Is the Nutracheck App Free? Pricing, Trial and Lite Plan
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Nutracheck's own help pages answer the question in one sentence: if you don't upgrade after the 7-day free trial, "your account status automatically reverts to free Lite membership", which gives you "unlimited searches for foods, but you can only add 5 items a day to your diary" (Nutracheck Member Support). As a NutriScan nutritionist I get asked about Nutracheck more than any other UK-only app, and that sentence is the answer. Five items is one meal for most people. Full tracking costs £6.99 a month or £29.99 a year on the website when I checked on September 26, 2026. 🇬🇧
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Your Nutracheck pricing check at a glance.
Four things to settle before you pay for a UK calorie counter.
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⏳ Step 1: What you get free, and what the trial really does
⏳ Step 2: What each plan costs on the website, App Store and Google Play
⏳ Step 3: How to cancel, and when a refund is possible
🔍 The upgrade that can bill you twice for the same app (revealed near the end)
TL;DR: Nutracheck pricing in 30 seconds
• Free plan: Lite, with unlimited food searches but only 5 diary items a day and no barcode scanner
• Trial: 7 days of full access, no card taken, never converts into a charge (30 days through a Refer a Friend link)
• Website prices: £6.99 a month or £29.99 a year, both auto-renewing
• Store prices: the UK App Store lists 12-month purchases from £23.99 to £34.99; the US App Store lists $6.99 a month and $29.99 or $39.99 a year
• Cancel and refund: cancel where you bought, 24 hours before renewal; website buyers get 14 days to request a refund
The quick answer: a real free plan, but a very small one
Nutracheck is free to download on iPhone, Android and the web, and the first 7 days give you the whole product. After that, the developer's terms say "your membership status will change to 'Lite' and restrictions will apply" (Nutracheck Terms and Conditions). The restriction is a daily cap. Lite members can search the full food database as often as they like but can add only 5 items a day to the diary. A breakfast of porridge, milk, a banana and coffee uses four of those five slots before 9 am.
Reviewers describe the cap in plainer words. One Google Play reviewer wrote that "the lite version is extremely limited with only 5 foods a day and no barcode scanning", then called the subscription "very cheap" and said "I think it's worth it" (Google Play listing). Another reviewer on the same page held back a fifth star because of "the paid only subscription model" and asked for a one-off lifetime purchase.
Five diary items a day runs out about this fast
So a "nutracheck free version" exists. It is enough to check a ready meal or look up a restaurant dish. A full food diary is the paid product.
Who makes Nutracheck and how big it is
Nutracheck is built by NutraTech Ltd, a British company. Its homepage says it has been "helping people achieve their weight management goals since 2005" (Nutracheck homepage). Support runs by email and WhatsApp seven days a week, plus a UK helpline open Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 6pm (Nutracheck Member Support).
The app is called Calorie Counter + in both stores. On the UK App Store it holds a 4.8 rating from about 265,000 ratings and sat at number 27 in Health and Fitness when I checked. On Google Play in the UK it shows 4.8 stars from about 60,700 reviews, more than 1 million downloads and a "#2 top grossing" badge in Health and Fitness, with the last update on September 24, 2026. The US App Store listing is much smaller, with about 26,000 ratings.
The database size depends on which page you read. The homepage, the Prices page and both store listings now say 600,000 UK foods. An older Nutracheck blog post still says "over 430,000 products". When I loaded the same Prices page through a US connection, it showed dollar prices and smaller counts of 300,000 to 500,000 foods. Every figure counts UK supermarket, brand and restaurant items, so if you eat a lot of imported or home-cooked food, expect to build your own entries.
What the 7-day trial actually is
Most calorie apps take a card and convert the trial unless you cancel. Nutracheck does the opposite, and says so in three places.
The terms say "there is no requirement to enter card payment details upfront" and "you will not be charged automatically", and that payment "can only be made actively by you with your consent" (Nutracheck Terms and Conditions). The help article titled "How do I cancel my free trial?" says you "will not be charged" and "there is no need to cancel", because "it will close automatically" (Nutracheck Member Support). And the Google Play listing says "all new users start with a 7-day free trial", then you "subscribe monthly or yearly" or "stay on the free Lite version (with daily diary limits)".
There is also a longer trial. Existing members can send a Refer a Friend link, and the new user gets 30 days free instead of 7. Nutracheck has a help article for when it goes wrong, and the fix it gives is to make sure "you have clicked on the referral link again after installing the app and creating your account" (Nutracheck Member Support). If your account still shows 7 days, tap the link a second time.
A free trial that never bills you: rarer than it should be
The practical result is that "how to cancel the Nutracheck trial" needs no action. You let the 7 days run out. The only way to pay is to open the app or website and buy a membership on purpose.
