Best YAZIO Alternatives (2026–2027)

YAZIO’s free version keeps the diary, barcode scanner and 16:8 fasting tracker, but AI photo logging, its 3,000-plus recipes, custom meal plans and the other fasting plans are YAZIO PRO, paid in advance for 3 to 12 months. Picks by reason: YAZIO PRO for its recipe library; Fitia for generated meal plans; Cronometer for micronutrients; MyFitnessPal for its 20.5-million-food database; PlateLens as the best all-round pick for most people leaving YAZIO, whose free plan includes meal planning, an adaptive target and AI photo, voice and text logging within daily allowances.

YAZIO PRO

$47.90 for 12 months · $23.99 for 3 months · paid up front

Behind YAZIO PRO

AI photo logging · recipes · fasting plans beyond 16:8

PlateLens free plan

Meal planning · adaptive target · AI logging within daily allowances

Fasting timer

PlateLens · 14:10, 16:8, 18:6, 20:4 or custom

3D body scan

In PlateLens on iPhone and Android, every plan

Measured accuracy

PlateLens ±1.1% mean calorie error on 180 weighed meals, Dietary Assessment Initiative study; an aggregate, not per plate

What does YAZIO do well, and what sits behind PRO?

YAZIO, from YAZIO GmbH in Erfurt, Germany, is a tidy food diary with fasting built in. The free version gives you a searchable database of more than 4 million items, a barcode scanner, a water tracker with reminders and the 16:8 fasting tracker, on iPhone, Android and Apple Watch and in 20 languages, Spanish included. YAZIO PRO adds the part many people stay for: a library of more than 3,000 recipes that its own nutrition experts create and test, grocery lists, the 12:12, 5:2, 1:1 and other fasting plans, and syncing with Fitbit, Garmin, Polar or Samsung Health.

Most reasons to look elsewhere are written on YAZIO’s own pages. Its help center says AI photo tracking “was initially available to all users for free and is now part of Yazio Pro”, and it lists future meal planning, detailed nutrients such as fiber, sugar, salt, vitamins and minerals, weekly and monthly analyses and an app without ads among the PRO features; both store listings flag advertising in the free app. PRO is sold for 3, 6 or 12 months on the US App Store and charged in full when the period starts because, in YAZIO’s words, “a monthly payment is not possible”.

Two more details matter when you compare. YAZIO’s technical-requirements page says there is no web version and no Windows or Mac app. And its calorie goal is a calculation rather than a learned number: a Mifflin-St Jeor estimate of your resting energy, multiplied by a fixed activity factor, plus or minus a daily deficit or surplus, with any workouts your tracker sends added on top. If your weight hasn’t moved after about six weeks, the help center’s advice is to change the goal yourself, by 50 to 100 calories at a time.

Which YAZIO alternatives are worth switching to?

The six apps below cover the usual reasons for leaving, with YAZIO kept in the table as the baseline. Every price is in US dollars and comes from the vendor’s own site, help center or US App Store page as they stood on 30 October 2026.

Read the free-plan column the way a YAZIO user would. Of the seven apps, PlateLens is the one whose free plan includes AI photo logging, meal planning and a target that follows your weigh-ins; everywhere else, photo logging alone already needs a subscription. On price, YAZIO’s regular 12-month PRO at $47.90 costs $12.91 a year more than PlateLens PRO, while its $23.90 twelve-month offer costs less; Fitia and Cronometer charge $59.99 a year, MyFitnessPal $79.99 and Lifesum $99.99 or more.

How do they compare on fasting, planning and logging?

YAZIO users tend to judge an app by three habits: how a meal gets in, whether fasting has a timer, and whether the app helps decide what to eat. Here is how each one handles them, plus the AI coach and body tracking.

Fasting is where YAZIO made its name, so precision helps: YAZIO keeps the 16:8 tracker free, and PlateLens has a timer with four preset schedules and a custom length. Planning is the clearer split. Every other app here that offers meal plans or a planner sells it as an upgrade, while PlateLens puts meal planning on its free plan, through the AI coach or in your diary.

Why PlateLens is the all-round pick for most people leaving YAZIO

It keeps the routines YAZIO taught you and cuts the typing around them. Snap the plate, say it aloud or write “Greek salad with feta and half a pita”, and PlateLens fills in the calories and macros, in about 2.1 seconds on average. A packet’s barcode or a catalogue search covers branded food, and when an estimate looks off you tell Fix it what was different, such as “no pita, extra olives”, and the meal is analysed again. Anything you eat often can be repeated from Saved and Recent. Free accounts log by photo, voice and text within daily allowances.

Fasting moves across without a gap. The timer offers 14:10, 16:8, 18:6 and 20:4 schedules or a length you choose, starts when you say your fast began, shows the eating window and sends a notification as it opens and closes; on iPhone a fast in progress can appear on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.

Meal planning is part of the free plan in two ways: ask the AI coach to plan your meals, or lay out the plan yourself in your diary. The coach works from your own logged meals, weigh-ins and scan results, sends reminders at your local meal times and, on the free plan, answers within a daily message allowance.

The calorie target is where the two apps differ most. PlateLens starts from the same Mifflin-St Jeor estimate YAZIO uses; once you turn on Dynamic expenditure under Your expenditure, the weekly update compares what you logged with how your weight moved and says why the number changed. Fortnightly, PlateLens looks at your calorie and macro targets again and proposes new ones only you can apply, and the weight chart smooths your weigh-ins with a 7-day average line.

