Foodvisor review: is it free, and is Premium worth it?

Is Foodvisor free? Partly. The app is free to download, and the free version lets you log meals by barcode or by searching its food list.

The feature Foodvisor is known for, logging a meal from a photo, is a Premium feature, per its own help center. So is Smart Add, where you describe a meal in a few words.

Foodvisor doesn’t publish one price for Premium. Its help center says prices depend on your country, your platform and any promotion running, and are shown in the app.

Below: what each version includes as of November 12, 2026, what the one independent test of its photos found, and who it suits.

Key takeaways

• Foodvisor’s free version covers barcode scanning, manual logging, goals, weight tracking and a few recipes. Its Google Play listing says the app contains ads.
• Photo logging and Smart Add (describe a meal in words) are Premium features, per Foodvisor’s help center as of November 12, 2026.
• There are three paid options: Premium, a higher tier called Foodvisor Max that adds an AI Coach, and a one-time Sport & Meal Pack. Foodvisor publishes no fixed price for Premium, and neither store listing showed a price for Max or the pack on November 12, 2026.
• In a 2019 to 2020 hospital study of 30 lunches, Foodvisor’s photo estimates came in 7.2 g of carbohydrate and 5.7 g of fat under a weighed reference, on average.
• It suits someone who likes a photo-first tracker with lessons and recipes. If you want a price before you sign up, you’ll only see it in the app or after creating an account.

Foodvisor pros and cons

How this review was put together

This Foodvisor app review is built from Foodvisor’s own pages and published research. We didn’t sign up or test the app, so there are no “we tried it” claims here.

On November 12, 2026, we read Foodvisor’s home page, its Premium page, its terms of service (last updated November 4, 2026) and nine articles in its help center. We also read its US App Store listing and Google Play listing.

The study was read in full through NCBI’s PubMed Central.

What is Foodvisor?

Foodvisor is a calorie and nutrition tracker from Foodvisor SAS, a company based in Paris. It runs on iPhone and Android. Its help center says there’s no web version: the website only manages your subscription.

Its pitch is speed. Both store listings say you can log a meal “in 5 seconds flat” by taking a photo, speaking, typing a few words or scanning a barcode. The app shows calories and macros, plus vitamins and minerals on Premium.

Around the log sit daily lessons, recipes, workouts and a “seed” that grows as you use the app.

Is Foodvisor free? What the free version includes

Yes, there’s a free version, and it isn’t a trial. Section 5.4.1 of Foodvisor’s terms lists what every user gets as of November 12, 2026:

• Barcode scanning for packaged foods.
• Manual logging: you enter the food and the amount.
• Goals and weight tracking: weight loss, maintenance, muscle gain or a balanced diet, with weigh-ins in a Statistics tab.
• Activities, entered by hand or synced from Apple Health. The Google Play listing names Google Fit.
• A limited selection of recipes.

Foodvisor’s help article “Is Foodvisor free?” sums it up the same way: the free version lets you track “by manually logging meals”. Its Google Play listing says the app contains ads, and both listings name “No ads” as a Premium benefit.

So the free version is a database tracker. If the photo is why you’re looking at Foodvisor, that’s the paid part.

What does Foodvisor Premium add?

Premium is the main subscription. Foodvisor’s terms and its help center list, as of November 12, 2026:

• Meal analysis from a photo, which the help center names first.
• Smart Add, where you describe a meal in free text. The help article on eating out marks it “reserved for Premium users”.
• Daily courses on nutrition, psychology and motivation, which Foodvisor’s terms describe as “personalized coaching and advice provided by nutrition experts”.
• All recipes and nutrition articles with meal examples.
• Custom targets: your own macro split and calorie targets per meal or per day.
• Vitamins, minerals and other detail for each food, plus daily and meal summaries.

Foodvisor’s Premium page describes “coaching by our dietitians”. Its terms describe that coaching as advice from nutrition experts in daily courses.

What is Foodvisor Max?

Max is a higher tier, offered as an upgrade to Premium. Per section 5.4.3 of the terms, it adds an AI Coach you can chat with, custom workout sessions and a custom meal plan. You can buy it only through the App Store or Google Play.

The terms are plain that its answers are generated “without any human review”, and that you’re not talking to a dietitian or any other human.

What is the Sport & Meal Pack?

It’s a one-time purchase, not a subscription, per the help center. You keep it for life. It adds video workout programs and 28 days of example menus. It isn’t part of Premium, per the terms.

How much does Foodvisor cost?

Foodvisor doesn’t publish a fixed price. Its help article “How much does the Foodvisor subscription cost?” says prices are “always displayed directly in the app”, and that it “cannot provide a fixed universal price”. It names three things that change yours:

Neither store listing showed a price list on November 12, 2026, so we can’t give a figure. The App Store listing says the subscription renews automatically, and the help center mentions monthly and yearly periods. To see your price, open the Coach section of the app or create an account on Foodvisor’s website.

Is there a Foodvisor free trial?

Foodvisor doesn’t publish a standard trial length. Its refund policy mentions a trial whose price “you pick”, and someone who joins through a referral gets a 14-day free trial.

Can you cancel Foodvisor and get a refund?

You cancel where you paid: in your Apple ID settings, in Google Play, or on your account page at foodvisor.io for a website purchase. The cancellation article warns that deleting your account doesn’t cancel a subscription, and the terms add that deleting the app doesn’t either.

For refunds, the help center says to ask within 14 days, per its refund policy. Apple and Google decide refunds for their own store purchases, and renewal charges aren’t refunded. The terms also describe a “Satisfied or Refunded” offer for Premium, with conditions you’d need to meet within 30 days. Read them before you rely on it.

Check the price in the app before you commit. With no public price list, that screen is the only one that counts.

