Essentra
Nutrition for runners, lifters and everyone in between

Fuel the way you train.

Tell Essentra how you train and it sets your protein, carbs and calories to match, suggests how many carbs to eat before each session, and tracks every vitamin and mineral you log. Free, with no ads.

Every feature free No ads, ever Works with Apple Health
Three runners on an open road
A woman lifting a barbell
A runner on a red track
Hands gripping a loaded barbell
Runners sprinting down a street
1,456
kcal left
Protein
69 / 98 g
Carbs
142 / 315 g
Micros
6 / 14
1,184 logged of 2,640
All nutrients
The app

Four screens do the work. You do the training.

01 · Your day

Carbs before you train, sized to the session.

In the 90 minutes before a session, a carb range sits at the top of your day, worked out from your bodyweight and the kind of training you usually do. Fuel now takes you straight to logging it.

Two sessions, two windows Reads workouts from Apple Health
02 · Meal builder

See what each ingredient adds as you build.

Add an ingredient and every bar updates: calories, carbs, protein and fat, split into a shade per ingredient, with micronutrients underneath. Scale a batch to servings and save it to log again in one tap.

Barcode scan built in Per serving or whole batch
03 · Diary

Every macro and micronutrient, one swipe apart.

Swipe from energy to your targets to every mineral and vitamin, each against its FDA Daily Value. The nutrients you chose to watch come first. When a food doesn't report a nutrient, the diary says so instead of counting it as zero.

Energy · Targets · Minerals · Vitamins
04 · Insights

What your week is short on, and a food you already eat to fix it.

After four logged days, Insights ranks the nutrients that averaged below the threshold you set. Open one to see each day's amount and a food from your own history that closes the gap.

Your threshold, not ours 3-week trends
9:41
Wed, Sep 23
Today
Training day
Today’s training
Tap to adjust
Fuel now
Run · 75 min · 6:00 PM
140–210 g carbs · before session
Plan
1,456
kcal left
Protein
69 / 98 g
Carbs
142 / 315 g
Micros
6 / 14
1,184 logged of 2,640
All nutrients
Breakfast · 7:40 AM
512 kcal
Oats 80 g · Greek yogurt 170 g · Blueberries 100 g
Lunch · 12:50 PM
672 kcal
Chicken thigh 150 g · Rice, cooked 220 g · Broccoli 90 g
Dinner · 7:30 PM
Not logged
Today
Foods
Insights
Me
Cancel
Save meal
Overnight oats
4 ingredients · each one is a slice
Servings
Log one at a time
1
Your meal, in real time
628
kcal
Carbs
91g
Protein
33g
Fat
16g
Each shade shows an ingredient’s share.
Micronutrients · in this meal
Magnesium
148 mg
35% of daily reference
Iron
4.1 mg
23% of daily reference
Ingredients
Rolled oats
303 kcal · C 54 · P 11 · F 5
80 g
Greek yogurt, 2%
124 kcal · C 7 · P 17 · F 3
170 g
Today · Wed 23 Sep
1,456
kcal left
Logged
1,184
Today's budget
2,640
173
g to go
Carbs
142 / 315 g
29
g to go
Protein
69 / 98 g
32
g to go
Fat
38 / 70 g
The 3 you watch, first
Iron
9.8 / 18 mg
Sodium
1,420 / 2,300 mg
Magnesium
210 / 420 mg
Potassium
2,310 / 4,700 mg
Calcium
640 / 1,300 mg
Zinc
6.2 / 11 mg
Logged / FDA Daily Value
1 of 2
Calcium
640 / 1,300 mg
Iron
9.8 / 18 mg
Magnesium
210 / 420 mg
Phosphorus
910 / 1,250 mg
Potassium
2,310 / 4,700 mg
Selenium
not reported · DV 55 µg
Swipe for more · Unreported does not mean zero.
Logged / FDA Daily Value
1 of 2
Vitamin A
520 / 900 µg
Vitamin C
64 / 90 mg
Vitamin D
4.2 / 20 µg
Vitamin E
7.9 / 15 mg
Vitamin K
96 / 120 µg
B12
3.1 / 2.4 µg
Swipe for more · Unreported does not mean zero.
Energy
Targets
Minerals
Vitamins
Logged
2 of 4 meals
Breakfast · 7:40
Oats · Greek yogurt · blueberries
512
Lunch · 12:50
Chicken thigh · rice · broccoli
672
Today
Foods
Insights
Me
Last 7 days
Your patterns
A clearer look at the days you logged.
Your recent log
5 of 7 days
W
T
F
S
S
M
T
Now
5 logged days. 2 gaps mean this week's averages come from what you did record — not a health assessment.
3-week pattern
Iron
64
%
Reference
3 wk ago
2 wk ago
Last wk
Iron needs run high in endurance athletes. Your logged intake has averaged below the daily reference for three weeks running.
Below your 70% threshold
Lowest first
Weekly pattern · you watch this
Iron
61%
Weekly pattern
Vitamin D
38%
Weekly pattern
Potassium
52%
Magnesium, Sodium, Calcium and Zinc all averaged above 70% of reference.
Today
Foods
Insights
Me
Who it's for

