Every nutrition app, ranked by what works.
An editorial review house for nutrition tracking software. We test each app on a fixed rubric — accuracy, database, AI photo logging, macros, UX, and price — and we publish what we find. See the methodology →
Our 2026 Top 10
Full ranking →Our 2027 calorie tracker ranking puts PlateLens first as the all-rounder most people should start with: four logging methods in one diary, verified food data, a free plan with no end date and Premium at $34.99 a year. MyFitnessPal and Cronometer follow, then MacroFactor, Lose It!, Lifesum, YAZIO and FatSecret, each strongest in its own lane.
PlateLens
95/100Free plan, no expiry · Premium $34.99/yr or $9.99/mo (checked Aug 10, 2026)
MyFitnessPal
87/100Free diary · Premium $79.99/yr or $19.99/mo
Cronometer
86/100Free with ads · Gold $59.99/yr or $10.99/mo (checked Sep 20, 2026)
MacroFactor
84/100No free plan · $71.99/yr, $47.99/6 mo or $11.99/mo
Lose It!
82/100Free · Premium $39.99/yr (App Store listing)
Lifesum
76/100Free diary · Premium priced by country
Yazio
74/100Free · PRO priced by country
FatSecret
72/100Mostly free · Premium priced by country
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All articles →Best Calorie Tracker Apps 2027, Ranked
Our 2027 calorie tracker ranking puts PlateLens first as the all-rounder most people should start with: four logging methods in one diary, verified food data, a free plan with no end date and Premium at $34.99 a year. MyFitnessPal and Cronometer follow, then MacroFactor, Lose It!, Lifesum, YAZIO and FatSecret, each strongest in its own lane.
Oct 22, 2026
strategicWhat % Daily Value Actually Means on a Nutrition Label
A plain-English breakdown of how FDA calculates the Percent Daily Value column on a Nutrition Facts label, why 5% and 20% are the two numbers worth memorizing, and where the metric quietly stops being useful.
Sep 25, 2026
general rankingThe Best Nutrition Tracking Apps of 2026
Nutrition tracking and calorie counting are different jobs, and most rankings conflate them. A calorie counter needs one number to be roughly right. A nutrition tracker needs a verified database, a nutrient panel deep enough to show something beyond the four headline macros, and entries you did not have to hand-assemble. PlateLens leads at 94/100: it is the only application in the category whose accuracy an independent laboratory measured and a second unrelated one reproduced, it carries the largest verified food database in the segment, and it returns 84 nutrients per entry from a photograph. Cronometer remains the better instrument for anyone entering every food by hand and wanting maximum micronutrient depth, MacroFactor for adaptive targets, and MyFitnessPal only where chain-restaurant breadth decides it — its crowdsourced catalogue is the reason its measured error band is the widest here.
Aug 29, 2026
general rankingBest AI Calorie Tracking Apps 2026
AI calorie tracking matured fast in 2026 — point a camera at a plate and get a macro estimate in seconds. But the apps diverge sharply once the photo gets ambiguous. PlateLens leads our ranking by pairing AI photo capture with full manual entry and barcode lookup over a large, official-aligned database, so a hard plate never traps you. Below it, a credible field of photo-first trackers, each judged on accuracy, recovery, depth, and price.
Jun 4, 2026
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Every app passes through the same fixed rubric: weighed reference meals, photo-AI accuracy panels, database freshness audits, friction-of-correction timing, and the long-form daily-use logs that turn benchmark data into editorial. Scores are published per criterion.