For blood pressure · Checked 12 October 2026
The best sodium tracker app for how you eat: 5 compared
The best sodium tracker app depends on how you log a meal. Sodio counts sodium alone. Cronometer tracks every nutrient and scans barcodes on its free plan. Cloche reads a meal you describe in a sentence or a photo. Sodio and My Dash Diet, the best-rated apps built for sodium, both hold 4.5 stars on the App Store. Three blueberry pancakes with syrup come back at 983 mg of sodium in Cloche.
- Best for
- People who would rather describe a meal than search for each food.
- Price
- Free on TestFlight. After that, logging stays free and meal readings cost $12.99 a month or $79 a year.
- Not for
- Packaged food you want to scan, or syncing with Apple Health.
Made for iPhone. Invitations come through TestFlight, Apple’s app for trying an app before its release.
Estimated sodium · 983 mg sodium
How do the sodium tracker apps compare?
| App | Best for | How you log a meal | What it counts | Questions about your meals | Price on the App Store | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Tracker: Sodio | Counting sodium alone, with your own daily target | Type the sodium amount; scan and search foods with Pro | Sodium | None listed | Free; Pro $4.99 or $23.99 | 4.5 (1,617) |
| My Dash Diet: Sodium Tracker | DASH recipes and a sodium count in one app | Food tracker, with DASH recipes | Sodium, calories and macros; every nutrient with Premium | An AI DASH diet chatbot | Free; Premium from $2.99 a week to $49.99 a year | 4.5 (1,872) |
| Cronometer | Every vitamin and mineral, with a free barcode scanner | Photo, voice, barcode or search | 95+ vitamins and minerals, sodium included | None listed | Free; Gold $10.99 a month or $59.99 a year | 4.8 (99,272) |
| MyFitnessPal | A full food log with custom targets and an AI coach | Search; barcode, meal scan and voice with Premium | Custom targets for sodium, fiber and more | An AI nutrition coach | Free; Premium $9.99 to $19.99 a month or $49.99 to $79.99 a year | 4.7 (2,375,817) |
| Cloche | Describing a meal in a sentence and asking about your week | A sentence or a photo | 26 nutrients, each meal read for sodium and potassium | Ask about a plate or your week | Free on TestFlight, then $12.99 a month or $79 a year | Too new to rate |
Features, prices and ratings from each app’s App Store listing, checked 12 October 2026. Prices are the in-app purchases the listing shows.
What do sodium app reviews complain about most? Charges, in 166 of 361.
We read 361 recent App Store reviews of 6 food and sodium apps on 12 September 2026. Subscriptions, ads and surprise charges came up in 166. A wish for something simple and fast came up in 151.
Barcodes that would not scan came up in 88, foods the app could not find in 68, and doubt about the numbers in 54. 16 reviewers said a doctor sent them to track sodium. These are complaints about the category, not about any one app.
What does Cloche do differently? It reads each meal for blood pressure as you log it.
Describe the meal in a sentence or take a photo. Cloche writes the entry and estimates 26 nutrients. It shows the sodium in the plate next to 600 mg for one meal and 1,500 mg for the day, the ideal the American Heart Association gives. It reads potassium in the same meal.
Ask where this week’s sodium came from, and it answers from your journal, plate by plate. Cronometer and MyFitnessPal Premium also log from a photo or your voice. The difference is the reading under each meal and the questions about your own week. We check the estimates against USDA reference foods and publish the error.
Where is Cloche behind? Barcodes, Apple Health and price.
Cloche has no barcode scanner, which matters if most of what you eat comes in a package. It does not sync with Apple Health, and it runs on iPhone only. It estimates 26 nutrients against Cronometer’s 95-plus vitamins and minerals.
Sodio lets you set your own daily sodium target; Cloche reads against 1,500 mg. After TestFlight, Cloche will cost $12.99 a month, more than Cronometer Gold at $10.99, and Sodio Pro is listed at $4.99 or $23.99.
Questions people ask
Is there a free sodium tracker app?
Yes. Sodio, My Dash Diet, Cronometer and MyFitnessPal are all free to download and track sodium. Scanning, ad removal and some nutrients cost extra in each, at the prices their App Store listings show.
Which sodium tracker app has a barcode scanner?
Cronometer scans barcodes on its free plan. Sodio adds scanning with Pro, and MyFitnessPal with Premium. Cloche has no barcode scanner; you describe the meal or take a photo of it.
Try Cloche on your own meals, free on TestFlight.
Join the waitlist for an invitation. Describe tonight’s dinner, see its sodium, and ask where the rest of the day’s came from. To check one meal right now, try the free sodium calculator.
For more on eating for blood pressure, read the food journal for blood pressure or how the DASH diet apps compare.