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Patrick Bass Submitted
Aug 24, 2026 9:03am Summary
What your daily allowance means in practice
'''Loopa Basic is the free tier, and it is a complete basic tracker.''' No card, no trial clock, no ads, and no daily cap on how much you log.
== What is free ==
* '''Food logging''', every way in: search, browse, barcode scan, saying it out loud, describing it in plain words, or typing it yourself. Editing and deleting entries, your recent foods, the nutrition label, and your never-eat list.
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* '''Saved meals''' — build a meal once and log the whole thing in one tap afterwards.
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* '''Saved meals'''. Build a meal once and log the whole thing in one tap afterwards.
* '''Weight''' and '''water''', with their trends.
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* '''Vitals''' — blood pressure, glucose, INR, SpO2 and temperature.
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* '''Micronutrients''' — fifteen of them against the RDA for your age and sex, worked out from food you already logged.
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* '''Activity you log yourself''' — sessions and active minutes, with the calories folded back into your day.
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* '''Vitals'''. Blood pressure, resting and average heart rate, glucose, INR, blood oxygen, body temperature, sleep hours, energy and mood.
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* '''Micronutrients'''. Fifteen of them against the RDA for your age and sex, worked out from food you already logged.
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* '''Activity you log yourself'''. Sessions and active minutes, with the calories folded back into your day.
* '''30 days''' of history and trends across all of it.
* '''The setup interview''' and the plan it produces: your targets, calculated for you.
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* '''Easy Switch''' — bringing your history over from another app.
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* '''The community''' — forums, the feed, friends, profiles, messages and this Knowledge Base.
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* '''Easy Switch''', bringing your history over from another app.
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* '''The community'''. Forums, the feed, friends, profiles, messages and this Knowledge Base.
== What Premium adds ==
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Workouts (the set-by-set logger, the exercise library, records, routines, programs and the analytics), intermittent fasting, cycle tracking, H³ the Healthy Habit Helper, the coach that has read your log, the meal planner and Eating Out, photo food logging, device sync, body measurements, progress photos, supplements, sleep, the weight forecast, and history older than 30 days.
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Workouts (the set-by-set logger, the exercise library, records, routines, programs and the analytics), intermittent fasting, cycle tracking, H³ the Healthy Habit Helper, the coach that has read your log, the meal planner and Eating Out, photo food logging, device sync, body measurements, progress photos, supplements, the weight forecast, and history older than 30 days.
'''Working with a coach costs nothing on top of Premium.''' A coach writes into the training feature you already have.
== The two daily limits on free ==
Two things on the free tier ask an AI to do work for you, so both have a daily ceiling:
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* '''Describing a meal in plain words''' — 10 a day.
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* '''Nutrient estimates''' — 5 a day.
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* '''Describing a meal in plain words''' · 10 a day.
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* '''Nutrient estimates''' · 5 a day.
'''Search, barcode and manual entry are never limited''', so you can always log everything you eat. And a day whose foods have been estimated before does not use one of your five: those answers are already worked out.
If you reach a limit, it resets tomorrow.
== What the allowance means in practice ==
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Your daily allowance is stated plainly so you always know where you stand, and it is generous enough that most days you will not reach it. Repeat meals do not spend it, because those answers are already worked out. '''Premium removes both ceilings''' — describe as many meals as you like, and get an estimate for every day, instantly.
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Your daily allowance is stated plainly so you always know where you stand, and it is generous enough that most days you will not reach it. Repeat meals do not spend it, because those answers are already worked out. '''Premium removes both ceilings'''. Describe as many meals as you like, and get an estimate for every day, instantly.
See also: [[subscription-and-the-full-dossier|Loopa Premium]], [[easy-switch|Easy Switch]], [[logging-a-workout|Logging a workout]].
'''Loopa Basic is the free tier, and it is a complete basic tracker.''' No card, no trial clock, no ads, and no daily cap on how much you log.
== What is free ==
- '''Food logging''', every way in: search, browse, barcode scan, saying it out loud, describing it in plain words, or typing it yourself. Editing and deleting entries, your recent foods, the nutrition label, and your never-eat list.
- '''Saved meals''' — build a meal once and log the whole thing in one tap afterwards.
