Weight loss apps can help people reach their health and fitness goals through food and fitness tracking, as well as community support. We rounded up our favorites for every budget.
Best for community support: Lose It!
- Platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop
- Features: food tracking, exercise tracking, group challenges
- Price: free, with an optional subscription of $39.99 per year to access premium features
Lose It! is available on Android and iPhone devices. Users can set weight loss goals, track food intake and exercise, and engage with other users for support and inspiration.
Additionally, people can participate in head-to-head, team, and group-based challenges, earning badges for weight loss.
People can track their meals by taking pictures using the app’s “Snap It” feature.
Lose It! is free to download. However, users can pay $39.99 a year to access premium features, which include personalized goals, water tracking, meal planning, and more.
Best for fitness tracking: MyFitnessPal
- Platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop
- Features: food tracking, exercise tracking, community support
- Price: free, with an optional subscription of $9.99 per month to access premium features
MyFitnessPal is available for free download on Android and iPhone devices. This app tracks food intake to support weight loss and maintenance.
With MyFitnessPal, users have access to a database of more than five million foods and can add entire meals.
Additional features of this app include a fitness tracker and access to a user community.
A person can purchase a premium subscription for $9.99 a month. Premium features include:
- no advertisements
- customized goals
- priority customer support
- meal plans
- workout routines
- food analysis
- barcode feature to automatically input nutritional information
Best for food tracking: MyFoodDiary
- Platforms: desktop
- Features: large food database, daily nutrition reports
- Google Play rating: not available on this platform
- Price: 7-day free trial, then $0.29 per day
MyFoodDiary is a website with a database of more than 200,000 foods, including supermarket and restaurant brands.
Unlike many other food tracking apps, MyFoodDiary tracks 21 nutritional categories on food labels, including carbohydrates, saturated fat, cholesterol, calories, and sugar.
The website provides daily summary and nutrition reports, allowing users to quickly spot areas needing improvement.
People can sign up for a free one-week trial and then pay $0.29 daily. Features include:
- no ads
- nutrition calculation
- members-only discussion forum
- Fitbit integration
Best free app: FatSecret
- Platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop
- Features: food tracking, exercise tracking, weight tracking, physician advice
- Price: free, with an optional subscription starting from $6.49 to access premium features
FatSecret meets all the needs of a weight loss app. Users can track their food intake and physical activity, monitor their weight loss progress, and connect with other users for guidance and support.
Additionally, people can share their data with healthcare professionals through FatSecret Professional, enabling users to get personalized advice and support from physicians.
The FatSecret app is completely free to download and use. People can opt to pay for a premium subscription starting at $6.49 per month, which gives them access to meal plans for specific dietary requirements, advanced meal planning to count calories, and a daily water intake goal.
Best app that uses CBT: Noom
- Platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop
- Features: food tracking, weight tracking, water tracking, educational courses
- Google Play rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
- Price: free to download, membership from $49.99
Noom educates people about the foods they eat rather than stating what they can and cannot eat.
Read our Noom review here.
The app offers mini-courses that use cognitive behavioral therapy to help users lose weight. Users can also track their weight, food and water intake, and step count.
Noom is free to download. Two paid Noom programs, Healthy Weight and Noom Mood, offer more in-depth advice and support.
People will need a Noom membership to use this app. Memberships start at $49.99.
Best affordable subscription: WeightWatchers
- Platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop
- Features: meal planning, barcode scanner, weekly check-ins, coaching
- Price: 30-day free trial, then from $19.99 per month
WeightWatchers allows people to track their food using its point system. Additionally, people can keep track of their water intake, activity, and sleep.
The company also offers recipes using ingredients in a person’s home. Additional features include:
- meal planning
- weekly check-ins
- barcode scanners
- 5-minute coaching sessions
- 24/7 live coachings
- a members-only social network
People can download the app for free. WW offers a 30-day free trial. After this period, people can choose from two different programs, each with differing levels of support. Prices for WW start at $19.99 per month.
Read our WeightWatcher review here.
Best for grocery shopping: PlateJoy
- Platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop
- Features: custom meal plans, personalized recipes, grocery delivery
- Price: free to download, then $69.99 for a six-month subscription and $99.99 for an annual subscription
Platejoy creates custom meal plans, personalized recipes, and grocery lists to help users save time and eat better. Users also have the option to have groceries delivered to them through the app, with deliveries coming from Instacart and Amazon Fresh.
PlateJoy caters to specific dietary requirements, such as:
People can also choose their portion sizes and amend recipes to exclude ingredients they dislike or are allergic to.
PlateJoy can be downloaded for free. Users can then opt for a six-month or yearly subscription. A six-month subscription is $69.99, and a yearly subscription is $99.99. This cost does not include food delivery fees.
Best for food and fitness logging: MyNetDiary
- Platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop
- Features: food tracking, exercise tracking
- Price: free, with an optional subscription from $8.99 per month to access premium features
MyNetDiary helps people find a diet to suit their lifestyles and requirements, set weight loss targets, count calories, and monitor daily and weekly meal and exercise goals.
This app is compatible with Google Fit, Fitbit, Apple Watch, and Samsung Health. People can also access blogs and recipes from the company’s website.
MyNetDiary is free to download and use. It offers an optional premium subscription starting from $8.99 per month. This option provides access to more recipes, macros planning and cycling, planning and tracking up to 51 nutrients, and more.