How does Foodvisor’s photo logging work?

You take a photo of your plate, and Foodvisor identifies the foods and estimates how much of each is there. Its help article on adding a meal suggests shooting from above, in good light, with foods separated. It says not to photograph packaging: the barcode scanner is for that.

You review the result before saving. If a food is misread, the help center says to pick the right one from the suggestions or search for it by hand.

A 2021 study described how the app worked then. It recognized each food, estimated the area it covered in the photo, turned that into a weight, and the weight into macros using France’s CIQUAL food table.

That step from area to weight is where any photo tracker guesses. Oil, butter and sauces barely show in a photo, as our guide to how AI calorie counters work explains.

How accurate is Foodvisor? What research found

A PubMed search for “Foodvisor” on November 12, 2026 returned three results, and only one tested the app. It’s a 2021 study in Diabetes Therapy by Joubert and colleagues (PMID 34028700), which we read in full.

Between October 2019 and March 2020, five medical students at two French university hospitals used Foodvisor on 30 lunches served on hospital wards. A dietitian weighed each meal on laboratory scales to give the reference. The study was built around carbohydrate counting, and it compared Foodvisor with a manual app called GluciCheck.

Here’s what it found for Foodvisor:

• Carbohydrate came in low: 87.9 g against a reference of 95 g, an average of 7.2 g under. In 30% of meals, the estimate was off by more than 20 g.
• Fat came in lower still, in relative terms: 12.4 g against 18.1 g, nearly a third under.
• Protein was 4.2 g under, a gap the study didn’t find significant.
• The manual app did better: GluciCheck, where users picked portion sizes from reference photos, was 1.4 g over on carbohydrate.

The authors still concluded that both apps erred less than people with type 1 diabetes usually do when counting carbohydrates by hand.

Three limits matter. The meals were French hospital lunches, not home cooking or takeout. Students did the logging. And the app was tested more than five years ago, so today’s version may do better or worse. The study didn’t report calories.

What this adds up to: one independent test, on an older version, found Foodvisor’s photos ran low, most of all on fat. Check the oil and sauce on any photo entry, whichever app you use. Our look at whether Cal AI is accurate asks the same question of another photo tracker.

Foodvisor’s store listings quote an average weight loss from an internal study of its own users. That’s Foodvisor’s figure, not published research, so we don’t weigh it here.

Is Foodvisor Premium worth it?

It depends on whether you’ll use the photo. Without Premium, Foodvisor is a free barcode and search tracker with ads. With it, you get photo logging, Smart Add, lessons and recipes. Only the app’s price screen tells you what that costs where you live.

It’s a good fit if:

• You want to log by photo and like lessons and recipes alongside the numbers.
• You use an iPhone and share with family. The Family plan covers up to five members through Apple’s Purchase Sharing, on iPhone only.

It’s a weaker fit if:

• You want to compare prices before you sign up. Foodvisor shows them only in the app or after you create an account.
• You want micronutrient depth above all. Our Cronometer review covers a tracker built for that.
• You log on a computer. Foodvisor’s journal is phone only.
• You’ve tried other trackers and stopped. Our MyFitnessPal alternatives guide sets out what people switch to, and why.

Foodvisor isn’t right for everyone

Foodvisor’s terms restrict it to people aged 16 or older, and say the app isn’t medical advice.

Tracking food isn’t right for everyone either. If counting brings on stress or restriction, or you have a history of disordered eating, talk to a doctor or a registered dietitian before you start any tracker.

Where does Getfiit fit?

We make Getfiit, so weigh this section with that in mind. It’s an AI nutrition and fitness coach that lives in WhatsApp, so there’s no new app to install.

The photo idea is one we share with Foodvisor. You send a photo, a voice note or a sentence, and Getfiit replies with calories, protein, carbs and fat. When a photo leaves something open, like oil or butter, it asks before it logs.

Here’s an illustration of a log, not a measured result:

lunch12:38

Grilled chicken with rice and a green salad. Was the chicken cooked in oil, or was there a dressing on the salad?12:39

no dressing, the chicken was grilled with a bit of oil12:40

Logged, with a little oil on the chicken. Your calories, protein, carbs and fat for today are updated.12:41

It doesn’t scan barcodes or track vitamins and minerals, and it has no recipe library. If those matter, Foodvisor offers them. Getfiit is built for logging that lasts.

As of November 12, 2026, Getfiit costs $19.99 a month after a 3-day free trial, and you can cancel anytime. See how it works.

Frequently asked questions

Is Foodvisor completely free?

No. The free version covers barcode scanning, manual logging, goals and weight tracking, with ads, per its Google Play listing. Photo logging and Smart Add need Premium, per Foodvisor’s help center as of November 12, 2026.

How much is Foodvisor Premium per month?

Foodvisor doesn’t publish one price. Its help center says the price depends on your country, where you pay and any promotion, and is shown in the app’s Coach section or after you create an account on its website.

Is Foodvisor’s photo calorie count accurate?

It gives an estimate. The one independent study we found ran from 2019 to 2020. On average, it came in 7.2 g of carbohydrate and 5.7 g of fat under a weighed reference per lunch. Check oils and sauces on any photo entry.

Does Foodvisor have a real dietitian?

Foodvisor says its daily courses come from nutrition experts and its recipes are approved by nutrition professionals. Its Premium page features a registered dietitian. The AI Coach in Foodvisor Max is not a person: its terms say answers are generated “without any human review”.

Your next step

Start with the free version for a week and see whether you keep logging by barcode and search. If you want the photo, open the Coach section to see what Premium costs in your country before you pay.

If logging is the part you keep dropping, see how photo trackers compare in our Cal AI review, or browse our other tracker comparisons.