How to Switch from Lifesum to Nutrola in 2026: Full Migration Guide

Switching from Lifesum to Nutrola takes about 15 minutes. Here's the full checklist.

Most Lifesum users who move to Nutrola do it for four reasons: the price drop from roughly €8-10 per month to €2.50 per month, the AI photo logger that identifies a plate in under three seconds, a 1.8 million+ entry verified food database instead of crowdsourced entries, and zero ads on every tier. For users who have logged consistently in Lifesum for months or years, the migration question is not whether Nutrola is better — it is how to move without losing the history, the custom recipes, and the meal plans that made Lifesum usable in the first place.

This guide walks through the entire process in order: what to save before you cancel, how to export Lifesum data, how to cancel Lifesum Premium without double-billing, how to set up Nutrola with HealthKit or Health Connect, how to bring your recipes and meal plans across, and what actually changes in daily use once you're on Nutrola. If you follow the steps below, you can finish in a single sitting and keep logging the same day.

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Before You Switch: What to Save from Lifesum

Before you touch the Lifesum subscription settings, take fifteen minutes to preserve the data you care about. Lifesum's export is limited, so most of the value lives in screenshots and manual notes. The pieces worth saving:

• Weight history. Open Lifesum's progress tab and screenshot the full weight chart at every available time range — month, three months, six months, year, all-time. These charts become your baseline for Nutrola's weight trend so you can compare progress without a gap.
• Custom recipes. Any recipe you built inside Lifesum with your own ingredients and portions. Open each one, screenshot the ingredient list and serving size, and note the final per-serving calories. You will recreate these in Nutrola, so accurate source data is essential.
• Meal plans. If you subscribe to a Lifesum meal plan (Keto, High Protein, Mediterranean, Scandinavian, 3-Week, etc.) and want to keep following it, screenshot the full week's worth of meals before you cancel Premium. Once Premium lapses, meal plan access is gone.
• Favorites and frequently logged foods. Lifesum's "favorites" and "recent" lists represent the meals you actually eat. Screenshot them. These become your quick-log seed list in Nutrola.
• Body measurements. Waist, hip, chest, and any custom measurements you've tracked. Screenshot each chart.
• Habit data. Water tracking, exercise logs, Life Score history, and any streaks. Screenshot what matters to you — especially the Life Score trend if you use it to motivate yourself.
• Goal settings. Current weight goal, target weight, activity level, and daily calorie/macro targets. Note them exactly so Nutrola's onboarding lands on the same numbers.

You only need to do this once. Fifteen minutes of screenshots now saves you from reconstructing a year of history later.

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Step 1: Export Your Lifesum Data

Lifesum offers a data export under account settings, but the export is limited compared to what a full migration would ideally include. Here is what the export currently covers and the workarounds for what it does not.

How to request the Lifesum export

1. Open Lifesum on your phone.
2. Go to the Me tab (bottom right).
3. Tap the gear/settings icon in the top corner.
4. Scroll to Privacy or Data & Privacy.
5. Tap Request Data Export or Download My Data.
6. Confirm your account email. Lifesum will email a download link within 24-72 hours.

The email contains a ZIP with your food diary entries, weight history, and basic profile data in CSV or JSON format. This is useful as a personal archive but is not something you can drop into another app directly.

What Lifesum's export actually includes

• Food diary entries (date, meal, item name, calories, macros)
• Weight entries (date and value)
• Profile data (goals, preferences)
• Water tracking logs
• Exercise entries

What the export does not include

• Custom recipes in a structured, importable format
• Meal plans (these are licensed Lifesum content)
• Life Score history in detail
• Favorites as a usable list
• Barcode-scanned brand data with full nutrient profiles

Workarounds for the gaps

For custom recipes, the screenshots you took earlier are your source of truth. For meal plans, you will rebuild them manually in Nutrola — the good news is Nutrola's recipe import handles most popular recipe sites automatically, so rebuilding is faster than it sounds. For favorites, retype the top 10-20 items into Nutrola's quick-log list during the first week of use.

Save the Lifesum ZIP somewhere safe (iCloud Drive, Google Drive, a local folder). You may not need it, but having a year of diary history archived is worth the 50MB.

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Step 2: Cancel Lifesum Premium

Cancellation is the step most users get wrong, because subscriptions renew through the app store that originally processed the purchase — not through Lifesum's own settings. Canceling inside the Lifesum app does not stop billing. Here is how to actually stop the subscription, avoid double-billing during the Nutrola trial, and check for a refund.

