Looking for an alternative to Lose It!?
You can point a camera at dinner in either, so the difference lies elsewhere: whether you want other people involved. Think back to why the last attempt died — imprecise numbers, or nobody noticing that you had quietly stopped.
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 other people carry you
Lose It! has stood long enough to have a settled American catalogue and photo logging of its own, but what marks it out are the challenges, the groups and the friends who can see how you are doing. Being answerable to somebody is a feature there, not a trimming. Certain people keep an honest diary for months purely because another person can see the streak. If that describes you, social pressure will do more than any gain in the precision of one estimate.