Comparison
Eat This Much alternatives: other apps that generate the plan
What you lose when you leave Eat This Much is the grocery side: planning that accounts for a budget, and a shopping flow that connects to services such as Instacart. None of the alternatives below connects to a grocery service. If automatic plan generation is what you want, Cookrange is the closest match; if you want a structured framework, Lifesum.
What you leave behind when you leave Eat This Much
Automated weekly planning that accounts for a grocery budget, with store integrations such as Instacart automating much of the shopping. Virtual pantry sits in Premium.
The alternatives
People looking for an Eat This Much alternative usually arrive either because the grocery integrations do not work where they live or because the virtual pantry sits behind Premium. The entries below solve planning by different routes.
Alphabetical order. Not a ranking and not a winners' list - Cookrange sits in its alphabetical position and is not moved up.
Cookrange
Who it suits: People who want the weekly plan regenerated on demand rather than following a fixed sheet; who want a grocery item logged by barcode in seconds; and who want to stay motivated alongside gym friends. Logging, plans, streak tracking and progress history are on the free tier; AI generation is capped at 2 runs a day.
Cookrange's limits: Pre-launch (v0.9.6 internal alpha), not in the app stores. No micronutrient tracking, no wearable integration, no browsable recipe library, no fasting tracking.
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.
Who it suits: Following a named diet framework such as keto or Mediterranean as designed. You pick one of more than 15 structured, pre-built plans.
Where Cookrange is weaker: The pre-built plan library. Cookrange generates a plan from your profile rather than offering a catalogue of named frameworks to pick from.
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MacroFactor
MacroFactor reverse-calculates your real metabolic rate from logged intake and weight trend and updates your target automatically; it was built by Stronger By Science's founders and has no free tier. Cookrange starts from a conceptually similar idea, but today's target is fixed — calories burned show up live on top of it, and the target itself only changes when you regenerate your plan.
Who it suits: People who log weight consistently and want the target to adjust itself. It reverse-engineers real metabolic rate from logged intake and weight trend.
Where Cookrange is weaker: Automatic target adjustment. In Cookrange the day's target is fixed and moves only when you regenerate the plan - a deliberate design choice, but not the same thing as MacroFactor's continuous model.
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Noom
Noom is a paid-subscription-only behavior-change program built around daily psychology/CBT lessons, human coaching, and a color-coded food system based on calorie density. Cookrange takes a different approach: core features stay free, coaching comes from AI rather than a human, and a gym/squad social layer is built into the product.
Who it suits: People who want a guided, step-by-step approach to behaviour change. Daily psychology/CBT lessons and human coach support.
Where Cookrange is weaker: Human coaching. In Cookrange coaching comes from AI rather than a person, and there is no structured daily lesson format.
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How this list was put together
Alphabetical order, Cookrange included. Not a ranking. Each entry says who that app suits and where Cookrange is weaker on the same point. Prices are deliberately absent: competitor pricing changes without notice.
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