No. Carby does not count calories, carbs or macros, and it does not log food photos. It plans dinners and a shopping list around a grocery budget. If you need a calorie count, use a tracker in the table.
| App | Starter price | If you stay a year | Trial | Refunds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Lose It! | Free to download, with an optional Premium subscription. Lose It! does not publish a dollar price on the public Premium page; read the in-app checkout. | Free if you stay on Basic. Premium yearly cost is shown in the app, not on loseit.com/premium. Grocery is extra. | Free Basic needs no trial. Premium trial, if offered, is shown in the App Store or Google Play checkout you see. | App Store or Google Play purchases follow those stores. Deleting the app does not cancel a store subscription. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Cal AI | Free to download. Scanning requires a paid plan. US App Store in-app items include Unlimited prices such as $2.99, $5.99, $9.99, $19.99, $29.99 and a $59.99 family plan. Read the paywall you see. | Depends on the Unlimited plan Apple shows you. The public site does not publish one yearly rate. Grocery is extra. | FAQ describes a free-trial page on family invites. Trial length is shown in the App Store paywall, not as a single public number on calai.app. | App Store and Google Play refunds go through those stores. Direct CalAI purchases: email support. Deleting the app does not cancel. Cancel in iPhone Settings → Subscriptions → CalAI. |
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.
Web yearly $39.99 after a 3-day trial. Store catalog estimates on the plan. No food diary.
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.
Free diary. Premium scans.
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 Basic. Premium photo and barcode.
Lose It! is for A simple daily calorie budget with barcode or photo logging on Premium. Skip it if you want next week’s dinners picked under a grocery spending cap.
Free Basic. Gold extras.
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.
Free net carbs. Premium keto tools.
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.
Scanning requires a subscription.
Cal AI is for Logging calories by snapping a photo, if you will pay for scanning. Skip it if you need dinners planned before you shop, with estimated grocery costs.
No.
No. Use Carb Manager if that is the job.
You set store, household, diet and a weekly dinner budget. You get five dinners and one aisle-grouped list with estimated ingredient costs. Estimates are not live shelf prices.
Sources checked October 20, 2026: App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 6779585429 · Carby billing policy · Carby refund help · MyFitnessPal homepage · MyFitnessPal Premium · MyFitnessPal Premium+ · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 341232718 · Lose It! homepage · Lose It! Premium · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 297368629 · Cronometer homepage · Cronometer Gold · Cronometer subscription types · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 1145935738 · Carb Manager homepage · Carb Manager Premium · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 410089731 · Cal AI homepage · Cal AI FAQ · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 6480417616. Competitor facts come from those public pages and US iTunes Lookup. Missing cells were omitted, not guessed.