Loopa vs Cronometer
A month of free history instead of a seven-day window, no ads, free barcode scanning, and one subscription that covers six people. Here is exactly what changes when you switch.
Loopa's free tier keeps a rolling thirty days of history and trends. Cronometer's free tier limits reports and charts to a seven-day window. That is the difference you feel first: a month of your own data to read a trend from, against a week.
Loopa's free tier also has no ads, free barcode scanning and the full community. Forums, friends, an activity feed and a feature-request board. Cronometer's free tier carries advertising and puts barcode scanning in Gold.
Past logging, the two apps are built for different jobs. Loopa Premium plans one to seven days against your targets around the food already in your kitchen and hands back one combined shopping list; screens out anything on your never-eat list before you see it; reads a photographed restaurant menu and ranks orders against the day you have had; and gives you a forecast that refuses to promise a goal date it cannot reach safely. Blood pressure, glucose and INR are free on Loopa, and Gold on theirs. Cronometer sells none of the Premium list.
And Loopa covers a household. Loopa Premium Family is $119.99 a year for up to six people across Android and iPhone. Cronometer has no family plan, so four people is four Gold subscriptions, $239.96 a year. Loopa is the broader daily habit. Food, weight, water, vitals, fasting, workouts and the people around you in one place. Cronometer counts more micronutrients, and the table below says so in the row where it counts.
Six things you get in Loopa that Cronometer does not sell
- A month of free history, not a seven-day window. Enough to actually read a trend before you pay anyone.
- A free tier with no ads, and free barcode scanning, where theirs sits in Gold.
- One subscription for six people. $119.99 a year across both phones. They have no family plan.
- Meal plans that end in one shopping list, built around what is already in your kitchen.
- An allergen guard and Eating Out. Anything on your never-eat list is gone before you see it, and a photographed menu comes back ranked against your day.
- INR tracking for people on blood thinners, alongside blood pressure and glucose, plus a forecast that will not promise an unsafe date.
Every row we could check.
Every row read off Cronometer's own Gold page on 17 August 2026, so you can check any of it yourself before you switch.
| Loopa | Cronometer | |
|---|---|---|
| History and charts on the free tier | Rolling 30 days | 7-day window |
| Ads on the free tier | None, on any tier | Yes |
| Barcode scanning | Free | Gold |
| Voice logging | Free (10/day) | Not checked |
| Photo food logging | Premium | No |
| Meal plan with a combined shopping list | Premium | No |
| Allergen guard across every suggestion | Premium | No |
| Restaurant and photographed-menu picks | Premium | No |
| Blood pressure and glucose | Free | Gold |
| INR, for people on blood thinners | Free | No |
| Intermittent fasting | Premium | Gold |
| Community forums and friends | Free | No |
| A family plan at all | Yes, up to 6, $119.99/yr | No |
| Premium, monthly | $12.99 | $10.99 |
| Premium, yearly | $69.99 | $59.99 |
| Yearly, for a household of four | $119.99 | $239.96 |
Cronometer figures read off Cronometer's own Gold page on 17 August 2026. App pricing changes often, and two of the four apps in our full comparison moved between the 4 August and 17 August 2026 checks, so verify before you buy. If a row here is wrong, tell us and we will correct it and re-date the note.
More on how Loopa works
The questions this comparison raises
Does Loopa track micronutrients?
Yes. Fifteen of them, free: sodium, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc and phosphorus, plus the vitamins, alongside fiber and the headline macros. All of it is derived from food you already logged, with up to 5 fresh AI estimates a day, so there is no second screen to fill in and no supplement diary to keep. Logging lunch fills in lunch's micronutrients at the same time.
Is Loopa cheaper than Cronometer?
For a household, comfortably. Cronometer has no family plan, so four people means four subscriptions at $239.96 a year, against $119.99 for Loopa Premium Family, which covers up to six, not four. For one person the two sit close together: Cronometer Gold lists $10.99 a month or $59.99 a year, Loopa Premium is $12.99 a month or $69.99 a year, and what the difference covers is thirty days of free history rather than seven, free barcode scanning, no ads on any tier, meal plans, an allergen guard and INR tracking.
What does Loopa do that Cronometer does not?
Meal planning that ends in one combined shopping list and works around what is already in your kitchen. An allergen guard that removes anything on your never-eat list before you see it. Restaurant picks from a photographed menu, ranked against the day you have had. A weight forecast that refuses to promise a date it cannot reach safely. INR tracking for people on blood thinners. A free community. Forums, friends, an activity feed and a feature-request board. And a family plan covering up to six people.
Which free tier gives you more?
Loopa's, on the things you use daily. A rolling thirty days of history and trends rather than a seven-day window, so you can actually read a trend before paying anyone. Barcode scanning included. Water tracking. The full community. And no ads anywhere, on any tier. Where Cronometer's free tier carries advertising and puts barcode scanning in Gold.
How do I switch from Cronometer to Loopa?
Install it and log your next meal. Weight and activity already in Apple Health or Health Connect flow into Loopa on their own, since it reads from both, so your existing history keeps working straight away. The setup interview calculates your targets in a couple of minutes and your first trend line appears within the week.
Which should I pick?
Loopa, if you want a month of free history instead of a week, no ads, free barcode scanning, meal plans that end in one shopping list, an allergen guard, restaurant picks from a photographed menu, blood pressure, glucose and INR, and one $119.99 subscription covering up to six people across Android and iPhone. It is free to start with no card.
Different tools for different jobs.
Loopa is free to start with no card, so you can see which one fits your week.