Tell it how you train. The targets follow.

Onboarding asks one question about your training. The answer sets your protein and carbs for your bodyweight, the kind of session your day plans around, and the three nutrients the app shows you first. Change any of it later in your profile.

Runners racing
Runner
Endurance sessions
Carbs315 g · 2 g/lb
Protein98 g · 0.64 g/lb
Watched first
IronSodiumMagnesium
A lifter with a loaded barbell
Lifter
Strength sessions
Carbs245 g · 1.6 g/lb
Protein126 g · 0.82 g/lb
Watched first
MagnesiumZincCalcium
Runners on a stadium trackA woman lifting a barbell
Hybrid
Mixed sessions
Carbs280 g · 1.8 g/lb
Protein109 g · 0.7 g/lb
Watched first
IronMagnesiumCalcium
Daily figures shown for a 154 lb athlete. Your own weight, goal and schedule set yours.
Free vs free

Their free tier stops. Ours keeps going.

Every feature in Essentra is free, with no ads. Here's what the free versions of MyFitnessPal and Cronometer include, and what they charge for.

Free Paid plan only Not offered
Feature
Essentra
Free
MyFitnessPal
Free tier
Cronometer
Free tier
Import from Apple Health
Meal builder and saved meals
Barcode scan
Premium plan only
Full micronutrients
Premium plan only
Custom macro targets in grams
MyFitnessPal free sets percentages only
Premium plan only
Nutrient trends past 7 days
Premium plan only
Gold plan only
No ads
Premium plan only
Gold plan only
Targets that change on training days
Competitors sell a set target per weekday
Premium plan only
Gold plan only
Only in Essentra
Targets set by how you train
Runner, lifter or hybrid, scaled to your bodyweight
Pre-workout carb guidance
A range in the 90 minutes before each session
A fix from foods you already eat
Insights suggests from your own history
To unlock everything they offer
Billed yearly
$0
$79.99
a year, Premium
$59.99
a year, Gold
US prices and plan contents as published in September 2026. Competitor plans change; check their sites before you quote us.
How targets are set

Numbers you can check, not a score you can't.

g/lb
Grams per pound of bodyweight
Protein and carbs scale with your weight and your training type, not a fixed percentage split. Calories come from your body data and how active your days are.
60–90 min
The window before a session
That's when pre-session carbs are suggested. The range is based on your recent sessions when there's history, and on your training type when there isn't.
Health
A budget that moves with you
With Apple Health connected, the day's calories follow your real active energy. A session longer than usual gets flagged, and so do two hard days in a row.
FDA DV
Plain references for micronutrients
Minerals and vitamins are measured against published Daily Values, using USDA food data. A nutrient a food doesn't report is shown as missing, never as zero.
Your data

No ads means no one to sell you to.

No ad networks in the app
There is nothing to show ads, so there is nothing tracking you to target them.
Analytics never include what you eat
We count which screens get used so we can improve them. Food, weight and health data are never part of it.
Apple Health on your terms
Essentra reads only the workouts and energy data you allow, and those records stay on your phone. Turn access off in Essentra or the Health app at any time; everything still works without it.
Meet Hum

Always moving. Always fueled.

Hum lives in the app's ring and shows up in exactly two moods. It never comments on what you ate.

Hover
While something loads
Rest
When there's nothing here yet

Questions

Your next session starts with what you eat.

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