If you need meals planned around carbs, use Carb Manager Premium or Eat This Much. eMeals has a Low Carb food style. Carby plans dinners around a grocery budget, not a carb target. It is the wrong tool if low carb grams are the input.
| App | Starter price | If you stay a year | Trial | Refunds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carb Manager | Free Basic at $0.00. Premium listed at $3.33 a month billed annually on the Premium page. | Premium listed at $3.33 a month billed annually. $0 on Basic. Grocery is extra. | Basic is free with no trial. Premium checkout is in the app; the public Premium page does not name a trial length. | App Store listing: payment is charged at purchase confirmation and the subscription auto-renews unless auto-renew is turned off. Follow Apple or Google Play to cancel. |
| Eat This Much | Free forever plan at $0.00/month. Premium listed at $5.00/month on the pricing page. | Help center (updated May 5, 2026) lists Premium at $59.99/year or $14.99 month-to-month. The pricing page shows $5.00/month. Read the checkout you see. | Free forever plan needs no trial. Help center says Premium includes a 14-day free trial. | Help center: no-questions-asked 30-day refund if you email support. Cancel during the Premium trial to avoid the first charge. Website, iOS and Google Play each have their own cancel path. |
| eMeals | As low as $4.99 a month on a 12-month term, or $37.50 for 3 months | $59.88 if you stay 12 months at the advertised $4.99/month 12-month rate. Repeating the $37.50 3-month plan four times is $150. Grocery is extra. | 14-day free trial. Terms say the card is collected at signup and charged when the trial ends unless you cancel. | Cancel during the trial: no payment. Cancel after the trial: eMeals says you do not get a refund of subscription payments. Cancel at least 48 hours before renewal. App Store purchases follow Apple's terms. |
| MyNetDiary | Free. Premium $8.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Premium Plus $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year, on MyNetDiary’s about and AI scanner pages. | $0 on Free. $59.99 on Premium yearly. $99.99 on Premium Plus yearly. A $179.99 lifetime option is listed on the free-tracker page. | Free tier needs no trial. Premium trial on iOS is documented in MyNetDiary’s FAQ index; length is shown in the store checkout. | Premium can be bought on MyNetDiary.com (Paddle) or as an in-app purchase. App Store and Google Play refunds follow those stores. |
| Carby | $39.99/year after a 3-day trial on web yearly checkout | $39.99 if you stay on the web yearly plan after the 3-day trial | 3-day trial on the web yearly offer visitors actually see. Monthly ($9.99) and weekly ($4.99) plans also exist. Read the checkout. | Web Stripe charges: email within 30 days of the charge for a refund. App Store charges go through Apple. Cancel during the trial and you are not charged. |
Grocery purchases are extra. Tracker prices are from public vendor pages and US iTunes Lookup, checked October 20, 2026. Carby is a dinner planner, not a food diary.
Premium: personalized meal plans and shopping lists. Basic is tracking only.
Carb Manager is for Counting net carbs, including keto and a listed diabetes carb counter on Premium. Skip it if you need family dinners under a typed grocery budget and you are not counting carbs.
Hits calorie and macro targets, including keto and carb cycling. Family scaling exists; help says it does not hit different targets per person at once.
Eat This Much is for Someone whose plan has to hit calorie or macro numbers, with a grocery list as a follow-on. Skip it if dinner for a family at a named grocery store is the job, and macros are not.
Weekly dinners plus a list you can send to Walmart, Kroger, Amazon or Instacart. Not a gram-by-gram carb diary.
eMeals is for Someone who wants planned food styles and a list that can go to pickup or delivery. Skip it if the first thing you need is a typed weekly grocery cap with estimated costs on the plan.
Dietitian-designed plans on Premium, on top of a calorie diary.
MyNetDiary is for A free, ad-free calorie diary with a staff-verified database and a free barcode scanner. Skip it if you want the app to generate five family dinners under a grocery cap at Walmart or Aldi.
Use it when the constraint is dollars at the store. Do not use it as a low-carb gram planner.
Carby is for A household that shops a named US store and wants the week of dinners to start from a spending limit. Skip it if you need the planner to drop ingredients into a retailer pickup or delivery cart.
Carb Manager Premium if the plan must follow net carbs. Eat This Much if a generator should hit the macros. eMeals if you want a Low Carb dinner style with pickup. Carby if you wanted a grocery budget and low carb was not the real question.
Carby has diet filters. It does not enforce a daily carb gram target.
Carb Manager Premium, Eat This Much Premium, eMeals, and Carby (budget list, not carb-targeted).
Sources checked October 20, 2026: Carb Manager homepage · Carb Manager Premium · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 410089731 · Eat This Much pricing · Eat This Much homepage · Eat This Much help: what you get · Eat This Much help: cancel any time · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 981637806 · eMeals homepage FAQ · eMeals terms of use · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 575756462 · MyNetDiary homepage · MyNetDiary about · MyNetDiary free tracker page · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 287529757 · App Store listing · iTunes Lookup id 6779585429 · Carby billing policy · Carby refund help. Competitor facts come from those public pages and US iTunes Lookup. Missing cells were omitted, not guessed.