Nouri vs YAZIO: Which Calorie Tracker Fits You in 2026?

YAZIO is the broad, free-to-start option in calorie tracking: a food diary with a stated four-million-item database, barcode scanning, intermittent fasting timers, and more than 3,000 recipes, on iPhone and Android, with a free tier that genuinely works. Nouri is the narrow one: no database, no recipe library, no fasting timers, just type or say what you ate and get calories and macros itemized, for $39.99/year. Two things about YAZIO are worth knowing before you compare prices, and both come from its own documentation: it no longer offers a web version, and its AI photo tracking, which was once free, is now part of PRO. We make Nouri, so every YAZIO fact below is drawn from its own site, help center, or App Store listing, with the date checked.

At a glance

	Nouri	YAZIO
Core logging	Type or say a sentence; Siri hands-free; photo	Search, barcode scan, AI photo (PRO), custom foods, recipes
Tracks	Calories, macros, Health Score, AI coach	Calories, macros, water, weight, body measurements, steps, mood, micronutrients (PRO)
Extras	None by design	3,000+ recipes (PRO), fasting timers, meal planning, grocery lists
Free tier	No, 3-day free trial	Yes, with ads
Paid price	$9.99/month or $39.99/year	Not published on its site; App Store lists PRO purchases $11.90 to $47.90
Platforms	iPhone (iOS only)	iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android. No web version

Facts from yazio.com, its help center, and its App Store listing, checked September 27, 2026.

Nouri: one sentence per meal

How it works:

• Write what you ate in plain language, or say it, or use Siri with the phone locked
• AI returns calories, protein, carbs, and fat with an item-by-item breakdown you can edit
• Add context ("large portion") and recalculate when an estimate looks wrong
• Health Score per meal, an AI coach on your week, and totals sync to Apple Health

Strengths:

• No database to search, which means home cooking and restaurant plates log as easily as packaged food
• Siri logs a full meal end to end without unlocking the phone
• One flat price with nothing gated behind a second tier
• Targets from a formula we publish in full, runnable in our free calculators

Weaknesses:

• iPhone only, no Android
• No barcode scanner, no recipe library, no fasting timers, no meal planner
• No free tier beyond the 3-day free trial
• No micronutrient tracking

Best for: people who have abandoned trackers because logging took too long, and who want one number rather than a suite.

Pricing: $9.99/month or $39.99/year (USD), with a 3-day free trial on the yearly plan (download Nouri)

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YAZIO: the broad one with a free tier

Everything below comes from YAZIO's own published materials, checked September 27, 2026.

How it works:

• Search a stated database of over four million items, scan barcodes, or create custom foods, meals, and recipes
• AI photo tracking analyzes a meal photo and estimates ingredients and portions, with editable results. YAZIO's help center states this feature "was initially available to all users for free and is now part of Yazio Pro"
• Fasting trackers with about 20 plans, of which its tutorial states "16:8 is available in the free version, all other fasting trackers can only be used in Yazio Pro"
• Its own food rating system, grocery lists, meal planning, and step and activity tracking

Strengths:

• A genuine free tier: food diary, calorie and macro goals, barcode scanner, water tracker, and the 16:8 fasting plan, with instant access and no signup required per its store listing
• Breadth Nouri does not attempt: more than 3,000 recipes created and tested by its nutrition experts, fasting plans, meal planning, mood and symptom tracking
• Android and iPhone, plus a standalone Apple Watch app
• Apple Health and Health Connect sync are free for all users, not gated behind PRO
• It states it is "Trusted by 100M and counting"

Weaknesses:

