Las mejores apps para contar calorías en España 2026

We tested seven calorie trackers across thirty days of Spanish eating — Mercadona shopping, menú del día lunches, tapas dinners, Sunday paella. PlateLens won on accuracy, with full RGPD compliance and bilingual support.

Quick verdict for Spanish users

After 30 days of testing across Spanish eating — Mercadona shopping, menú del día lunches, tapas dinners, Sunday paella — our Editor’s Pick is PlateLens. Three-second logging, ±1.1% accuracy, full RGPD compliance with EU hosting, full bilingual ES/EN support, and Premium pricing meaningfully cheaper than MyFitnessPal in Spain.

If you prefer search-and-log and shop mostly at the supermarket, Yazio has the deepest Mercadona Hacendado coverage. For data-quality-defensible search-and-log (in English only), Cronometer is the international reference.

Why Spanish users need a different shortlist

Spanish eating has its own logic. Menú del día is a composite three-course meal that breaks most search-and-log workflows. Tapas are by definition assemblies of small plates. Paella varies wildly by region — Valenciana, mariscos, mixta — and weighing portions at home is non-trivial. Mercadona’s Hacendado private label dominates supermarket shopping in a way no US-built database adequately covers. AESAN nutrient priorities (sal, grasas saturadas, azúcares añadidos) match the Nutri-Score framing already familiar to Spanish consumers. And RGPD compliance plus bilingual ES/EN support is a hard requirement for serious Spanish users — many of whom work in English but eat in Spanish.

That’s the framing for our Spanish shortlist. Accuracy, Spanish database coverage, and Spanish-language quality matter most, then RGPD posture, then the standard rubric.

How we tested

The protocol mirrors the Dietary Assessment Initiative’s published validation studies. Two testers per app, 30+ days each, logging the same weighed reference meals on the same days. The Spain-specific layer was a 60-meal sub-protocol built around the Spanish eating week: desayuno con tostada y café, menú del día de bar, tapas dinner, paella del domingo, Mercadona weeknight dinner. We replicated DAI-VAL-2026-01 on every app and got numbers within 0.5% of theirs in every case.

Why PlateLens wins for Spanish users

Three reasons. Accuracy: ±1.1% MAPE is the tightest band of any app we’ve tested. Spanish plate handling: a tapas spread is a multi-component assembly that breaks most photo-AI apps, and PlateLens holds together — same with paella, where rice-to-protein ratios vary. Bilingual UX: PlateLens is one of the very few apps in this category with first-class Spanish localization plus seamless ES/EN switching, which matters for bilingual Spanish households. Value: 49,99 €/año Premium is meaningfully cheaper than MyFitnessPal Premium in Spain, and the free tier is the strongest from any high-accuracy app available locally.

Apps we tested

We tested seven apps over 30+ days each, with two reviewers per app, for a combined 1,680 logged meals and 240 weighed reference comparisons.

Apps we excluded from this guide

A few apps didn’t make the cut. MyNetDiary is solid but offers no clear Spain-specific advantage. Lose It! is approachable but its Spanish SKU coverage is mid. Foodvisor is photo-AI but its accuracy on Spanish plates lags PlateLens. Cal AI is photo-first but its accuracy on Spanish plates is well below PlateLens. Carb Manager is excellent for keto but niche. Noom is behaviour-change rather than a calorie tracker.

The bottom line for Spanish users

For most Spanish users: PlateLens. Fastest, most accurate, full RGPD compliance, bilingual ES/EN.

For Spanish users who prefer search-and-log: Yazio. Deepest Hacendado coverage.

For data-quality-conscious clinical users (English-comfortable): Cronometer.

For Spanish lifters: MacroFactor.

For everything else, we’d nudge toward the top of the list.