A private Lose It alternative — no ads, no subscription
Lose It is friendly and focused, and its free tier is genuinely usable — between the ads. But the features that matter end up in Premium at about $40 a year, and your log lives on their servers under an account. Tare is $6.99 once: every feature, no ads anywhere, and data that never leaves your device and your iCloud.
Tare vs Lose It!, side by side
| Tare | Lose It! | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 once | Free + ads, or ~$40/yr Premium |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Where your data lives | Your device & your iCloud | Their servers |
| Ads | Never | Free tier |
| Calorie targets | Learned from your weight & log | Formula-based |
| Micronutrient tracking | 22 vitamins & minerals | Varies by plan |
| Your corrections take priority | Checked before public databases | — |
| Supplements | Count toward totals, grouped reminders | Log manually as food |
| Platforms | iPhone & iPad | iOS, Android, web |
Lose It pricing and features as published in July 2026 — check their site for current details. A dash means we found no published equivalent, not that one cannot exist.
A budget measured, not assumed
Lose It's calorie budget comes from a formula — reasonable on day one, and still a population average on day two hundred. Tare uses the same kind of formula only as a starting point, then learns your real expenditure from your own weigh-ins and food log, retiring the formula after about four weeks. If you have ever followed a calorie budget exactly and not gotten the promised result, this is the difference that explains it.
The database problem, solved once
Every tracker's food database has wrong entries. In Tare, a food you create or correct — with its barcode attached — is checked before any public database, so your fix wins every future scan permanently. Corrections are local and private; you are not editing a shared database or waiting for moderation.
Ads are a signal, not just an annoyance
A free tracker with ads has an advertising business attached to a very personal log. Tare's answer is structural: no ads, no analytics SDKs, no accounts, no servers — there is nothing in the app with an incentive to look at your data, and no infrastructure that could.
When Lose It is the right choice
Choose Lose It if you want a free tier and can live with the ads, need Android or web access, or use its challenges and social features to stay motivated — Tare deliberately has none. Households splitting across iPhone and Android should also look elsewhere; Tare is native iOS only.
Common questions
Is there a Lose It alternative without ads?
Tare has no ads on any screen, ever — there is no free tier to fund with them. The whole app is a one-time $6.99 purchase, which costs less than two months of Lose It Premium.
Does Tare adjust my calorie budget like Lose It does?
Both apps recalculate as you lose or gain, but differently. Lose It re-runs its formula against your new weight. Tare measures your actual expenditure by comparing your weight trend against your logged intake, then updates your target weekly from real data — so if your metabolism runs above or below the formula, Tare finds that out and the formula never would.
Can I track more than calories in Tare?
Yes — macros, 22 vitamins and minerals, water, weight with a smoothed trend, supplements with grouped reminders, intermittent fasting with Lock Screen Live Activities, and daily check-ins that correlate how you feel with what you ate. All of it is in the one purchase.
Does Tare need an account?
No. There is no login, no server, and no analytics. Your data stays on your device and, if you enable sync, in your personal iCloud — Tare has no way to see it.
Try the honest tracker
One purchase, no account, no ads. If it's not for you, Apple refunds are straightforward.