• No web version. Its help center is explicit: "We currently do not offer a web version or versions for Windows or Mac. Yazio can only be used on your Android or iOS device." Its website handles accounts and purchases only
• Pricing is not published on its own site. There is no pricing page; the App Store listing shows PRO in-app purchases ranging from $11.90 to $47.90 with duplicate product names, and the Google Play listing gives a wholly different range of $6.99 to $299.99 per item. Neither is reconciled anywhere official
• No monthly option. Its help center states plainly: "A monthly payment is not possible"
• Its 7-day free trial is website-only: "it is not possible to subscribe to it directly in the app"
• A lot sits behind PRO, including AI photo tracking, recipes, weekly and monthly analyses, micronutrient detail, most fasting plans, and manual step entry
• Wearable integrations beyond Apple Health and Health Connect, meaning Fitbit, Garmin, Samsung Health, and Polar, all require PRO
• Its free tier carries ads
• Recipe count differs between its own sources: 3,000+ on its site and Google Play, 2,900+ on its App Store listing

Best for: people who want to start free, use Android, or want fasting, recipes, and meal planning in the same app as their food diary.

Pricing: free tier with ads; PRO via in-app purchase, with no single price published on its site. Check the current offer in-app (yazio.com)

The real difference: breadth versus the logging motion

YAZIO is trying to be the whole health app. Nouri is trying to make one action, logging a meal, cost almost nothing. Neither is a compromise of the other, and the honest question is which failure mode you recognize in yourself.

If you have never actually tracked before, YAZIO's free tier is the rational starting point, and I would tell anyone that plainly. It costs nothing, it runs on any phone, and the structure it provides, recipes and fasting plans and a meal planner, helps some people build a habit. You should not pay for a tracker before you know whether you will use one.

If you have tracked before and stopped, the calculus inverts. The reason you stopped was almost certainly not a missing recipe library. It was that logging a normal dinner took too long on a day that had no time for it, which is the argument we lay out in The Most Frictionless Calorie Tracker in the World. A broader app does not fix that. A shorter path from finished meal to finished log does.

There is also a practical difference in how the two are priced that is worth naming without exaggerating it. Nouri is one price with one tier: $39.99/year, everything included. YAZIO's free tier is real, and it is also the top of a funnel, with the flagship AI photo feature having moved from free to PRO and most fasting plans sitting behind the paywall. Neither model is wrong, but they ask different things of you. Ours asks for money up front. Theirs asks you to work out what you are actually getting, and its own site does not publish a price to help you.

What I learned trying to log a homemade dinner

I built Nouri because of a specific recurring failure, and it is the one place a broad tracker and a narrow one diverge most sharply. My mother's arroz con pollo is not in any food database. It cannot be, because it is a recipe that exists in one kitchen. In a database-first app, logging it means either building a custom recipe from a dozen ingredients, which I did exactly once and never again, or picking a stranger's entry for something with the same name and accepting an unknown error.

In Nouri the log is "mom's arroz con pollo, medium plate, chicken thigh and rice, cooked in oil." It comes back itemized, and the number is an estimate I can see the reasoning for and correct. It is not more precise than a carefully built custom recipe would be. It is a hundred times more likely to actually happen on a Tuesday, and a log that happens beats a log that is precise, which is the whole argument in Why Calorie Tracking Apps Are Inaccurate.

YAZIO's answer to that meal is its custom recipe builder, and it is a good one if you cook the same dishes repeatedly and will invest the setup time once. Mine is to skip the setup entirely. Pick based on whether you enjoy that kind of setup, because that is genuinely the fork in the road.

How to choose

Pick YAZIO if you want to start without paying, use Android, or want fasting timers, recipes, and meal planning bundled with your food diary. Pick Nouri if you are on iPhone, you have quit trackers before because logging was the problem, you cook food no database contains, or you want Siri to log dinner while your phone stays in your pocket. Either way, set the target honestly first, with Calorie Counting 101 or our free TDEE calculator, and judge whichever you choose the same way: log everything for two weeks, then count the gaps rather than admiring the streak.

FAQ

Is Nouri or YAZIO better?

They solve different problems. YAZIO is broader and free to start, with recipes, fasting, and meal planning. Nouri is narrower and faster to log, with one sentence per meal and a Siri flow. If you have never tracked, start with YAZIO's free tier; if you have quit trackers before, the logging speed is what matters.

