Yazio vs MyFitnessPal

Yazio and MyFitnessPal in one table

Barcode scans on a free account

A scanner appears in Yazio's App Store listing, its Google Play listing and its press fact sheet. Scanning is absent from the Pro feature list, but the plan is Not stated. The missing product article describes adding an item when a barcode finds no product. The food creation article says barcode-created foods are public and editing public foods requires Pro.

The MyFitnessPal barcode article places scanning behind Premium from October 1, 2022. It uses a rear camera in the iOS or Android app, with no website scanner. Free members retain food-name search, as described on the MyFitnessPal home page.

Goals and macro splits before paying

Yazio's goal settings article explains how to change the calorie target, percentages for macros and calorie distribution across meals. The plan required for each setting is Not stated. Macro targets in grams are Not stated. Its Pro feature list includes Weekend Calories, and the Weekend Calories article describes higher calorie targets on selected days.

MyFitnessPal puts calorie and percentage macro targets on Free in its plan table. The goal settings article describes 5 percent increments adding up to 100 percent, with grams and different goals by day reserved for Premium. The plan table also makes calorie goals by meal a paid feature. Yet the Premium page marks macro tracking with custom goals as unavailable on Free. That page and the help center describe free custom goals differently.

Fasting trackers on each plan

The Yazio tutorial describes 20 fasting trackers and calls the free one its most popular. That tracker pairs 16 fasting hours with an 8 hour eating window. All the other trackers need Pro. The Pro feature list includes access to all plans, including the one available free.

The MyFitnessPal fasting tracker article makes the tracker a Premium feature on iPhone and Android, excluding iPad and the website. Its three patterns pair 12 fasting hours with 12 eating hours, 14 with 10, or 16 with 8. The article says timing a fast leaves calorie and macro goals unchanged.

Photos, voice and the food list

Yazio

The Yazio AI photo article says photo logging began as a free feature and now belongs to Pro. Ingredients and quantities can be adjusted after the scan. Voice logging and its plan are Not stated.

Yazio's App Store listing describes more than 4 million searchable items, as does its Google Play listing. The food search article names Food Database Country as a factor in results. Verified entries have a check mark in the diary search article.

MyFitnessPal

Meal Scan is included with Premium and Premium+ in the MyFitnessPal plan table. The Meal Scan article describes English-language app access and suggested food matches for the person logging to select. The Voice Log article requires Premium, English and app version 24.35.0 or higher, and excludes the website. Voice Log has no row in the plan table, although the Premium page names it.

The food data article describes entries supplied by both MyFitnessPal and its users. Its check marks article identifies entries the company reviewed or added, while warning that marked entries can still contain mistakes. The same article gives 19 million foods. The home page displays 20.5M in a stat block and over 18 million in an answer, while the App Store listing and Google Play listing give more than 20.5 million. Our MyFitnessPal review follows the diary and its features in more detail.

Recipes, meal planning and ads

Yazio places its library of more than 3,000 recipes, future meal planning and grocery lists in the Pro feature list. Its own recipes article describes creating recipes, but that feature's plan is Not stated.

MyFitnessPal includes personal recipes on Free in its plan table. The Recipe Discovery article limits logging and saving its recipes to Premium and Premium+, for US users in English in the apps, excluding iPad. The Meal Planner article specifies Premium+ in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia, in the apps rather than on the website. Our Lifesum vs MyFitnessPal comparison sets MyFitnessPal's meal planning beside a different app.

Yazio's App Store listing and Google Play listing disclose ads, with their removal listed under Yazio Pro features. MyFitnessPal's App Store listing and Google Play listing also disclose ads. Its ads help article says ads support the free version, every Premium plan removes them, and they return when Premium ends.

Yazio Pro, Premium and Premium+ prices as listed

The Yazio fact sheet names 3 and 12 month Pro terms. Its payment article says the entire term is charged at the beginning, without monthly payments. A public price on yazio.com is Not stated. The US App Store listing gives the following items in this order.

• 12 Months, $23.90.
• YAZIO PRO, $32.99.
• 12 Months, $47.90.
• YAZIO PRO, $29.99.
• 3 Months, $23.99.
• 12 months, $23.90.
• YAZIO PRO, $11.90.
• 12 Months, $47.90.
• Semi-Annual, $34.99.
• 3 Months, $23.99.

These App Store names include a Semi-Annual term absent from the fact sheet's 3 or 12 month description, and multiple prices under the same name. The Yazio Google Play listing gives a range of $6.99 to $299.99 per item. Which price a new US subscriber sees is Not stated on Yazio's pages.

