Depth, or a habit that sticks.
Cronometer tracks up to 95 nutrients against a database of over a million foods. Supper tracks less, on purpose, so logging takes a sentence instead of a session.
Cronometer is built for accuracy first. If you want your daily selenium or B12 against a target, it will tell you. Athletes working a macro plan and people managing a deficiency are genuinely well served by it.
That depth has a cost. Logging a meal means finding the right entry in a very large database, every meal, every day.
Supper starts from the other end. Most people do not need 95 nutrients tracked correctly. They need to still be logging in week three. So Supper tracks calories, macros, fiber and food quality, and gets them from one sentence.
Supper and Cronometer, line by line.
| Supper | Cronometer | |
|---|---|---|
| How you log a meal | Type or say it in one sentence | Search their verified database, which they say holds over 1M foods, and pick the entry |
| What it tracks | Calories, macros, fiber and food quality | Up to 95 nutrients, built for that depth |
| Built for | A daily habit that is easy to keep | Precise nutrient data, tracked consistently |
| Price | $7.99/mo or $59.99/yr | Free tier, plus paid at $10.99/mo or $59.99/yr |
| Free trial | 25 logs, no card | Free tier available, so no trial |
Cronometer is the right call if you are tracking for a medical reason, working with a dietitian on a specific deficiency, or you simply want every nutrient behind a meal. Supper is not trying to be that and never will be. Going deeper on nutrients means going slower on logging, and that is the trade we are not willing to make.
The failure mode nobody plans for.
The honest failure mode of an accuracy-first tracker is not wrong numbers. It is an app that gets abandoned because logging felt like homework.
Supper trades some precision for consistency. The estimates are good enough to be useful, and certainly wrong sometimes, but they show up every day, because entering one takes about eight seconds.
If you started Cronometer, got a few days of beautiful data, then stopped opening it, that is not a discipline problem. That is what happens when logging the meal takes longer than eating it did.