Carb Manager is the app to count carbs: free net-carb tracking and unlimited barcode scan, with a diabetes carb counter on Premium. Carby is not a carb counter. Use Carby only if you actually wanted dinners planned around a grocery budget.
| App | Starter price | If you stay a year | Trial | Refunds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carb Manager | Free Basic at $0.00. Premium listed at $3.33 a month billed annually on the Premium page. | Premium listed at $3.33 a month billed annually. $0 on Basic. Grocery is extra. | Basic is free with no trial. Premium checkout is in the app; the public Premium page does not name a trial length. | App Store listing: payment is charged at purchase confirmation and the subscription auto-renews unless auto-renew is turned off. Follow Apple or Google Play to cancel. |
| Cronometer | Free Basic. Gold $4.99 a month billed annually at $59.99, or $10.99 a month billed monthly, on cronometer.com/gold. | $59.99 on Gold yearly. $131.88 if you stay on Gold monthly at $10.99. $0 on Basic. Grocery is extra. | Basic is free with no time limit. Gold checkout is on the Gold page and in the apps. | Web Gold: set Do Not Auto-Renew in Account Settings and access continues to the end of the term. App Store or Google Play Gold follows those stores. |
| MyFitnessPal | Free food diary. Premium $79.99 a year or $19.99 a month. Premium+ $99.99 a year or $24.99 a month, on MyFitnessPal’s Premium+ page. | $79.99 on Premium yearly. $99.99 on Premium+ yearly. $0 if you stay on the free diary. Grocery is extra. | 7-day Premium or Premium+ trial if you have never upgraded or redeemed a trial. First charge is after the trial unless you cancel. Auto-renews. | Cancel at least 24 hours before renewal to avoid the next charge. Premium features stay until the paid period ends. App Store or Google Play purchases follow those stores. |
| MyNetDiary | Free. Premium $8.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Premium Plus $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year, on MyNetDiary’s about and AI scanner pages. | $0 on Free. $59.99 on Premium yearly. $99.99 on Premium Plus yearly. A $179.99 lifetime option is listed on the free-tracker page. | Free tier needs no trial. Premium trial on iOS is documented in MyNetDiary’s FAQ index; length is shown in the store checkout. | Premium can be bought on MyNetDiary.com (Paddle) or as an in-app purchase. App Store and Google Play refunds follow those stores. |
| Carby | $39.99/year after a 3-day trial on web yearly checkout | $39.99 if you stay on the web yearly plan after the 3-day trial | 3-day trial on the web yearly offer visitors actually see. Monthly ($9.99) and weekly ($4.99) plans also exist. Read the checkout. | Web Stripe charges: email within 30 days of the charge for a refund. App Store charges go through Apple. Cancel during the trial and you are not charged. |
Grocery purchases are extra. Tracker prices are from public vendor pages and US iTunes Lookup, checked October 20, 2026. Carby is a dinner planner, not a food diary.
Basic is $0 and includes net carbs and unlimited barcode scan. Premium is $3.33 a month billed annually, with meal plans, shopping lists and glucose, ketone and insulin tracking. App Store 4.8 from 736,126 ratings.
Carb Manager is for Counting net carbs, including keto and a listed diabetes carb counter on Premium. Skip it if you need family dinners under a typed grocery budget and you are not counting carbs.
Free barcode scan and up to 95 nutrients. Gold $59.99 a year. Not keto-first, but carbs are in the diary.
Cronometer is for A verified food diary when you care about vitamins and minerals, not only calories. Skip it if you want the app to pick this week’s family dinners under a store budget.
Premium includes optional Net Carbs Mode. The free diary tracks total carbs. Premium is $79.99 a year.
MyFitnessPal is for Logging calories and macros in a huge food database, including restaurant items. Skip it if you need dinners and a shopping list built around a grocery budget, not a diary of what you already ate.
Free macros including carbohydrate intake, free barcode, no ads. Premium adds Keto and Low-Carb plans.
MyNetDiary is for A free, ad-free calorie diary with a staff-verified database and a free barcode scanner. Skip it if you want the app to generate five family dinners under a grocery cap at Walmart or Aldi.
Carby does not count carbs. It plans five dinners and a shopping list under a grocery cap. If that is what you meant, use it. If you meant grams of carbohydrate, do not.
Carby is for A household that shops a named US store and wants the week of dinners to start from a spending limit. Skip it if you need the planner to drop ingredients into a retailer pickup or delivery cart.
Carb Manager, for net carbs. Cronometer or MyNetDiary if you want carbs inside a general verified diary. MyFitnessPal Premium if you want Net Carbs Mode on a huge database. Carby is not on that list as a counter.
Carb Manager lists a diabetes carb counter on Premium, plus glucose, ketone and insulin tracking. That is their product. It is not medical advice. Ask your clinician. Carby is not a diabetes app.
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Sources checked October 20, 2026: Carb Manager homepage · Carb Manager Premium · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 410089731 · Cronometer homepage · Cronometer Gold · Cronometer subscription types · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 1145935738 · MyFitnessPal homepage · MyFitnessPal Premium · MyFitnessPal Premium+ · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 341232718 · MyNetDiary homepage · MyNetDiary about · MyNetDiary free tracker page · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 287529757 · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 6779585429 · Carby billing policy · Carby refund help. Competitor facts come from those public pages and US iTunes Lookup. Missing cells were omitted, not guessed.