Best for personalized nutrition grades: Fooducate
- Platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop
- Features: food tracking, free recipes, nutritional advice
- Price: free, with optional in-app purchases starting from $1.99
Fooducate is a food database and community where people can log food and trade recipes alongside weight and healthy living tips.
This app contains a tracker so people can track their calorie and macro intake. When a person inputs their dietary requirements and goals, the company offers personalized nutrition grades on a scale of A—D to help keep them on track for their health goals.
Fooducate is free to download and use. People can choose optional in-app purchases to unlock extra features, such as diets that cater to chronic health conditions and options to track the nutritional content in pet food. These purchases start from $1.99.
Best for intermittent fasting: Zero
- Platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop
- Features: fasting tracker, metabolic tracking
- Google Play rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
- Price: free, with options to upgrade to Zero Plus premium version for $9.99 per month or $69.99 per year
This app is suitable for anyone who wishes to fast, either intermittently or not. Zero is an easy and effective way to keep track of everything. It offers people times for the end of a fast, feedback, tips, and customization options.
According to Zero, it is one of the world’s most popular fasting apps, with the brand claiming that it not only helps people lose weight and keep it off but also helps people create healthy long lasting habits.
Zero offers subscribers three different fasting options:
- 13-hour fast, also known as the “circadian rhythm fast,” which aligns the person’s eating window with their body’s clock
- 16-hour fast, also known as the 16:8 intermittent fast, which may help people manage their weight and improve their metabolism
- 18-hour fast, or 18:6, which is suitable for the more advanced person who practices fasting
Zero also offers the one meal a day (OMAD) fast and prolonged fast which lasts for up to 7 days.
Zero’s free version offers members the core tools of the app, such as basic statistics and basic content. However, the premium features offer people more advanced content, such as correlated graphs, personal fasting zones, and metabolic tracking.
Best for habit tracking: Strides
- Platforms: iOS, iPad, and Apple Watch
- Features: habit tracking, water tracking, sleep tracking
- Price: free to download with options to upgrade to Strides Plus for $4.99 per month, $29.99 per year, or $79.99 for a lifetime subscription
Unlike other apps, Strides does not focus on weight loss, food, calorie counting, or exercise logging. It helps people keep track of their recurring good and bad habits.
People can customize habits such as how much water they drink or the time they go to sleep, helping them move toward their goals. People can check the progress they are making through weekly, monthly, and yearly reports, and goals are broken down into easily achievable milestones to help keep users motivated.
People can download Strides for free. Alternatively, they can upgrade to Strides Plus, which offers features such as unlimited trackers, backup, tags and filters, export data, and synchronization.
Best for nutrient tracking: Cronometer
- Platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop
- Features: nutrient tracking, calorie tracking, cholesterol tracking, blood pressure tracking
- Price: free to download with options to purchase the Gold subscription from $8.99 per month
Cronometer is a weight loss app that helps people keep track of their nutrient intake as well as their calories. It can track up to 82 micronutrients to help ensure people meet their daily vitamin and mineral needs. Additionally, the app can also track cholesterol levels and blood pressure.
Features of this app include a food database and a barcode scanner so people can log their meals easily. People can also share data with dietitians and other health professionals.
People have access to the basic features of the app with the free downloadable version. Alternatively, they can upgrade to Gold membership, which is available from $8.99 per month to access features such as progress charts, data trends, and a recipe importer.
Best for motivation: Happy Scale
- Platforms: iOS and desktop
- Features: weight tracking, real-time weight goal
- Price: free with options to purchase a premium membership from $1.99 per month
The Happy Scale weight loss app has a moving average progress tracking option so people can see their steady weight loss progress daily, which may help them remain motivated.
Users can break down large goals into smaller incremental milestones, which can help them focus on short-term, more achievable goals. The app uses the person’s progress data to predict their future weight if they continue their current trend. This enables the user to envisage their weight loss for a specific date.
People can sync their weight loss results between devices, such as an iPhone and iPad. Additionally, they can import their current weight to a wireless scale or weight-tracking app from Apple Health. Users can also protect their entries from others by using a passcode.
People also have the option to share some subscriptions with their family group if they enable Family Sharing.
Users can download the Happy Scale app for free and can continue to enjoy the app for a week-long free trial. After this time frame, users can upgrade to Happy Scale premium, which can be purchased for $1.99 per month or $11.99 a year. Alternatively, they can purchase a lifetime subscription for $39.99.
Best for people who are breastfeeding: EasyFit (iOS)
- Platforms: iOS, Android
- Features: food tracking, exercise tracking, weight tracking, macro tracking
- Google Play rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
- Price: free
EasyFit tracks users’ food, exercise, weight loss progress, and macros. This app takes into account the dietary needs of people who are breastfeeding to ensure that they can safely and effectively lose weight whilst at the same time providing optimal nutrition for their infants.
Users can make their own food and add it to the app where it will estimate the total calories. Alternatively, they can choose from over 1500 default foods pre-integrated on the app.
This app offers users a variety of features including:
- breastfeeding-specific meal plan
- breastfeeding-safe exercises
- daily breastfeeding tracking
- weight loss progress
Additionally, the app provides personalized coaching and support to keep users motivated and stay on track with their weight loss goals.
EasyFit is free to download and use.
