Kiloach, Yazio, MyFitnessPal, Lifesum or Foodvisor?

Yazio, MyFitnessPal, Lifesum, Foodvisor, Kiloach… They all promise to help you count your calories. They don’t all do the same thing, they don’t cost the same, and they don’t treat your data the same way. Here’s an honest comparison, based on what each app says about itself on its App Store listing.

The comparison at a glance

Information on the other apps comes from their App Store listing, as it stood on 10 October 2026. Prices and features change often, always check the listing before subscribing.

Free, or really free?

All five apps are free to download. The difference lies in what’s behind that. Yazio, MyFitnessPal, Lifesum and Foodvisor run on subscriptions, and some features are locked behind payment. With MyFitnessPal, for example, barcode scanning and meal scanning are part of Premium. Kiloach is free, with no subscription and no ads. Everything the app does, you get access to.

Your data, who sees it?

On the App Store, every developer has to declare what they collect. Yazio, MyFitnessPal, Lifesum and Foodvisor all declare identifiers used to track you (“tracking” in Apple’s sense), plus health data linked to your identity, on top of your email address. With Kiloach, there’s no account. Your meals, weight and activities stay on your phone, with an encrypted backup that only you can open using your recovery code.

Logging meals without losing your life to it

This is often where people give up. Searching for every single item in a database, weighing things, picking the right portion, it gets tiring fast. Foodvisor and Lifesum lean on photos, Yazio on text and voice, MyFitnessPal keeps its meal scan for Premium. With Kiloach, you type a sentence like you’d say to a mate (“two slices of toast with jam and a white coffee”) or snap a photo of your plate, and the AI estimates calories, protein, carbs, fat and fibre. You tweak the portion if needed, and it’s logged.

Diets and programmes, for or against?

The other apps offer diets, meal plans or fasting programmes, often in the paid version. That’s useful if you like being guided meal by meal. Kiloach went the other way. No diet, no set menu, no forbidden food. The app shows you where you stand, gives you a gentle nudge when needed, and warns you when you’re overdoing it, including when you’re eating too little.

So, which one should you pick?

• Want a full programme, recipes and meal plans, and happy to pay for a subscription? Look at Yazio, Lifesum or Foodvisor.
• Want the biggest food database and barcode scanning? MyFitnessPal is the long-standing reference, especially on Premium.
• Want something simple, free, with no account, that understands a sentence or a photo and doesn’t lecture you? Try Kiloach.

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