Compare · Food Tracker vs Lose It!
A free alternative to Lose It!.
Lose It! is the app people recommend when they leave MyFitnessPal: clean, quick, and the barcode scanner is still free. In 2026 its Premium price doubled to $79.99 a year, and Snap It, the photo feature, gives free users a few tries before asking for it. Food Tracker does the photo, the voice note and the text for free, through the ChatGPT or Claude account you already have.
At a glance
Lose It! prices checked October 2026. Free tier with calorie tracking and barcode scanning. Premium $79.99 a year, up from $39.99 in 2026. Lifetime $299.99. US prices.
Lose It!Food Tracker
- PriceLose It!Free with ads. Premium $79.99 a year, Lifetime $299.99.Food TrackerFree. No tiers, no trial, nothing held back.
- Logging a mealLose It!Search, pick, set the serving. Quicker than most, still typing.Food TrackerTell your assistant what you ate. It itemises the meal, estimates portions in grams, shows you the numbers and logs them when you say yes.
- Photo of your plateLose It!Snap It. A few free tries, then Premium.Food TrackerFree, through ChatGPT or Claude.
- Voice noteLose It!No voice logging that we could find.Food TrackerFree, through ChatGPT or Claude.
- Barcode scannerLose It!Free.Food TrackerNone. Send a photo of the label or name the product and the assistant works from that.
- Food databaseLose It!Large, with verified branded foods, strongest in the US.Food TrackerNone to search. The assistant estimates from food-composition data, and you check the numbers before they are saved.
- Indian foodLose It!Thin.Food TrackerEstimated from the dish and the portion, so dal, upma or biryani log like anything else. Micronutrients are compared with ICMR-NIN RDAs.
- Macros and nutrientsLose It!Calories free; macro and nutrient goals need Premium.Food TrackerSeventeen, free: sugar, the fats, cholesterol, sodium, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc, vitamins A, C, D, B12 and folate.
- AdsLose It!Yes, on the free tier.Food TrackerNone.
- WeightLose It!Free, charted against your goal pace.Food TrackerDaily weight with a 7-day average, and body composition read from a photo of the scale printout.
- For clinics and gymsLose It!No.Food TrackerWhite-labelled programmes for clinics, hospitals, gyms and trainers; staff see summaries, never meals.
Why people look for a Lose It alternative
For years Lose It! was the sensible free choice: the scanner stayed free when MyFitnessPal's did not, and Premium was $39.99. In 2026 Premium went to $79.99 a year, the same as MyFitnessPal, and the Lifetime price went to $299.99. The free tier still logs calories and scans barcodes, but macro goals, most nutrient detail and more than a taste of Snap It are behind the paywall, with ads in front of it.
Lose It! is still a good app. The question is whether logging by search is the thing you want to pay for.
What is different about Food Tracker
You never open a search box. A photo of the plate, a voice note or a sentence goes to ChatGPT or Claude, which itemises the meal, estimates portions, works out calories, macros and seventeen micronutrients, shows you the list and logs it on your yes. Macro and micronutrient targets are free, per day and per meal.
The app only shows you the numbers: no AI runs inside it, so it costs nothing. The free versions of ChatGPT and Claude are enough.
Where Lose It! is still better
- Scanning packaged food: a free barcode scanner with exact label data.
- A fast, polished logging interface and a big verified US database.
- Syncing with Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Health and Google Fit.
- Meal patterns, challenges and a community.
Switch to Food Tracker if
- Most of your meals are cooked, not packaged.
- You wanted macro targets without paying $79.99 a year.
- You would rather talk than type.
- You eat Indian or other non-Western food that the database does not cover.
Three minutes to set up. Then you only talk to your assistant.