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You know what free gets you. Next is the part where the same app has ten different prices.
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Nutracheck pricing on the website, App Store and Google Play
Nutracheck publishes its prices, which puts it ahead of apps that hide the price until the last onboarding screen. The catch is that the same product sells at several prices depending on where you buy it.
The website is the simplest. When I checked on September 26, 2026, the Prices page listed two auto-renewing memberships (Nutracheck Prices):
| Plan (nutracheck.co.uk) | Price | Renews | Cost over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | £6.99 | Monthly | £83.88 |
| 12 months | £29.99 | Annually | £29.99 |
The page markets the annual plan as a "60% saving" compared with paying monthly for a year. Nutracheck also runs membership sales. An independent UK review notes that 12 months of app-only membership "normally costs £29.99, but is sometimes on offer for £23.99" (Food For Fitness). If you can wait, wait for the next sale.
Apple's listing is where the price history shows. The App Store publishes every in-app purchase an app offers, and the UK listing for Calorie Counter + carries ten (UK App Store):
| Listed in-app purchase (UK App Store) | Price |
|---|---|
| 1 Month | £3.99 |
| 1 Month App-Only | £5.99 |
| 1 Month | £5.99 |
| 1 month | £6.99 |
| 12 Months | £23.99 |
| 12 months subscription | £24.99 |
| 12 Months | £27.99 |
| 12 Months / 12 months Membership | £29.99 |
| 12 Months | £34.99 |
Figure 1: Paying monthly for a year costs almost three times the £29.99 annual plan
Two things stand out. The 12-month price ranges from £23.99 to £34.99, so £29.99 is neither the lowest nor the highest. And there are "App-Only" products. Nutracheck sells full memberships that cover the app and the website, where the extra diary customization and the LIVE Club weigh-in live, and app-only memberships that skip the website.
For readers outside the UK, the US App Store lists 1 month at $6.99 and 12 months at $29.99 or $39.99, with App-Only variants at the same prices (US App Store). The terms reserve the right to vary "the Service content by country and device", including the "size and extent of the food database" and "subscription options and pricing" (Nutracheck Terms and Conditions). The food data stays British wherever you buy it.
What a paid membership includes
Every paid plan unlocks the same product: unlimited use on phone, tablet and desktop, the full UK food database with photos, more than 1,000 exercise activities, reports, recipes and meal ideas, extra diary customization and the LIVE Club weigh-in on the website, the UK help team, and "no adverts" (Nutracheck Prices).
The nutrient set is fixed at calories plus seven nutrients. The App Store listing names them as "carbs, protein, fat, sat fat, sugar", salt and fiber. That matches UK front-of-pack traffic light labels and stops there. If you want vitamin D, iron or a full micronutrient panel, this is the wrong app. Our Cronometer pricing guide explains what its free tier includes.
Barcode scanning and photo search are in the paid plan. Nutracheck's own blog says the barcode scanner is "included in all our membership options", and the Play reviewer quoted earlier reports it is missing on Lite. On iPhone, exercise syncs with Apple Health, Garmin and Fitbit. Intermittent fasting arrived in version 13 this summer, and the goal settings cover "weight loss, gain, maintenance or 5:2 fasting" (UK App Store).
Two limits are deliberate. Nutracheck's help pages say "1,200 calories a day is the minimum target allowed" and recommend losing 1 to 2 lbs a week, so crash diets are not supported (Nutracheck Member Support). And the terms say "the Service should not be used by persons under 18 or by pregnant women", which is why the App Store rates the app 18+.
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Prices done. Before the practical part, a quick look at whether the paid database earns its money.
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Does a verified UK database matter? What the research says
Nutracheck's main selling point is a database checked by staff instead of crowd-sourced. Research on the biggest crowd-sourced app shows where that matters.
A validation study of MyFitnessPal in 50 adults found that once obviously wrong entries were removed, the app's totals correlated strongly with the Belgian food composition database for energy (r=0.96) but weakly for sodium (0.53) and cholesterol (0.51) (Evenepoel et al., 2020). The authors concluded the app was accurate for energy and macronutrients "but not for cholesterol and sodium". Salt is one of Nutracheck's seven tracked nutrients, and it is exactly the field where user-submitted entries went wrong.
A 2024 study in 37 Filipino adults with obesity found the same app underestimated energy, carbohydrate and fat and overestimated protein against the national food composition tables, and concluded that "prior nutrition knowledge is a factor" in getting accurate numbers out of it (Banal et al., 2024). A verified database removes one source of that error, picking the wrong entry from a list of near-duplicates. It does not fix a guessed portion of rice.
Does logging work at all? The adherence evidence
Does paying for a diary change anything? The trials say the habit produces the result.
