Essentra
Nutrition for people who train

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 21 vitamins and minerals in everything you log. Free, with no ads. Just counting calories? See what’s free →

Every feature free at launch 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 · 1,184 of 2,640 eaten
45%
Protein
69 / 119 g
Carbs
142 / 408 g
Fat
38 / 59 g
The app

Four screens do the work. You do the training.

01 · Your day

Carbs around your training, sized to the session.

Every session tells you how many carbs to eat before it and by when, so you show up fuelled, not full. Long runs and rides add what to take during and how to refuel after. Around it, Today keeps the rest of your day: calories left, protein, carbs and fat, the nutrients you watch, and every meal in order.

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 colour 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 · Your full day

Every macro and micronutrient, right on Today.

Under the timeline, swipe from your targets to 21 minerals and vitamins, each measured against what someone your age and sex needs. The nutrients you chose to watch come first. When a food doesn't report a nutrient, Essentra says so instead of counting it as zero. Tap a meal to change an amount, move a food or retime it, and step back to any day in the last four weeks, or pick one from the calendar.

Targets · Minerals · Vitamins Any day, one tap back
04 · Insights

Your week, in the numbers that matter most.

Your week in macros: average calories and protein against your targets, how many days you hit your protein, and carbs split by training and rest days. Your averages only count days you finished logging, so a forgotten dinner never makes your week look worse than it was. Missed a meal yesterday? Finish the day from Today in one tap.

Weekly macros Finished days only Training vs rest days
9:41
Wed, Oct 14
Today
Run or Ride · 5 PM
T
F
S
S
M
T
W
5 of 7
days
Yesterday
Run or Ride · 60 min
5:00 PM · usualEdit
130–200 g carbs from 1:00 PM, ideally by 3:30 PM
76 g logged of 130 g · 54 g to go, 1 h 15 min left.
Fuel now
1,456
kcal left · 1,184 of 2,640 eaten
45%
Protein
69 / 119 g
Carbs
142 / 408 g
Fat
38 / 59 g
Watching
See your full day ›
Iron
9.8 / 18 mg
Calcium
640 / 1,000 mg
7:40 AM
Breakfast
512 kcal
1:10 PM
Lunch
672 kcal
5:00 PM
Run or Ride
7:00 PM
Post-session
70–84 g carbs
Dinner
Usually salmon, rice and greens · 640 kcal
Log
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Today
Foods
Insights
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Overnight oats
4 ingredients · each one is a slice
Servings
Log one at a time
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Your meal, in real time
628
kcal
Carbs
91 g
Protein
33 g
Fat
16 g
Rolled oats
Greek yogurt, 2%
Blueberries
Chia seeds
Micronutrients · in this meal
Magnesium
148 mg
35% of your daily reference
Iron
4.1 mg
23% of your 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
Wed, Oct 14
Today
Run or Ride · 5 PM
1,456
kcal left · 1,184 of 2,640 eaten
45%
Protein
69 / 119 g
Carbs
142 / 408 g
Fat
38 / 59 g
Everything today
The 2 you watch, first
Iron
9.8 / 18 mg
Calcium
640 / 1,000 mg
Sodium
1,420 / 2,300 mg limit
Magnesium
210 / 310 mg
Potassium
2,310 / 2,600 mg
Zinc
6.2 / 8 mg
Logged / your daily reference
1 of 2
Calcium
640 / 1,000 mg
Iron
9.8 / 18 mg
Magnesium
210 / 310 mg
Phosphorus
910 / 700 mg
Potassium
2,310 / 2,600 mg
Selenium
not reported · ref 55 µg
Swipe for more · Unreported does not mean zero.
Logged / your daily reference
1 of 2
Vitamin A
520 / 700 µg
Vitamin C
64 / 75 mg
Vitamin E
7.9 / 15 mg
Vitamin K
96 / 90 µg
B1 · Thiamin
0.9 / 1.1 mg
B2 · Riboflavin
1.1 / 1.1 mg
Swipe for more · Unreported does not mean zero.
Targets
Minerals
Vitamins
Today
Foods
Insights
Me
5 of 7 days logged
Insights
W
T
F
S
S
M
T
Now
5 logged days · How averages work
Macros
5 finished days
Protein
108 / 119 g avg
3 of 5 days at target
Calories
2,271 / 2,415 kcal avg
Carbs · training days
388 / 408 g avg
3 days
Carbs · rest days
281 / 295 g avg
2 days
Fat
51 / 54 g avg
Today
Foods
Insights
Me
Who it's for

Tell it how you train. The targets follow.