If you subscribed through the iPhone App Store

1. Open Settings on your iPhone.
2. Tap your name/Apple ID at the top.
3. Tap Subscriptions.
4. Find Lifesum in the active subscriptions list.
5. Tap it and select Cancel Subscription.
6. Confirm. Your Premium access will continue until the end of the current billing period, then will not renew.

If you subscribed through Google Play

1. Open the Play Store app on Android.
2. Tap your profile icon (top right).
3. Select Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions.
4. Find Lifesum.
5. Tap Cancel subscription and confirm.
6. Access continues until the period ends, then stops renewing.

If you subscribed through Lifesum's website

1. Sign in at lifesum.com with the same account.
2. Go to Account > Subscription.
3. Click Cancel Subscription and confirm.
4. You may receive a confirmation email. Keep it as proof of cancellation.

Avoiding auto-renewal during the Nutrola trial

Cancel Lifesum before you finish setting up Nutrola. If Lifesum renews the day you activate the Nutrola trial, you will pay for both apps that month. Apple and Google both confirm cancellation via email — wait for that email before moving on.

Refund possibilities

Apple and Google occasionally refund subscription charges if you cancel within a few days of the renewal. On iPhone, go to reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in, find the Lifesum charge, and select Request a refund. On Android, open the Play Store, tap the Lifesum transaction, and tap Refund. Neither platform guarantees a refund — policies are case by case — but it is a five-minute attempt worth making if you renewed recently.

Do not delete the Lifesum app yet. Keep it installed until you have fully imported your favorites and recipes into Nutrola, then remove it.

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Step 3: Set Up Nutrola

Nutrola's onboarding is designed to get you to your first logged meal in under three minutes. The free trial gives you every feature with no credit card required, and the €2.50/month price after the trial is lower than the cost of two Lifesum Premium months combined.

Download and start the trial

1. Download Nutrola from the App Store or Google Play.
2. Open the app and tap Start Free Trial.
3. Create an account with email or Apple/Google sign-in.
4. The trial begins. No credit card is requested upfront.

Onboarding: set your goals

Nutrola's onboarding asks for your sex, height, current weight, target weight, activity level, and goal pace (slow, moderate, aggressive). Use the numbers you noted from Lifesum so the calorie and macro targets match what you are used to. You can change these at any time in settings.

Nutrola will calculate your daily calorie target and default macro split. If you had custom macro ratios in Lifesum (for example, 40/30/30 for protein/carbs/fat), set them manually in Nutrola's goal settings to match.

Connect HealthKit (iPhone) or Health Connect (Android)

• iPhone: Nutrola will prompt you to allow HealthKit access during onboarding. Enable all categories you want synced — activity, workouts, weight, sleep, nutrition. Nutrola reads activity and writes nutrition, so your Apple Watch workouts automatically add to your calorie budget and your logged meals appear in Apple Health.
• Android: Nutrola prompts for Health Connect permissions. Enable all categories. Nutrola reads activity and weight from whatever source writes to Health Connect (Google Fit, Samsung Health, Fitbit, etc.) and writes nutrition data back.

Enable the permissions during onboarding rather than later. It takes five seconds now; digging through settings later takes five minutes.

Pair your Apple Watch or Wear OS device

If you wear a smartwatch, install the Nutrola watch app from the onboarding screen. The Apple Watch and Wear OS apps show your remaining calorie budget on the watch face, let you quick-log favorites from the wrist, and display macro progress as a complication.

Migrate your starting weight

Enter your current weight in Nutrola — the same value you last logged in Lifesum. This becomes your Nutrola starting point and keeps the trend continuous.

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Step 4: Import Your Data into Nutrola

Nutrola does not currently offer a direct one-click Lifesum import. This is the single inconvenience in the migration, and it exists because Lifesum's export does not provide a structured, per-item format that maps cleanly into another tracker's database. Here is how to bring your data across in practice, and which parts Nutrola can handle automatically.

What transfers automatically

• HealthKit / Health Connect weight data. If Lifesum was writing weight data to HealthKit or Health Connect, Nutrola reads it in during onboarding. Your weight history appears in Nutrola's trend chart on day one.
• HealthKit / Health Connect activity and workout data. Steps, active energy, and workouts sync automatically from the same source Lifesum used.
• Profile basics. Height and demographic data sync from HealthKit if you previously filled it in.

