Lose It vs MyFitnessPal: Which Fits How You Log

Lose It vs MyFitnessPal won’t be settled by price: both ask $79.99 for a year of Premium, and both keep the barcode scanner behind it. The split is in what the paid plan holds. MyFitnessPal sells two subscription tiers, Lose It! one.

I read both companies’ own pricing and help pages and put the answers side by side. Every fact about the two apps below comes from their pages, linked where it first appears.

Lose It vs MyFitnessPal: which costs less?

At the annual price, neither. MyFitnessPal lists “MyFitnessPal Annual Premium” at $79.99 on the US App Store. Its membership page gives Premium as $79.99 a year or $19.99 a month. Lose It! shows Premium at $79.99 a year on its tiers page and says it renews annually. Lose It! also sells one-time Lifetime access, listed at $299.99 on that page, while the US App Store lists Lifetime at $49.99 and $59.99. I can’t reconcile the two, so I leave Lifetime out of the table.

Plan	Price (US, checked 10 Oct 2026)	Where I found it
MyFitnessPal Premium	$79.99 a year or $19.99 a month	MyFitnessPal membership page
MyFitnessPal Premium+	$99.99 a year or $24.99 a month	MyFitnessPal membership page
“MyFitnessPal Monthly Premium”	$19.99 and $9.99 in two separate listings	US App Store
Lose It! Basic	$0	Lose It! tiers page
Lose It! Premium	$79.99 a year, renews annually	Lose It! tiers page
“Lose It! Premium”	seven prices from $9.99 to $79.99, no period shown	US App Store
Trial	MyFitnessPal offers one only on occasion; Lose It! offers 7 days to new users	MyFitnessPal membership page, Lose It! Premium page

The App Store lists don’t show a billing period, so I trust the companies’ own pages for the period. Lose It! also says it adjusts prices by season and by how often you use the app. The price in your app can therefore differ from the one above. Screenshot the screen before you tap subscribe. If the price is what decides it, Cronometer vs Lose It shows what the same $79.99 looks like next to a cheaper rival.

What does each free version include?

Plain food and exercise logging, in both. The paywall starts at nearly the same place, so the differences sit in the details. The Lose It! side is covered on its own in is the Lose It app free.

Feature	MyFitnessPal	Lose It!	Pages
Food and exercise logging	Free	Free	MyFitnessPal, Lose It!
Barcode scanner	Premium	Premium	MyFitnessPal, Lose It!
Photo logging	Premium (“Meal Scan”)	Premium	MyFitnessPal, Lose It!
Voice logging	Premium	Premium	MyFitnessPal, Lose It!
Linking fitness apps and devices	Free (“partner apps”)	Premium	MyFitnessPal, Lose It!
Custom goals	Goals by percentage: Free. Goals by meal or by day: Premium	Premium (water, sleep and nutrient targets)	MyFitnessPal, Lose It!
Data export	Premium	the page names no plan	MyFitnessPal, Lose It!

The row that surprised me is device syncing. If you wear a tracker and don’t want to pay, look here. MyFitnessPal’s free plan lists partner-app linking. Lose It!’s tiers page puts automatic syncing in Premium. Ad-free logging is also a Premium feature at MyFitnessPal, so the free plan shows ads.

How big are the food databases?

Each company gives a different number, and none of them tells you much. MyFitnessPal’s App Store page says 20.5M+ foods. Lose It!’s tiers page says 50M+, and its App Store page says 56+ million. I stopped comparing these. Each app counts entries its own way, and a bigger count doesn’t mean the entry for your yogurt is right.

Try this instead. Take the five foods you eat most, search each in both apps, and open the entries. Note which ones show a serving in grams and a calorie number that matches the label in your cupboard. That ten-minute test tells you more than any count.

Which Premium extras would you really use?

Count only the features you’d touch every week. MyFitnessPal’s comparison table lists macros by gram and by meal, calorie goals by meal and by day, food timestamps, multi-day logging, net carbs and fasting under Premium. Lose It!’s App Store page lists advanced tracking of macros and micronutrients, intermittent fasting, meal targets and fitness-app syncing under Premium.

I run a simple test: pick three items you would use in a normal week and check that the same paid plan has all three. If only one app does, the choice is made. If both do, the cancel and export rules below break the tie. And if micronutrient depth is what you’d pay for, Cronometer vs MyFitnessPal compares food data and free tiers.

What happens if you cancel?

You keep your diary in both, and the paid tools stop at the end of the period you paid for. Both companies say you must cancel on the platform where you subscribed. MyFitnessPal says Premium stays until the paid period ends. Lose It! says your account returns to the free version and that deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.

Export is where they split. MyFitnessPal’s export page describes it as a Premium feature, so download your files before you cancel. Lose It! lets you download a full export from its website. Its export page says importing data is not possible, and you can’t export weight history alone. That matters if you ever plan to leave. Your Lose It! history can be exported, and nothing can be imported back.

Where does Calsa fit next to these two?

How we compare: 15 calorie trackers sold in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, checked against their websites, help centers and App Store pages. I never opened the paid screens.

	In the category (of 15 apps, checked 8 Oct 2026)	Calsa
Source of each number	0 of 15 show the database source of every number; 9 show a check badge or a “checked by nutritionists” claim without it	every number shows its source and database release; an unconfirmed amount is marked “estimate”
Price	0 of 15 show the price before the first question; 7 of 15 use timers, discount wheels or a second offer	price, trial and how to cancel before any question; no timers
Calorie floor	0 of 15 keep a floor that cannot be switched off	a goal below the floor is not saved, and the reason is shown

Where Calsa is weaker. Its food database is smaller than either app’s, and it lacks manual workout logging, an Apple Watch app or widget, meal plans and fasting. After the trial, every plan is paid.

Choose something else if you need a plan that stays unpaid, a watch app, manual workout logging or a weekly meal plan.

If you are coming from either app, three things matter. Calsa shows the source and the grams behind every number in your diary. It scans barcodes in every plan. It can import a history from a CSV file, with a preview before anything is saved. You can also download all your data on any plan. I haven’t tested whether a MyFitnessPal or Lose It! export file imports cleanly, so use the preview and check a few days.

MyFitnessPal suits you if you want partner-app linking on a free plan, or the Premium+ meal-planning tier later. Lose It! suits you if one subscription with a 7-day trial is enough and you don’t plan to bring old history in. If neither fits, log the same three days in both before you pay anyone, and run the best calorie counter app checks on whatever you try next.