We make Trackr, so treat this with the scepticism it deserves. But the comparison is worth making honestly, because these two apps are not really competitors. They answer different questions, and picking the wrong one is the reason a lot of people give up on tracking altogether.
MyFitnessPal answers: what did I eat today? Trackr answers: what is my body actually doing over time? You can want one without wanting the other.
The short answer
If you need to know your calories and macros with real accuracy, use MyFitnessPal. Nothing in Trackr competes with a food database that size, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
If you have tried calorie counting more than once and quietly stopped each time, the food diary is probably not your problem to solve. Trackr skips it entirely and tracks the two things that actually show change: your weight and your photos, in the same entry.
What MyFitnessPal genuinely does better
The food database
It is enormous, it has been built up over more than a decade, and it covers restaurant items and supermarket products that no smaller app will ever match. Barcode scanning, saved meals, recipes. If your goal requires knowing that you ate 2,140 calories and 118 grams of protein, this is the category leader and it is not close.
Nutrition, not just weight
Protein targets, fibre, sugar, micronutrients. If a coach or a clinician has asked you to hit specific numbers, you need a nutrition app. Trackr does not track food at all, so it cannot help you there.
It works for people who like the detail
Some people genuinely enjoy the logging. It gives them a sense of control and it makes the invisible visible. If that is you, and you have kept it up for months, you are using the right tool and this article is not for you.
What Trackr does differently
Your weight and your photo live in the same entry
This is the one thing we built the app around. When you log a weight, you can attach the photo at the same moment, and the two stay linked forever. Six months later you are not scrolling a camera roll trying to remember what you weighed in a particular picture. The number is attached to the image.
That sounds small until you want to answer the question everyone eventually asks: how much did I weigh when I looked like that? A food diary cannot tell you. A folder of photos cannot tell you either.
Nothing to log except the things that change slowly
A weigh-in is a few seconds. A photo is a few more. There is no meal to break into ingredients, no portion to estimate, no evening where you skip the log because you ate out and it is too much effort to reconstruct. The most common way tracking dies is a day you cannot be bothered, followed by a week, followed by never opening the app again.
Training in the same place
Workouts are logged set by set, so your bodyweight, your photos, and what you actually lifted sit in one app rather than three. On the paid tier that history rolls up into a single Progress Score from 0 to 100, built from your goal, how consistently you log, the direction of your weight trend, and how often your entries include training.
The honest limitation
Trackr will not tell you why your weight is not moving. MyFitnessPal, used properly, often will, because the answer is usually in the food and the food is what it measures. If you are genuinely stuck and have no idea what you are eating, a few weeks of accurate logging is more useful than any trend line.
The catch is the word accurate. Under-reporting on food logs is well documented and mostly unintentional. A diary you fill in loosely can be worse than no diary, because it produces numbers you then trust.
How to choose
Use MyFitnessPal if you need calorie or macro numbers, you are working to a plan someone gave you, or you know from experience that you will keep the log up.
Use Trackr if your goal is to see your body change over time, you want your weight and photos in one record, and every previous attempt at food logging died within a month.
Use both if you want nutrition detail during a focused cut and a long-run visual record that outlives it. They do not overlap much, which is exactly why they sit together comfortably.
FAQ
Can you lose weight without counting calories?
Plenty of people do. Calorie counting is one method of creating a deficit, not the only one, and it is the method with the highest daily effort cost. What matters is that you can see whether the approach is working, which is what a consistent weight trend and a photo record give you.
Does Trackr track calories or macros?
No. There is no food logging in Trackr at all. It tracks bodyweight, progress photos, and workouts. If you need nutrition data, use a nutrition app alongside it.
Is Trackr free?
Trackr is free to download on iOS and Android, and weight and photo logging work on the free tier. Trackr Pro is an optional subscription that adds unlimited photo storage, cloud backup with multi-device sync, detailed analytics, and the Progress Score.
Which is better for tracking progress photos?
Trackr, because the photo is tied to the weight entry rather than stored as a separate note, and because the Timeline view puts two photos side by side across any span of time. Photo comparison is a core feature rather than an extra.
If the food diary is the part that keeps failing, try Trackr on the App Store or Google Play and see whether tracking survives longer when there is less of it to do.