YAZIO alternative: zweitaps

YAZIO is one of the best-known calorie trackers there is, with 439,751 App Store ratings. This page tells you why people switch anyway, and where zweitaps is different — with evidence, and with what YAZIO does better.

The reason people look for an alternative to YAZIO is almost never the database. It is what has grown up around the act of logging: streaks, diamonds, prompts, animations. In our own analysis of roughly 57,000 critical reviews, the most-upvoted complaints about YAZIO are all about exactly that — and they come from people who pay.

Around 30% of the critical reviews mention pop-ups, streaks or nagging. The database and the barcode scanner get praised in the very same reviews. So the pain is not in the core, it is in the shell around it.

What people write when they leave YAZIO

From our own analysis of critical Google Play reviews. The number is how many readers confirmed the review — not our opinion, but how widely the sentence is shared. German reviews are quoted in the original.

• Es ging mit der übertriebenen Gamification und unnötigen Animationen los … Abo werde ich nicht verlängern

  Google Play review, confirmed 1,215 times

• Eintragen wird immer umständlicher, weil man mit unnötigen Abfragen oder Pop-Ups genervt wird

  Google Play review, confirmed 882 times

• Die App verwandelt sich immer mehr in ein Spiel oder in Duolingo … Diamanten … sinnlos

  Google Play review, confirmed 857 times

What zweitaps does differently

zweitaps is built around one movement: tap plus, tap the food, done. Two taps for anything you have eaten before, because "Recent" opens directly under the plus. No streaks, no diamonds, no confirmation after saving, no ads in the diary.

You pay once, and only for photo recognition: 100 photos 2,99 € or 500 photos 9,99 €. Logging costs nothing and that will not change — nothing that is free today moves behind a paywall later.

Figures for YAZIO come from the vendor's own public help pages and store listings, last checked 15 September 2026. Prices are deliberately not in this table: they differ by country and promotion and would be wrong here faster than they would be right. What is compared is the model. Found a mistake? Write to hello@zweitaps.com and we will fix it.

What YAZIO does better

This belongs on the page because it is true: a very large German food database, a barcode scanner that reliably finds things and recipes and fasting plans. If one of those is the thing that matters most to you, stay. Switching apps only to miss something you use daily is a bad trade.

What zweitaps cannot do

So you read it here and not after installing:

• No recipes, no plans, no coaching. zweitaps is a diary, not a programme.
• Micronutrients only roughly. Calories, protein, carbs, fat. If you want to follow iron and B12, Cronometer serves you better.
• A smaller database than MyFitnessPal. We sit on Open Food Facts plus our own selection for European retail. Unusual items are sometimes missing; you enter them once and then you have them.
• Photo recognition is not free. Logging is, permanently. A photo of your plate costs one credit, because every photo costs us compute.

Your diary comes with you

You do not have to start from zero. zweitaps reads the YAZIO export — Profil → Einstellungen → Account → Datenexport, CSV per E-Mail. The steps, which fields arrive and what gets lost on the way are on exporting your data from YAZIO.