Comparisons
BiteSync vs Eat This Much: meal plans built to your macros
· Reviewed by James, Dietitian
Eat This Much and BiteSync both plan meals around your calorie and macro targets. For most people, BiteSync is the better choice:
- It plans with your food. BiteSync builds the week from your recipes: the ones you add, import from recipe websites, or have written for you. Eat This Much picks from its own database.
- The weekly planner and grocery list are free. On Eat This Much, weekly plans and the grocery list are Premium features.
- It checks your vitamins and minerals across the week, against reference values that differ for men and women, and feeds any gap into the next plan.
BiteSync is our app. Everything about Eat This Much below comes from its own website, checked on 11 October 2026.
Why BiteSync is the better choice
- Your own food. A plan built from meals you already like cooking is one you'll actually follow. Paste a link from a recipe website and BiteSync imports the ingredients and works out the nutrition.
- Weekly planning and grocery list on the free plan. The list merges the whole week and leaves off what's already in your pantry.
- Targets set for you, safely. Your calorie and protein targets come from your weight, height, age, sex, activity and goal. BiteSync never goes below 1,200 kcal a day for women or 1,500 for men, and won't set a weight-loss target if your BMI is under 18.5.
- Plans that hit your numbers. BiteSync Pro fills the week in seconds. It aims for every day within 150 kcal of your calorie target, the week's average within 5%, and at least 95% of your protein, and tells you which days fall short instead of hiding it.
- Vitamins and minerals across the week. Pro checks 12, such as iron, iodine and vitamin D, against reference values split by sex. That matters: a woman of reproductive age needs about 70% more iron than a man. It judges the whole week, which is how adequacy actually works. More on why that matters.
- Built by a dietitian. The targets, portion logic and micronutrient analysis come from clinical practice.
When Eat This Much might suit you better
If you'd rather not choose recipes at all and want the app to pick meals from its own database, free a day at a time, Eat This Much does that. It also offers barcode scanning, phone apps and, on Premium, grocery delivery integration.
Side by side
| BiteSync | Eat This Much | |
|---|---|---|
| Plans meals to calorie and macro targets | Yes | Yes |
| Plans built from | Your recipe library: your own, imported, or written for you | Its own recipe and food database |
| Free plan | Weekly planner (totals update as you go) and grocery list | Generates daily plans |
| Automatic weekly plans | Pro | Premium |
| Grocery list | Free, merged for the week, skips pantry items | Premium |
| Vitamins and minerals | 12 checked across the week, split by sex (Pro) | Tracked alongside calories and macros |
| Food data | Official composition tables (UK CoFID) | USDA and branded-product information |
| Barcode scanning | No | Yes |
| Works on | Any browser: phone, tablet or computer | Web, iPhone and Android apps |
| Price | Free; Pro £6.99/month or £59/year (GBP) | Free; Premium $5/month, billed annually (USD) |
Checked on 11 October 2026 on Eat This Much's pricing and food diary pages and our own pricing. Prices and features change, so check before you pay.
The verdict
If you want the week built from food you already cook, sized to your calories and protein, with the planner and grocery list free and your vitamins and minerals checked across the week, choose BiteSync. Try it free, no card needed. If you'd rather have meals picked for you from a database, Eat This Much does that.
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