Simple alternative — a recipe kitchen, not just an AI coach chat
Simple is an AI weight-loss coach you talk to. Swoodie is the kitchen: recipes to discover, generate, plan and cook — with a couples mode.
The bottom line
Simple is a fasting-and-coaching app — the product is the chat with Avo. Swoodie is the kitchen + tracker — 8,000+ recipes, Chef AI, meal planner, Swipe Together, plus a v1.4 fasting tracker with Fast Together for partner sync — at $39.99/year versus Simple's roughly $59.99/year subscription.
Simple built a 20M-download following around 'Avo', a humanlike AI coach you chat with, plus photo nutrition feedback and habit tracking. It grew out of a fasting timer into a full weight-loss coaching app — the product is the conversation.
Swoodie is a kitchen app that also fasts. Browse and filter an 8,000+ recipe library for free, generate recipes with Chef AI, plan the week with a merged shopping list, decide dinner with a partner via Swipe Together — and yes, track your eating window with six protocols (12:12, 14:10, 16:8, 18:6, OMAD, custom). Fasting tracker is free; Fasting Coach and Fast Together (sync your window with a partner) are Premium. AI runs on a 5-use free trial, then Premium at $39.99/year.
Feature by feature
| Feature |  Swoodie | Simple |
|---|---|---|
| Permanent free plan (not a trial) | Free — $0 forever | Free tier |
| Annual price | $39.99 / year | ~$49.99–$59.99/yr |
| Monthly price | $9.99 / month | $14.99–$29.99/mo |
| Start without creating an account | Free — guest mode | Account required |
| AI features without paying | 5 free one-time uses, no card | Free: 2 AI replies + 1 scan/day |
| AI photo calorie / meal scan | Trial — 5 free uses, then Premium | Free: 1 scan/day, then Premium |
| Multi-photo / multi-dish scan | Trial — 5 free uses, then Premium | |
| Log a meal you ate ("ate it") | Free — basic calorie logging | |
| Meal journal / food diary | Free: last 3 days · Premium: full history | |
| Recipe discovery / browse | Free — 8,000+ recipe library | No recipe library |
| Swipe-to-choose recipe UX | Free | |
| Filter recipes by ingredients you have | Free — Discover Mode | |
| AI recipe generation (Chef AI) | Trial — 5 free uses, then Premium | |
| Import a recipe from a video / social post | Trial — 5 free saves, then Premium | |
| Hands-free voice cooking mode | Free | |
| Multi-day meal planner (1/3/7-day) | Trial — 5 free uses, then Premium | |
| AI-built meal plan | Trial — 5 free uses, then Premium | |
| Auto-generated shopping list | Trial — built with the plan | |
| Shopping list merges duplicate ingredients | Trial — built with the plan | |
| Real-time couples meal matching (Swipe Together) | Host: Premium · Join: Free | |
| Shared meal plan | Premium | |
| Separate macro targets per person | Premium | |
| Multi-person session (family / friends) | Host: Premium · Join: Free | |
| Intermittent fasting tracker | Tracker: Free · Coach quips: Premium | |
| Paired wellness accountability (2-person daily score) | Free — core pairing + score | |
| Calorie & macro goal setting | Free | |
| BMR / TDEE auto-calculation | Free | |
| Daily nutrition dashboard | Free | Nutrition Scores |
| Body-stat & weight tracking | Free — on-device | |
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Cost over time
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Over 2 years, Swoodie costs $79.98. Simple costs $119.98 — you save $40.
Swoodie is $39.99/year — about $3.33/month billed yearly. Simple's price varies by region, device and onboarding promo.
Simple pricing verified May 2026 · source
Where Simple wins
Simple does one thing genuinely well: it makes a weight-loss coach feel approachable. Avo answers in plain, encouraging language, the Nutrition Score is easy to read, and the free tier lets you try the coach before paying. As an always-on motivational coach, Simple is well made. Swoodie's own fasting tracker is the v1.4 newcomer, so if Avo's coaching cadence is what keeps you logging in, that conversation history won't migrate.
Honest scorecard
Where Swoodie wins
- Multi-photo / multi-dish scan
- Swipe-to-choose recipe UX
- Filter recipes by ingredients you have
- Import a recipe from a video / social post
- Hands-free voice cooking mode
- Shopping list merges duplicate ingredients
- Real-time couples meal matching (Swipe Together)
- Shared meal plan
- … and 4 more on the full matrix above
The verdict
Switch to Swoodie if…
you want recipes to discover and generate, a real meal planner, and a couples mode — not just a coach to chat with — or you want fasting plus a real recipe library and meal planner under one Premium plan.
Stay with Simple if…
what you want most is an encouraging AI coach and nutrition feedback, and you don't need recipe or planning tools.
We put these comparisons together from publicly available information and each app's own website. Prices and features change — if you spot anything inaccurate or out of date, email support@swoodie.app and we'll correct it. We want this comparison to stay fair.
