Yazio Review: Well Designed, With a Real Free Tier

Yazio is a calorie and nutrition tracker that gets a lot right on first impression. It’s nicely designed, it’s popular in Europe, and it has a real free tier. What we can’t tell you yet is how accurate it is, because we haven’t measured it.

Here’s how to think about Yazio with that in mind.

What Yazio does well

It’s nicely designed. Yazio is pleasant to use. For a habit you’ll repeat every day, a well-designed app makes sticking with it easier.

The free tier is real. You can use Yazio without paying. That puts it alongside PlateLens, Cronometer, Lose It! and FatSecret, and ahead of MacroFactor, which has no free tier.

It’s popular in Europe. If you live in Europe, Yazio is a familiar name and a natural place to start.

Where it falls short

It hasn’t been measured. Yazio wasn’t part of our 180-meal weighed-food validation, so we can’t publish an error figure. Its 3.8 score rests on features and consensus standing.

Premium costs more than the leaders. At about $45 a year as of November 2026, Yazio’s premium costs more than PlateLens’s (about $35) and Lose It!’s paid tier (about $40). Both of those apps have measured accuracy figures.

Accuracy: what we know

We haven’t measured Yazio, and we label it “Not measured” wherever it appears. That isn’t a judgment that it’s inaccurate. It’s a statement that we don’t yet have evidence either way.

For context, the apps we measured ranged from ±1.1% (PlateLens in photo mode) to ±11.2% (MyFitnessPal in manual entry). If you choose Yazio, it’s worth checking your own logging for a few days: weigh a few meals and compare your entries with the nutrition labels.

Free vs paid

As of November 2026:

• Free: a real free tier you can use day to day.
• Premium, about $45 a year: the paid upgrade.

Try the free version first. If you find yourself wanting more, compare Yazio’s premium with PlateLens’s, which costs less and comes with a measured accuracy figure.

Who it’s for

• You want a well-designed app with a real free tier.
• You’re in Europe and want a widely used local favorite.

Who should skip it

• You want measured accuracy. PlateLens and Cronometer both have figures behind them.
• You want photo logging with European coverage. Foodvisor measured ±5.1% in photo mode.

How it compares

• vs. Lose It!: Lose It! scores 4.0 to Yazio’s 3.8. It has a measured figure (±9.4% in manual entry), free barcode scanning, the best onboarding of the manual apps and a cheaper upgrade (about $40 a year).
• vs. FatSecret: both have free versions and neither has been measured. FatSecret’s core tracking is free but has a dated interface; Yazio is nicely designed, with premium at about $45 a year.
• vs. PlateLens: PlateLens scores 4.7, measured the lowest error in our testing, and its free plan includes unlimited barcode and manual logging. Its premium costs about $35 a year.

The bottom line

Yazio is a nicely designed tracker with a real free tier, and it’s popular in Europe. Until we measure it, though, its accuracy is an open question, and its premium costs more than measured alternatives like PlateLens.