Fitia vs Calsa: Meal Planner or Plain Food Log

Fitia vs Calsa is a choice between a meal planner and a plain food log. Fitia builds a plan around your diet type and logs text and barcodes at no cost, but only 4 meals a day. Calsa has no plans and no tier at no cost, and it logs by text, voice, photo or barcode in every plan. I read Fitia’s Premium page, help pages and four App Store listings to compare them.

What does a day with each app look like?

A day in Fitia starts from the plan. The Premium page lists automatic meal planning, a meal plan builder, personalized recipes, a shopping list and plan sync, plus custom diets: smart, high protein, low carb, keto and low fat. The US store text adds an AI coach, an intermittent fasting tracker with 16:8, 18:6 and 20:4 windows, and Fitia Teams, which are challenges with friends. Logging by photo, voice or typing sits next to all that.

The version at no cost keeps the typing and the barcode scanner. Count a day with breakfast, a mid-morning snack, lunch, an afternoon snack and dinner, and you’re at five meals. The cap is four.

Calsa skips the weekly plan. Your day starts from what you actually ate. Type or say a line like “oatmeal 250 g, banana” and several foods go in at once. Take a photo and Calsa names the foods and suggests grams, and you confirm the portion before anything is saved. If a packaged food has no barcode match, a photo of the nutrition label does the job. Quick add takes a calorie number and nothing else.

Entries are sorted into meals by the time you ate them, and the day screen shows what’s left after each one. Closing the app halfway through an entry loses nothing, because drafts are kept. To repeat a meal, open any day and tap “Copy to today”. Logging works offline too. Your last 7 days open without a connection.

Ideas replace the plan. Ask the chat for a recipe that fits what’s left of your day and save it as your own. With Calsa and Calsa Premium it can also offer up to two ideas for the week, drawn from your own diary, and review the week when you ask.

What is free in Fitia, and what needs Premium?

The Premium page marks included features in yellow and missing ones in gray, using icons instead of words. I read the colors from the page markup, so treat the table as my reading of it. The page describes the version at no cost as text logging, barcode scanning, a limited food database, only 4 meals a day and weight-only progress tracking.

	Fitia, no cost	Fitia Premium	Calsa, every plan
Text logging	Yes	Yes	Type or say it, with grams
Barcode scanning	Yes	Yes	Yes, UK and Australian products included
Meals per day	4	No cap listed	Sorted by the time you ate
Photo logging	No	Yes	Yes, you confirm the portion
Voice logging	No	Yes	Yes, speech becomes text on your phone
Food database	Limited	Reviewed by nutritionists, per the help pages	Each entry shows its source
Progress tracking	Weight only	Photos, body fat, measurements	Weight trend, plus body fat from your scale
Apple and Google Health sync	No	Yes	Yes, both
Custom calories and macros	No	Yes	Yes, edit one and the other adjusts
Meal plans, shopping list, recipes	No	Yes	No meal plans or shopping list; recipes fit what’s left of your day
Fasting timer	No	Yes	None
Ads	Yes	Ad-free	No ad networks or tracking SDKs

Premium lists two more items that Calsa has no match for. “Create foods with AI” and “smart adjustments” are both named without a description in anything I read. Calsa’s closest relative of the second is a goal update: when your weight trend calls for it, Calsa suggests a new goal, and the choice is yours.

AI shows up in both apps, in different jobs. Fitia’s store text names an AI coach, and its Premium page lists photo logging, voice logging and food creation with AI. I found no description of what the coach does or what it declines to answer. Calsa’s chat works on your own diary. It knows which day or entry you’re looking at, so you can type “The rice was 100 g” and the entry changes after you tap. It answers questions about Calsa from Help without using up your messages, and it gives no diagnoses or treatment advice.

Three plans are on sale: Calsa Start, Calsa and Calsa Premium. All of them include every tracking tool. The AI chat is what changes. A monthly review written by a larger model, and answers read aloud, are Calsa Premium only. The chat is labelled as AI. It never messages you first. Its numbers come from the food database, and you can see, edit or delete what it remembers.

How much does Fitia Premium cost on each storefront?

No prices appear on Fitia’s website or help pages, which leaves the App Store rows. Each storefront shows ten purchases. I read all four.

Storefront	1 month	3 months	6 months	12 months	Family, 1 year
United States	$19.99 (3 rows)	$23.99	$35.99	$53.99, $58.99, $59.99 (2 rows)	$89.99
United Kingdom	£8.49, £8.99, £10.99	none listed	£17.49, £32.49	£30.99, £32.99, £33.99 (2 rows)	£49.99
Canada	$22.99 (3 rows)	$23.99	$35.99	$59.99, $62.99, $68.99, $69.99	$105.99
Australia	$25.99 (3 rows)	$35.99 (2 rows)	$53.99	$71.99, $78.99, $79.99	$119.99

The page doesn’t explain why rows of one length carry different prices. Work out the monthly cost instead. In the US, a 12-month row at $59.99 is $5.00 a month and one at $53.99 is $4.50. Six months at $35.99 comes to $6.00, three months at $23.99 to $8.00, and the family year at $89.99 to $7.50. Pay for one month twelve times at $19.99 and the year costs $239.88. Australia is steeper: 12 × $25.99 = $311.88 against $71.99 to $79.99 for the annual rows. The UK shows the same shape, with 12 × £10.99 = £131.88 against £30.99 to £33.99 for 12 months, about £2.58 to £2.83 a month. Canada’s 12 × $22.99 = $275.88 sits next to annual rows of $59.99 to $69.99. Monthly billing is the expensive way to use Fitia in every storefront.

