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RightRep vs FatSecret.
An honest look.

FatSecret (Secret Industries Pty Ltd, founded 2006 in Melbourne by brothers Lenny and Rodney Moses — a lawyer and a physician — bootstrapped, on iOS since December 2009) is the calorie counter that stayed free where the market paywalled: its listing leads with "Best of all, fatsecret is free", and the free, ad-supported tier carries the barcode scanner with autocomplete, image-recognition photo logging, the food and exercise diaries, 19,000+ recipes, reports, the community and a genuinely-free CSV export. Its database pitch is depth-by-verification, not count: "over 2.3 million verified food items", "100% of items are verified", "0 Zero duplicates" and "90%+ UPC/EAC barcode coverage globally" — against MyFitnessPal's 20.5M crowdsourced and Yazio's 4M. Underneath the app sits the tail's only B2B moat: the fatsecret Platform API, "more than 65,000 developers" making "in excess of 700 million API calls every month", feeding Amazon, Fitbit, Samsung, Nestlé and Medtronic. In Brazil it is the family's best score — 4.87★ across 22,381 ratings, Nº 46 in Saúde e fitness, with a full pt-BR listing and fatsecret.com.br — and NY Magazine called it the best calorie counter app in 2018. This page concedes all of it. What FatSecret never does is observe a single movement: the exercise diary is manual entry plus synced calorie credits (Google Fit / Samsung Health / Fitbit / Apple Health), no camera has ever checked a rep, no run has ever been recorded, and there is no Wear OS app at all. RightRep is the other half of fitness: photograph the plate and the AI estimates calories, per-item macros and drinks, then prop the phone against your water bottle and the same camera measures the set — 33 body landmarks per frame on the device, a 0–100 score for every completed repetition — with GPS runs and race-goal plans around it. Every FatSecret claim on this page is cited to FatSecret's own materials or named sources, and the places where FatSecret clearly wins are listed as plainly as the rest.

The two products

What each one is, in its own words — before the side-by-side.

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FatSecret

The Melbourne veteran's genuinely-free food diary — "the easiest to use calorie counter and most effective weight loss and dieting app on the market. Best of all, fatsecret is free" (US App Store description). The free, ad-supported tier carries the barcode scanner with autocomplete and manual code entry, image recognition of foods "using your camera", the food and exercise diaries, the diet calendar, weight tracking, reports, recipes, the community with journal and followers, and sync with Apple Health / Google Fit / Samsung Health / Fitbit. The database is the product: a 2.3 million verified-food database pitched as "the world's highest quality food and nutrition database" — "100% of items are verified", "0 Zero duplicates", "2,000+ Daily database updates". Premium adds dietitian meal plans (Keto, Balanced, Mediterranean, Intermittent Fasting, High Protein Low Carb), advanced meal planning, custom meal headings and — the tell — the water tracker, at $10.49–$14.99 monthly and $38.99–$59.99 annual points in the US (R$ 37,90–R$ 234,90 in Brazil, a multi-point scatter that reads as live price testing). 23 languages, an Apple Watch app with complications, no Wear OS app, 50M+ Play installs at 4.9★ (547K reviews), 4.87★ across 22,381 Brazilian ratings, and under it the fatsecret Platform API — 65,000+ developers, 700M+ calls a month, 150+ corporate clients from Amazon to Medtronic. On training it observes nothing: movement is a manual entry or a synced credit.

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RightRep

A live form coach with the camera pointed at both halves of training: photograph a meal and the AI estimates the name, calories, per-item macros and any drinks — in every locale we ship, no database search, no separate camera tier — or type a description instead. Then prop the phone against your water bottle and the same camera stack watches the set: 33 body landmarks per frame measured on the device, faults flagged joint-by-joint, spoken cues mid-rep, a 0–100 score for every completed repetition. Around it: protein-first macro targets with an adaptive calorie goal, a weekly AI nutrition review, GPS run/walk recording, race-goal training plans, hydration logging with reminders and coach chat. Live form checks, GPS runs and training plans are free forever; the AI features — meal estimates included — come with the 7-day free trial every account starts with, then Pro at $9.99/month or $99.99/year.

