MyNetDiary Review: Free vs Premium

MyNetDiary has a free tier with a barcode scanner, voice logging and no ads, and Premium costs $8.99 a month on its website. Photo logging and fasting sit behind Premium. For this MyNetDiary review I read its pages, terms and App Store listings. I wanted to see where that line falls and what it costs to cross it.

MyNetDiary Review: Is the Free Tier Really Free?

MyNetDiary’s free-tier page promises no time limit and also lists 13 charts, reports across your full history and a shopping list. No account is needed to start. Each food entry can carry up to 108 nutrients, and the page says free users see the same nutrient fields as Premium users. Apple Health, Health Connect and Samsung Health sync are free too, as are the Apple Watch and Wear OS apps. So is Professional Connect, which shares your diary with a dietitian or coach at no cost to either side.

The limits are specific and few. Exercise calorie add-back is set to 0% or 50% in the free tier, and Premium accepts any value. Photo logging, fasting and the adaptive targets are Premium.

One thing I couldn’t settle from the pages: the free column lists voice logging, and Premium Plus lists “AI Voice Logging”. The page never says how they differ. My reading is that plain voice logging is free and the Plus version turns spoken meals into structured entries. The page doesn’t state it, so treat that as my inference.

Log a week on the free tier before you pay for anything, and note each time you reach for photo logging, fasting or the adaptive targets. For another app’s version of the same line, is the Lose It app free shows what stays behind its paywall.

What does MyNetDiary Premium add, and what does each plan cost?

The free tier already carries the full nutrient fields, so Premium buys features: photo logging, fasting, adaptive calorie targets, more health trackers and a meal planner. Premium Plus adds an AI layer on top. The company’s table lists every row, and this one keeps the rows that change the buying decision.

Feature	Free	Premium	Premium Plus
Barcode scanner	Yes	Yes	Yes
Voice logging	Yes	Yes	Yes
Photo logging (Meal Scan)	No	Yes	Yes
Intermittent fasting	No	Yes	Yes
Adaptive calorie and macro targets (Advanced Autopilot)	No	Yes	Yes
Fitbit, Garmin and Withings sync	No	Yes	Yes
Meal planner and recipe import	No	Yes	Yes
AI Coach, AI meal suggestions, AI restaurant menu scan, AI voice logging	No	No	Yes

Website prices are in US dollars. Premium is $8.99 per month or $59.99 per year. Premium Plus is $14.99 per month or $99.99 per year. A lifetime option is $179.99, paid once. The page gives these as US prices, and I read them.

Twelve months of monthly Premium is 12 × $8.99 = $107.88. The yearly plan saves $47.89. Premium Plus works the same way: 12 × $14.99 = $179.88 against $99.99. Buying both yearly, the AI layer adds $40.00 a year. Lifetime at $179.99 equals three years of yearly Premium, 3 × $59.99 = $179.97. Past three years of logging, lifetime is the cheaper road, but I’d still start with a month.

Now the App Store, which is messier. The US storefront lists “MyNetDiary Premium” at four prices and “Premium Plus” at one, and no row names a period. Two of them, $8.99 and $59.99, match the website’s monthly and yearly prices. Which row is which? The storefront doesn’t say, and I won’t guess.

Storefront	“MyNetDiary Premium” rows	“Premium Plus” row
United States	$8.99, $29.99, $39.99, $59.99	$14.99
United Kingdom	£3.99, £11.99, £15.99, £23.99	£6.99
Canada	$8.99, $29.99, $39.99, $59.99	$14.99
Australia	$8.99, $29.99, $39.99, $59.99	$14.99

PlateAI carries the same AI features as a separate app, which MyNetDiary launched in August 2025. Before you pay, open the App Store listing on your own phone. The row you buy is the one your phone shows. My table is a snapshot, and prices move. If MyFitnessPal is your other candidate, MyNetDiary vs MyFitnessPal puts the logging side by side, and MyFitnessPal Premium lists what its upgrade adds.

Does MyNetDiary have a free trial, and how do you cancel?

Sometimes. The terms say the company may occasionally offer a free trial, and that billing starts when the trial ends unless you cancel first. No page I opened states a trial length.

To cancel, use the Account page in the member section of the website or the mobile apps. There is no minimum commitment. Fees are billed in advance and are nonrefundable, with no credit for unused months, and lifetime purchases are not refundable. Purchases made through Apple are refundable only by Apple. After you cancel, the terms say you can keep using the free service. The comparison page, MyNetDiary vs Calsa, sets these cancel terms beside Calsa’s.

Renewal has its own rule. A discounted first period keeps its price only until the first renewal, and renewal is charged at the rate in force that day. Put the renewal date in your calendar the day you subscribe.

How does MyNetDiary log food, and how large is its database?

On the free tier you can search, scan a barcode or speak an entry. Photographing a plate is Premium. The AI voice and menu tools are Premium Plus. Behind all of them sits a database that the company says its own staff reviews. Its food database page reports 2,165,000 foods across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, including 241,000 restaurant foods and 1,922,000 packaged foods.

I have not tested how closely those entries match labels, and I can’t vouch for the company’s description of its own data. You can check: scan three packaged foods you eat often and compare each entry with the printed label. A photo log is an estimate of what is on the plate, so weigh the food once if the number will drive a decision. How to choose a calorie counter app has more tests of this kind.

Logging streaks are on the free tier too, per the App Store listing.

Where does Calsa differ from MyNetDiary, and who should pick MyNetDiary?

Everything above about MyNetDiary comes from its website, terms and App Store pages, and I never opened its paid screens. Calsa publishes this blog and sells against MyNetDiary’s paid tiers, so check the comparison against those sources before you trust my reading.

	MyNetDiary	Calsa
Starting point	A tier at no cost, with no time limit	Paid from the start, with price, trial length and cancel path shown before any question
Photo logging	Premium	In every plan: names the foods, suggests grams, and you confirm the portion
Typed or spoken entries	Voice logging at no cost, AI voice logging in Premium Plus	In every plan, with grams in the same line
Source behind a number	A staff-reviewed database of 2,165,000 foods	Each entry shows where its calories come from and the math; unconfirmed amounts are marked “estimate”
Streaks	Logging streaks listed among the features at no cost	No streaks or badges, so a break costs nothing
Apple Watch	App at no cost	No watch app yet; weight, steps and activity come in through Apple Health or Health Connect

Where Calsa is weaker: MyNetDiary gives you a barcode scanner, voice logging and no ads at no cost, and Calsa asks for a subscription from the start. It has no manual workout entry, no watch app, no meal planner, no fasting timer and a smaller food database.

Choose something else if you want a tier at no cost, a watch app, a meal planner or fasting timers.

Calsa shows where each entry’s calories come from and the math, which makes a week of the same meals easy to set beside your MyNetDiary diary.