Looking for an alternative to Yazio?
A planner and a notebook solve different halves of the same problem. Ask where you got stuck: in not knowing what to cook this week, or in finding it too much trouble to write down what you already ate.
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 a plan beats a log
Yazio leans towards telling you what to eat. Fasting windows, menus assembled in advance, recipes gathered into plans — the weight sits on the week ahead rather than on the lunch just finished. In German-speaking Europe it tends to be the first one people meet. If what you actually want is an order to follow, and recording is merely how you confirm you followed it, something organised around plans will serve you better than something organised around scans.