Best Yazio Alternative With No Subscription

Yazio is a capable app, known for guided intermittent fasting programs and a large recipe library. People do not usually leave it because it stopped working. They leave for a shorter list of reasons that keep coming up.

Why people look for a Yazio alternative

• The structured fasting programs, the thing most people install it for, are Pro only.
• Annual pricing swings widely between promotions, so two people can pay very different amounts.
• The trial converts to a paid year automatically.

The common thread is the model. Pro is $6.99 a month or $47.90 a year, with frequent promotional annual pricing. That is a fair price for guided intermittent fasting programs and a large recipe library if you use it. It is a lot for a place to write down what you ate.

What to look for in a replacement

• Pay once, or pay nothing. A subscription only makes sense for a service that costs money to run every month. A food log on your phone does not.
• Data that stays on the device. Health data is not browsing history. Ask where your weight and meals go.
• No account. If you need an email and password to log lunch, the app is collecting more than lunch.
• The features you actually use. Be honest about whether you use the photo scanner or just like that it exists.

A no-subscription alternative: Silent

Silent is a calorie, macro, habit and fasting tracker for iPhone that costs $3.99 once. There is no free tier that nags you to upgrade, no trial that converts, and no renewal. Every feature is unlocked at purchase, including future updates.

It also keeps your data on your phone. The AI coach runs on-device with Apple Intelligence, so your food log and weight history are never uploaded, because there is no server to upload them to. Steps, sleep and workouts come in from Apple Health.

To be fair about what it is not: Silent is iOS only, and it does not do barcode or photo logging. You type what you ate, or pick a saved meal. If Yazio's guided intermittent fasting programs and a large recipe library is the reason you use it, that is a real trade-off. If the reason you are here is the price or the privacy, it is the trade-off Silent was built to make.

See the full comparison on the Silent vs Yazio page, or get it on the App Store.

Other Yazio alternatives worth a look

If you need Android, a web app, or barcode scanning, Silent is not your answer. These have free tiers:

• MyFitnessPal: known for the largest crowd-sourced food database in the category. Calorie and macro logging with the full food database, supported by ads. Barcode scanning moved behind Premium in 2022. Compared with Silent.
• Lose It!: known for a friendly calorie budget and photo logging in Premium. A calorie budget, food search, basic macros and weight logging, with ads. Compared with Silent.
• Cronometer: known for lab-verified micronutrient data. Calories, macros and more than 80 micronutrients, barcode scanning and custom recipes, with banner ads and only the last 7 days of history visible. Compared with Silent.