Cronometer vs Eat This Much

Two tools coaches often weigh against each other, compared on the same terms.

Cronometer

FreemiumSoftware

A food diary with unusually careful data — micronutrients included — plus a professional view that lets a coach see a client's logs.

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Eat This Much

FreemiumSoftware

An automatic meal planner that turns a calorie and macro target into an actual week of meals plus a grocery list, which is the step most clients get stuck on.

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Pricing

Cronometer: Free tier covers logging; paid tiers add coach features

Eat This Much: Free basic planning; paid tier for full weeks and grocery lists

What it is

Cronometer

Food logging built around verified nutrition data rather than a crowd-sourced database. It tracks micronutrients as seriously as it tracks macros, and its professional tier gives coaches a dashboard of client diaries.

Eat This Much

You give it targets and constraints — calories, macros, allergies, budget, how much cooking the client tolerates — and it generates meals to hit them, then a shopping list to buy them.

Best for

Cronometer

Coaches who need the numbers to be right — working with athletes, restrictive diets, or anyone whose intake you are reporting to a dietitian or doctor.

Eat This Much

The gap between "eat 1,900 calories and 140g of protein" and a client standing in a supermarket with no idea what to put in the trolley.

Watch out for

Cronometer

Careful data means a smaller database of branded and restaurant foods, so logging takes longer. Clients who want to scan a barcode and move on may resist it.

Eat This Much

Generated plans need a human pass. Left alone the algorithm will cheerfully suggest combinations nobody wants to eat twice, and a plan the client dislikes is a plan they abandon.

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