How to Switch from Yazio to Nutrola in 2026: A Complete Migration Guide

Switching from Yazio to Nutrola takes about 15 minutes. Here's the full checklist, including how to keep your fasting data intact.

Yazio earned its reputation for a reason. Built in Erfurt, polished for the DACH market, and tightly integrated with intermittent fasting, it became the default calorie counter for millions of users across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the wider EU.

The interface is clean, the fasting timer is genuinely useful, and the recipe library speaks to European eating habits in a way most American apps never attempt. But in 2026, a new set of expectations is pulling long-time Yazio users elsewhere.

AI photo logging under three seconds. A verified 1.8 million-entry database instead of crowdsourced approximations. Voice input in 14 languages. A subscription price of €2.50 per month. Fasting tracking built into the same app you use for meals, not bolted on.

For users who want all of that without sacrificing the German-language experience or the fasting routine they have spent months building, the move to Nutrola is the obvious next step. This guide walks through every stage of that migration.

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Before You Switch: What to Save from Yazio

Before you touch a single setting, take fifteen minutes to capture the parts of your Yazio history that are worth preserving.

Yazio does not offer a one-click export of everything, and once PRO expires you will lose access to some premium-only views of your past data. The smart move is to screenshot and copy the items that matter before cancellation.

Weight history. Open the weight graph in Yazio and switch between the 3-month, 6-month, and 1-year views. Screenshot each one.

If you have been logging weight for longer than a year, expand the "all time" view and screenshot it. You will re-enter the trend manually into Nutrola or pull it in via HealthKit / Health Connect — both of which Nutrola syncs with bidirectionally.

Custom recipes. Any recipe you built inside Yazio — your breakfast porridge, your weekly meal-prep chicken bowl, your mother-in-law's goulash — is locked inside the Yazio cloud.

Open each one, screenshot the ingredients and portion sizes, and save them into a note you can reference while rebuilding them in Nutrola. Nutrola supports recipe import from a URL, so any recipe you originally saved from a website can be re-imported directly from the source link.

Fasting streak and protocol. Yazio's fasting timer stores the date you started, the protocol you are running (16:8, 18:6, 20:4, 5:2, OMAD, or custom), and your current streak.

Screenshot the fasting history screen and note your exact protocol, your typical eating window (for example, 12:00 to 20:00), and the number of completed fasts logged. You will configure this in Nutrola during setup.

Favorites and frequently logged foods. Yazio surfaces your most-logged foods in the "Favorites" tab and the "Last eaten" list. Screenshot both.

These are the first foods you will pin inside Nutrola so daily logging does not slow down during the transition.

Barcode-saved products. If you have scanned regional products that matter to your diet — specific German bakery items, Swiss chocolate bars, Austrian yogurt brands — note down the names.

Nutrola's 1.8 million-entry verified database is EU-localized and will almost always already have them, but having the list makes confirmation faster.

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Step 1: Export Your Yazio Data

Yazio's data export options are limited, and this catches most users off guard. Unlike some trackers that offer a full CSV export of every food log, Yazio does not publish a comprehensive self-serve export for meal history.

What Yazio does let you export. Weight entries can be viewed historically in the app, and body data written to Apple Health or Google Fit / Health Connect remains in those systems after you cancel.

If you enabled the Apple Health or Health Connect integration while using Yazio, your weight, activity, and nutrition entries that Yazio wrote to those platforms remain in your health data store and can be read by Nutrola once you connect it.

GDPR data request. As a German-based company operating under EU law, Yazio is required to honor a GDPR data access request.

You can request a copy of your personal data by contacting Yazio support through the app or via their website. This typically returns a machine-readable file of your account data within 30 days. Worth doing if you have years of history and want a personal archive.

Manual workaround for meal history. Open the "Diary" view in Yazio, navigate week by week across the time period you care about, and screenshot the daily summaries.

