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Cindar vs MyFitnessPal
MyFitnessPal is the do-everything tracker. Cindar is built for the moment you're out, hungry, and wondering what fits.
With Cindar: the same price for a year of Premium, half the price month to month, and free barcode scanning.
Side by side
| Cindar | MyFitnessPal | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free. Premium $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year. | Free. Premium $19.99 a month or $79.99 a year; Premium+ $24.99 a month or $99.99 a year. |
| Eating out | A map of restaurants near you, with the meals that fit your day. | Restaurant dishes you search for. Its paid coach can suggest what to order. No map of nearby restaurants. |
| Barcode scanning | Free. | Premium only. |
| Photo logging | Try it free. Every day with Premium. | Premium only. |
| Food data | Real numbers from menus, labels and USDA data. Estimates are always marked. | 20 million+ foods, many added by its users. |
| Ads | None. | On the free plan. |
| Health apps | Apple Health and Health Connect. | Apple Health, Health Connect and 35+ apps and devices. |
| Platforms | iPhone and Android. | iPhone, Android, web, Apple Watch and Wear OS. |
The difference: eating out
With MyFitnessPal, you pick a meal, then search for it to log it. With Cindar, you open the map first: every restaurant around you, already sorted by what fits your day. See what fits under 500 calories everywhere, or browse by restaurant.
Which is for you?
- MyFitnessPal if you want the biggest food database, a web app, or a tracker that talks to your watch.
- Cindar if you eat out and want to know what fits before you order. Free on the App Store and Google Play.
The same figures, matched to the calories left in a day.
Cindar keeps a running daily calorie budget from logged meals and from activity read through Apple Health or Health Connect, then shows which nearby restaurants and orders still fit. Meals log by photo, receipt or a line of text. Free on iPhone and Android.