Looking for an alternative to Lifesum?
One app wants to change how you eat; the other wants the writing-down to cost you nothing. Settle which of those two problems is yours before comparing anything else, because the features follow from that choice and barely overlap.
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.
If you want a programme
Lifesum treats eating as a programme you enrol in rather than a ledger you keep: keto, high protein, small habits reinforced day after day, and a view on what you are eating and not only on how much of it. It is designed to encourage, and design is plainly taken seriously there. If structure and gentle coaching are what move you, and you want to be nudged instead of merely recorded, that is genuinely a different product and it earns its price.