Most users find the last 30 days is all they practically need — older data rarely influences day-to-day decisions once you are in a new app. If you track for medical reasons, capture more.

Do not rely on third-party import tools. Several websites claim to convert Yazio exports into other formats. Quality varies enormously, and Yazio's internal data model does not map cleanly onto other trackers.

The cleanest migration uses HealthKit / Health Connect as the bridge for numerical history (weight, activity, nutrition totals) and manual re-entry for the handful of custom recipes and favorites that actually matter.

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Step 2: Cancel Yazio PRO

Yazio PRO typically runs around €4 to €6 per month when billed monthly, or €29.99 per year when billed annually — pricing varies slightly by region.

Cancellation is straightforward as long as you remember one rule: canceling inside the Yazio app does not cancel the subscription. Your subscription is billed by Apple or Google, and that is where cancellation has to happen.

Cancel on iPhone (App Store). Open the Settings app on your iPhone, tap your name at the top, tap "Subscriptions", find Yazio, tap it, then tap "Cancel Subscription". Confirm.

Your PRO access will remain active until the end of the current billing period — you will not lose premium features immediately. Many users run both apps in parallel for a week while finishing the transition.

Cancel on Android (Google Play). Open the Google Play Store, tap your profile icon, tap "Payments & subscriptions", tap "Subscriptions", find Yazio, tap it, then tap "Cancel subscription".

Follow the confirmation prompts. As on iOS, access continues through the end of the paid period.

Auto-renewal handling. Make sure auto-renewal is turned off, not just the subscription "paused". A paused subscription can quietly resume at the next cycle. A cancelled subscription will not re-bill.

After cancellation, screenshot the "Cancelled" confirmation screen so you have proof if a charge ever reappears.

What happens to your Yazio data. Your free Yazio account remains active after you cancel PRO. Your data is not deleted — the account reverts to the free feature set.

This means you can always go back and screenshot additional history later if you missed something. If you want to fully delete the account, there is a separate "Delete Account" option in settings. Most users leave it dormant rather than deleting immediately.

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Step 3: Set Up Nutrola

Installing Nutrola and running through setup takes about five minutes. The goal is to get the locale right, connect HealthKit or Health Connect, and activate the features that will replace what you were using in Yazio.

Install and start the free trial. Download Nutrola from the App Store or Google Play. Create an account with email or Apple / Google sign-in.

The free trial gives you full access to every premium feature — AI photo logging, voice logging, the verified 1.8 million-entry database, 100+ nutrients, fasting timer, widgets, and Apple Watch / Wear OS apps — with no feature gating. After the trial, Nutrola costs €2.50 per month.

Choose your language and locale. Nutrola supports 14 languages including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Polish, so DACH and wider EU users can run the app in their native language.

The locale setting also influences the food database — choosing a European region surfaces EU-specific products, brands, and portion conventions (grams and millilitres by default, not ounces and cups).

Enter your profile. Weight, height, age, activity level, and goal (lose, maintain, gain). If you have your most recent Yazio targets in a screenshot, mirror them here so your calorie and macro goals match what you were working with before. You can adjust later.

Connect HealthKit (iOS) or Health Connect (Android). This is the single most important step of the migration.

On iPhone, Nutrola prompts to connect to Apple Health — grant read and write permissions for weight, body measurements, activity, workouts, sleep, and nutrition. Any data Yazio previously wrote to Apple Health will now be readable by Nutrola, and any data you log in Nutrola flows back.

On Android, the equivalent is Health Connect — grant the same categories. This is how your weight history, step counts, and workout data travel between apps without manual re-entry.

Import weight history. Once HealthKit or Health Connect is connected, Nutrola automatically pulls in any weight entries already stored there.

If you logged weight through Yazio with Health integration enabled, those entries appear in Nutrola's weight graph on day one. If not, manually enter your last few weigh-ins from your Yazio screenshots.

