Best Calorie Counting Apps in Poland 2026: Fitatu, MyFitnessPal, Yazio & Swoodie

Search for the “best calorie counting app” in Poland and the same names keep coming back: Fitatu, untouchable on its home market thanks to a Polish food database; MyFitnessPal, with the largest food database in the world; Yazio, with a polished intermittent-fasting tracker; FatSecret, free and community-driven; and Swoodie, which adds a cooking layer and a couples mode on top of calorie tracking.

All of them will count your calories. That is roughly where the similarity ends. This is the honest comparison of five apps – what each is genuinely good at, and which one to pick depending on how you actually eat.

The verdict in 60 seconds

• Choose Fitatu if you eat mostly Polish food – its database (chains, discount-store own-brands) is unbeatable – and you want a cheap, local tracker.
• Choose MyFitnessPal if you want the largest food database in the world and fitness-device integration.
• Choose Yazio if intermittent fasting is the heart of your routine and you want the most polished fasting timer.
• Choose FatSecret if you want a simple, free calorie counter with community features and no pressure to pay.
• Choose Swoodie if you want to count calories and solve the daily “what are we cooking?” – a recipe library, swipe-to-choose browsing and a couples mode no Polish tracker has.

How we compared

Price and feature details below come from each app’s own listings, verified in 2026. We focused on the questions screenshots like to skip: how usable each free tier really is, what the app gives you beyond the calorie-logging window, and what happens when you plan meals with another person.

Polish food database: this is where Fitatu wins

This is why Fitatu rules the Polish market. Its product database is perfectly tuned to what actually lands on Polish plates: meals from popular chains, discount-store own-brands, local bakery items. Scan a barcode from a Polish supermarket and you get a hit where global apps draw a blank.

MyFitnessPal has the largest database in the world (14M+ items), but it is crowdsourced and global – great for international brands, weaker for Polish regional products. Yazio and FatSecret have solid, if less local, databases. Swoodie leans on global, verified food data and a library of 8,000+ recipes – its strength is not a single Polish shelf item, it is what you cook from those ingredients.

AI scanning and logging

Photo and voice logging are no longer a novelty. Fitatu offers AI photo scanning and voice logging – describe a meal out loud or snap your plate (the AI photo scanner sits in the Premium+AI tier). MyFitnessPal and Yazio added photo scanning but keep it behind a paywall (Premium and Pro respectively). FatSecret keeps things simple – mostly a barcode scanner and manual logging.

Swoodie gives you photo and barcode scanning as 10 free one-time uses, no card – you try before you pay – then it moves to Premium. That is a different model from an instant paywall: you check whether the AI actually nails your meals first.

Recipes and meal planning

This is where the real gap between a “counter” and a “kitchen app” opens. Fitatu has thousands of recipes with step photos, seven ready-made meal plans (balanced, keto, vegetarian, gluten-free and more) and a Smart Fridge that suggests recipes from ingredients you have – a strong offering. MyFitnessPal, Yazio and FatSecret treat recipes as secondary, usually behind a paywall.

Swoodie is built around cooking: 8,000+ recipes spanning global cuisines, swipe-to-choose browsing (keep what appeals, skip the rest), filters for what you have on hand, AI recipe generation and a meal planner with an auto shopping list. If the question is not “how many calories is this?” but “what should I cook from it?”, it is a different kind of app.

Want to stop counting and start deciding what’s for dinner? Download Swoodie on iOS or Google Play – the recipe library, basic calorie logging, free manual macro logging (Quick Add), diet-style macro targets (including high-protein), a fasting tracker and Swipe Together are free, no account required.

Cooking together: what no Polish tracker has

All of these apps assume you eat alone. But most people plan meals with a partner, a flatmate or a family – and that is where calorie tracking usually falls apart. Fitatu, MyFitnessPal, Yazio and FatSecret have no shared or couples mode at all.

That is Swoodie’s wedge. Swipe Together lets two people swipe on meal options independently and surfaces the matches – no more “I don’t mind, what do you want?”. A two-person daily wellness score keeps you both on track together. Joining a session is free; hosting is Premium.

You don’t have to take that on faith, or install anything to test it: swipe tonight’s dinner in your browser – same mechanic, no account, no app.

What Swoodie added in 2026

The tracking side moved too. A scanned meal now comes back with a Blood Sugar Score – a steady, moderate or spiky read estimated from its carbs and fibre, sitting next to the calories and macros. (An estimate and a tracking signal – Swoodie does not measure blood glucose, and none of it is medical advice.) Every meal you log also gets a Meal Report Card – a quick grade and a shareable card – and Coach Ollie reads back what you actually logged each day in one short observation, free on every plan. Diet-style macro targets (keto, low-carb, high-protein) are free as well, and Quick Add makes manual logging a few seconds’ work. Beyond calories, Product Check scans a packaged product for a transparent 0–100 quality score – a barcode that tells you more than just the number. Six Kitchen Tools – unit, oven and air-fryer converters, a recipe scaler, cook times and safe temperatures – are free and work offline; you can try all six without installing anything on the tools page.

Pricing

• Fitatu: free tier; Premium 19.99 zł/month or 59.99 zł/year; Premium+AI (with the photo scanner) 169.99 zł/year.
• MyFitnessPal: free tier with ads; Premium about $79.99/year.
• Yazio: free tier; Pro about $47.90/year – recipes, plans and photo scan behind Pro.
• FatSecret: effectively free; optional, inexpensive Premium.
• Swoodie: free tier (recipes, calorie logging, Swipe Together, 10 free AI scans); Premium $9.99/month or $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial.

On price alone, Fitatu’s basic Premium is the cheapest. Its AI tier (169.99 zł/year) lands close to Swoodie ($39.99/year), which adds recipes, a planner and a couples mode for that money. Swoodie Lite is a one-time $9.99 unlock (the whole app minus the AI features), so on total cost of ownership the maths flips.

Which one should you pick?

You eat mostly Polish and track alone: Fitatu. The database is unbeatable and the basic plan is cheap. It is a deserved market leader – for solo Polish logging. But the moment a second person eats with you, every Polish tracker breaks, and that’s the one thing Swoodie does that Fitatu can’t.

You want the broadest global database or fitness integration: MyFitnessPal. Intermittent fasting matters most: Yazio (Swoodie also includes a free fasting tracker if you want fasting plus recipes and couples mode in one app). You want simple and free: FatSecret.

You cook, plan meals or eat with another person: Swoodie. It is the only one of the five that combines calorie tracking, a recipe library, a planner and a couples mode in one place – and you try the AI free before you pay.

For one-on-one breakdowns: Swoodie vs Fitatu, Swoodie vs MyFitnessPal, Swoodie vs Yazio and Swoodie vs FatSecret. The full alternatives index covers 47 apps.

The honest summary: if you eat mostly Polish and log alone, Fitatu’s database is unbeatable and nothing here is trying to talk you out of it. But every tracker on this list assumes you eat alone – and in practice dinner is a two-person decision. That is the one thing no Polish counter does, and it is the reason Swoodie exists. Recipes and calorie tracking are free with no account, ten AI scans cost nothing to try, and Premium is free for 7 days on the yearly plan – or pay once for Swoodie Lite (39.99 zł) and never see a subscription. Get it on iOS or Google Play, or build a free calorie plan in three minutes.