The SMARTER trial randomized 502 adults to self-monitoring with a diet app, smart scale and activity tracker, with or without tailored daily feedback messages. At 12 months both groups had lost about 2 percent of body weight, with no difference between them, and 26 to 29 percent of each group lost 5 percent or more (Burke et al., 2022). What did predict success was engagement: each 1 percent increase in feedback messages opened was linked to 0.10 percent more weight loss.
A smaller pilot trial in 72 parents compared standard calorie counting with a simplified approach that tracked only high-calorie foods. At 6 months the standard group lost 5.7 percent and the simplified group 4.0 percent, a difference that was not statistically significant, and about 43 percent of both groups reached a 5 percent loss (Nezami et al., 2022). Consistency beat completeness, which is a fair argument that five items a day on Lite is not useless.
UK readers also have a free baseline: the NHS Weight Loss Plan app lets you "set a daily calorie target" and "track what you're eating" (NHS Better Health), starting from the NHS guide of 2,500 kcal a day for an average man and 2,000 for a woman (NHS, Understanding calories). Nutracheck is what you pay for when a barcode scanner is what keeps you logging.
Nutracheck for GLP-1 users
Nutracheck's homepage calls the app "your GLP-1 support tool", and this deserves a paragraph because the audience is growing fast in the UK. In the STEP 1 trial, 1,961 adults on weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg lost a mean 14.9 percent of body weight over 68 weeks against 2.4 percent on placebo, with nausea and diarrhea the most common side effects (Wilding et al., 2021).
The tracking case comes from what happens to muscle. A 2025 review in Obesity Reviews found that trial participants on these drugs lost 10 percent or more of their muscle mass over 68 to 72 weeks, "approximately equivalent to 20 years of age-related muscle loss", and called for programs that emphasize adequate protein and micronutrient intake plus resistance training (Mechanick et al., 2025). When appetite drops, a protein target you can see each day is the practical tool. Nutracheck tracks protein, fiber and salt, but not micronutrients, and it offers no medical guidance. It is a diary, and your prescriber is still the clinic.
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Almost there. The practical part: getting out, and getting money back.
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How to cancel Nutracheck
Cancel where you bought. Nutracheck's terms are blunt about it: uninstalling the app "will not automatically stop your subscription" and "you must cancel this manually" (Nutracheck Terms and Conditions).
Bought through the App Store (iPhone or iPad)
- Open Settings and tap your name at the top.
- Tap Subscriptions.
- Select Calorie Counter + (Nutracheck).
- Tap Cancel Subscription and confirm. Access continues to the end of the paid period.
Bought through Google Play (Android)
- Open the Google Play app and tap your profile icon.
- Tap Payments and subscriptions, then Subscriptions.
- Select Calorie Counter +.
- Tap Cancel subscription and follow the prompts.
Bought on the website
Website memberships are billed through WorldPay, not through a store. Email [email protected] from your registered address or call +44 (0)115 969 4660 between 8.30am and 6pm UK time, Monday to Friday. The terms ask you to call the helpline if no confirmation arrives within 72 hours.
Timing matters more than method. The terms say the 1-month and 12-month memberships "will renew at the same price unless cancelled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the membership period", and that "refunds cannot be made if you cancel after the renewal date has passed". Membership also "cannot be put on hold for short durations such as holidays", so a two-week trip means either paying through it or canceling and rejoining.
Refunds: 14 days on the website, store rules in the apps
For memberships bought on nutracheck.co.uk, the terms say: "You have the statutory right to withdraw from a membership agreement and seek a membership refund within 14 days after the date of purchase for membership." The process is an email to [email protected] "clearly stating 'Cancel & refund membership', together with your registered email address", or the in-app Contact Us form (Nutracheck Terms and Conditions). Outside that window, and after any renewal date, Nutracheck does not refund.
For in-app purchases the refund decision belongs to Apple or Google. Request through reportaproblem.apple.com or the Google Play order history, and do it quickly. Our guide to refund rules for calorie apps explains how each store decides.
UK law is about to add another protection. The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 brings in "a 14-day cooling-off period after a trial or 12 month+ contract auto-renews", and the government says "we anticipate that the regime will commence in spring 2027" (UK Government response, 2025). For Nutracheck, the annual renewal is where that new right will apply.
The upgrade that bills you twice
You have been patient, so here it is. The costliest Nutracheck mistake is buying a better plan.
Nutracheck's help page puts it plainly: "Buying a different membership doesn't automatically cancel an existing renewal (this is how Apple/Google manage subscriptions)." Its own example is the common one. You start monthly at £6.99, see the £29.99 annual deal, buy it, and "the monthly payments need to be stopped manually to avoid further charges" (Nutracheck Member Support). Forget, and you pay £29.99 plus £6.99 every month on top.
