MyNetDiary review: what is free, what Premium costs, and who it suits

Is MyNetDiary free? Yes, and the free plan covers more than some rivals’ free tiers, Lose It’s among them. As of November 13, 2026, it includes the food database, the barcode scanner, basic voice logging and macro tracking, with no ads.

What you pay for is the extra layer. Premium adds photo logging, adaptive targets, meal plans and health trackers. Premium Plus adds AI tools such as an AI coach and AI voice logging.

And what does MyNetDiary Premium cost? Per its own help center, $8.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Premium Plus is $99.99 a year, and a one-time Lifetime Premium is $179.99.

The short version of this MyNetDiary review: if you want a careful database tracker with macros on the free plan, it’s a strong pick. If searching for foods is what makes you quit, it won’t change that.

Key takeaways

• MyNetDiary’s free plan includes the full food database, a barcode scanner, voice logging, macro tracking and up to 108 nutrients, and the company says it never shows ads.
• As of November 13, 2026, Premium is $8.99 a month or $59.99 a year, Premium Plus is $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year, and Lifetime Premium is $179.99 once.
• Photo logging (Meal Scan) needs Premium. The AI coach and AI voice logging need Premium Plus.
• In an independent 2026 study of 13 apps in Türkiye, MyNetDiary’s estimates were among the two closest to reference food records. A 2015 Australian study found its earlier PRO app overestimated energy.
• Start free. Pay only for the one feature you’d use at most meals.

MyNetDiary pros and cons

How this review was put together

This MyNetDiary review is built from the company’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 13, 2026, we read MyNetDiary’s about page, its free calorie tracker page, its help center, its terms, its US App Store listing and its Google Play listing. Studies came from PubMed. Prices outside the US may differ.

What is MyNetDiary?

MyNetDiary is a calorie and nutrition tracker made by MyNetDiary Inc. Per its about page, the company was founded in December 2005 in New Jersey, launched on the web in 2007 and on iPhone in August 2008. It’s now based in Boca Raton, Florida.

Like MyFitnessPal and Lose It, it’s a database tracker: you search for a food, pick an entry and set a portion. Its about page describes “a staff-verified food database of over 2 million foods with up to 108 nutrients per entry”, built on USDA and NCC research databases.

The company also makes separate apps, including a diabetes tracker, a keto app called Carb Genius and an AI-first app called PlateAI. This review covers the main app, “Calorie Counter - MyNetDiary”.

Is MyNetDiary free? What the free plan includes

Yes. As of November 13, 2026, MyNetDiary’s free calorie tracker page lists these as free:

• Logging: “Full database access, unlimited barcode scanner, voice logging, custom foods and recipes, future logging, offline logging”.
• Targets: a calorie budget, and “macro tracking and planning by grams or calorie percentages, custom macro targets”.
• Nutrients: its help center says tracking for 108 nutrients is “now free (previously Premium only)”.
• Reports: “13 charts, reports over any date range”.

And there are no ads. The page says “No ads, no account required to start”, and the help center says MyNetDiary “never show[s] ads or promotional stories”. Neither the App Store nor Google Play labels the app as containing ads.

That’s a generous free plan for a database tracker. Lose It, for comparison, listed macro tracking and its barcode scanner as Premium on both of its store listings as of November 13, 2026 (see our Lose It review).

One detail to know: the free voice logging is the basic kind. “AI Voice Logging”, where a spoken description of a meal becomes diary entries, is a Premium Plus feature.

What do Premium and Premium Plus add?

MyNetDiary’s comparison table marks these features as Premium, as of November 13, 2026:

• Meal Scan: log a meal from a photo.
• Advanced Autopilot: “adaptive TDEE-based calorie and macro targets”, which adjust from your logs.
• Health tracking: body measurements, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose, A1C and ketones, plus medication tracking and up to 50 custom trackers.
• Planning: a meal planner, recipe import, intermittent fasting, calorie and macro cycling, and “600+ recipes and diet plans by Registered Dietitians”.
• Syncs with Fitbit, Garmin and Withings.

Premium Plus includes everything in Premium plus the AI tools: AI Coach, AI Voice Logging, AI Restaurant Menu Scan and AI meal suggestions. Its help center adds AI exercise logging and priority support.

The AI coach has limits the company states itself: it “analyzes only your last 7 days of logged data”, and “It can make mistakes, so use it as guidance rather than medical advice.”

Photo logging gives an estimate, in MyNetDiary as in every photo tracker. Our guide to how AI calorie counters work, and where they miss explains why oils and sauces are the usual blind spot.

How much does MyNetDiary Premium cost?

Here’s what MyNetDiary’s own pages list, as of November 13, 2026. Its help center (updated October 15, 2026) gives the plan table, and its free tracker page gives the Premium Plus monthly price. Its AI page says these are “US App Store rates”.

Its help center says the website price can differ slightly: $9 a month and $60 a year there.

To compare like with like, here’s what one year costs on each paid option. The monthly figures are 12 payments at the listed price; we did that math.

Annual Premium is the cheapest way to pay, if you’re sure you’ll still log in a year. If you’re not sure, a month or two of the monthly plan is the cheaper test.

The US App Store listing also shows two purchases at $29.99 and $39.99 that MyNetDiary’s pages don’t explain. The help center says it runs sales “periodically”, so these may be offers. Check the subscription screen in the app for the current offer before you pay.

Is there a MyNetDiary free trial, and how do you cancel?

MyNetDiary’s terms (updated November 12, 2026) say “Occasionally, we may offer a free trial subscription”. Nothing we read says how long one lasts, so check the offer in the app.

