Lose It! Alternative: Premium, Lifetime or Solin Prime?

Here's the shortlist, starting with ours.

• Solin Prime. For women who lift and want the week planned: macro tracking, an AI weekly meal plan and Dash, an AI nutrition coach, in the same app as your workout challenge.
• Cronometer. A free Basic plan. Gold is $10.99 billed monthly or $59.99 a year.
• MacroFactor. Calorie targets that adjust over time.
• MyNetDiary. Its free tier includes barcode scanning and macro tracking.
• FatSecret. Its core tracking, macros included, is free.
• YAZIO. A food, fitness and fasting tracker with photo and barcode logging.
• Foodnoms. No ads, and deep Apple Health integration.
• Hoot Fitness. AI calorie tracking and meal logging, with calories, macros and water on one dashboard.
• MyFitnessPal. The other big calorie counter. See how its plans line up in MyFitnessPal vs Lose It!.

Lose It! Basic is still free. It keeps:

• A daily calorie budget set for you
• The 50M+ food database
• Meal and exercise logging
• Recipes you build by hand

These need Premium:

• Macro goals for protein, carbs and fat
• Photo logging (Snap It) and voice logging
• Logging food for future days
• Intermittent fasting
• Syncing with fitness trackers and apps

The barcode scanner sits in between. Lose It! is moving the barcode and nutrition-label scanners to Premium. Some free members still have them while the change rolls out. Once your account loses them, you need Premium to scan.

The free app also shows ads. A one-time purchase inside the app removes them.

Lose It! Premium is $79.99 a year. Lifetime is $299.99 once, or $229.99 if you're a paid Premium member now. Solin Prime is $77.99 a year, or $12.99 a month.

Prime costs $2 less a year than Premium: $233.97 against $239.97 after three years. From the fourth year, Lifetime costs less than either yearly plan. By year five it's $299.99, against $389.95 for Prime and $399.95 for Premium.

If Lifetime is tempting, know two things first. Lifetime purchases can't be refunded. And The Lab, a Lose It! feature, is a separate monthly add-on that Lifetime doesn't include. You can cancel Prime anytime in the app, and it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Lose It! builds your day around a calorie budget. Macro targets sit beside it as separate goals, so when the budget changes, you adjust them by hand.

If you lift, protein is the number to get right. Prime starts there. It sets your daily protein at 1 gram for each pound of the number halfway between your weight today and your goal weight. At 170 pounds with a goal of 150, that's 160 grams. Fat and carbs fill in the rest, and your calories take your activity into account. Strong, not starving.

Then Prime builds your week of meals around your goals and turns it into an Instacart order. Dash, Prime's AI nutrition coach, knows what you've logged, so you can send it a photo of a menu and ask what fits.

Your training lives in the same app. Join a creator's workout challenge on Solin, and Prime pays back 20% of what you paid.

In an App Store review, Lahama14 wrote: "I joined a program on the Solin app, and the coach encourages folks to track macros. Other macro trackers were recommended but I didn’t want to login into a different app". Jaquez e wrote: "I love how easy it is to track my macros and follow meal plans."

See everything in Prime, or how Prime's macro tracking works. Not ready to pay for anything? Our free meal planner builds a week of meals around your calories and protein, with no account.

Download your history from loseit.com first. Lose It! can export your data, but Prime can't bring it in, so your Prime log starts fresh.

In your first week on Prime, scan the foods you eat most: the yogurt, the oats, the bar in your gym bag. New to counting macros? Start with how to track macros. Leaving MyFitnessPal too? Read our MyFitnessPal alternative page.