Is Yazio free? What’s free, what’s paid in 2026 (and the price of Yazio PRO)

Yazio is one of the most widely used nutrition apps in Europe. The German company, based in Erfurt, says it has passed 100 million users (a milestone reached in May 2025), and the app is rated 4.7 out of 5 on the US App Store from more than 51,000 ratings. The first piece of good news: you can use it without ever paying. Its press fact sheet is clear that the basic version, which includes “a limited selection” of its core features, is completely free.

In practice, the free version gives you the food diary, the heart of the app. You search for a food among more than 4 million items, pick the serving, and the calories, carbs, protein and fat are added to your day, measured against a goal based on your age, height, weight and activity. The diary also records water, weight and activities, and you can create your own foods and recipes. 16:8 fasting stays free, as does the daily analysis and syncing with Apple Health on iPhone or Health Connect on Android. Streaks, which reward consecutive days of tracking to keep you motivated, are open to everyone.

The trade-off: ads, and an app that often reminds you what you are missing. Yazio has run on a freemium model since November 2015, and the app regularly puts PRO features in front of you. For simple calorie tracking, the free version is plenty; it is when you want to log faster or dig into your data that you hit the paywall.

Here is what each version includes in October 2026, based on Yazio’s official help center and its App Store listings. Unlike some competitors, Yazio has a single paid tier: PRO.

This is the change that surprised users most. Yazio launched AI meal recognition in June 2025: you take a photo of your plate, and the AI detects the ingredients and suggests an estimate of portions and nutritional values. According to the help center, the feature “was initially available to all users for free”; it is now part of Yazio PRO. Without a subscription, you are back to searching food by food.

Yazio itself is careful about what a photo can do. Its help center says the recognition only provides “a rough estimate” and “cannot guarantee 100% accurate results”, and asks you to review and edit each entry, ingredients and quantities included. That is a limit shared by every app of this kind: a photo shows neither the cooking oil, nor the sauce hidden under the rice, nor the exact weight of a portion. We go through these limits, and how to reduce them, in our article on how accurate photo calorie counting is.

So if you used the photo scan for free in 2025, you did not imagine it: the feature has simply moved to the paid side. The move is nothing unusual in the industry, with MyFitnessPal for example putting its barcode scanner behind Premium back in 2022. It mostly changes the maths for people who chose Yazio precisely for that feature.

Yazio is often described as a fasting app, and this is where the free version surprises people most. The app offers 20 intermittent fasting plans, from 14:10 to 5:2 and alternate-day fasting, but only 16:8 is free. For most beginners that is enough: it is the most widely practised method, and our intermittent fasting guide sums up what the research says about it. If you want to try 5:2 or freely adjust your fasting hours, though, you will need PRO.

The second big paid block is recipes. Yazio highlights more than 3,000 recipes created and tested by its team of nutrition experts, with vegetarian, vegan and low-carb filters, a cooking mode and grocery lists. They are PRO-only; you can, however, create and save your own recipes for free, which is enough to track your family favorites.

Finally, PRO deepens your tracking. The free version shows calories and the three macronutrients; PRO adds fatty acids, fiber, sugar, salt, vitamins and minerals, the Smart Food Rating, statistics by week, by month and for up to two years, and planning meals in advance. Automatic syncing with Garmin, Fitbit, Polar or Samsung Health, entering steps manually, “weekend calories” and mood tracking are also paid features.

Yazio does not publish a price list: the price appears in the app or on the website when you subscribe, and it varies by country, subscription length and current promotions. Two rules apply everywhere. First, there is no monthly subscription: PRO comes in 3, 6 or 12-month plans depending on the country. Second, as the help center explains, the full amount is charged at the start of the period you choose, not month by month.

Yazio offers a 7-day free PRO trial with full access, but not all the time: according to the help center, it is “offered occasionally” and only on the website, not in the app. Promo codes, too, can only be redeemed on the website, with a free account. In Germany, some offers go through partners: the health insurer BKK Werra-Meissner reimburses a first PRO purchase under certain conditions, and the corporate fitness program Hansefit gives access to 3 months of PRO.

How you cancel depends on where you subscribed. On iPhone, manage the subscription in the App Store by tapping your profile picture, then Subscriptions. On Android, go to Payments and subscriptions in the Google Play Store. If you paid on the website, log in to your Yazio account online, or open Profile, Settings, Account and Subscription in the app. Yazio spells it out: uninstalling the app or deleting your account does not cancel your subscription.

Cancelling does not trigger an automatic refund: you keep PRO until the end of the period you paid for, then the app switches back to the free version. For website purchases, you have a 14-day right of withdrawal; for purchases through the App Store or Google Play, refund requests go to Apple or Google, not to Yazio.

If free matters most to you, several apps leave open part of what Yazio keeps for PRO. None is free from end to end: each one draws its own line, summed up below.

Yazio really is free for the basics: a food diary, calories, macros, water, weight, 16:8 fasting and daily analysis, as long as you accept ads and manual logging. The AI photo scan, free when it launched in 2025, is now PRO-only, as are Yazio’s own recipes, the other fasting plans and detailed statistics. PRO is never billed monthly: in the US, expect $23.90 to $47.90 for a year depending on the promotion, charged in one go, and remember that deleting the app cancels nothing. Above all, the tool matters less than consistency: a moderate calorie deficit that you keep up over time beats the best app abandoned after three weeks.