Nutracheck Reviews: Cost, Free Version and UK Food Data

I checked three things for these Nutracheck reviews: what it costs, what you get without paying, and what the UK food data is. The short answers, checked: £39.99 for 12 months or £6.99 a month on its UK website. A seven-day trial comes first. Then a Lite plan stays at £0 but allows only five diary items a day.

How much does Nutracheck cost?

Nutracheck’s price page does the sum for you: twelve months at £6.99 is £83.88. I checked it, and the 12-month membership, which renews annually, comes out £43.89 cheaper, which is £3.33 a month, or about 11p a day. The one-month membership renews monthly.

The App Store tells a different story. The UK listing shows 12-month rows from £23.99 to £34.99, and one-month rows from £3.99 to £6.99. The row names vary, from “1 Month App-Only” to “12 months Membership”. The page doesn’t say which is which, or why the website costs more. These store prices are a snapshot, so the price and renewal line on your own payment screen are the ones that bind.

I also looked for a discount code and found none on the pages I read. The price page carries saving badges, “50% saving” on 12 months and “save 20%” on one month, but those are labels, not codes. I won’t guess one. Its help pages do say one thing about offers. You never lose time you’ve already paid for, and on Apple payments the new membership starts when the old one ends.

Is Nutracheck free?

Partly. The trial is free for seven days, and the help page says you won’t be charged automatically at the end. To subscribe you have to pay through iTunes or Google Play yourself. If you don’t, your account reverts to a Lite membership with unlimited food searches and only five diary items a day.

Five items go fast. Say you log porridge, milk and a banana as three entries. A coffee and a sandwich take the other two, and the diary is full before dinner. Lite works as a lookup tool, or for a week of spot checks. The cap is the first thing to weigh in Nutracheck vs Calsa, which sets Lite against a paid tracker.

Per the price page, the paid membership adds unlimited use on mobile, tablet and desktop, a UK database with photos, an exercise database of over 1,000 activities, reports, recipes, a live weigh-in, a UK help team and no adverts. The UK App Store listing also mentions an Apple Watch app and widgets. I couldn’t tell from these pages whether the barcode scanner works in Lite. If you’re weighing it against a US app, MyFitnessPal Premium lists what that upgrade adds, and Cronometer vs MyFitnessPal sets two other trackers side by side.

Nutracheck reviews and the UK food data: how big is it?

Nutracheck itself gives three figures on three pages. The home page says 350,000 UK foods. The calorie-counter page says over 500,000 UK products. The price page says 600,000, and so does the UK App Store listing, with a plus sign. Nothing on the pages explains the gap, and I wouldn’t read the bigger figure as better data.

What I can say is what the pages claim. The App Store listing names supermarkets such as Tesco, Asda, Aldi and Waitrose. It also names Greggs, Nando’s, Costa and Pret. The company page says Nutratech is independent of food manufacturers and retailers and bases its information on government reports and guidelines.

For a UK baseline, the government publishes the Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset, known as CoFID. Its page names Public Health England as responsible for keeping data on the nutrient content of the UK food supply up to date, and says it funds analysis of foods commonly eaten in the UK.

Ten minutes in the kitchen will test the food data better than any of these counts. Pick five products from your cupboard, scan or search each, and compare the entry’s per-100 g calories with the pack. If a barcode returns two entries, note which one the app shows first, and do all this before the trial ends. How to choose a calorie counter app has the same pack-versus-entry check for any tracker.

How do you cancel Nutracheck?

If you paid in the app, tap More, then My Profile & Account, then Account & Billing, and press Cancel Membership. On the website, go to Profile, then My Account, and use the cancel link for the auto-renewing subscription. Both routes are on Nutracheck’s help page. A trial needs no cancelling, because it closes by itself. Buying a different membership doesn’t cancel the first renewal. The same page says that switching from monthly to annual leaves the monthly payments running until you stop them yourself. Check your subscriptions list the day after you switch. Any plan that renews by itself needs that look, and Noom reviews covers the renewal terms of a program that does.

Where does Calsa fit next to Nutracheck?

Calsa’s pitch next to Nutracheck is the source trail. Each entry gives its source and the math. An amount you haven’t confirmed says “estimate”. Typing a food with its grams in one line works, and so does a photo.

	Nutracheck	Calsa
Plan at £0	Lite: unlimited searches, five diary items a day	None; the price and trial length are shown before the questions
Barcode scanner	In the app; Lite not stated	Every plan
Exercise	Manual logging of 1,000+ activities, plus device sync	Activity comes from Apple Health or Health Connect
Watch and widgets	Apple Watch app and widgets	None
Community	Forum and live weigh-in	None; your diary stays yours
Where it runs	iPhone, Android and web	Web, iPhone and Android

Where Calsa is weaker: there’s no plan at £0, so you can’t keep it for lookups. No Apple Watch app or widget either, no community and no manual workout logging. The food database is smaller. There’s no weekly meal plan.

Choose something else if Lite’s £0 plan would do for you, or if you want a watch app, a forum, manual exercise logging or a meal plan.

Seven days is short. Decide before day seven, log real days, including the messy ones, and count the items. If you never pass five, Lite may be all you need.

Calsa scans barcodes on every plan, UK and Australian products included.