Looking for a Noom alternative? Read this first

Noom got a lot of people started, and the psychology angle is genuinely clever. But two things tend to push people to look for an alternative: the price, which sits around $60 a month, and the fact that once you have learned the habits, you are paying a lot for a colour-coded food log. If that is you, here is what to weigh up.

What Noom does

Noom is a weight-loss program more than a tracker. It sorts foods into colour categories, serves daily lessons on habits and psychology, and gives you a human coach to check in with. For someone who wants hand-holding and a course-like structure, that has real value.

Why people move on

• The price. Around $60 a month is a lot next to apps that do the tracking for a few euros.
• The food logging itself is basic. The colour system is simplified on purpose, so if you care about exact macros, it can feel vague.
• No training. Noom is about eating and habits, not your workouts, so lifting and cardio go somewhere else.

A leaner alternative

Rep N Prep skips the course and gives you the tools. Proper macro tracking with a calorie ring, barcode scanning, and photo logging. Full workout and cardio tracking. And an AI coach you can actually talk to about both your diet and your training, on demand, rather than a scheduled check-in.

Rep N PrepScreenshot: the AI coach answering a nutrition question

Side by side

Who should switch?

If the daily lessons and the human check-ins are the whole reason you use Noom, it may still be worth it to you. But if you have the habits down and mostly want accurate tracking, training included, without the monthly hit, Rep N Prep does that for a fraction of the cost.

Free to start, and Pro is a few euros a month. Download it here and keep the tracking, drop the price tag.