Comparison · Lifesum
Cookrange vs. Lifesum
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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 from the exercise you log show up on top of today’s target; 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 — built, not yet exercised end to end with a real gym |
| Pricing | Free tier + Premium, sold in several tiers that vary by region and promotion (checked 2026-08-28) | Core features always free; premium raises your AI generation limit and unlocks the 30-day nutrition trend, the BMR/TDEE breakdown and group CSV export |
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.