MyCalorieCoach: a HealthifyMe alternative built for eating both ways
HealthifyMe is the best app in this category for Indian food, and it is not close: the database, the coaching and the AI assistant are all built around it. It is also built for the India market, priced in rupees, and strongest when Indian food is most of what you eat. MyCalorieCoach is built for a different week: dal on Tuesday, a sandwich at your desk on Wednesday, a Sunday roast, and nothing to look up in between.
Price, side by side
MyCalorieCoach
$29.99 / year
or $9.99 a month. 14 day free trial, the whole app.
Founding price, locked for 3 years against a standard annual plan of $83.99.
HealthifyMe
No published USD price
HealthifyMe prices for the India market in rupees. Reported plans include HealthifyMe Pro at about Rs 4,999 a year on the annual plan, and roughly Rs 11,988 a year if billed monthly, with Pro Plus higher again. There is no clear published USD price, so we are not going to convert one and present it as theirs. Check their pricing page for your region.
Prices in USD. App Store prices vary by territory, and several apps in this category run frequent price tests, so check before you buy. HealthifyMe price checked on 2026-09-01: HealthifyMe plans.
MyCalorieCoach vs HealthifyMe
Including the rows we lose. A table one side wins ten to nothing is an advert, not a comparison.
| MyCalorieCoach | HealthifyMe | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian food coverage | Strong, whatever you are eating that day | The best there is |
| Western food in the same week | Same coach, same conversation | Thinner than its Indian coverage |
| Conversational AI coach | Yes, there is no separate tier for it | Yes, called Ria |
| Human coaches | No, the coach is an AI | Yes, on the higher tiers |
| Foods it will never ask you to cut | You name them, it plans around them | Not a concept in the app |
| Photo logging | Yes, plus menus, buffets and shop shelves | Yes |
| Clear price outside India | $29.99 a year, locked for 3 years | Priced for the India market in rupees |
| Android | iPhone first, Android later | Yes |
| Available today | Yes, on the App Store | Yes |
Why people go looking for a HealthifyMe alternative
It is built for India, not the diaspora
That is a strength at home and a gap abroad. If half your week is Indian food and half is a supermarket sandwich, a Pret salad and a Sunday roast, you are living across two food worlds and the app only knows one well.
Pricing is hard to read outside India
Plans are quoted in rupees and structured around the India market. Working out what you will actually pay from the UK or the US is more work than it should be.
Coaching tiers get expensive quickly
The cheaper plans are a tracker with an AI assistant. Real coaching sits in higher tiers, and the CGM plans higher still.
Nothing is fixed in advance
No tracker has a concept of a food that is never up for negotiation. Rice at dinner every day is not a problem to be solved, it is a constraint to plan around.
Where HealthifyMe is the better choice
If any of these matter more to you than the rest of this page, stay where you are. It is a good app and we would rather you kept using it than paid us for the wrong fit.
- For Indian food eaten in India it is the best app available, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
- Real human coaches and dietitians on the higher tiers. Ours is an AI.
- CGM programmes, and a much broader health offering than we have.
- Android, a free tier, and years of shipping at scale.
Common questions
- Is MyCalorieCoach better than HealthifyMe for Indian food?
- For someone in India eating mostly Indian food, HealthifyMe is the stronger choice. Where this app is built to be better is the week that goes dal, sandwich, roast, biryani, because nothing falls apart when your week crosses between cuisines.
- How much does HealthifyMe cost in dollars?
- There is no clear published USD price. Plans are quoted in rupees for the India market, with HealthifyMe Pro reported at around Rs 4,999 a year annually and roughly Rs 11,988 a year if billed monthly. Converting those at today’s rate and printing the result as their price would mean putting a figure in front of you that nobody charges. Ours is $29.99 a year.
- Does MyCalorieCoach know Sri Lankan and South Indian food as well as North Indian?
- Yes. Sri Lankan, South Indian and North Indian or Punjabi stay separate choices when you start, never flattened into one "Indian" bucket, and the coach does not substitute one for another.
- Does MyCalorieCoach have human coaches like HealthifyMe?
- No. The coach is an AI and we say so plainly. That is a real difference, and it is why this costs $29.99 a year while a human coaching plan runs far higher.
- Which is better for someone living abroad?
- That is the case this app was built for. If you cook the food you grew up with and also eat wherever you now live, you need something that handles both without a database gap in the middle.
Lose weight without losing your food.
14 days free, then $29.99 for the year. Apple sets the price for each country, so most places pay the price shown here and a few pay a little more or less.
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