I went looking for a plain list of what the calorie counting apps cost in Canadian dollars and couldn’t find one. Every article was in USD. Half of them quoted prices from two years ago. None of them said which features you lose on the free tier, which is the part that actually matters when you’re deciding whether to pay.
So I opened the Canadian App Store on September 25, 2026 and wrote down what each one charges. Prices change, sometimes quietly, so treat this as a snapshot. I make PocketChomp, so read the last row with that in mind.
The table
| App | Free version | Monthly | Yearly | Barcode scanner free? | Ads on free? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MyFitnessPal Premium | Yes | $27.99 | $114.99 | No | Yes |
| MyFitnessPal Premium+ | $36.99 | $144.99 | |||
| Cronometer Gold | Yes | $14.99 | $79.99 | Yes | Yes |
| Lose It Premium | Yes | none | $107.99 | No, for new accounts | Yes |
| MacroFactor | No, 7-day trial | $15.49 | $90.99 | No free tier | No |
| PocketChomp+ | Yes | $6.99 | $39.99 | Yes | No |
All prices in Canadian dollars, taken from the Canadian App Store on September 25, 2026. MacroFactor also sells six months for $59.99. Where an app shows several prices for the same plan, which happens when older subscribers are kept on an old rate, I’ve used the one a new subscriber pays today.
MyFitnessPal
The free version lets you search the database and log food, and that’s about where it stops being useful. Barcode scanning went behind Premium in 2022. Macros show as percentages only, so if you want to know you ate 140 g of protein instead of “30%”, that’s paid. The free diary also has ads in it.
Premium is $114.99 a year. Premium+ adds meal scanning, voice logging and meal planning for $144.99. For context, that’s almost three years of PocketChomp+.
Cronometer
Cronometer is the fair one in this group. The barcode scanner is free. Custom calorie and macro targets are free. All 84 nutrients it tracks are free. The catch is that the free version has ads and only shows reports for the last 7 days.
Gold is $79.99 a year and removes the ads, unlocks the full history, and adds photo logging, voice logging, URL recipe import and a fasting timer. They’re also a Canadian company, out of Revelstoke, BC, which I didn’t know until I started this.
Lose It
This one changed the most in 2026. Premium used to be about US$40 a year with a free barcode scanner. Now it’s $107.99 Canadian, there’s no monthly plan, and new free accounts don’t get the scanner. Existing users seem to have kept it, which is how most of these changes go.
The free version still gives you a calorie budget, manual search, basic macros and weight logging, with ads. Premium adds the scanner, photo logging, macros in grams, extra nutrients and the ad-free diary.
MacroFactor
MacroFactor doesn’t pretend. There’s no free version, the developers have said there won’t be one, and there are no ads. You get a 7-day trial and then it’s $15.49 a month or $90.99 a year.
I respect that more than a free tier that’s really a demo. If you’re going to pay for a tracker and you want the adaptive coaching it’s known for, the price is at least the whole price. It’s the most expensive annual plan on the list that isn’t MyFitnessPal.
PocketChomp
Free gets you unlimited barcode scanning, nutrition label scanning, the Canadian food database, custom foods and recipes, every nutrient, your own targets, sync, no ads and no account. The full free and paid split is on the Plus page.
PocketChomp+ is $6.99 a month or $39.99 a year with a 14-day trial. It covers the things that cost me money per use, like photo and voice logging and recipe import, plus adaptive targets and insights past 30 days. Android only right now, which is a real limitation and not a footnote.
What it adds up to
If the only thing you want is to scan a barcode and log what you ate, this is what a year of that costs you:
| App | A year of scanning barcodes |
|---|---|
| Cronometer | $0 |
| PocketChomp | $0 |
| MacroFactor | $90.99 |
| Lose It | $107.99 |
| MyFitnessPal | $114.99 |
Two of the five charge you over a hundred dollars a year for a feature both of them used to give away. MyFitnessPal took it away in 2022, Lose It this year. That’s the whole reason I started building this thing.
Check the prices yourself before you decide anything. App Store, search the app, scroll to In-App Purchases. It takes 30 seconds and it’s the only number that counts.
Prices checked on the Canadian App Store on September 25, 2026. Feature lists come from each company’s own pricing page or support site on the same day. PocketChomp is not affiliated with any of the apps named here.