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Noom vs MyFitnessPal

By Eric Parker, founder of TrueCal. Updated October 1, 2026.

Noom Weight starts your morning with a few minutes of lessons, asks you to log food in green, yellow and orange categories, and includes a weekly coach check-in. Its 12-month plan costs $209 paid upfront. MyFitnessPal gives you a free database search to record what you eat. Premium costs $79.99 a year and adds barcode scan, meal scan and voice log.

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Your day in Noom Weight

Set aside 5 to 15 minutes each morning for psychology-focused lessons. Topics include sleep, stress management and self-care.

Enter everything you eat in the food logger. It groups foods by calorie density using green, yellow and orange, while you track intake within a calorie range. No food is off limits.

Expect your coach to check in weekly, or more often if you prefer. You can send the coach an in-app message at any time. The program also includes a community and step goals, with a pedometer that starts people new to exercise at 200 steps a day.

Your day in MyFitnessPal

Open the home screen and search for a food to add to your log. The free database covers over 18 million global foods, from fresh ingredients and packaged products to restaurant items and your own saved foods and recipes.

After recording foods and meals, you can inspect the nutritional breakdown for a single food, a meal, a whole day or a week.

With Premium, point the camera at food or a barcode, or describe a meal aloud and tap to log it. Premium also offers custom macro goals, ad-free logging and multi-day logging for the same food across up to 7 days.

The annual bill and the monthly choice

Noom Weight charges $209 upfront for its annual plan. Its monthly plan is $70, and its 4-month plan is $169 upfront. All plans renew automatically, and Noom says you can cancel at any time.

MyFitnessPal Premium is $79.99 for a year or $19.99 for a month and renews automatically unless cancelled. You can also use MyFitnessPal with a free account.

Noom Weight offers a 7-day or 14-day trial. For the 7-day trial, you choose a price you think is reasonable. When the trial ends, you are charged for your selected plan. MyFitnessPal offers a 7-day free Premium trial if you have never had Premium or its trial.

Noom also sells Noom Med and other medication plans, which this page leaves out.

Compare the daily tools and payment terms

What you get	Noom Weight	MyFitnessPal
A year of access	$209 paid upfront	Free account, or Premium for $79.99 a year
Monthly option	$70	$19.99 for Premium
Free option	Not listed on its site	Free food searches and logging
Billing	Upfront for the selected plan length, auto-renewing	Premium renews monthly or annually unless cancelled
Trial	7 or 14 days, choose a price for the 7-day trial	7 days free for new Premium trial users
Daily lessons	5 to 15 minutes	Not listed on its site
Coaching	Weekly check-in and in-app messages	Not listed on its site
Food information	Green, yellow and orange by calorie density	Nutrition for each food, meal, day and week
Listed database size	Not listed on its site	Over 18 million global foods
Barcode scanning	Not listed on its site	Included with Premium
Voice logging	Not listed on its site	Included with Premium

TrueCal as another logging option

TrueCal is a calorie and macro tracker where you say what you ate. It has no lessons, coach or food color system.

Manual calorie logging is free, including daily and weekly views and meal history. Macro breakdowns and AI, photo, barcode and voice logging are Pro features. Pro costs $29.99 a year or $9.99 a month.

TrueCal runs on iPhone, Android and the web. Eligible customers can start a 14-day Pro trial in the iPhone or Android app through the App Store or Google Play.

Questions before you sign up

Can I keep a food diary in MyFitnessPal without paying?

Yes. A free account lets you search for foods from the home screen, record meals and see nutrition by food, meal, day and week.

Is there a monthly Noom Weight plan?

Noom Weight offers an auto-renewing monthly plan for $70. It bills all plans upfront, including the $209 annual plan.

What do the Noom food colors mean?

Green, yellow and orange group foods by calorie density. The logger uses those categories alongside your calorie range, and no food is off limits.

Who can get the MyFitnessPal Premium trial?

The 7-day free trial is for people who have never had Premium or a Premium trial. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled.

Source pages

Noom Weight cost and program details, checked October 1, 2026
MyFitnessPal Premium plans, checked October 1, 2026
MyFitnessPal free account and database, checked October 1, 2026
TrueCal pricing, checked October 1, 2026
TrueCal features, checked October 1, 2026
TrueCal product facts, checked October 1, 2026

Checked October 1, 2026

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