Comparison

My vs BetterCal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

My

This app helps you track your nutrition and fitness with advanced analytics. It offers tools for diet planning, hydration tracking, and body composition monitoring. Gain insights into your habits to improve your health.

Highlights
  • Nutrition tracking (calories, macros, allergens)
  • Diet planning tools
  • Hydration tracking
  • Body fat and weight tracking
  • Data analytics and visualization
  • Barcode scanner and product search
  • Synchronization with Apple Health
Features
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Follow us on Instagram or Facebook where we regularly review the newest features: www.instagram.com/mynutridiaryapp/ www.facebook.com/My-Nutri-Diary-158683682664510 My-Nutri-Diary is a Nutrition and Fitness Diary, and the data analytics platform you were waiting for. My-Nutri-Diary is not only made for athletes, but tailored to all people who strive to become a stronger, more beautiful, or more healthy version of themselves. We believe knowledge is key to success, and as such, it should be made available to everyone, free of charge. My-Nutri-Diary provides a 100% free of charge premium offering without hidden costs or subscription models. It is developed for the community and strives to become an educational ground for a free and health-aware digital society. My-Nutri-Diary takes data protection very seriously! All communication is encrypted and adheres to  European Standards. With My-Nutri-Diary you will keep your data and identity undisclosed, as we provide you with a custom federated identity solution for our service platform. In a nutshell: Nutrition tracking: My-Nutri-Diary keeps track of your nutrition. Our app supports tracking of calories, macronutrients (proteins, fats, carbohydrates, sugar, fiber), salt consumption, food quality, allergens and much more. Diet-related tooling: My-Nutri-Diary provides a fully-featured toolbox for diet planning which is based on different algorithms for Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) and caloric burn rate estimation. Advanced goal settings: Configure nutrition goals as an easy to maintain weekly plan, in case you are just getting started with self quantification. Alternatively, create nutrition goals on a daily base to professionally align your diet with your training schedule. My-Nutri-Diary goes even further and allows for tracking of macronutrient goals on a per meal or per day basis, in order to enhance caloric burn rate, muscle growth, fat or weight loss. Track hydration: My-Nutri-Diary supports tracking of beverages, and provides an advanced tool for efficient water consumption tracking. Body decomposition: Track body fat and body weight to control progress and fine tune your diet. Data Analytics: Use analytical tools to combine, explore and visualize your data in order to gain deep insights into your eating and drinking habits. Understand your metabolism, the weak-spots of your diet, and the effects of certain diet patterns. Learn from your data and gradually improve. Scan and Search: My-Nutri-Diary provides you with a barcode scanner and intelligent tools for textual product search. The search algorithms are connected with a huge nutrition database with about 2 million products provided in 60 different languages. In addition you can also extend the database with your self-recorded products. Synchronization with other Apps: My-Nutri-Diary supports synchronization with Apple Health app Become part of the community now! My-Nutri-Diary looks forward to support you achieving your goals!

About

BetterCal

Features
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Snap a meal. See your remaining calorie budget. BetterCal helps you log meals from photos, estimate calories and macros, and review your daily goals and food trends. Photo logging with editable portions Take a photo or choose one from your library to get an AI estimate of calories, protein, carbohydrates and fat. Review the ingredients and adjust portions or ingredient weights to better reflect what you ate. Your day and your longer-term habits See daily calorie and macro goals, then look back over 7-day or 30-day views. With your permission, Apple Health provides activity energy, steps and weight data alongside your food records. Keep your records within reach Widgets show today’s calories and your latest meal, or open meal capture quickly. Optional iCloud sync keeps meal records and photos on devices using the same iCloud account. Export your food log as a CSV file when you want a copy. Analysis options and subscriptions Cloud AI analysis requires an internet connection and uploads meal photos with your consent. It includes a free allowance and optional auto-renewable in-app subscriptions. Current allowances, prices and benefits are shown in the app. Apple Intelligence can be selected on supported devices, subject to system and model availability. AI recognition and nutrition values are estimates. Review them against the food and portions you actually ate. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. Terms: https://better-cal.melonluke.com/terms?lang=en Privacy: https://better-cal.melonluke.com/privacy?lang=en

Screenshots

My4 screens
BetterCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My at none against BetterCal's 2. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BetterCal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.09 per month. My asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My ships an update weekly, BetterCal every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
My versus BetterCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMyBetterCal
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.1 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size140 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristoph John子航 徐

In-app purchases

None

My

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

BetterCal

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Member$1.091 Month
  • 季度会员$2.993 Months

Questions

Is My free?
My is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BetterCal free?
BetterCal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do My or BetterCal have ads?
Neither My nor BetterCal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My or BetterCal?
My ships an update weekly, and BetterCal every 4 days. Most recently, My was updated on October 24, 2026 and BetterCal on October 24, 2026.

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