oil level.
Figure 2: An illustrative view of how much cooking oil can add per serving, anchored on roughly 120 calories per tablespoon of vegetable oil (USDA FoodData Central). Skipping the oil question is how generic scanners underestimate curries and stir-fries.
A 2025 study in Nutrients ran ChatGPT against 114 meal photographs drawn from Irish national dietary survey data and measured a mean absolute percentage difference of 26.9 percent across 16 nutrients (O'Hara et al., 2025). The oil and cooking method prompts are a direct correction for exactly that class of error.
The free plan includes 5 photo scans a week. That is enough to test the scanner on the meals that usually break a food database, your curries, your restaurant plates, your mixed bowls, before you decide whether the prompts are worth paying for. Micronutrients, a NutriScore band on every meal and full meal history are on the free plan too. Monika, the app's voice AI nutritionist, answers questions and gives "what to eat next" guidance in conversational language rather than macro numbers alone (Home > Call Button, 4 free calls per week, unlimited on Premium).
Monika (Home > Call Button) answers nutrition questions by voice, the closest thing to a coaching conversation in a tracking app.
The fasting timer runs on both plans (Home > Fasting tab) with 14:10, 16:8, 18:6, 20:4 and a custom window you set yourself, so switching from YAZIO does not mean losing fasting tracking. Premium adds the 28-day personalized diet plan, weekly meal-plan suggestions, a goal-based grocery list and supplement recommendations. We ran both apps side by side in NutriScan vs YAZIO.
Where it beats YAZIO: Cooking method and oil prompts before the estimate, 5 free photo scans a week, and a fasting timer plus voice AI on the free plan.
Limitation: No adaptive target recalibration, and no smartwatch app yet.
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Checkpoint: midway progress update.
You're past the comparison. Decisions get easier from here.
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✅ Step 1: The 3 gaps pushing people out of YAZIO (done)
✅ Step 2: All 7 alternatives, priced and compared (done)
👉 Step 3: How to switch without losing your streak (current)
🧩 The one YAZIO gap that quietly stalls weight loss (next)
Who Should Stay With YAZIO 🤔
YAZIO PRO remains a strong choice when its database already carries the food you eat. A 4 million-plus food database, 2,900-plus recipes, fasting protocols from 16:8 through 1:1, an Apple Watch app and calorie tracking in one clean interface is a lot of product for a $47.90 list price that is often discounted below that.
If your daily meals are well covered, your calorie target is still producing steady results, and the PRO scanner earns its price on your plates, there is no practical reason to switch. The three gaps only matter when they apply to you.
A 2022 Nutrients review of intermittent fasting notes that patient adherence remains a problem and has to be designed for (Vasim et al., 2022). If YAZIO keeps you consistent, that reliability is worth more than any single feature a competitor might add.
How to Switch From YAZIO Without Losing Momentum 🔁
Logging habits decay on their own. The 2026 scoping review of 46 calorie-counting apps tracked MyFitnessPal self-monitoring falling from 5.4 days a week to 1.4 between weeks 4 and 12 (Dugas et al., 2026). A switch is a convenient place for that decay to start, which is why the sequence below overlaps the two apps instead of ending one and hoping the next one sticks.
Step 1: Look for an export before you cancel. Check YAZIO's account settings for a data export. YAZIO does not publicly document the format, so screenshot anything you want to keep. Nothing transfers automatically to a new app, but a reference for your past intake patterns is worth having.
Step 2: Rebuild your top 10 meals. These are the foods you log more than twice per week. Rebuild them first in the new app so you can log most days without searching from scratch. Use barcode scanning for packaged foods and photo scan for cooked meals.
Step 3: Run both apps in parallel for five days. Log the same meals in both and compare the calorie estimates. If the new app matches within a reasonable range for your standard meals, the switch is safe.
Step 4: Cancel YAZIO at the end of your billing cycle. Cancelling does not trigger an automatic refund, and your paid term runs to its end date (YAZIO help centre). Cancel at least two days before your renewal date to avoid an automatic charge for another year. Our step-by-step YAZIO cancellation guide covers every platform.
Step 5: Start a fasting streak on day one. If fasting was part of your YAZIO routine, start the new app's timer on your first day. Continuity makes the transition feel like a continuation, not a restart.
WARNING
Deleting the YAZIO app does not cancel the subscription, and neither does deleting your YAZIO account (YAZIO help centre). The annual PRO charge renews until you cancel through the App Store, Google Play, or yazio.com. Save what you want to keep before you delete anything: cancelling does not refund the term you already paid for, and refunds go through whoever sold you the subscription. Web purchases carry a 14-day right of withdrawal.
Five steps done, logging streak intact. That is how a clean switch feels.
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Checkpoint: final stretch before the reveal.
One last nudge. The gap that quietly stalls weight loss is next.
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✅ Step 1: The 3 gaps pushing people out of YAZIO
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✨ The one YAZIO gap that quietly stalls weight loss (about to reveal)
The One YAZIO Gap That Quietly Stalls Weight Loss 🔬
Here is the reveal you have been reading toward, and it is the gap most people never name because it hides behind early success.
Of the three reasons people leave YAZIO, the missing food entries and the PRO-gated scanner are the visible ones. The one that quietly stalls progress is the target nobody recalculates. YAZIO publishes no weekly recalibration, so unless you go in and change the number yourself, week eight runs on week one's maths. Your maintenance calories fall as you lose weight, the target that felt right in January is too high by March, and the scale stops moving with no signal from the app that anything changed.