Is YAZIO free?

Yes, there is a free version with ads, which includes the food diary, calorie and macro goals, barcode scanning, water tracking, and the 16:8 fasting plan. Its AI photo tracking, recipes, most fasting plans, and micronutrient detail require PRO.

How much does YAZIO PRO cost?

YAZIO does not publish a price on its own website, and there is no pricing page. Its App Store listing shows PRO in-app purchases from $11.90 to $47.90; its Google Play listing states a range of $6.99 to $299.99 per item. Check the offer shown in your own app. Its help center also states that monthly payment is not possible.

Does YAZIO have a web version?

No. Its help center states: "We currently do not offer a web version or versions for Windows or Mac. Yazio can only be used on your Android or iOS device." The website is used for accounts and purchases only.

Is YAZIO's AI photo tracking free?

Not anymore. Its help center states the feature "was initially available to all users for free and is now part of Yazio Pro."

Does Nouri work on Android?

No, Nouri is iPhone (iOS only). YAZIO covers both iPhone and Android, so Android users should pick YAZIO in this comparison.

Which app is better for intermittent fasting?

YAZIO, clearly. It publishes around 20 fasting trackers including 16:8, 14:10, 5:2, 6:1, and 1:1, with 16:8 free and the rest in PRO. Nouri has no fasting feature at all.

Does YAZIO have a barcode scanner?

Yes, and it is available on the free tier. Nouri has no barcode scanner by design, so packaged food is described rather than scanned.

Which is better for home cooking?

Nouri, in our view, because a described meal needs no database entry: "mom's arroz con pollo, medium plate" is a complete log. YAZIO's answer is its custom recipe builder, which is more setup work up front and more precise afterward if you cook the same dishes often.

Does YAZIO track micronutrients?

Yes, under PRO, which its help center describes as "advanced nutrient breakdowns" covering fatty acids, fiber, sugar, salt, vitamins, and minerals. Nouri does not track micronutrients.

Which app is more accurate?

Neither we nor YAZIO publishes benchmarked accuracy, and every tracker inherits the same label and portion error, documented in Why Calorie Tracking Apps Are Inaccurate. YAZIO's own documentation says its AI photo feature "only provides a rough estimate and cannot guarantee 100% accurate results," which is the honest position any estimate-based tracker should take, ours included.

Can I try both before paying?

Yes. YAZIO's free tier needs no payment at all, and it also offers a 7-day trial that its help center says is available only on its website, not in the app. Nouri has a 3-day free trial on the yearly plan.

Bottom line

YAZIO is the better first tracker for most people who have never tracked: free, cross-platform, and broad, with fasting and recipes included. Its costs are a paywall you have to map yourself, ads on the free tier, no web version, and no published price. Nouri is the better second tracker for someone whose first one failed, because it fixes the thing that actually broke, which was the time logging took. Start from an honest target in Calorie Counting 101, and compare more options in Best Calorie Tracker App in 2026.

Sources

• YAZIO features, recipes, and platform claims: yazio.com/en (checked September 27, 2026)
• YAZIO free vs PRO breakdown: help.yazio.com, How does Yazio Pro support my goals (checked September 27, 2026)
• No web version: help.yazio.com, Technical Requirements for Yazio (checked September 27, 2026)
• AI photo tracking moved to PRO, and its stated accuracy limits: help.yazio.com, What is the AI Calorie Tracking Feature (checked September 27, 2026)
• Billing terms and the website-only trial: help.yazio.com, Will I be charged monthly and 7-Day Free Trial Subscription (both checked September 27, 2026)
• Fasting plan availability and integration tiers: help.yazio.com, Tutorial of the Yazio app and Which apps/devices can connect with Yazio (both checked September 27, 2026)
• PRO in-app purchase prices and the 2,900+ recipe figure: its App Store listing; Play in-app purchase range: its Google Play listing (both checked September 27, 2026)
• Nouri pricing, platform, and features: nouriapp.co and the App Store listing