Side by side

The same eight questions, asked of each product.

Question	FatSecret	RightRep
What is the product built around?	The food diary itself — search a 2.3 million verified-food database, scan, photograph, all free, wrapped in ads	The filmed workout and the photographed plate — one camera stack for the gym floor and the kitchen table
How does a meal get logged?	Search the database, scan the barcode (free, with autocomplete), or photograph the meal — image recognition is their AI; no text or voice logging is claimed on any surface	Snap a photo — the AI returns a name, calorie total, per-item breakdown, macros and any drinks — or type a description; every locale we ship
What happens during a workout?	Nothing observes it — the exercise diary is manual entry plus synced calorie credits (Google Fit / Samsung Health / Fitbit / Apple Health)	The camera measures it — 33 body landmarks per frame on the device, faults flagged joint-by-joint, reps counted in-state
Barcode scanner?	Free, with autocomplete and manual code entry — the anchor of the family's most generous free tier (which also carries recipes, reports, community and CSV export)	Not our input model — we concede the barcode row straight; the photo and the typed line are the whole logging surface
Macro targets?	Calorie and macro goals against the diary; dietitian meal plans are Premium	Protein-first targets from body weight (the 1.6–1.8 g/kg band) with an adaptive calorie goal that learns from your logged balance — free
Nutrition AI?	Image recognition of foods, meals and products ("object detection, estimates serving sizes and weights", platform-side)	A weekly AI nutrition review synthesizing 7 days of meals, macros, hydration, weight and training, written in your locale
Devices, languages & exit?	iPhone/iPad + Apple Watch with complications + Android, but no Wear OS app; 23 languages incl. a full pt-BR listing and fatsecret.com.br; CSV export free (food — exercise reports don't export in-app)	iOS, Android and a web PWA in six locales; Apple Watch and Wear OS companions un-gated; Apple Health / Health Connect export free
Price & free tier?	Free with ads: barcode, image recognition, both diaries, recipes, reports, community, export; Premium adds meal plans, planning depth and the water tracker — Monthly $10.49/$14.99 · Quarterly $19.99–$28.99 · Annual $38.99/$59.99 US; BR Mensal R$ 37,90/R$ 53,90 · Anual R$ 82,90–R$ 234,90	Live form checks, GPS runs and training plans free forever; the AI features — meal estimates included — ride the 7-day free trial every account starts with, then Pro at $9.99/month or $99.99/year

FatSecret column per FatSecret's own site, Platform pages, help center and store listings (sources below). RightRep column per shipped behavior — the features page documents each row.

Where RightRep wins

The honest case for our side — grounded in what the app does today.

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The movement half they never observe

In FatSecret a workout is a line you type and a credit synced in from Google Fit, Samsung Health, Fitbit or Apple Health; no camera has ever checked a rep, there is no GPS surface at all, and the watch story stops at the Apple Watch — no Wear OS app exists. RightRep measures the workout itself: 33 body landmarks per frame on the device, faults flagged joint-by-joint, a 0–100 score for every completed repetition, GPS run/walk recording and race-goal plans — on both watch platforms, un-gated.

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Macros, the adaptive goal and hydration — outside the paywall

FatSecret's Premium tier is thin by family standards, and two of its pillars are things RightRep gives away: the water tracker sits behind the subscription, and dietitian meal plans with it. Our protein-first targets (the 1.6–1.8 g/kg band), the adaptive calorie goal that recomputes maintenance from your own logged energy balance, and hydration logging with reminders are free. Goal-setting is onboarding, not inventory.

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A weekly review that knows what the training was

FatSecret's reports and diet calendar describe the diary — what you ate against what you planned; no training-aware weekly synthesis is claimed on any surface. RightRep's weekly AI nutrition review reads seven days of meals, macros, hydration and weight plus the training sessions the app watched, because the camera counted the reps and the GPS recorded the kilometers. Nutrition advice that knows the workload is a different product.

