The four subscriptions, and the one

A serious tracker often ends up paying four apps to hold four halves of the same person. Here is what each one costs, and what a single subscription covers.

A full stack against one subscription. US App Store annual prices, August 2026.

The stack, priced

These are US App Store annual prices, checked in August 2026. They move, so check your own store — but the shape of the problem does not change.

What a full stack costs for a year.
App	For	A year
MyFitnessPal	Nutrition and food logging	$79.99
Fitbod	Strength and programmes	$95.99
Bevel	Sleep, recovery and strain	$99.99
Strava	Cardio and GPS routes	$79.99
Four subscriptions		$355.96
Heala	All four, plus cycle, habits and medication	$79.99

The saving is not the point

Money is the obvious argument and it is the weakest one, because any of those four can discount tomorrow.

The real cost of four apps is that no one of them can see the whole week. Your lifting app does not know you under-ate. Your recovery app does not know you ran. You end up as the integration layer, reconciling four screens in your head.

One app means one place where those numbers meet — and one coach that can read all of them before it says what today is for.

Where a single app is genuinely worse

A bigger food database. MyFitnessPal has twenty years of submissions.

A social network. Strava has your friends on it.

Depth in one domain. A dedicated app will always go deeper into its one thing than a general one will.

Every comparison

One page each, and each of them says what the other product does better — because a comparison that concedes nothing is one nobody believes.

Heala vs MyFitnessPal — An honest comparison: what MyFitnessPal still does better, what Heala adds for the same annual price, and who each one suits.
Heala vs Fitbod — Fitbod builds the workout. Heala builds the workout and reads the food, sleep and recovery around it. An honest look at both.
Heala vs Strava — Strava owns the social running network. Heala puts the same runs next to your food, sleep and lifting. What each one is for.
Heala vs Bevel — Bevel reads recovery from your wearable. Heala reads the same signals and also holds the training and food that produced them.
Heala vs Cronometer — Cronometer is the most precise micronutrient tracker there is. Heala trades some of that precision for training, sleep and recovery in the same app.
Heala vs MacroFactor — MacroFactor adjusts your calorie target from your own weight trend. Heala does that too, and holds the training and recovery that explain the trend.
Heala vs Hevy — Hevy is a fast, well-made workout logger with a social feed. Heala logs the same sets and then uses them to write next week.
Heala vs WHOOP — WHOOP is hardware with a membership. Heala is software that reads it. What each is for, and why this is not really a versus.
Heala vs Oura — Oura is a ring that measures sleep and readiness. Heala reads what it records and holds the training and nutrition around it.
Heala vs Lose It! — Lose It! is a clean, simple calorie budget. Heala keeps the budget and adds the training, sleep and body data that decide whether it works.
Heala vs Cal AI — Cal AI made photo calorie counting mainstream. Heala has the same camera and the training, sleep and body data that make the numbers mean something.
Heala vs Noom — Noom is a behaviour-change programme with human coaching. Heala is a tracking app with an AI coach. They are solving different halves of the problem.
Heala vs Apple Fitness — Apple Health stores your data and Fitness+ streams classes. Heala reads what Health holds and turns it into a plan.
Heala vs Garmin Connect — Garmin Connect is the best companion app for Garmin hardware. Heala reads what your watch records and handles food, lifting and body composition.
Heala vs Nike Run Club — Nike Run Club is free, well made and only about running. Heala puts running next to the food, lifting and sleep that decide how it goes.
Heala vs YAZIO — YAZIO is a clean, well-localised food diary with recipes. Heala keeps the diary and adds training, recovery and body composition.
Heala vs Lifesum — Lifesum packages diets and recipes attractively. Heala is built around your own logged data and the training around it.
Heala vs Carbon Diet Coach — Carbon adjusts macros from your check-ins and does it well. Heala does the same and holds the training and recovery that explain the trend.
Heala vs ChatGPT as a coach — A general assistant can write you a plan. It cannot remember what you lifted, log your lunch, or notice you have stalled.
An app, or a personal trainer? — What a good trainer gives you that no app can, what an app does better, and how much of each you actually need.
Heala vs Fitbit — Fitbit counts what you did. Heala reads that same data and decides what you should do next.
Heala vs Strong — Strong is a fast, well-liked workout logger. Heala logs the same sets and writes the next week from them.

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