Pick a training type, or just track. Change it any time.

Runners racing
Runner
Endurance sessions
Carbs420 g · 2.7 g/lb
Protein119 g · 0.77 g/lb
A lifter with a loaded barbell
Lifter
Strength sessions
Carbs385 g · 2.5 g/lb
Protein126 g · 0.82 g/lb
Runners on a stadium trackA woman lifting a barbell
Hybrid
Mixed sessions
Carbs403 g · 2.6 g/lb
Protein123 g · 0.8 g/lb
A bowl of yogurt, oats and fruit
Everyday
No training
Carbs207 g · 1.3 g/lb
Protein98 g · 0.64 g/lb
Daily figures shown for a 154 lb athlete training about an hour a day; Everyday for the same weight with a desk job, at maintenance. Your own weight, goal and schedule set yours.
Free vs paid

Their free tier stops. Ours keeps going.

Every feature in Essentra is free at launch, 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
Vitamins and minerals, past a short list
Essentra tracks 21; MyFitnessPal tracks a short list in every plan
Paid or missing in both
No ads
Premium plan only
Gold plan only
Only in Essentra
Targets set by how you train
Runner, lifter or hybrid, scaled to your bodyweight and weekly training. Or just track calories, with no training at all.
Carb guidance around sessions
A range before every session; during and after long runs and rides
Free, of these 9
Features above that cost nothing
9
of 9
3
of 9
6
of 9
To unlock everything above
Billed yearly
$0
$79.99
a year, Premium
$59.99
a year, Gold
US prices and plan contents as published in October 2026, at regular (not promotional) prices. Competitor plans change; check their sites before you quote us.
How targets are set

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

Updates instantly · nothing sent
2,268kcal a day
Pro
119 g
Cho
335 g
Fat
50 g
Resting · Mifflin–St Jeor1,665 kcal
Daily life · desk job+ 433 kcal
Training · 4 h a week+ 289 kcal
Digesting it · ~10% of intake+ 265 kcal
A full day’s spend2,652 kcal
Cut · your goal− 384 kcal
30, male, 5′10″, 154 lb · runs 4 × 60 min a week · steady cut

Every number shows its working

Resting, daily life, training, digestion and your goal, added up in front of you. Each line comes from published research, and the app names its source.

1,8002,2002,6006 AMNoon5 PM10 PMrun
Plan the whole day2,500
Earn it as you go1,780 → 2,500
A busier day earns more→ 2,730
Apple Watch: 1,780 resting + 720 moving a day · Perform goal

You choose how calories behave

Set for the whole day, or earned as you move.

Rest day
1,946kcal
119 P · 269 C · 44 F
Run day · 60 min
2,509kcal
119 P · 382 C · 56 F
The example above, running Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat · the week averages 2,268 a day

Training days get what the session costs

A run day adds what that run burns, with the carbs to fuel it. A rest day is what you burn without it. Protein stays put, and the week adds up to the same total.

Run · 2 hours · 5:00 PM
154 lb runner
Before
210–280 g
During
30–60 g / h
After
70–84 g
3:305 PM7 PM8 PM

Carbs sized to the session

A range before, per hour on long runs, and after.

Logged / your daily reference1 of 2
Phosphorus910 / 700 mg
Magnesium210 / 310 mg
Seleniumnot reported · ref 55 µg
Unreported does not mean zero.

Missing isn’t zero

When a food doesn’t list a nutrient, we tell you, instead of quietly counting it as zero.

Where it came from
Iron
Rolled oats3.4 mg · 35%
White rice2.2 mg · 23%
Chicken breast1.5 mg · 15%
Spinach1.4 mg · 14%
Chia seeds1.2 mg · 12%
Blueberries0.2 mg · 2%
Not reported for: Protein bar. Its share is missing from this total, not zero.

Every total, traced to its foods

Tap a nutrient to see what it came from, and which foods didn’t report it.

The small things

Less to type. Nothing to keep up.

Your usual meals, one tap

Saved meals ask at mealtime. Log or skip in one tap.

Portions it remembers

Foods reopen at the amount and unit you last used.

Training days, found for you

Three weeks of Apple Health workouts become your schedule.

No streaks to protect

No badges or grades. A missed day is just a missed day.

Search that doesn’t wait

Food search lives on your phone, so it’s instant, even in a basement gym. Barcodes you’ve scanned before come straight back.

Works with Apple Health

Bring what you already wear. Keep what's yours.

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No ad trackers in the app.
Your meals stay out of analytics.
What you eat is never used for analytics.

Your next session starts with what you eat.

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