Looking for an alternative to MyFitnessPal?
This one is a database against a camera. Measure how much of your food arrives with a label and a name you could look up, and how much of it is a homemade plate nobody has ever entered into any catalogue at all.
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.
Where the MyFitnessPal database wins
The centre of gravity in MyFitnessPal is its catalogue — years of entries, scanned labels, recipes people typed in by hand, and the community that grew around them, recipe importer included. Nothing estimated from a photograph beats a correct entry matched to a weighed portion. If you cook from written recipes, buy a great deal of branded groceries, or carry a history you have no intention of abandoning, that library is the entire argument, and it is a strong one.