What you rebuild in minutes, not hours

• Custom recipes. Nutrola's recipe import handles URLs from most cooking sites automatically — paste the link, and Nutrola pulls ingredients, calculates calories, and saves the recipe. For Lifesum recipes you built from scratch, open Nutrola's Custom Recipe builder, type the ingredients, enter portion sizes, and save. Nutrola's 1.8 million+ verified database means the ingredient search usually finds a match on the first try.
• Favorites list. Over your first week of Nutrola use, your most-eaten meals automatically populate the Recent and Quick Log lists. Alternatively, open your Lifesum favorites screenshot and log each item once in Nutrola — after one log, they appear in your quick-access list.
• Meal plans. If you followed a Lifesum meal plan, use the screenshot you saved and recreate it in Nutrola's Meal Plan feature. Nutrola's meal plan builder lets you drag recipes and foods into a week's grid, duplicate days, and set recurring meals — building a full week usually takes 10-15 minutes.

What you simply accept as gone

• Life Score history. This is proprietary Lifesum scoring and does not translate to Nutrola's model, which is calorie-and-nutrient focused rather than score-focused.
• Lifesum-specific content. Licensed meal plans, Lifesum-authored recipes, and gamification badges do not port over. Nutrola's equivalent is nutrient-level goals, streaks, and personalized insights based on actual logged data.

Manual steps for diary history (optional)

If you want your Lifesum diary history visible in Nutrola for continuity, you can manually enter key meals from the Lifesum CSV export into Nutrola's past dates. Most users do not bother — the value is low — but it is possible for important milestones (first week of a diet, vacation weeks, pre-competition weeks).

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Step 5: Rebuild Your Favorites

The first week of Nutrola is about getting the quick-access surfaces set up so that day-to-day logging is faster than Lifesum ever was. Spend 20 minutes once and you will save hours over the next months.

Quick-log setup

Open each of your top 10-20 Lifesum favorites and log them once in Nutrola. Each food you log automatically enters your Recent list. Star the ones you eat multiple times a week — starred items become your Favorites in Nutrola and appear at the top of search.

For foods you eat in specific portions (for example, "140g oats with 200ml milk"), log them once with the exact portion in Nutrola, then save as a Custom Meal. Custom Meals combine multiple foods into one-tap entries that preserve your usual serving.

Home screen widgets

Nutrola's widgets display your remaining calories, macro rings, and streak on the home screen. Long-press your phone's home screen, tap Add Widget, find Nutrola, and pick the size and style that works for you. Widgets mean you glance at progress without opening the app — a workflow Lifesum Premium also offers, but Nutrola's widgets are available on all tiers.

Apple Watch and Wear OS

Add the Nutrola complication to your watch face for at-a-glance calories. On the wrist, you can quick-log a favorite in under five seconds. This is a genuinely different experience from Lifesum, where watch support is more limited.

Voice logging and AI photo logging

These two features are the biggest daily-workflow change. Instead of searching the database every meal, you can either:

• Point the camera at your plate. Nutrola's AI identifies the foods, estimates portions, and logs verified data in under three seconds.
• Speak what you ate. Say "two scrambled eggs, one slice of whole wheat toast, and a black coffee" — Nutrola's voice NLP parses the sentence into structured log entries.

Try both in your first week. Most users settle on photo logging for complex plates and voice logging for simple meals, with manual search reserved for packaged foods where a barcode scan is even faster.

Barcode scanning

Nutrola's barcode scanner reads packaged food labels and pulls verified data from the 1.8 million+ entry database. Keep it as your default for anything in a wrapper or a box.

