Looking for an alternative to FatSecret?
Price does almost all the work in this comparison. Be clear about what you are buying: a shared reference you search yourself, or an estimate produced on your behalf, with its margin of error printed right beside it.
What Sabzy is, in full
- Published accuracy: 81 kcal mean absolute error and a 41 kcal median, measured on 62 dishes from Nutrition5k, where every ingredient was weighed on a scale. Every scan also shows its own confidence range.
- Price: $14.99 a year, about $1.25 a month, or $2.49 monthly. The 3-day free trial comes with the yearly plan. The whole list is on the site, not behind an onboarding quiz.
- Free tier: 3 full AI scans — the entire trial, not 3 a day. Barcode scanning, manual entry, macros, water, weigh-ins and Apple Health stay free and uncapped. No card.
- Languages: 15, fully translated — every screen, not just the buttons. It recognises 70+ cuisines by name, not only Western food.
- Privacy: no advertising, no advertising identifier, nothing sold, and no account needed — signing in is optional and exists for syncing and groups. Usage and crash reports go to Firebase and carry nothing you photographed, typed or ate. Your log lives on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, which we cannot read.
When the price decides it
FatSecret is free in a way the others are not, and its catalogue is raised by the community: entries are added, corrected and argued over by the people using them, alongside a professional side that turns up in clinics and in the work of dietitians. If your budget for this is nothing, or your dietitian already works inside it and wants sight of your diary, the matter is settled. An open catalogue and a paid recognition model are not even competing along the same axis.