Tired of photographing every meal for Foodvisor? Here is another way.
Foodvisor asks you to log what you already ate. Macro Recipe plans what you are going to cook, so the numbers come out right without a food diary.
Updated September 2026
Foodvisor is a French-founded app built by engineers and dietitians, and it was one of the first to let you snap a photo of your plate and get an estimated calorie and macro count back. Millions of people have used it to build the habit of tracking what they eat.
This page is not about whether Foodvisor is good at what it does — by most accounts it is. It is about a different question: what happens after a few months of logging every meal, when the habit itself starts to feel like the chore. This is written by the team behind Macro Recipe, so read it with that in mind; we have tried to make it useful either way.
What Foodvisor does well
Foodvisor was one of the earliest apps to make photo-based food recognition work, and long-time users still rate its recognition quality highly compared to newer entrants. Its free tier is genuinely usable too: photo recognition, barcode scanning and a food diary are all available before you pay for anything.
Its packaged-food database is stronger than many US-first trackers for France, Spain, Italy and Germany, which matters if you are scanning barcodes from a French or European supermarket. And the scale is real: reported past one million users within its first year and millions since.
Who Foodvisor is for
If what you want is a running record of what you ate — a photo diary, a barcode scanner for packaged food, a calorie total at the end of the day — Foodvisor is built exactly for that, and it has years of refinement behind the recognition engine.
It suits someone who already knows how to cook and eat well and just wants visibility: a way to notice, after the fact, that Tuesday ran high on carbs or that the week's protein was thin. The decisions stay yours; the app is a mirror.
Where it stops — the complaints
The most serious complaints are about billing: reviewers describe being charged after trying to cancel inside the trial window, one citing a €43.79 charge despite cancelling within 14 days.
Support is another recurring theme — one reviewer says they "emailed a nutritionist without receiving a response," describing support as virtually non-existent.
Others hit paywalls on features they expected to be included and churn before seeing the app's value, and some say the photo recognition itself feels slow next to newer, faster tools.
And a quieter complaint shows up in App Store reviews: a few users describe the daily weigh-in and constant logging as tipping into obsessive territory rather than staying motivating.
What Macro Recipe does the same
Macro Recipe also starts from your goal and your numbers — it can work toward a calorie and protein target the same way a tracker does, so if you liked having a target, you still have one.
It respects diets and allergies the same way you would expect: tell it what you cannot or will not eat, and it will not be served to you. And like Foodvisor's free tier, your first menu is free before you decide whether to continue.
What it does differently
Foodvisor tells you what you ate, after the fact. Macro Recipe tells you what to cook so the target is met in the first place: a full week of real recipes, matched to your goal — cut, maintenance or muscle gain — built so the day's calories and protein land near your estimated targets without you weighing or logging a single ingredient.
Every dish in the week lands on one consolidated grocery list, with quantities added up so you are not buying rice three separate times. And the list comes with an estimated grocery budget for your week, adjusted to your country's prices — a number Foodvisor's food diary has no reason to give you, because it was never planning your shop.
There is no photo to take and no diary to fill in. You cook the plan, and the numbers you cared about are already where you wanted them.
What it does not do
It is not a food tracker. There is no barcode scanner, no photo food-recognition logging, no daily diary and no coach chat — if what you actually want is to log an unplanned meal you already ate, Macro Recipe is not built for that.
It is not free. Your first menu is free and there is a 3-day trial; after that it is a paid subscription — 9.99 € a month or 69.99 € a year. Foodvisor's core tracking stays free, so weigh that if budget logging is your only need.
It does not import anything from Foodvisor. There is no account link, no data transfer, and no affiliation between the two apps — you start fresh with your own diet, allergies and goal.
Switching in practice
Keep the habit, not the app: the target calorie and protein numbers you settled on in Foodvisor, and the diet or allergy rules you already dialled in, are exactly what Macro Recipe asks for when you set up your profile — carry them over and you lose nothing.
A first week looks like this: set your goal and your diet, get a free weekly menu built from real recipes, see the grocery list and its estimated cost, then decide if the plan fits before the trial ends. No photo, no daily entry — just cook the week and see where the numbers land.
Price, compared
Foodvisor's Premium is reported at roughly $14.99 a month or $83.99 a year on the US App Store, on top of a free tier that already covers logging. Foodvisor itself flags that the exact price can vary by country and promotion, so treat this as an estimated range, not a fixed number.
Macro Recipe is 9.99 € a month or 69.99 € a year, after a free first menu and a 3-day trial — you are paying for the plan and the grocery list, not for tracking. Both are estimated figures for budgeting purposes; check the current price in each app's own store listing before you commit.
What three days of a weekly menu look like
An indicative example for someone aiming at roughly 1,800 kcal and 120 g of protein a day. Estimated figures; your own menu is built from your profile, your tastes and your budget.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free Foodvisor alternative?
Your first menu on Macro Recipe is free, and there is a 3-day trial after that before any subscription starts. Foodvisor's own tracking tier is also free, so if all you need is logging, that free tier still covers it.
Does Macro Recipe scan food or log what I eat, like Foodvisor?
No. There is no camera, no barcode scanner and no food diary. Macro Recipe plans a week of recipes ahead of time so you cook to your estimated targets instead of recording them afterward.
Can I import my Foodvisor history or settings into Macro Recipe?
No, there is no data import and no connection between the two apps. You set your diet, allergies and goal fresh when you start.
Is Macro Recipe cheaper than Foodvisor Premium?
Macro Recipe is 9.99 € a month or 69.99 € a year. Foodvisor Premium is reported at roughly $14.99 a month or $83.99 a year on the US store, though Foodvisor says the exact price can vary by country. Both figures are estimates — check each app's current listing before deciding.
I liked having a calorie and protein target. Do I lose that?
No. You set a goal — cut, maintenance or muscle gain — and Macro Recipe builds the week's recipes so each day lands near your estimated calorie and protein target. You just do not have to log anything to get there.
First menu free · 3-day trial · on iPhone