MyFitnessPal Alternative: What to Check Before You Switch

Before you pick a MyFitnessPal alternative, find out what you can take with you, because the export is a Premium feature and gives you food totals summarized by meal, not grams per food. What the plans cost and which features you’d miss come after that, and the highest-priced Premium purchase on its US App Store listing is $79.99 a year.

Everything below about MyFitnessPal comes from its own help pages, and its App Store listings, with prices.

What can I take with me when I leave MyFitnessPal?

Free accounts can print a report or share the diary with a trainer, doctor or nutritionist. A real data export needs Premium or Premium+.

The export arrives by email as a zip with three CSV files: Your Nutrition, Your Progress and Your Exercise. The nutrition file holds calories, macronutrients, micronutrients and timestamps for your logged foods, summarized by meal. You get meal totals, not foods with grams. Weight and measurements are in the progress file. You can choose the date range, but not which of the three files you get.

I’d go in this order. Export while Premium is active. Then turn off auto-renewal, which has to happen on the same platform you paid on. The cancellation page says Premium features stay until the end of the paid period, and a cancellation less than 24 hours before renewal may not stop the charge.

Your history isn’t deleted when you stop paying. The plan comparison page says your logs, recipes and progress history stay in the account, and you lose the paid features. What lapses is the export, while the data stays, so run it before the paid period ends.

Calsa can import a history from a CSV file and shows a preview before anything is saved. Check that your file holds dates and foods in a form the preview can read, and expect meal totals if it came from this export.

What does each plan include, and what does it cost?

The free version covers food and exercise logging, measurements, your own foods, meals and recipes, macronutrients, calorie and macro goals by percentage, diary sharing and links to partner apps. The free-version page lists a printable report too, on the website only.

Premium adds, in the help center’s own table, the barcode scanner, Meal Scan, macros by gram, goals by day and by meal, food analysis, net carbs, intermittent fasting, data export and ad-free use. Premium+ adds meal planning, meal prep, diet preferences and grocery lists on top.

Prices differ by country, and the help center says so. These are the highest-priced Premium monthly and yearly purchases I found on each App Store listing.

Storefront	Premium, monthly	Premium, yearly
US	$19.99	$79.99
UK	£15.99	£64.99
Canada	$27.99	$114.99
Australia	$29.99	$129.99

Each listing also shows lower-priced Premium purchases, so the number you see may differ. I did the arithmetic on the US pair: twelve monthly payments come to 12 × $19.99 = $239.88, and the yearly price is about a third of that. If you stay, the yearly plan is the cheaper way to stay. Weekly pricing widens the gap. The Welmi app alternative article works out a full year of it. For two other rivals priced side by side, there’s MyNetDiary vs MyFitnessPal and Lose It vs MyFitnessPal.

Which features would I miss, and which would I gain?

It depends on what you use daily. I put the facts from MyFitnessPal’s own pages next to what Calsa has built today, and MyFitnessPal vs Calsa goes through prices and a day of logging in more detail. Calsa’s limits are in the next section.

If you use this	MyFitnessPal, from its pages	Calsa
Barcode scanning	Premium	scan packaged food in any plan
Food database	its listing names 20.5M+ foods	a smaller database, with the source shown on each entry
Water	its listing includes a water tracker	counts water by the glass, plus the fluid in what you log
Workouts	log cardio, strength and routines	no manual workout entry, activity comes from Apple Health or Health Connect
Wearables	its listing names Wear OS support and 40+ connected trackers and apps	no watch app yet, weight, steps and activity arrive through Apple Health or Health Connect
Meal plans	Premium+	no weekly meal plans, a recipe for what is left in your day instead
Data export	Premium, summarized by meal	export everything on any plan
Tracking	its listing declares Identifiers and Usage Data under Data Used to Track You	no ad networks, tracking SDKs or pixels

The tracking row is the developer’s own declaration on the US listing, which Apple labels as unverified. I don’t read more into it than the words.

Is Calsa the right MyFitnessPal alternative for me?

That depends on your habits. For the comparison I used 15 calorie trackers sold in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, checked against their websites, help centers and App Store pages. I didn’t walk through paid screens, and I name no apps, only counts. For someone leaving MyFitnessPal the rows that matter most are the source of each number, the price before the first question and the two bold rows at the bottom.

	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”
Breaks	0 of 15 are confirmed clear of streaks; 8 of 15 use streaks or badges	no streaks or badges; a break costs nothing
AI chat	0 of 15 combine a chat without a persona, numbers from a database and memory you can delete fact by fact; all 6 chats in the set use a coach title or a persona	labelled AI with no persona; numbers from the database; memory you can see and delete one fact at a time
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
No numbers	0 of 15 can hide every number	hide calories, nutrients and weight at any time
Tracking	2 of 15 declare no tracking; 13 of 15 declare tracking	no tracking; health data is used only to run the service
Crisis help	0 of 15 publish a crisis protocol	help lines come first; the protocol is published
Where Calsa is weaker		every plan is paid; no manual workout logging; no Apple Watch app or widget; no meal plans or fasting; a smaller food database
Choose something else if		you want a plan that costs nothing, a watch app or a weekly meal plan

Hold the bottom two rows up against your own week. If one of them describes something you use every day, stay where you are or find a tracker that has it. If neither does, what remains is whether a source on every number and a goal that can’t drop under a safe floor are worth a week of testing with your own meals, and I’d finish that week before cancelling anything.

Run this plan over one week. On day one, export while Premium is active and note the date your paid period ends. For the next seven days, log the same meals in both apps and compare the numbers entry by entry, with the grams you weighed. Open the import preview with your export and see what it can read. Keep the old subscription until the paid period ends. Letting the paid period run out adds no charge. The checks in the best calorie counter app guide work on any candidate, so run them on the old app too. Then decide.