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On-device pose, no data licensing, clean ad surfaces

FatSecret's free diary contains advertising on both stores, and its Play Data safety note says it "shares personal info and health/fitness data with third parties" — the consumer-side shadow of a database business whose other customer is the Platform API. RightRep runs live pose analysis on the device (live-check video is not uploaded), keeps ad surfaces away from the camera and summary moments, licenses no health data — and both exits are honest: their CSV export is free, and so is our Apple Health / Health Connect export, on every plan.

Where FatSecret wins

The other side of the comparison — because a page that only praises one column is an ad.

The genuinely-free core

Barcode scanner with autocomplete, image-recognition logging, both diaries, the diet calendar, weight tracking, recipes, reports, the community and a genuinely-free CSV export — all in the free, ad-supported tier. MyFitnessPal charges for its barcode; Yazio gates tracker sync behind PRO; FatSecret kept the whole logging loop free, and it is the family's most honest freemium. Our free-forever rows are training-side because the food-side free row is already theirs — this row is conceded outright.

The verified-database pitch

"Over 2.3 million verified food items", "100% of items are verified", "0 Zero duplicates", "2,000+ Daily database updates" and "90%+ UPC/EAC barcode coverage globally" — a data-quality story the crowd-count databases can't tell, and the reason a 2009 free API grew into a business Amazon and Medtronic buy data from. It is the smallest count of the family (MFP claims 20.5M, Yazio 4M) and we'll say so — but verification is their row, uncontested.

The B2B engine under the app

65,000+ developers, in excess of 700 million API calls a month, 150+ corporate clients — Amazon, Fitbit, LifeScan, Medtronic, Nestlé, Samsung, Welldoc named on the Platform page — plus fatsecret Professional for dietitian sharing and a Clinic arm in Australia. The consumer app can stay this free because the database itself is the product; that is durable in a way ad-plus-subscription apps are not, and we respect it rather than caricature it.

Seventeen calm years, bootstrapped

Founded 2006 in Melbourne by brothers Lenny and Rodney Moses (lawyer and physician), on iOS since December 2009, no external funding on record (Tracxn), never flipped between owners — and NY Magazine's 2018 verdict, "The Best Calorie Counter App Is FatSecret", still gets quoted. Longevity without drama is brand equity in health; RightRep is a young app at field-test stage and never claims tenure.

Twenty-three languages, pt-BR included

The iOS listing ships 23 languages, the site serves ~24 country locales including fatsecret.com.br, and the Platform's NLP reads 26. RightRep ships six locales (en/es/hi/id/pt/tr); the count row is theirs, conceded with the numbers spelled out.

Brazil's best-scored food diary

4.87★ across 22,381 Brazilian App Store ratings — a better score than MyFitnessPal's 4.86 or Yazio's 4.83 — Nº 46 in Saúde e fitness on the free chart, with a fully localized listing and a fatsecret.com.br locale. By BR rating count it is the #3 global food diary behind MFP and Yazio, and by BR score it is #1 of the family. This page is the Brazil-first queue's tail-2 exactly because of those numbers.

The honest summary: a genuinely-free diary with the barcode, image recognition, recipes, community and export all in the free tier, wrapped around a fully-verified 2.3-million-food database and seventeen years of calm? That's FatSecret, and it is genuinely the best at what it does. A camera that estimates the plate and then measures every rep of the workout, with macros, the adaptive goal and hydration free? That's the job RightRep does that FatSecret deliberately doesn't try.

How RightRep's meal estimate works

What actually happens between "photograph the plate" and the day's totals.

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One photo, one honest estimate

The photo (downscaled) plus any text goes to the AI, which returns a name, an estimated calorie total, a per-item breakdown, approximate protein/carbs/fat for the portion, and any drinks it identified — each one a tap to log into the hydration history. The estimate is framed as guidance by an explicit AI-estimate disclaimer, not silently "authority-graded". Where FatSecret photographs food to match a verified database entry, we estimate the plate in front of you directly — a different contract, stated as one.

