Adra · Comparison
The alternatives to Adra, in one table.
Twelve apps are listed as alternatives to Adra on AlternativeTo, fetched October 12, 2026. This page gathers them into one table, with prices, platforms, and the features that matter here, and it says plainly where each one wins.
The list, verified
The list below is the set of apps that AlternativeTo lists as alternatives to Adra, taken as it stood on October 12, 2026. Nothing was added and nothing was removed to flatter the comparison. Each row is a real product with real users, and the table is meant to be read honestly rather than won.
| App | Price model | Subscription | On-device photo AI | Label reader | Account | Works offline | Data collected | Data export | Open source | Platforms | Likes |
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| Adra | Free(€34.99 once) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | None | Yes | No | Android | New |
| OpenNutriTracker | Free | No | No | No | No | Partly | Yes | Yes | GPL-3.0 | Android, iOS | 25 |
| FoodYou | Free | No | No | No | No | Yes | None | Yes | GPL-3.0 | Android, F-Droid | 10 |
| Whey to Go | Paid | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | iOS, iPadOS, watchOS | 7 |
| MyFitnessPal | Freemium | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Premium | No | Android, iOS, web, Wear OS | 64 |
| Alma Nutrition | Freemium | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Paid | No | iOS | 5 |
| Cronometer | Freemium | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Android, iOS, web | 27 |
| Calopal | Freemium | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | iOS, iPadOS | 4 |
| YAZIO | Freemium | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Android, iOS, watchOS | 7 |
| SparkyFitness | Free | No | No | Beta | Yes | No | Own server | Yes | Source-available | Self-hosted | 3 |
| CalorieTracker.io | Free | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Web | 11 |
| CalorieStar | Free | No | No | Planned | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Web | 3 |
| Waistline | Free | No | No | No | No | Yes | None | Yes | GPL-3.0 | Android, F-Droid | 11 |
List data as displayed on AlternativeTo, fetched October 12, 2026. Likes, platforms, price, and license labels are as listed there. Subscription status and all feature columns were verified against the vendors' own store listings, help pages, and documentation in October 2026. Data collection cells quote Google Play data-safety or App Store privacy declarations. Green shading marks each column's best value (stronger) and the middle of the road (lighter). Adjacent best cells are joined by a single border.
Notes on individual cells. MyFitnessPal meal scan is Premium-only, YAZIO photo AI is Pro-only, Cronometer AI Photo-Logging is Gold-only, and Alma is paid-only with no free tier. None of the other apps documents on-device photo processing. OpenNutriTracker photo AI runs off by default on a service you supply. YAZIO works without an account, while its help pages say mobile data is required on the go. Waistline and FoodYou run no network services of their own.
What the stores say
Google Play asks every developer to declare what an app collects and shares, and the declarations are public. They are a useful counterweight to marketing, because they are written for the store rather than for a landing page. The three best-known names in the list above look like this.
| App | Data shared with third parties | Data collected |
|---|---|---|
| Adra | Nothing | Nothing |
| MyFitnessPal | Location, Personal info, and Device or other IDs | Location, Personal info, and six other categories |
| YAZIO | Location, Personal info, and Device or other IDs | Personal info, Health and fitness, and four other categories |
Why Adra
No single row in that table looks like Adra, and that is the point. Each app here does something well. What none of them offer is this particular combination.
The difference is not one feature. It is the combination.
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On-device photo recognition.
Adra reads your meal from a photo, and the reading happens on the phone. Nothing is uploaded, so there is nothing on a server to profile or lose.
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No account.
There is no login screen, no email, and no cloud diary. Your food data lives on your phone and nowhere else, so there is no account to forget or reset.
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No subscription.
Adra is free to use, or €34.99 once. Nothing renews and nothing counts down, so the cost of the app does not grow with the years you use it.
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Works offline.
The AI and the food catalog travel with you, so airplane mode changes nothing. Logging works in a basement, on a plane, or anywhere the signal does not reach.
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A label that says No data collected.
That is Google's own data safety wording, straight from the Play listing. It is a claim the store holds Adra to, not one the app makes about itself.
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Built by one person.
Adra is built by one person in Hamburg, with no investors and no growth hacks. That shapes the app, because decisions are made for the person logging a meal rather than for a board or a metric.
Every app in the table is a good choice for someone, and several win where Adra does not. The open-source options, OpenNutriTracker, FoodYou, and Waistline, are free and listed under the GPL-3.0 license, and SparkyFitness is free and self-hosted if you run your own server. If open source is what you are after, those are the rows to look at.
Adra is built for people who want on-device photo recognition without an account and without renting the app forever. More on the pricing model and the privacy architecture.
FAQ
How were these alternatives chosen?
They are the apps listed on the Adra alternatives page at AlternativeTo. We did not pick favorites. The order follows that page as it stood in October 2026.
Which of these apps are open source?
OpenNutriTracker, FoodYou, and Waistline are listed as open source under the GPL-3.0 license on AlternativeTo. SparkyFitness is free and self-hosted, so you run it on your own server.
What makes Adra different from all of them?
The combination. On-device photo recognition, no account, no subscription, and full offline function on Android. No single row in the table shows that mix.