MyFitnessPal
Search over 20 million foods for free; barcode, meal photo and voice logging with Premium. Strength entries record sets, reps and weight.
Compared
A MyFitnessPal alternative for serious lifters.
NOTANOTR is an iPhone app, launching soon, that logs your food to the gram from a typed sentence or a photo of the plate and reads it together with every set, your weight trend, sleep and blood work, with one change every Sunday.
The short answer
Stay with MyFitnessPal or Cronometer if food is all you track.
MyFitnessPal has a database of over 20 million foods and a free version. Cronometer is built for nutrient detail and lab values. Their help pages describe calorie goals set from a formula, not re-measured from your weight trend, and neither logs training the way a lifter does. NOTANOTR does both, for lifters who already log.
Cronometer
Over 1.1 million verified foods, a free barcode scanner, and lab values, HRV and resting heart rate as biometrics. Exercise is logged by type, duration and effort.
NOTANOTR
Food to the gram, every set with load, reps and RIR, the weight trend and blood work in one file, with maintenance re-measured every week.
Side by side
Food logging is the start. What a lifter needs is what gets read.
MyFitnessPal and Cronometer as their own sites, help centres and App Store pages describe them. NOTANOTR as its front page does.
| Feature | MyFitnessPal | Cronometer | NOTANOTR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food logging | Search for free; barcode, meal photo and voice with Premium | Search and barcode for free; photo and voice with Gold | A typed sentence or a photo of a plate, menu or label, to the gram, showing the portion it assumed |
| Calorie target | From a formula (Mifflin-St Jeor and activity); offers to recalculate every 10 lb lost | Calculated from your weight goal and rate, plus optional exercise | Maintenance re-measured every week from intake and the 7-day trend |
| Weekly check-in | A Weekly Digest every Sunday: calories against the weekly goal, exercise and steps | Not listed | Every Sunday, one change with the number behind it |
| Strength training | Sets, reps and weight per entry; workout routines with Premium | Activity type, duration and effort; sets not listed | Every set with load, reps and RIR, e1RM per lift and stall flags |
| Volume per muscle | Not listed | Not listed | Weekly sets for 13 muscles against the range your plan aims for |
| Sleep and HRV | Sleep from Apple Health | Sleep from Apple Health; HRV and resting heart rate as biometrics | Sleep, HRV and resting heart rate from Apple Health, read against every lift |
| Blood work | Not listed | Lab values as biometrics; custom ones with Gold | Photograph the report: every marker against the lab's range, next to training and supplements |
| Phones | iPhone, Android, Apple Watch, web | iPhone, Android, Apple Watch, web | iPhone only |
| Price model | Free; Premium and Premium+, 7-day trial | Free; Gold subscription | USD 39.99 a month or USD 299 a year, 7 days free |
As their own sites describe them, read on 15 October 2026: MyFitnessPal on the App Store, MyFitnessPal Free and Premium, MyFitnessPal calorie goals, MyFitnessPal exercise logging, MyFitnessPal Weekly Digest, MyFitnessPal voice logging, MyFitnessPal sleep, cronometer.com, Cronometer energy target, Cronometer exercise, Cronometer biometrics. “Not listed” means we did not find it there, not that it cannot exist.
Honest limits
What NOTANOTR does not do.
- No AndroidiPhone only, for now. MyFitnessPal and Cronometer run on Android and the web.
- Not for beginnersIt reads what you already log. It does not teach you how to train or how to count food.
- Not in the App Store yetIt launches soon. Leave an address on the front page and we tell you when it is live.
- Not freeUSD 39.99 a month or USD 299 a year, with 7 days free (CHF 39.95 or CHF 299 in Switzerland, EUR 39.99 or EUR 299 where the App Store charges in euros). MyFitnessPal and Cronometer both have free versions.
Is NOTANOTR a calorie counter for everyone?
No. It is for lifters who already train with intent and log their food. It reads that data; it does not teach the basics.
How do I log food?
Type it the way you would say it, for example “dinner yesterday: 250 g rice, 200 g chicken”, or photograph a plate, a menu or a label. It shows the portion it assumed, so you can correct it.
How does it set my calories?
It re-measures your maintenance every week from what you ate and what the scale did, and the Sunday check-in proposes one change, such as holding or lowering calories, with the number behind it.
Does it log my workouts too?
Yes. Every set with load, reps and RIR, the e1RM of every lift and a stall flag, in the same file as your food, so the Sunday check-in reads both.
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