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What Changes in Daily Use

The daily workflow differences between Lifesum and Nutrola are subtle individually but meaningful when summed across weeks of logging:

• AI photo logging replaces search. Where Lifesum requires you to search, select, and set a portion for every item, Nutrola's camera captures the whole plate in one photo.
• Voice logging replaces typing. Natural-language voice entries skip the search-and-tap flow entirely.
• Verified database replaces crowdsourced entries. Every Nutrola entry is reviewed. No more picking the "right" version of a food from three user-submitted duplicates with different calorie counts.
• 100+ nutrients replace macros-only. Lifesum focuses on calories, macros, and a few micros. Nutrola tracks vitamins, minerals, fiber, sodium, omega-3s, and more — useful if you pay attention to nutrient quality.
• Zero ads replace free-tier interruptions. Nutrola has no advertising on any tier.
• €2.50/month replaces €8-10/month. Same or better features, 60-75% cheaper.
• Apple Watch and Wear OS quick-log replace phone-only logging. Wrist-based logging is genuinely faster for frequent items.
• Full bidirectional HealthKit / Health Connect sync replaces partial sync. Activity in, nutrition out — on every tier.
• Home screen widgets on all tiers replace widget access locked behind Premium.
• Recipe URL import replaces manual recipe entry. Paste the link, get the macros.
• 14 languages replace the Lifesum language set. If you log in a non-English language, Nutrola handles it natively.
• No Life Score, more focus on nutrients. This is a philosophy shift. Lifesum motivates through a single composite score; Nutrola surfaces the underlying data directly so you can see what is actually driving your results.

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FAQ

Can Nutrola import from Lifesum directly?

Not currently. Nutrola does not offer a one-click Lifesum import because Lifesum's data export is limited and does not map cleanly into a structured database. The practical migration path is: export Lifesum for your archive, screenshot the parts that matter (weight history, recipes, favorites, meal plans), and rebuild in Nutrola. Weight data syncs automatically via HealthKit or Health Connect if Lifesum was writing to those platforms. Favorites populate automatically as you log. Total rebuild time is usually under 30 minutes.

Do I lose my Life Score data?

Life Score is proprietary Lifesum scoring and does not transfer. Nutrola does not use a single composite score — instead, it shows daily macro rings, 100+ nutrients tracked directly, streak tracking, and personalized insights based on your logged data. Most users find they do not miss Life Score after the first week because the underlying nutrient feedback is more specific and more actionable.

Is Nutrola cheaper than Lifesum Premium?

Yes. Lifesum Premium runs approximately €8-10 per month depending on region and billing cycle. Nutrola is €2.50 per month after the free trial — roughly 60-75% cheaper. Over a year, the difference is €66-90 saved while getting AI photo logging, voice logging, a verified database, 100+ nutrients, and no ads.

Will my weight history transfer?

If Lifesum was syncing weight to HealthKit (iPhone) or Health Connect (Android), Nutrola reads that data in during onboarding and your weight history appears in the Nutrola trend chart immediately. If Lifesum was not syncing to HealthKit or Health Connect, you can manually enter key historical weigh-ins, or simply start fresh with your current weight as the new baseline.

Can I run both apps in parallel during the transition?

Yes, for a few days. Many users log in both Lifesum and Nutrola for 3-7 days to make sure everything is set up in Nutrola before letting Lifesum Premium lapse. After your Lifesum cancellation takes effect, the free tier still lets you view historical data for as long as the account exists — so you have a safety net for references.

What happens to my Lifesum meal plan?

Lifesum meal plans are licensed content and do not transfer. If you followed one, you have two options: recreate it manually in Nutrola using your screenshots and Nutrola's meal plan builder, or switch to Nutrola's own meal-plan approach where you build recurring weekly meals from your own recipes and favorites. Either way, rebuilding a week usually takes 10-15 minutes.

Do I need to cancel Lifesum before starting Nutrola?

It is smarter to cancel Lifesum first so you are not paying for both apps during the Nutrola trial. Lifesum's Premium access continues through the end of the paid period even after cancellation, so canceling early does not cut off your data — it just stops the next auto-renewal. Nutrola's free trial does not require a credit card upfront, so you can start the trial the moment you finish the Lifesum cancellation confirmation email.

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Final Verdict

Migrating from Lifesum to Nutrola is a 15-minute project if you follow the order: screenshot what matters, request the Lifesum export for your archive, cancel Lifesum Premium through the correct app store, set up Nutrola with HealthKit or Health Connect enabled, rebuild recipes and meal plans using Nutrola's import and manual tools, and populate your quick-log list over the first week. The inconvenience is real — there is no one-click import — but it is a one-time cost that buys you AI photo logging, voice logging, a verified 1.8 million+ entry database, 100+ nutrient tracking, Apple Watch and Wear OS support, 14 languages, zero ads, and €2.50/month pricing going forward. For most Lifesum Premium users, the switch pays for itself in under two months and genuinely improves the daily tracking workflow afterwards.