- '''Weight''' and '''water''', with their trends.
- '''Vitals''' — blood pressure, glucose, INR, SpO2 and temperature.
- '''Micronutrients''' — fifteen of them against the RDA for your age and sex, worked out from food you already logged.
- '''Activity you log yourself''' — sessions and active minutes, with the calories folded back into your day.
- '''30 days''' of history and trends across all of it.
- '''The setup interview''' and the plan it produces: your targets, calculated for you.
- '''Easy Switch''' — bringing your history over from another app.
- '''The community''' — forums, the feed, friends, profiles, messages and this Knowledge Base.
== What Premium adds ==
Workouts (the set-by-set logger, the exercise library, records, routines, programs and the analytics), intermittent fasting, cycle tracking, H³ the Healthy Habit Helper, the coach that has read your log, the meal planner and Eating Out, photo food logging, device sync, body measurements, progress photos, supplements, sleep, the weight forecast, and history older than 30 days.
'''Working with a coach costs nothing on top of Premium.''' A coach writes into the training feature you already have.
== The two daily limits on free ==
Two things on the free tier ask an AI to do work for you, so both have a daily ceiling:
- '''Describing a meal in plain words''' — 10 a day.
- '''Nutrient estimates''' — 5 a day.
'''Search, barcode and manual entry are never limited''', so you can always log everything you eat. And a day whose foods have been estimated before does not use one of your five: those answers are already worked out.
If you reach a limit, it resets tomorrow.
== What the allowance means in practice ==
Your daily allowance is stated plainly so you always know where you stand, and it is generous enough that most days you will not reach it. Repeat meals do not spend it, because those answers are already worked out. '''Premium removes both ceilings''' — describe as many meals as you like, and get an estimate for every day, instantly.
See also: [[subscription-and-the-full-dossier|Loopa Premium]], [[easy-switch|Easy Switch]], [[logging-a-workout|Logging a workout]].
'''Loopa Basic is the free tier, and it is a complete basic tracker.''' No card, no trial clock, no ads, and no daily cap on how much you log. == What is free == * '''Food logging''', every way in: search, browse, barcode scan, saying it out loud, describing it in plain words, or typing it yourself. Editing and deleting entries, your recent foods, the nutrition label, and your never-eat list. * '''Saved meals''' — build a meal once and log the whole thing in one tap afterwards. * '''Weight''' and '''water''', with their trends. * '''Vitals''' — blood pressure, glucose, INR, SpO2 and temperature. * '''Micronutrients''' — fifteen of them against the RDA for your age and sex, worked out from food you already logged. * '''Activity you log yourself''' — sessions and active minutes, with the calories folded back into your day. * '''30 days''' of history and trends across all of it. * '''The setup interview''' and the plan it produces: your targets, calculated for you. * '''Easy Switch''' — bringing your history over from another app. * '''The community''' — forums, the feed, friends, profiles, messages and this Knowledge Base. == What Premium adds == Workouts (the set-by-set logger, the exercise library, records, routines, programs and the analytics), intermittent fasting, cycle tracking, H³ the Healthy Habit Helper, the coach that has read your log, the meal planner and Eating Out, photo food logging, device sync, body measurements, progress photos, supplements, sleep, the weight forecast, and history older than 30 days. '''Working with a coach costs nothing on top of Premium.''' A coach writes into the training feature you already have. == The two daily limits on free == Two things on the free tier ask an AI to do work for you, so both have a daily ceiling: * '''Describing a meal in plain words''' — 10 a day. * '''Nutrient estimates''' — 5 a day. '''Search, barcode and manual entry are never limited''', so you can always log everything you eat. And a day whose foods have been estimated before does not use one of your five: those answers are already worked out. If you reach a limit, it resets tomorrow. == What the allowance means in practice == Your daily allowance is stated plainly so you always know where you stand, and it is generous enough that most days you will not reach it. Repeat meals do not spend it, because those answers are already worked out. '''Premium removes both ceilings''' — describe as many meals as you like, and get an estimate for every day, instantly. See also: [[subscription-and-the-full-dossier|Loopa Premium]], [[easy-switch|Easy Switch]], [[logging-a-workout|Logging a workout]].