Pair Apple Watch or Wear OS. If you wear a smartwatch, install the Nutrola watch app. You get calorie budget, quick log, barcode scanning, and fasting timer controls on your wrist — the same place Yazio lived before.

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Step 4: Keep Your Fasting Routine

The fasting timer is the single feature most Yazio users worry about losing. Good news: Nutrola has a built-in fasting timer with eating-window tracking, and transferring your protocol takes under a minute.

Configure your protocol. Open the Fasting tab in Nutrola and select the protocol you were running in Yazio — 16:8, 18:6, 20:4, 5:2, OMAD, or a custom window.

If you used a custom eating window in Yazio (say, 11:00 to 19:00), enter the same start and end times in Nutrola so your daily rhythm does not change.

Set your start time. The fasting timer activates from the moment you finish your last meal. If you were mid-fast when you switched apps, start the timer in Nutrola at the same moment you would have ended your fast in Yazio — the current fast picks up from there.

Streak reality check. Your Yazio streak does not transfer. No calorie tracker imports another app's streak counter, because streaks are internal metadata.

Your fasting habit, however, transfers instantly — you have already built the routine. The streak number resets to one, but the behavior does not. Most users find their new Nutrola streak back past 30 within a month.

Integrate fasting with meals. One quiet win of having the fasting timer and calorie tracker in the same app is that your eating-window bounds automatically align with your meal logs.

Nutrola shows your first and last meal times next to your fasting window, so you can see at a glance whether you are actually closing your window when you think you are. Yazio kept these surfaces largely separate; Nutrola unifies them.

Notifications. Set fasting start and end reminders inside Nutrola's notification settings. Match the same reminder cadence you had in Yazio — end-of-eating-window alert, fasting halfway point, fast-complete notification.

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Step 5: Rebuild Favorites and Widgets

The last step is rebuilding the small quality-of-life details that make an app feel like yours. This takes about ten minutes and makes a significant difference over the following week.

Pin favorites. Open your Yazio "Favorites" screenshot and search for each of those foods in Nutrola's database. Tap the heart icon on each to pin it to your Favorites list.

Because Nutrola's database is EU-localized, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch regional products surface directly.

Create quick meals. If you have a regular breakfast or lunch combination, build it as a saved meal in Nutrola. One tap logs the entire meal with accurate calories and 100+ nutrients. This replaces the Yazio "Meals" shortcut.

Install widgets. On iPhone, long-press the Home Screen, tap the plus icon, search for Nutrola, and add the calorie and macro widget. A Lock Screen widget is also available.

On Android, add the Nutrola widget from your Home Screen widget picker. The widget gives you at-a-glance progress without opening the app.

Configure Apple Watch or Wear OS complications. Add the Nutrola complication to your watch face for instant calorie, macro, or fasting-timer readouts on your wrist.

Barcode scan your pantry. Spend five minutes scanning the ten or fifteen products you eat most often — your protein powder, your yogurt, your bread, your coffee oat milk. This seeds your recent-foods list so the app learns your habits quickly.

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What Changes in Daily Use

A side-by-side look at what changes when you move from Yazio to Nutrola:

• Price. Yazio PRO at €29.99 per year or €4-6 per month becomes Nutrola at €2.50 per month.
• Photo logging. Yazio relies primarily on search and barcode. Nutrola adds AI photo recognition that identifies foods in under three seconds.
• Voice logging. Nutrola supports natural-language voice input in 14 languages. Yazio does not.
• Database. Nutrola's 1.8 million-entry verified database is larger and professionally reviewed; Yazio's is curated with heavier crowdsourced contribution.
• Nutrient depth. Nutrola tracks 100+ nutrients including full micronutrient breakdowns. Yazio focuses on calories and macros with limited micronutrient surfacing.
• Fasting timer. Both apps include a fasting timer. Nutrola integrates fasting with meal timing in one unified view; Yazio treats them as separate features.
• Recipe import. Nutrola imports any recipe by URL with a verified nutritional breakdown. Yazio emphasizes its own curated recipe library.
• Ads. Both are ad-free on paid tiers. Nutrola is zero ads on every tier, including the free trial.
• HealthKit and Health Connect. Both integrate, but Nutrola's bidirectional sync covers more nutrient categories.
• Languages. Nutrola supports 14 languages. Yazio has comparable range with particularly strong DACH localization.
• Apple Watch and Wear OS. Both apps offer watch apps. Nutrola includes quick log, barcode scan, and fasting timer controls directly on the watch.
• Subscription bundling. Nutrola's €2.50 per month covers iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Wear OS under one subscription.
• European focus. Yazio is DACH-first. Nutrola is EU-wide with 14 languages and localized databases across markets.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does Nutrola have a fasting timer?

