Cookrange vs. Lifesum

Lifesum is a Scandinavian-origin nutrition app: you pick one of 15+ structured, pre-built diet plans (keto, Mediterranean, and others) and follow it. Cookrange instead generates a personal plan from scratch with AI, based on your own profile and constraints, rather than having you choose from a menu of pre-built templates.

Lifesum is a Scandinavian-origin nutrition app: you pick one of 15+ structured, pre-built diet plans — keto, Mediterranean, and others — and follow it, alongside AI-assisted photo logging and a barcode scanner. Publicly reported figures, moderately corroborated, put lifetime downloads at over 60 million. Cookrange takes a different approach: instead of choosing from a menu of pre-built templates, it generates a personal plan from scratch based on your profile, goal, and constraints. Lifesum is strongest in Scandinavia and Western Europe; we didn’t find a strong Turkey-specific signal for it.

Comparison table

Area	Lifesum	Cookrange
Planning approach	You pick one of 15+ structured, pre-built diet plans (keto, Mediterranean, and others)	A personal plan generated from scratch by AI, based on your profile, goal, and constraints — not a menu of templates
Logging method	AI-assisted photo logging, barcode scanner	Five logging methods — barcode (Open Food Facts), photo analysis, quick add, recipe generation, today’s plan
Daily target	Generally fixed, set by the plan you picked	Calories burned show up on top of today’s target through the day via Cookrange AI; the target itself only changes when you regenerate your plan
Gym/social layer	No documented gym check-in feature found as of 2026-08-05 — sources change	QR check-in, a weekly leaderboard, squads — each member keeps their own streak
Pricing	Free tier + publicly reported figures at roughly $9.99/month or $44.99/year (varies by region and promotion)	Core features always free; premium only buys more AI generations

Which one fits

For people who want to follow a specific, named diet framework (say, keto or Mediterranean) exactly as designed, rather than have their plan rebuilt week to week, Lifesum’s library of structured plans is a strong option. For people who’d rather have a plan generated from scratch around their own allergens, kitchen preferences, and weekly schedule, and regenerated on demand, Cookrange takes a different approach. For a broader framing of this distinction — structured, pre-built plans versus on-demand adaptive ones — see adaptive plan vs. a static diet sheet.

For a broader list of evaluation criteria, see what to look for in a nutrition tracking app.