The 2026 scoping review of 46 calorie-counting apps found adherence dropping sharply over twelve weeks, and listed personalization and automation among the factors that made an app acceptable to the people using it (Dugas et al., 2026). An app that keeps handing you the same number after your body has changed stops working as a coach and becomes a spreadsheet you have to interpret yourself.
The fix is a self-correcting loop. MacroFactor and Carbon read your weekly weight trend against your logged intake and recalibrate your target on a rolling basis, so the number keeps pace with your changing body. A dietitian reviewing your four-week log would make the same adjustment. These apps do it every week, without an appointment.
If you have plateaued and your target has not moved since day one, that is the gap to close first, and adaptive coaching closes it directly. If the numbers going in are the problem instead, a scanner that asks how the food was cooked fixes the input quality, so whatever target you set rests on real intake rather than a guess. Match the fix to the gap, and the switch is worth it.
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Recap: everything you completed this round.
You finished the run. Save this for when you make the switch.
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✅ Step 1: The 3 gaps pushing people out of YAZIO
✅ Step 2: All 7 alternatives, priced and compared
✅ Step 3: How to switch without losing your streak
✅ The stall gap: YAZIO publishes no weekly recalculation, so the target drifts too high as you lose weight; MacroFactor and Carbon recalibrate (revealed)
Conclusion
YAZIO PRO is still a capable tracker, and at a $47.90 list price it bundles fasting protocols, recipes and calorie tracking for less than most of this list. But if foods you cannot find, a target that stopped working, or a scanner you have to subscribe to before testing pushed you here, the seven apps above each close one gap directly:
- Plateau and no adaptive targets ➡️ MacroFactor ($71.99/yr, 7-day trial)
- Fasting as the main goal ➡️ Simple (no published price) or Fastic (SKUs from about $12.99)
- A broader food database ➡️ MyFitnessPal ($79.99/yr, 7-day trial)
- Nutrient depth on a free plan ➡️ Cronometer (free, or $59.99/yr for Gold)
- Photo and voice logging in one paid plan ➡️ Lose It ($79.99/yr)
- Cooking method and oil accuracy ➡️ NutriScan (5 free scans/wk, 7-day trial)
Most of these let you try before you commit, through a trial or a free tier. If photo logging accuracy on home-cooked meals is your main need, try NutriScan. The 7-day trial starts through your app store, and the 5 free photo scans a week stay available well after it ends.
Frequently Asked Questions ❓
Q: Is there a free alternative to YAZIO PRO?
A: Yes. Cronometer's free plan covers calorie and macro tracking, up to 84 nutrients, the barcode scanner and full raw-data export, with reports limited to a 7-day window; its fasting timer is a Gold feature. NutriScan's free plan includes 5 AI photo scans a week alongside macros, micronutrients, a NutriScore on every meal, a fasting timer and 4 Monika voice calls a week. FatSecret's free plan includes community-submitted food entries and barcode scanning (FatSecret). None match YAZIO's recipe library on the free tier, but all three cover daily calorie and macro tracking without payment.
Q: Which YAZIO alternative is cheapest overall?
A: Among the alternatives that publish a price, Cronometer Gold and NutriScan Premium tie at $59.99 per year. Simple publishes no annual price at all. Lose It used to hold the budget spot, but it raised Premium to $79.99 per year in 2026 and dropped the monthly plan, so it now sits at the top of the range with MyFitnessPal. Worth saying plainly: YAZIO's own $47.90 list price is below all of them, and YAZIO discounts on top of that with a $23.90 twelve-month SKU running concurrently, so a switch usually costs more than staying. If you only need a free plan, Cronometer tracks daily without an upgrade, and NutriScan's free plan covers macros, micronutrients and fasting with 5 photo scans a week.
Q: Can I use MacroFactor for intermittent fasting?
A: MacroFactor publishes no fasting feature. Its pages describe adaptive macro coaching and say nothing about fasting windows in either direction. If you fast and also want adaptive calorie coaching, you would pair MacroFactor with a separate fasting app. For a single app that covers both, Cronometer (fasting timer on Gold plus micronutrient tracking) or NutriScan (a free fasting timer plus oil-prompt photo logging) are better single-app options.
Q: Does Simple App include calorie tracking?
A: Simple includes food logging, but it is not a traditional calorie counter. Its own App Store listing sells weight loss "without calorie counting". The primary feedback loops are fasting consistency and Simple's Nutrition Scores rather than hitting a specific calorie number. If calorie precision is important to your routine, Simple is not a like-for-like switch from YAZIO.
Q: How do I cancel YAZIO PRO before it renews?
A: On iPhone, go to Settings, tap your name, select Subscriptions, find YAZIO, and tap Cancel Subscription. On Android, open Google Play, tap your profile icon, go to Payments and Subscriptions, select Subscriptions, find YAZIO PRO, and tap Cancel. For web purchases, log in at yazio.com and manage your subscription from the account section. Cancel at least 24 hours before your renewal date. Cancelling does not trigger an automatic refund and your paid term runs to its end date (YAZIO help centre). Refunds go through whoever sold you the subscription, Apple, Google or YAZIO, and web purchases carry a 14-day right of withdrawal. Our YAZIO cancellation walkthrough has the full steps.