The fix takes a minute: straight after buying the annual plan, open your store subscriptions (steps above) and cancel the older Calorie Counter + line.
Is Nutracheck worth paying for?
At £29.99 a year, Nutracheck is one of the cheaper full calorie trackers sold in the UK. Our cheapest nutrition app comparison lines up the big apps' yearly prices, and the MyFitnessPal pricing guide shows what the most common alternative charges in the UK.
Pay if:
- You eat mostly UK supermarket, brand and chain-restaurant food, so the checked database covers what you actually buy.
- You want the barcode scanner and will use it daily. It is the feature Lite does not give you.
- You want salt, sugar and saturated fat tracked from checked entries, because these are where crowd-sourced entries go wrong.
Stay on Lite or look elsewhere if:
- You cook from scratch with international ingredients. You will spend the first month building your own foods.
- You need micronutrients. Seven nutrients is the whole list.
- You want AI photo logging of a mixed plate. Nutracheck's "photo search" finds a packaged product by picture. It does not estimate a home-cooked meal.
Where NutriScan fits
I work for NutriScan, so read this section with that in mind. NutriScan and Nutracheck solve different problems. Nutracheck is a checked UK database with a fast barcode scanner for packaged food. NutriScan is a photo-first tracker with 150k+ downloads and a 4.6-star rating: you point the camera at a plate of pasta, a curry or a restaurant dish, tag the food type and cooking method, and the scan returns calories, protein, carbs and fat.
Home > Camera Icon > Click Picture
The part Nutracheck leaves out is micronutrients. Open any logged meal in NutriScan and "Show More" lists every vitamin and mineral the scan estimated, not just the seven label nutrients.
Home > Meal Item > Show More
NutriScan's free plan includes 5 photo scans a week, and Premium makes scanning unlimited for about $59 a year. The full breakdown is in our NutriScan pricing guide, and the macro calculator sets a protein target in a minute. If most of your food comes in a packet with a barcode, Nutracheck's approach is the right one. If most of it comes on a plate without a label, a photo scanner keeps you logging on the days a search box would not.
The takeaway
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Recap: everything you checked this round.
You finished the run. Save this before you pay.
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✅ Step 1: Lite is free forever with 5 diary items a day; the 7-day trial takes no card and never bills
✅ Step 2: £6.99 a month or £29.99 a year on the website; £23.99 to £34.99 a year on the UK App Store
✅ Step 3: Cancel where you bought, 24 hours before renewal; 14-day refund window on website purchases
✅ The upgrade that bills you twice: cancel the old plan yourself after switching (revealed)
The Nutracheck app is free in the narrow sense: a Lite diary of 5 items a day with no barcode scanner. The trial is the most honest in the category, since it never turns into a charge. If you pay, buy the annual plan, wait for a sale if you can, and cancel any older plan the same day.
FAQ
Is the Nutracheck app free?
Partly. Every new account gets 7 days of full access with no card details. After that the account drops to a free Lite membership: unlimited food searches, but only 5 items a day can be added to the diary. Full tracking, including the barcode scanner, needs a paid membership.
How much does Nutracheck cost?
On the Nutracheck website, 1 month costs £6.99 and 12 months costs £29.99, both auto-renewing. The UK App Store lists 12-month purchases from £23.99 to £34.99 and monthly purchases from £3.99 to £6.99. The US App Store lists $6.99 a month and $29.99 or $39.99 for 12 months.
Does the Nutracheck free trial charge you automatically?
No. Nutracheck's help pages say you will not be charged at the end of the 7-day trial and there is no need to cancel it. To pay, you must actively buy a membership through your Apple ID, Google Play account or the website. If you do nothing, the account becomes a Lite membership. A Refer a Friend link gives a 30-day trial instead.
How do I cancel Nutracheck?
Cancel where you bought it. iPhone: Settings, your name, Subscriptions, Calorie Counter +, Cancel Subscription. Android: Google Play, profile icon, Payments and subscriptions, Subscriptions. Website purchases: email [email protected] or call the UK helpline. Nutracheck recommends canceling at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Deleting the app does not cancel.
Can I get a refund from Nutracheck?
For website purchases, Nutracheck's terms give you a statutory right to withdraw and request a refund within 14 days of buying a membership, by emailing "Cancel & refund membership" to customer care. Refunds are not made after a renewal date has passed. For App Store and Google Play purchases, the refund request goes to Apple or Google.
Does Nutracheck work outside the UK?
The app installs worldwide and the US App Store sells it in dollars, but the food database is built from UK supermarket, brand and restaurant products. Nutracheck's terms say the database, features and pricing can vary by country and device.