The problem is a paid course when you only wanted to log dinner. Noom's 1-star pile is billing: trials that convert, cancellations that fail, a price that looks like coaching and feels like a curriculum. The diary inside is still a crowdsourced search box. Option 1 is Khatwa. Photograph the plate. The coach answers from leftover calories. Keep a guided program in the same free app.
1. Khatwa: a log, not a course
Photograph dinner. See calories and protein. The coach answers from leftover calories. A guided program sits in the same free app. That is the product people thought they were buying when they opened Noom.
Advice from today's leftover calories, not a fixed lesson plan.
Keep the coach. Drop the course price.
Khatwa logs the meal and answers from your day. Free on iOS and Android.
Download Khatwa Free2. Noom if the lessons are the product you bought
If CBT-style daily reading is working, Noom can stay option 2. Use a real food log beside it if the diary is the weak part. Head-to-head: Noom vs Khatwa.