Kove vs MyFitnessPal

The short answer.

Kove and MyFitnessPal, side by side

Compared	Kove	MyFitnessPal
How you log	One message: typed, said, or a photo of the plate, the label or the scale.	Search for each food. Barcode scan, meal scan and voice log are Premium.
What it tracks	Food, sleep, training, symptoms, and anything else you add.	Food, exercise and measurements. Steps, calorie burn, weight and sleep can sync from 35+ apps and devices.
Barcode scanner	No. You photograph the label instead.	Yes, on Premium, in the iOS and Android apps.
Price	30 days free, no card, then €39 a year. No free plan.	A free account. Premium and Premium+ are paid.
Ads	None.	Ad-free is a Premium feature.
Your data	One server in the EU. Exporting the whole record is free.	Data export is a Premium feature.
Where it runs	A web app you install from the browser.	iOS and Android apps, and the website.

MyFitnessPal is a nutrition and exercise tracker built around a food database: you search for each food and add it to a meal.

With Kove you keep track of your day in one message. What you write becomes the day's record: the food with its numbers, the sleep, the training, a symptom, or a new field Kove offers when you mention something it does not track yet.

Sources, on MyFitnessPal's site: Premium · Free, Premium and Premium+ · the Barcode Scanner. Checked 16 October 2026.

How logging works.

In Kove you type it, say it, or send a photo of the plate, the label or the kitchen scale. One message can carry the whole morning at once: breakfast, the night's sleep and a headache each land where they belong. When you give exact portions, Kove uses them. When it has to estimate, it says so. Dictation is transcribed by your browser, and Kove does not receive the audio.

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MyFitnessPal's free account logs by searching the food database. Premium adds Barcode Scan, Meal Scan and Voice Log, which lets you describe a meal out loud. Barcode Scan has been Premium since 1 October 2022, and it works in the iOS and Android apps, not on the website.

What you can track.

Kove starts with food, sleep, training and symptoms. Mention something it does not track yet, a sore knee for example, and it offers a field for it. Nothing is created until you add it. A training plan is built from a library of over 800 movements, and at the gym that plan is a checklist whose rest timer starts by itself.

MyFitnessPal's free account logs food and exercise and keeps your measurements. It also connects to more than 35 apps and devices that send steps, calorie burn, weight and sleep. Kove connects to none of them: a number reaches your journal when you write it.

Where the numbers come from.

Kove looks a food up before it estimates it: common foods in ANSES Ciqual and USDA FoodData Central, branded products in Open Food Facts.

It publishes how well that works, measured on 28 September 2026. On 37 foods written with their weight, Kove found the food in a reference table 98% of the time, and every figure it logged was within 10% of the reference. The AI alone, asked the same thing, was within 10% on 73% of them. On 20 plates weighed in a lab and read from a photo, there is no table to look up, and Kove's estimate was off by about 21% at the median.

The method, every food and every plate are on the accuracy page.

No streaks, no red numbers.

Kove keeps no streaks, hands out no badges and never turns a number red. A day you skip is an empty row, and nothing you log is graded.

Your data.

Kove runs on one server in the EU. Your days are there as a spreadsheet you can read and edit. You can export the whole record as ordinary files, free, whether you are paying or not, and you can delete a photo, a kind of data or the whole account yourself.

What you delete leaves Kove at once. The nightly backup can still hold a copy for up to 30 days, and then it is gone. What you write in chat, and any picture you send, goes to one AI provider, named on the privacy page.

MyFitnessPal's plan comparison lists data export as a Premium feature. How they handle your data is in their privacy policy.

Price.

Kove is in a closed beta, open by invite. Everybody gets 30 days free, with no card, and the trial does not become a charge on its own. After that Kove is €39 a year. The first 50 people who join from the waitlist before launch keep the early bird price, €29 a year, for as long as they stay. There is no free plan and there are no ads.

MyFitnessPal has a free account. Premium is the paid upgrade, and Premium+ adds meal planning and grocery lists. If you have never had Premium or started a Premium trial, you can try it for 7 days, and the first charge comes when the trial ends unless you cancel. Their price depends on the country and the plan length.

When MyFitnessPal is the better pick.

These are things Kove does not do. If you need one of them, MyFitnessPal is the better tool.

1. Barcode scanning. On MyFitnessPal it is Premium, and it needs the iOS or Android app. Kove has no barcode scanner. The nearest thing is a photo of the label: Kove reads the figures off it, and you can keep that food for next time.
2. A different macro goal each weekday, or net carbs. Both are Premium settings on MyFitnessPal. Kove keeps one set of daily targets: calories, protein, carbs, fat and fiber. It does not change them by weekday, and it does not subtract fiber to make a net-carb number.
3. A watch, a band or a scale that logs for you. MyFitnessPal names Apple Watch, Fitbit and Garmin among more than 35 apps and devices. Kove has no Apple Health integration and no wearable sync, so a number is in your journal only if you write it.
4. An app from the App Store or Google Play. MyFitnessPal has both. Kove installs from the browser as a web app, with its own icon and no address bar, or you keep using it in the browser. There is no native app.
5. A free plan. MyFitnessPal has one. Kove has a 30-day trial and then costs €39 a year.

Questions.

Is Kove a MyFitnessPal alternative?

Yes, if you would rather describe your day than search for each food, and you track more than food. If you need barcode scanning, device sync or a free plan, MyFitnessPal does more there.

Can I bring my MyFitnessPal history?

No. Kove does not import another app's history, so your journal starts on the day you join.

Is there a free plan?

No. Everybody gets 30 days free with no card, and the trial does not turn into a charge on its own. After that Kove is €39 a year, with no ads.

Do I have to count calories in Kove?

No. Kove works them out from what you write, and tells you when a figure is an estimate.

How accurate is Kove?

Kove publishes its test at kovejournal.com/accuracy. On weighed foods it found the food in a reference table 98% of the time and every figure was within 10% of the reference. On plate photos its estimate was off by about 21% at the median. Measured 28 September 2026.