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You keep the last word

The AI total is a guess about portion size, so a pencil action sits next to it — on the result card and on every saved meal — to correct the number, and the fix rewrites the row and syncs to your other devices. Day totals, charts and the weekly review all follow the corrected value, not the model's first attempt.

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The same camera, gym floor

The meal photo and the form check are one stack, not two apps: the pose model that tracks 33 body landmarks per frame on the device scores every rep against readable rules — 46 bundled Position Profiles today, and Machine Scan drafts a new one from a photo of an unfamiliar machine. Nutrition that knows what the workout actually was — because the app watched it — is what the weekly AI nutrition review is built on.

Comparison questions

The questions people actually ask before choosing.

I want to count calories for free — which one?

If a genuinely-free food diary is the anchor of your routine, FatSecret, honestly: the barcode scanner, image recognition, both diaries, recipes, reports, community and the CSV export are all in the free tier, and no family rival matches that. RightRep is for the person whose other half is the problem: photograph the plate instead of searching it, then have the same app watch and score the workout. On the macro-tracker bench between us: MyFitnessPal owns the deepest food database (20.5M foods), Cronometer goes deeper on micronutrients (95 nutrients, lab-verified foods), MacroFactor sells the adaptive-recommendation idea we ship free, and Lose It!/MyNetDiary round out the scanner-first crowd — each worth their own look if nutrition is your only axis.

Does RightRep have a barcode scanner?

No — and this page won't dress that up. Our logging surface is the photo and the typed line; the barcode row belongs to FatSecret and we concede it straight. Our public research ranks barcode entry as a logging accelerator — scan a packaged food, confirm the portion, log it — as the top nutrition-side backlog item: the fix is plumbing (a packaged-food database seam), not AI, and until it ships, the scanner is theirs.

Does FatSecret track workouts?

As a diary and an accounting credit, not as training: you type exercises into the exercise diary manually, and synced movement from Google Fit, Samsung Health, Fitbit or Apple Health credits calories back. Nothing in the app observes movement — no camera, no rep counting, no form check, no GPS recording — and there is no Wear OS app at all (the Apple Watch app exists, with complications). RightRep's whole first half is that measurement: 33 body landmarks per frame on the device, a 0–100 score per completed rep, GPS run/walk recording and race-goal plans.

What does each cost?

FatSecret: free with ads — and the free tier is the real product (barcode, image recognition, both diaries, recipes, reports, community, CSV export). Premium adds dietitian meal plans, advanced meal planning, custom meal headings, a Learning Center and the water tracker, at US points of $10.49 and $14.99 monthly, $19.99/$20.00/$28.99 quarterly and $38.99/$59.99 annual — a scatter that reads as live price testing — and BR points of R$ 37,90/R$ 53,90 mensal, R$ 53,90/R$ 74,99/R$ 107,90 trimestral and R$ 82,90/R$ 140,90/R$ 234,90 anual. RightRep: live form checks (10/day), GPS runs, training plans, history and the exercise library free forever; the AI features — meal estimates (10/day), the weekly review, coach chat — come with the 7-day free trial every account starts with, then Pro at $9.99/month or $99.99/year (cloud sync, ad-free, extra custom profiles).

I'm in Brazil — which one?

FatSecret is the #3 global food diary in Brazil by rating count and the best-scored of the whole family here: 4.87★ across 22,381 App Store Brasil ratings (MyFitnessPal 4.86, Yazio 4.83), Nº 46 in Saúde e fitness, a fully pt-BR listing and a fatsecret.com.br locale, priced in reais from R$ 37,90. The honest local fight is "o diário gratuito vs o treinamento observado": if the free diary and the barcode in Portuguese are what you want, it's theirs. If you want the camera that estimates the plate in pt-BR and then scores every rep of the treino, RightRep ships all of it in Portuguese — photo estimates, spoken cues, plans, the web app — with no region gates on any feature.