Annual is where Fitia puts its trial. The billing help describes a 3-day free trial with full Premium access, offered on the annual plan only and activated once per account. Billing starts automatically afterward, with a reminder one day before the end. The US store marks the 12-month row at $59.99 and the family year at $89.99 with “Free Trial”. I found no trial on the monthly plan.

The annual plan is charged once, upfront, for the whole year, and only the monthly plan bills monthly. Web subscriptions have a 48-hour refund window. Store purchases are refunded by Apple or Google. A referral code gives your friend 10% off the annual plan and gives you one free month of Premium per annual purchase made with it.

On the Calsa side, one screen carries it all. You see the price, the trial length, the first charge date and how to cancel before anything else, and a reminder comes before the trial ends. Plans are monthly or yearly only, and the first period costs the same as the ones after it. Your price stays put while your subscription is active. The numbers sit on the billing page.

Where do food numbers come from, and what happens to your data?

The help pages describe Fitia’s food database as fully checked by nutritionists and not user-generated. In the version at no cost, you search a limited portion of it. That’s a clear promise about who reviewed the entries, though I found nothing on how a single number is built.

Where Fitia promises review, Calsa shows the math. Each entry shows where its calories come from and the math, “per 100 g × grams”, and an amount you haven’t confirmed is marked “estimate”. Open yesterday and the figure hasn’t moved. When you spot a wrong shared food, a correction goes in from the entry and the record changes after review.

Getting out is the weaker side of Fitia. The help pages describe cancelling like this: on the App Store or Google Play, open the Plan tab, tap your profile picture, then Account, Manage Subscription and Cancel Subscription. On the web, sign in at app.fitia.app, open the three-line menu and choose Manage Subscription. You keep Premium until the trial or period ends. The cancellation article says the same.

I found no data export in Fitia. The Premium page mentions import and export of data only through Apple Health, Google Fit or other apps. The same help category describes permanent account deletion in the app: Plan tab, profile icon, Account, Delete Account.

In Calsa you can export everything on any plan, including after a subscription ends, when you can still read, export and delete your data. You cancel the way you subscribed. Deleting the account works from the app or the web.

Fitia vs Calsa: where do they differ, and who should pick which?

The Fitia facts here come from its Premium page, help pages and store listings, and I never walked through a paid screen. Calsa publishes this blog, so the right-hand column is our own account of it.

	Fitia	Calsa
Platforms	iOS, Android and a web app	Web, iPhone, iPad and Android, on one account
Starting point	Text and barcode logging at no cost, 4 meals a day	Paid from the start, with price, trial and cancel path shown first
Ways to log	Text, barcode; photo, voice and AI-created foods in Premium	Type or say, photo, barcode, label photo, search with grams, quick add
Trial	3 days, annual plan only	Length shown before any question, with a reminder before it ends
Source behind a number	Reviewed by nutritionists, per the help pages	Each entry shows its source and the math
Export	None found	Everything, on any plan
Planning	Meal plans, shopping list, recipes, diet types	Ideas drawn from your own diary
Social	Teams challenges with friends	No public profiles, no messages between users

Where Calsa is weaker: Fitia’s text logging and barcode scanner cost nothing, while Calsa is paid from day one. Calsa has no weekly meal plans, no shopping list, no diet types, no fasting timer and no team challenges. It has no manual workout entry and no watch app either. Fitia describes its own food database as reviewed by nutritionists.

Choose something else if you want the app to plan your week and build the shopping list, a fasting timer, challenges with friends, or text and barcode logging at no cost.

Four readers, four answers.

A person who hates deciding what to cook gets real help from Fitia. The plan, the recipes and the grocery list answer that question every day, and Calsa doesn’t try.

Another reader already knows what they eat and just wants a record. Skipping the planner costs them little.

Snackers hit the cap early. Five small meals is an ordinary pattern, and Fitia’s version at no cost stops at four, so a paid plan matters sooner for them.

Last, anyone who wants the source of every figure on screen should lean toward Calsa, where each entry shows it, and anyone who wants challenges with friends should lean toward Fitia.

How do you move from Fitia to Calsa?

Check the billing first. An annual plan is charged upfront for the full year, so cancelling mid-year doesn’t hand money back. Store purchases are refunded by Apple or Google, and web purchases within 48 hours. Know which one you hold before you decide when to leave.

1. Cancel a trial before it ends, since it renews on its own after the 3 days.
2. Log one ordinary day in both apps, using the same meals and weighing what you can.
3. Ask whether Fitia writes your weight into Apple Health or Health Connect. The pages I read don’t say what it writes. If it does, Calsa reads weight, steps and active energy from there.
4. Take a short quiz in Calsa to set a calorie goal, or track without one.
5. Rebuild your usual meals as recipes from ingredients or from a photo. Foods you add stay private to your account.
6. Cancel Fitia on the route above after a week in Calsa.

If your numbers ever arrive as a CSV file, Calsa imports it and shows a preview before saving anything. I haven’t tested a Fitia file. For the wider checklist, read how to choose a calorie counter app. The Fitia plans and limits get a longer look in Fitia app alternative, and all comparisons are listed under choosing a calorie app.