# Noom Alternative in 2026 If You Want a Food Log, Not a $70 Course

> Noom is a paid habit course. If you came to log food and hit a calorie target, use a free photo tracker with a coach that already has today's leftover calories.

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.

![Khatwa coach using today](https://www.khatwa.se/coach.jpg)

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 Free](https://www.khatwa.se/en#download)

## 2. 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](https://www.khatwa.se/en/blog/noom-vs-khatwa.md).

Download: https://www.khatwa.se/en#download