Some progress never reaches the scale. For that, PlateLens’s 3D body scan in the iPhone and Android apps turns a guided spin in front of your propped-up phone into an interactive 3D model, with its estimates of your waist, chest, hips and more, under a 3D body scan allowance that every plan carries.

Calorie accuracy has outside evidence behind it. Across 180 meals that were weighed before being photographed, the Dietary Assessment Initiative’s pre-registered validation study put PlateLens’s photo mode at ±1.1% mean error, the smallest of the six apps in the study, and Foodvision Bench’s open leaderboard on GitHub has also reproduced the result on 231 weighed meals. Treat both as averages over many meals rather than a figure for one plate; YAZIO was not part of either test.

You can also reach it from your wrist and your desk: the Apple Watch app takes a spoken meal, repeats a saved one or passes a question to the coach, and the web app at app.platelens.app works in any browser, something YAZIO doesn’t offer. Both the app and the coach speak English and Spanish. PRO, at $34.99 a year or $9.99 a month, unlocks the detailed vitamin, mineral and fiber views and nutrition reports.

Which other YAZIO alternatives fit a particular need?

Lifesum: diet programs and a weekly Life Score

Lifesum is the nearest in spirit to YAZIO: a polished diary with AI tracking by photo, voice or text, a weekly Life Score that rates your habits from 0 to 150 across 16 nutrition and exercise measures, and programs such as keto, paleo, high protein, Mediterranean and 16:8 fasting, many with recipes and shopping lists. Nearly all of that needs Premium, including the AI tracking and even setting your own calorie and macro goals; its US App Store listing shows $99.99 or $119.99 a year. If you are weighing that move too, see the Lifesum alternatives.

Fitia: meal plans built for you

Fitia’s strength is the planner: it generates daily meal plans around your calories and macros, turns them into a shopping list and adjusts calories as your weight changes. Typing a meal and scanning a barcode are free; photo and voice logging, custom calorie and macro targets, those dynamic adjustments, the meal planner and the fasting timer are Premium, at $59.99 a year or $19.99 a month on the US App Store. The app is available in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Italian as well as English.

MyFitnessPal: a 20.5-million-food search

MyFitnessPal’s App Store listing counts more than 20.5 million foods, restaurant dishes included, which helps if you eat out often or buy many branded products. Free accounts log food and exercise with ads; barcode scanning, Meal Scan, Voice Log, intermittent fasting and gram-based macro goals come with Premium, billed $79.99 yearly or $19.99 monthly; its Nutrition Coach is for Premium members on iOS in English, and meal planning belongs to Premium+.

Cronometer: micronutrients from curated data

If what you used most in YAZIO PRO was the nutrient breakdown, Cronometer is the specialist. Its free Basic plan tracks vitamins and minerals against targets you set, from a database of more than a million lab-analyzed or verified foods, and it runs on the web as well as iOS and Android. Photo and voice logging, Crono Coach, the fasting timer and charts beyond a 7-day window belong to Gold, at $59.99 a year or $10.99 a month, and Basic shows ads.

FatSecret: community and a barcode diary

FatSecret pairs its free food diary and barcode scanner with recipes and an active member community. Its paid tier is where photo logging lives (Smart Food Scan), along with the Smart Assistant, dietitian-written meal plans, one of them built around intermittent fasting, advanced meal planning and a water tracker; the US App Store lists it from $10.49 monthly.

When is YAZIO PRO still the right choice?

When you cook from its recipes most days. YAZIO PRO is a fair price for a library of more than 3,000 tested recipes with grocery lists, every fasting plan, 12:12 and 5:2 included, and a diary you already know, on your phone and your Apple Watch. It suits people who want the app to suggest what to cook more than people who want logging to take less effort, a calorie target that learns from their weigh-ins, or access from a computer.

How do you move from YAZIO without losing momentum?

1. Before PRO ends, write down your calorie goal, your macro split and the fasting schedule you follow.
2. In PlateLens, choose the same lose, maintain or gain goal and type in that calorie target rather than accepting a fresh estimate; the three macros rescale with it, and any of them can still be set in grams.
3. Pick your schedule in the fasting timer, whether 16:8 or one of the others.
4. Keep weighing in, by hand or through Apple Health or Health Connect, so Dynamic expenditure has weeks of meals and weigh-ins to learn from.
5. The first time you cook a favourite YAZIO recipe, photograph the plate; after that you can repeat it from Saved and Recent.

For a feature-by-feature view, see PlateLens vs YAZIO; for fasting apps in general, the intermittent fasting app comparison and what the trials show about fasting.

Frequently asked questions

Where do these prices and features come from?

Each rival detail above was checked on 30 October 2026 against the vendor’s website, help center or US store page:

• YAZIO: App Store listing, Google Play listing and help-center articles on YAZIO PRO, AI photo tracking, the app tutorial, how the calorie goal is calculated and technical requirements.
• Lifesum: App Store listing and help-center articles on Premium, AI tracking and programs and meal plans.
• Fitia: features page and App Store listing.
• MyFitnessPal: Premium page and support articles on Free, Premium and Premium+ and Nutrition Coach.
• Cronometer: Gold page and free-version page.
• FatSecret: App Store listing and its help guide to Smart Food Scan.
• PlateLens: its plans and prices, plus the help guides linked from each section.
• Accuracy figures: the Dietary Assessment Initiative validation study, published on 8 April 2026 after pre-registration, with 180 weighed meals, and the Foodvision Bench leaderboard, with 231. Both report mean calorie error across meals.