Subscriptions renew automatically for the same period, per the terms.

Where you cancel depends on where you paid. Per the help center, that’s Settings, then Membership on the website, your iPhone Settings app for the App Store, or Subscriptions in the Play Store. You keep access until the paid period ends.

Refunds also depend on where you paid. Apple handles refunds for App Store purchases, while new website subscriptions have “a 14-day money-back guarantee”. One purchase covers MyNetDiary on iPhone, Android and the web.

How accurate is MyNetDiary? What research found

A PubMed search on November 13, 2026 found several studies that included MyNetDiary. Two compared its numbers with reference food records.

In both, the comparison used set food records rather than everyday users’ logs. The 2015 study entered the same 3 days into every app by hand, and the 2026 abstract doesn’t say whether photo logging was tested.

Thirteen apps, Türkiye, 2026. A study in Nutrition and Health (PMID 42429442) rated 17 apps from the Türkiye App Store and compared 13 with standardized 3-day food records.

Per the abstract, 10 of the 13 apps overestimated energy intake, and “MyNetDiary and FatSecret yielded estimates closest to reference records”. It also named MyNetDiary among the three apps with the broadest range of features. We could read only the abstract; the authors note their standardized menus limit the findings.

Twenty-eight apps, Australia, 2015. A study in JMIR mHealth and uHealth (PMID 26678569), which we read in full, scored 2014 versions of weight-management apps. The reference was a 3-day weighed food record kept by one of the authors.

Calorie Counter PRO by MyNetDiary, a paid sibling of today’s app, tied for second for quality, with a score of 65 out of 100. But it also “had the second highest energy overestimation at 678 kJ”, which is about 162 calories. That’s an old version, and the 2026 study points the other way.

What this adds up to: the newer, independent study puts MyNetDiary’s numbers among the closest it tested. That’s consistent with a staff-verified database, though one standardized-menu study can’t settle it. Neither study looked at everyday users picking their own entries and portions, which is where a log can drift.

For how a database tracker’s numbers hold up in everyday use, see our guide to whether MyFitnessPal is accurate.

What MyNetDiary’s own study found about logging

MyNetDiary staff, including its CEO, published a research letter in the Journal of Medical Internet Research in 2026 (PMID 42594334), which we read in full. It looked back at 5,132 app users who signed up in May 2025, selected from 412,193 new users.

People who logged food on more days a week had lost more weight on average. The authors call it a “selected cohort of engaged app users” and say “residual confounding is likely”, so it shows an association, not that the app caused the loss. It’s also written by the company, so weigh it that way.

Is MyNetDiary Premium worth it?

It depends on which feature you’d use. For many people, the free plan is enough: it already logs, scans and tracks macros.

Premium makes sense if you’d use photo logging at most meals, want targets that adjust from your logs, or want to track blood pressure or glucose next to food. Premium Plus makes sense only if you’d talk to the AI coach or speak your meals often.

It’s a good fit if:

• You want macros and a barcode scanner without paying.
• You care about vitamins and minerals, and want them free.
• You don’t mind searching for foods, and ads would put you off.

It’s a weaker fit if:

• You want the deepest nutrient detail. Cronometer is built around that; see our review.
• You want the biggest database and the most-used app. See our MyFitnessPal review.
• Searching is why you stop logging. Our MyFitnessPal alternatives list covers other ways to log.

Tracking isn’t right for everyone

The US App Store rates MyNetDiary 13+. Tracking food isn’t right for everyone, whatever the app.

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. For what a calorie budget actually means, see what a calorie deficit is.

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.

You send a photo, a voice note or a sentence, and it replies with calories, protein, carbs and fat. It sets daily targets from your goal and profile and checks in at a time you pick.

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

lunch12:38

A salmon poke bowl. Was there a sauce or dressing on it?12:39

a bit of spicy mayo12:40

Logged. Your calories, protein, carbs and fat for today are updated. Reply to the entry if anything looks off.12:41

It doesn’t scan barcodes, track 108 nutrients or connect to a watch. If you want those, MyNetDiary is the better fit, and its free plan covers a lot.

Getfiit is for people who stopped logging because of the searching. It estimates, says so, and asks when something is unclear.

As of November 13, 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 MyNetDiary completely free?

The free plan costs nothing and has no ads. It includes the food database, the barcode scanner, voice logging, macro tracking and up to 108 nutrients. Photo logging, adaptive targets and health trackers need Premium, and the AI coach needs Premium Plus.

How much is MyNetDiary Premium?

As of November 13, 2026, MyNetDiary lists Premium at $8.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Premium Plus is $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year, at US App Store rates. Lifetime Premium is $179.99 once, without the AI tools.

Does MyNetDiary have ads?

No. As of November 13, 2026, MyNetDiary says its free plan is ad-free and that it never shows ads or promotional stories. Neither the App Store nor Google Play labels the app as containing ads.

Does MyNetDiary have a free trial?

Sometimes. MyNetDiary’s terms say it “may offer a free trial subscription” occasionally, and no page we read states a length. Check the subscription screen in the app for any current offer before you pay.

Is MyNetDiary accurate?

In an independent 2026 study of 13 apps, its estimates were among the two closest to reference food records. A 2015 study of an older version found it overestimated energy. No tracker is exact, and how you pick entries and portions matters as much as the database.

Your next step

Start on the free plan for two weeks and log as you normally eat. If you’re still opening it on day 14 and keep wishing for photo logging or adaptive targets, see what Premium costs in the app.

If the searching was what wore you down, that’s worth fixing before you pay for any tracker. Browse our other tracker comparisons.