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, sizes your carbs around 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 / 350 g
Fat
38 / 94 g
1,184 logged of 2,640
All nutrients
The app

Four screens do the work. You do the training.

01 · Your day

Carbs around your training, 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 how long and hard the session is. Runs and rides over 90 minutes add carbs per hour for during. An hour or more of endurance work adds a range for afterwards, on the timeline. Fuel now takes you straight to logging it.

Before, during, after 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. Set a saved meal to repeat, and at mealtime Essentra asks whether to log it — it never logs it for you.

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 · 60 min · 5:00 PM
130–200 g carbs · before session
Plan
1,456
kcal left
Protein
69 / 98 g
Carbs
142 / 350 g
Fat
38 / 94 g
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
Post-session · 7:00 PM
70–84 g carbs
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
208
g to go
Carbs
142 / 350 g
29
g to go
Protein
69 / 98 g
56
g to go
Fat
38 / 94 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 E
7.9 / 15 mg
Vitamin K
96 / 120 µg
B1 · Thiamin
0.9 / 1.2 mg
B2 · Riboflavin
1.1 / 1.3 mg
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 · last 3 full weeks
3-week average
Iron
64
%
Calcium
47
%
Your logged intake of each of these 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
Calcium
44%
Weekly pattern
Potassium
52%
Magnesium, Sodium 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 how you train, and how often and for how long. Those answers set your protein and carbs for your bodyweight: carbs rise with the training you do each week, as the published sports-nutrition ranges say they should. Change any of it later in your profile.

Runners racing
Runner
Endurance sessions
Carbs350 g · 2.3 g/lb
Protein98 g · 0.64 g/lb
A lifter with a loaded barbell
Lifter
Strength sessions
Carbs280 g · 1.8 g/lb
Protein126 g · 0.82 g/lb
Runners on a stadium trackA woman lifting a barbell
Hybrid
Mixed sessions
Carbs315 g · 2 g/lb
Protein109 g · 0.7 g/lb
Daily figures shown for a 154 lb athlete training about an hour a day. 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
Free in all three
Import from Apple Health
Meal builder and saved meals
Calories that rise with your training
All three add exercise to the day’s budget. Different macros by weekday is paid in both
Free in only one of them
Barcode scan
Premium plan only
Custom macro targets in grams
MyFitnessPal free sets percentages only
Premium plan only
Full micronutrients
MyFitnessPal tracks a short list in every plan
Micronutrient trends past 7 days
MyFitnessPal free: 30- and 90-day reports on its website
Gold plan only
Paid or missing in both
No ads
Premium plan only
Gold plan only
Food suggestions for nutrient gaps
Essentra picks from foods you’ve logged; Cronometer Gold suggests from its database
Gold plan only
Only in Essentra
Targets set by how you train
Runner, lifter or hybrid, scaled to your bodyweight and weekly training
Carb guidance around sessions
A range before every session; during and after long runs and rides
Free, of these 11
Features above that cost nothing
11
of 11
4
of 11
6
of 11
To unlock everything they offer
Billed yearly
$0
$99.99
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 scales with your weight and training type; carbs also rise with how much you train each week. No fixed percentage split. Calories come from your body data and how active your days are.
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.
3 ways
You choose how calories behave
Plan the whole day fixes the target when you wake. Earn it as you go grows it with the movement Apple Health records today. Mirror my Apple Health device uses your device's own resting and active figures. The first two also count the energy digesting food takes, which a watch doesn't measure.
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.
Quiet by design

It speaks up when it matters. Otherwise, it stays quiet.

2 a day
A notification limit, not a nudge engine
Your pre-session window, a saved meal that's due, a session well past your usual length, or two long days in a row. Never more than two a day across all of them. Pre-session reminders stay off until you turn them on.
Repeat
Your usual meals, asked about
Set a saved meal to repeat on the days you eat it. At mealtime Essentra asks whether to log it, and you can answer Log it or Skip from the lock screen. It never logs a meal for you.
3 weeks
Your schedule, read from Health
With about three weeks of workouts in Apple Health, Essentra proposes your weekly training days instead of making you type them in. Accept it, or set your own.
No streaks
Nothing to keep up
No streaks, no badges, no grades on what you ate. A missed day is just a missed day, and nothing resets.
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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