CalXd vs MyFitnessPal: a comparison for people who lift

The comparison in one table

MyFitnessPal facts come from its Polish App Store listing, its website and its help centre, checked October 2026. CalXd facts come from its App Store listing and the pricing on this site. Prices are from the Polish App Store, in złoty (PLN), and can change; your storefront may show a different currency.

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CalXd and MyFitnessPal, checked October 2026
Feature	CalXd	MyFitnessPal
Ways to log	Photo, voice, text, barcode. Also manual entry, re-logging a recent meal and copying yesterday's meals.	Free: database search, your own foods, meals and recipes. Premium: barcode, Meal Scan from a photo, Voice Log.
Food database	No database to browse. Barcodes are looked up in Open Food Facts; a missing product opens a form.	Over 18 million foods on its website, over 14 million in its App Store listing, restaurant dishes included. The community builds it.
AI photo logging	Yes. The AI estimates ingredients and portions, marks the result "≈" and you can edit it.	Meal Scan in Premium, only with the app set to English, iOS 18 or Android 13. It suggests foods from the database; you pick the serving.
Targets and changes	Target from your profile and goal, or set by hand. At most once every 7 days, a suggested calorie target from your 3-week weight trend; you decide.	Free: calorie and macro goals by percentage. Premium: macros by gram, different goals by day and by meal.
Macro display	Calories, protein, fats, carbs, always in this order.	Free: macronutrients in your diary. Premium: a macro breakdown for each meal.
Platforms	iPhone, iOS 17.4 or later. No Android, Apple Watch or web app.	iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android, Wear OS and a website synced with the app.
Languages	English and Polish.	20 languages on the App Store, Polish in the mobile apps. Meal Scan and Voice Log in English only.
Price and trial	App Store: 100 PLN a year or 10 PLN a week; 7-day free trial for eligible new Apple subscribers. Without Pro or the trial the app shows a paywall.	Free plan. Premium on the App Store: entries from 34.99 to 389.99 PLN, among them "Monthly Premium" at 34.99 PLN and "Yearly Premium" at 184.99 PLN. 7-day free trial if you never had Premium or a Premium trial. Apple does not say which entry you will see.
Ads	No ads.	The App Store listing says it contains ads; Premium is ad-free.
Data export	CSV of your weight and meal history, all of it or a date range.	Premium: three CSV files (nutrition, progress, exercise) in a zip by email. Free: a printable report.

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Where CalXd fits

CalXd is a calorie tracking app for people who lift and want to hit their calorie and macro targets every day. Type "200 g chicken breast with 100 g rice" and CalXd estimates calories, protein, fats and carbs. You can also take a photo, record your voice or scan a barcode.

At most once every 7 days, CalXd reads your weight trend over the last 3 weeks. When there is enough data, it suggests a new calorie target and you decide whether to apply it. The first suggestion comes no earlier than 4 weeks into a goal, and there is none while you use a target you set by hand.

Your weight shows on a chart with a 7-day average line. You can export your weight and meal history as CSV. CalXd shows no ads, and the app is in English and Polish.

There is no free plan: the download is free, but using the app needs Pro or the App Store trial.
It runs on iPhone only. There is no Android app and no web app.
There is no food database to browse and no food search.
There are no recipes, no meal plans and no community.

Where MyFitnessPal fits

Every MyFitnessPal fact in this section: checked October 2026.

MyFitnessPal has a free plan: you log food and exercise, create your own foods, meals and recipes, see your macronutrients and set goals by percentage. If you want to count calories without paying and you search foods in a database, MyFitnessPal offers that and CalXd does not (checked October 2026).

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MyFitnessPal says its database holds over 18 million foods, restaurant dishes included. Its community builds it, so newer or regional products are sometimes missing and you add them yourself from the label.

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MyFitnessPal runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android, Wear OS and the web, with your data synced between them. It has community forums. With Apple Health it sends your meals, takes in exercise and sleep, and syncs weight both ways.

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If your phone is set to another language: Meal Scan and Voice Log work only in Premium and only with the app switched to English. On an iPhone you change that in Settings, Apps, MyFitnessPal, Language. The barcode scanner has also needed Premium since 1 October 2022.

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The same day in both apps

Example, not advice. You lift and have a typical day: skyr with oats, chicken and rice weighed at home for lunch at work, a kebab out in the evening and a protein shake after training.

In CalXd: you scan the skyr's barcode, CalXd looks it up in Open Food Facts and asks for the portion. You type lunch as text with the grams. You photograph the kebab, check the estimate marked "≈" and correct the portion if needed. You re-log the shake with one tap from your recent meals.

In free MyFitnessPal: you search the skyr by name, because the barcode scanner needs Premium. You search the database for the chicken and the rice and enter the grams. You search for the kebab in a database that includes restaurant dishes. You save the shake once as your own meal and add it from that list. With Premium you scan the barcode, and with the app in English you log the kebab with Meal Scan and pick the serving from its suggestions (checked October 2026).

In both apps the lunch you weighed at home gives firmer numbers than a photo estimate, so you enter its grams instead of a photo.

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Questions

How much does MyFitnessPal Premium cost compared with CalXd?

On the Polish App Store, MyFitnessPal lists Premium entries from 34.99 to 389.99 PLN, among them "Monthly Premium" at 34.99 PLN and "Yearly Premium" at 184.99 PLN (checked October 2026). CalXd on the App Store costs 100 PLN a year or 10 PLN a week, and eligible new Apple subscribers get a 7-day free trial. MyFitnessPal has a free plan; CalXd does not.

Which is better for someone who lifts and tracks macros?

It depends on how you log food. If you would rather type "200 g chicken breast with 100 g rice" or take a photo, you use an iPhone and you want target suggestions from your weight trend, look at CalXd. If you want a free plan, search in a large food database, a website, Android or a community, look at MyFitnessPal (checked October 2026).

Is the MyFitnessPal barcode scanner free?

No. MyFitnessPal's help centre says that since 1 October 2022 the barcode scanner needs Premium and works only in the iOS and Android apps (checked October 2026). In CalXd, barcode scanning works like the rest of the app: with Pro or during the trial.

Does MyFitnessPal Meal Scan work in other languages than English?

MyFitnessPal's help centre says Meal Scan needs Premium, iOS 18 or Android 13 and the app set to English; Voice Log also needs English (checked October 2026). CalXd is in English and Polish, and photo and voice are two of its four ways to log a meal.

Does CalXd work on Android or in a browser?

No. CalXd is an iOS app for iPhone, on the App Store, and needs iOS 17.4 or later. MyFitnessPal runs on iPhone, Android and the web (checked October 2026).

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