The MyFitnessPal Premium page displays $79.99 for a year and $19.99 for a month. A Premium+ price there is Not stated. The membership post published April 9, 2025 gives Premium+ at $99.99 a year or $24.99 a month as its US price at that time. Premium+ pricing in the help center and store listings is Not stated. The plan table help article says prices vary with country and plan length.

The MyFitnessPal US App Store listing contains these purchase items in order. Who receives its $9.99 and $49.99 items is Not stated.

• MyFitnessPal Monthly Premium, $19.99.
• MyFitnessPal Yearly Premium, $79.99.
• MyFitnessPal Premium, $9.99.
• MyFitnessPal Monthly Premium, $19.99.
• MyFitnessPal Monthly Premium, $9.99.
• MyFitnessPal Premium, $49.99.
• MyFitnessPal Yearly Premium, $79.99.
• MyFitnessPal Annual Premium, $79.99.
• MyFitnessPal Monthly Premium, $19.99.
• MyFitnessPal Yearly Premium, $49.99.

The MyFitnessPal Google Play listing gives $0.99 to $99.99 per item. Our MyFitnessPal Premium cost guide expands on the full plan breakdown.

Twelve months of each paid plan

• Yazio Pro 12 Months in the US App Store listing covers a year with one payment of $47.90 or $23.90.
• Yazio Pro 3 Months costs $23.99 in the US App Store listing. Four such payments total $95.96.
• Yazio Pro Semi-Annual costs $34.99 in the US App Store listing. Two payments total $69.98.
• MyFitnessPal Premium costs $79.99 a year on the Premium page. Paying $19.99 each month for 12 months totals $239.88.
• MyFitnessPal Premium+ costs $99.99 a year in the April 9, 2025 membership post, as its US price then. At that post's $24.99 monthly price, 12 payments total $299.88.

Items named only YAZIO PRO in the App Store listing state no subscription length, so they have no yearly calculation here. Which App Store price a new US subscriber sees is Not stated by either company. Yazio rules out monthly payments in its payment help article. Other app pairs appear in our TrueCal comparison directory.

Where each app runs

Yazio's technical requirements article names Android and iOS, with no web version. The App Store listing requires watchOS 9 or later for Apple Watch. Its watch plan is Not stated, and Wear OS is Not stated. The press fact sheet gives more than 150 markets and 20 languages.

MyFitnessPal's Premium features article says one subscription covers its website and both apps. Its Meal Scan article, Voice Log article, barcode article, fasting article and Meal Planner article keep those tools off the website. The Apple Watch article and Wear OS article describe watch apps, with their plans Not stated. Its language article lists 15 languages for the website and apps plus 5 additional app languages. An overall country list is Not stated.

Published studies that named Yazio or MyFitnessPal

Simkó and colleagues, 2026, Nutrition, compared Yazio with NutriComp software using identical food entries in 22 three-day dietary records. The PubMed abstract describes paired t tests and Bland-Altman analysis. Energy, carbohydrate, protein and fat totals differed significantly. NutriComp gave higher energy, carbohydrate and protein values, while Yazio tended to give higher fat values.

Bzikowska-Jura and colleagues, 2021, Nutrients, used two-day records from 60 men and 60 women to compare five apps available in Polish with Dieta 6.0. The PubMed abstract says dietitians entered the data and another researcher checked it. All five apps, including Yazio and MyFitnessPal, tended to overestimate energy. The authors concluded that none could replace their reference method.

Tosi and colleagues, 2021, Nutrition, evaluated five apps available in Italian, including Yazio and MyFitnessPal, using each for two weeks. The PubMed abstract describes a three-day food diary comparison with a reference method using the Food Composition Database for Epidemiologic Studies in Italy and Bland-Altman plots. Apps tended to underestimate fat and, to a lesser extent, carbohydrate and fiber, except Yazio and Lifesum, which overestimated protein. The authors linked the differences to databases that were not country-specific and user changes to food lists.

Maringer and colleagues, 2019, Public Health Nutrition, scanned 100 products from two Dutch supermarket chains with seven apps, including MyFitnessPal and Yazio. The PubMed abstract describes recording scans as diary entries and comparing product identification and nutrient values. Energy values were available for 99 percent of scanned products, and on average 79 percent of those values were within 5 percent of the true value. Other nutrient values varied greatly between apps.

These are individual studies from 2019, 2021 and 2026, and this page does not rank the apps on accuracy.

A short note on TrueCal

The TrueCal product information page puts manual calorie logging on the free plan and reserves typed descriptions, voice, photos, barcodes and macros for Pro. The pricing page lists TrueCal Pro at $29.99 a year or $9.99 a month.

The TrueCal product information page lists iPhone, Android and web access. It also says every nutrition number must come from a source or the user.

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