foodoo vs FatSecret
FatSecret is one of the oldest free calorie counters: a large food database, a barcode scanner, a diary and a community, with Premium for meal plans and more.
Where FatSecret is stronger
- A generous free plan that has been free for many years.
- A large food database, including many local products outside the US.
- An active community and years of user recipes.
Where foodoo is different
A photo, a sentence or your voice
The AI reads the dish and the portion; calories and nutrients come from laboratory data wherever it can. 3 analyses a day are free.
How food makes you feel
A short question after meals, then your own patterns: what keeps you full, steady or sleepy — and a forecast for every meal.
Numbers are optional
“No numbers” mode hides calories everywhere and talks about plants, processing and how you feel instead.
More than a diary
A pet that eats what you log, chats with the people you eat with, a child's food diary kept together, and a GLP-1 mode.
Feature by feature
| Feature | foodoo | FatSecret |
|---|---|---|
| Start without an account | ||
| Log from a photo (AI) | ||
| Log by typing a sentence (AI) | ||
| Log by voice | ||
| Barcode scanner | ||
| AI analyses on the free plan | 3 a day | |
| Target that follows what you really burn | ||
| Vitamins and minerals against your norms | ||
| How meals make you feel | ||
| Fullness and energy forecast | ||
| “No numbers” mode | ||
| A companion pet | ||
| Chats with people you eat with | ||
| A child's food diary, shared | ||
| GLP-1 mode | ||
| Report for your doctor | ||
| Apple Health | ||
| Android | ||
| iPad | ||
| Apple Watch | ||
| Mac | ||
| No ads | ||
| Premium, a month | $2.99 | $14.99 |
| Premium, a year | $29.99 | $59.99 |
Which one is for you
Pick FatSecret if
you want a classic calorie diary for free and are happy to search for each food.
Pick foodoo if
you want the AI to do the logging — a photo, a sentence or your voice — with nutrients against your norms and patterns of how food makes you feel.
Moving from FatSecret
Export FatSecret's diary as CSV and upload it, or send screenshots of your diary — foodoo reads them. You see a preview first and nothing is written until you confirm.
Questions
Is foodoo free?
Yes. Everything in foodoo is free to use, with 3 AI food analyses a day. Premium ($2.99 a month or $29.99 a year) removes the daily AI limits.
Can I move my diary from FatSecret?
Export FatSecret's diary as CSV and upload it, or send screenshots of your diary — foodoo reads them. You see a preview first and nothing is written until you confirm.
Is foodoo more accurate than FatSecret?
The AI recognises the dish and the portion; wherever possible, calories and nutrients come from laboratory data rather than the AI's guess, and any result can be put right with one sentence. No photo-based estimate is exact — the portion is the hardest part, so foodoo also learns from your own corrections.
Try foodoo
Free, with 3 AI analyses a day. On iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Android.
Based on each app's public pages and store listings (October 2026). Features change; “partly” also covers what we could not confirm. Prices are US list prices before trials and discounts. MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, Lose It!, MacroFactor, Cal AI, Yazio, Lifesum, FatSecret and Foodnoms are trademarks of their owners; foodoo is not affiliated with them.