Yes. Nutrola includes a built-in fasting timer with eating-window tracking. It supports all standard protocols — 16:8, 18:6, 20:4, 5:2, OMAD — and custom windows.

Because it lives inside the same app as your meal log, your eating window automatically aligns with the times you log your first and last meal each day.

Can I keep my Yazio streak when I switch to Nutrola?

No calorie tracker transfers another app's streak counter. Streaks are internal metadata that do not cross between apps.

Your fasting habit and calorie-tracking habit transfer immediately — only the number resets. Most users rebuild past their old streak within a month because the behavior never changed.

Is Nutrola cheaper than Yazio PRO?

Nutrola costs €2.50 per month, which is roughly €30 per year. Yazio PRO is typically around €29.99 per year or €4 to €6 per month when billed monthly.

Annually the two land close, with Nutrola slightly more affordable monthly and comparable annually. The difference shows up in feature set — AI photo, voice, 100+ nutrients, and a larger verified database.

Will my Yazio weight history appear in Nutrola?

If you enabled the Apple Health or Health Connect integration in Yazio, any weight entries Yazio wrote to those platforms are accessible to Nutrola once you grant HealthKit / Health Connect permissions during setup.

Weight entries that were never synced to the health platform stay inside Yazio and can be re-entered manually from your screenshots.

Does Nutrola work in German and other European languages?

Yes. Nutrola supports 14 languages including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Polish, with EU-localized food databases that surface regional products.

Users coming from Yazio's strong DACH experience find the German-language setup comparable, with the additional depth of AI photo logging and verified data.

Do I need to cancel Yazio before setting up Nutrola?

No. Run both in parallel for a few days while you finish the migration. Cancel Yazio PRO when you are confident Nutrola has everything you need.

Your PRO access continues through the end of your current billing period even after cancellation, so there is no cost to cancelling early.

What if I want to go back to Yazio later?

Your Yazio account remains active after you cancel PRO — it simply reverts to the free tier. You can log in any time.

If you fully delete the account, recovery is not guaranteed, so leaving it dormant is the lower-risk option for users who want to keep Yazio as a fallback during their first weeks with Nutrola.

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Final Verdict

Switching from Yazio to Nutrola is a deliberate, not difficult, move. Fifteen minutes of screenshotting and setup preserves everything that matters — weight history, recipes, fasting protocol, favorites, and widgets.

HealthKit and Health Connect carry your numerical history between apps automatically. Cancelling PRO takes thirty seconds in the App Store or Google Play, and the free period you already paid for keeps Yazio usable during your first week on Nutrola so there is no pressure to hurry.

What you gain is a calorie tracker built for 2026: AI photo logging under three seconds, voice input in 14 languages, a verified 1.8 million-entry database with EU localization, 100+ nutrients, a built-in fasting timer that unifies with your meal log, zero ads on every tier, and Apple Watch and Wear OS support — all for €2.50 per month.

What you keep is the habit you already built. The fasting protocol, the daily logging rhythm, the weigh-in routine. The app changes. The routine does not.

Start Nutrola's free trial, run both apps for a week, and decide whether the upgrade fits your life. For most Yazio users in 2026, it does.