Who sees my data?

FatSecret's free tier contains advertising on both stores, and its Play Data safety form discloses that it "shares personal info and health/fitness data with third parties" — the consumer side of a company whose Platform business sells verified nutrition data to 150+ corporate clients. RightRep runs live pose analysis on the device — live-check video is not uploaded — licenses no health data, keeps ads away from the camera and summary surfaces, and the Apple Health / Health Connect export is free for everyone. Both companies' store listings, linked below, are the full picture.

Sources

Every FatSecret claim on this page traces to FatSecret's own materials or named sources — checked September 2026.

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Price & tiers

The US IAP ladder — Monthly $14.99 and $10.49 · Quarterly $28.99/$19.99/$20.00 · Annual $59.99/$38.99 — the free/Premium split and 4.73★ · 15,240 US ratings at #144 Health & Fitness: App Store listing. The BRL ladder (Mensal R$ 53,90/R$ 37,90 · Trimestral R$ 107,90/R$ 74,99/R$ 53,90 · Anual R$ 140,90/R$ 234,90/R$ 82,90), 4.87★ · 22,381 ratings, Nº 46 Saúde e fitness and the Premium pitch "planos nutricionais… Refeições Personalizadas e Contador de Água": App Store BR listing. 50M+ installs · 4.9★ · 547K reviews · "Contains ads" · updated 2026-09-28 · "Reconhecimento de imagem" · the Data safety disclosure · no Wear OS app anywhere on the listing: Google Play listing.

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The diary & database's own words

"Best of all, fatsecret is free", "the world's highest quality food and nutrition database", image recognition "using your camera", the free-tier blocks and fatsecret Professional: US App Store description. "Over 2.3 million verified food items", "100% of items are verified", "0 Zero duplicates", "2,000+ Daily database updates", "90%+ UPC/EAC barcode coverage globally", "more than 62 countries", "19,000+ Recipes", "26 Supported languages", "more than 65,000 developers supporting in excess of 700 million API calls every month", the Amazon/Fitbit/LifeScan/Medtronic/Nestlé/Samsung/Welldoc customer list and "150+ Corporate Clients": platform.fatsecret.com/api and the Platform homepage. "Over 18 years", the Clinic block and the "1M+ ratings / 4.7 both stores" badge: fatsecret.com homepage. The pt-BR locale: fatsecret.com.br.

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Free core, export & sync

The free tier's barcode scanner ("Scanner de código de barras e entrada manual de código"), image recognition and the Google Fit / Samsung Health / Fitbit / Apple Health sync surface: Google Play listing and the App Store BR listing. The in-app Export icon for food/nutrition reports and the exercise-diary limit ("the app currently does not support exporting exercise diary reports"): fatsecret help center — export and fatsecret help center — exercise reports.

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History & the macro-tracker bench

Founded 2006 in Melbourne by Lenny and Rodney Moses, Secret Industries Pty Ltd: Wikipedia — Fatsecret. The free nutrition API's 2009 founding coverage: TechCrunch (2009). "The Best Calorie Counter App Is FatSecret": NY Magazine Intelligencer (2018). No external funding listed: Tracxn — FatSecret profile. The FAQ bench, in their own materials: MyFitnessPal · Cronometer Gold · MacroFactor. Analysis base: the FATSECRET_ANALYSIS research doc on our docs site.

Prices and features change; this page is reviewed quarterly and on known FatSecret changes. RightRep claims describe shipped behavior documented on the features page.

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The approaches comparison

Trainer vs video review vs self-check vs live AI — the method-level comparison this product-level page sits next to.

Compare the approaches

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RightRep vs Yazio

The tail-1 sibling: the fasting-first diary with pt-BR AI logging vs the camera that estimates the plate and scores the rep — cited the same way, including where Yazio wins. The two macro-tracker pages read well together.

See the Yazio comparison

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RightRep vs FatSecret.An honest look.