Online weight loss coaches: 8 services, checked against their own pages
By Editorial teamPublished Last verified 8 services assessed26 sources
What do you get for the money when you pay someone online to help you lose weight, and what qualification does the person on the other end hold? Here is how each answer below was checked.
Every cell came off the company’s own live site on 28 August 2026. No service has paid to be listed. No affiliate links, no advertising. Not medical advice, not clinically reviewed.
MyBodyTutorTop pickhuman nutrition coachingYou log food and exercise every day in the app, and your assigned coach writes back the next day. The Gold plan is $399 a month, published openly.
- Price per month
- Gold $399/mo, Platinum $599/mo, Diamond $899/mo
checked 10 sources6 open gaps
NourishTop pickhuman nutrition coachingEvery provider is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, sessions run 50 to 60 minutes, and Nourish states that 94% of patients pay $0 out of pocket.
- Price per month
- $0 out of pocket for 94% of patients
checked 1 source4 open gaps
Working Against GravityTop pickhuman nutrition coachingThree published tiers run $99, $179 and $219 per month with no minimum commitment, and coaches hold outside certifications plus WAG's own in-house Coach Certification.
- Price per month
- Lite $99/mo, Essentials $179/mo, Plus $219/mo
checked 2 sources3 open gaps
FoundTop pickmedical weight loss (prescriber-led)Clinicians are stated to be board-certified and trained in metabolic medicine, and Found says most members pay under $30 per visit through insurance, with medication priced separately.
- Price per month
- Medication from $49/mo (non-GLP-1), $99/mo (compounded), $650/mo+ (brand Wegovy or Zepbound)
checked 3 sources7 open gaps
Precision NutritionAlso greathuman nutrition coachingCoaching runs $129 per month, or $619 prepaid for six months, and includes a 60-minute intro call plus biweekly video calls with an assigned coach.
- Price per month
- $129 USD per month
checked 2 sources3 open gaps
WeightWatchersBudget pickapp with optional coachingPlans start at $12 per month on a 12-month auto-renewing term, and the MED+ tier runs $74 per month on a 12-month plan with the cost of GLP-1 medications excluded.
- Price per month
- CORE from $12/mo, CORE+ from $22/mo, MED+ $74/mo
checked 3 sources6 open gaps
RP Strength (Renaissance Periodization)Upgrade pickhuman nutrition coachingTwo tiers at $349.99 and $599.99 per month with a stated 3-month minimum, and email check-ins two to three times weekly rather than the usual single weekly touch.
- Price per month
- Coaching Essentials $349.99/mo, Full Access $599.99/mo
checked 1 source3 open gaps
CalibrateWorth consideringmedical weight loss (prescriber-led)The membership is $199 per month with a required 3-month commitment, and it excludes both the medication and the lab tests, which the company works to get covered by insurance.
- Price per month
- $199/month
checked 4 sources5 open gaps
Ordered by the published superlative vocabulary, top picks first. The order is not a quality ranking. The same 8 set side by side on six fields.
17 services identified9 excluded, with the reason recorded8 assessed here0 enrolled in or paid for. How that narrowed down
Which one, and for whom
Six superlatives exist on this site and no others. The set is published, and every one of them names the reader it is written for.
Top pick, for someone who wants a written reply from the same coach every day
MyBodyTutorDaily written check-ins with one assigned coach, from $399 a month.
Top pick, for someone who wants a licensed registered dietitian and wants insurance to pay for it
NourishInsurance-billed telehealth sessions with a registered dietitian.
Top pick, for someone who wants one assigned macro coach and a weekly check-in
Working Against GravityAssigned macro coach with weekly check-ins and open messaging.
Top pick, for someone taking the prescription route who wants to run clinical visits through insurance
FoundPrescriber-led weight care that bills clinical visits to insurance.
Also great, for someone who wants habit and behaviour coaching on a video call rather than macro maths
Precision NutritionHabit-led coaching with a 60-minute intro call and biweekly video.
Budget pick, for someone who wants structure and group sessions at the lowest monthly outlay
WeightWatchersPoints app from $12 a month, with live workshops and a medical tier.
Upgrade pick, for a lifter or physique competitor who wants a coach reachable several times a week
RP Strength (Renaissance Periodization)Premium coaching with email check-ins two to three times a week.
Worth considering, for someone who wants one-to-one video coaching sitting alongside a prescription
CalibrateGLP-1 program with one-to-one video coaching, $199 a month.
What the review platforms say, and why the numbers do not compare
These eight numbers are not comparable to each other, and nothing here should be read as a ranking. They come from four different platforms, and each platform collects reviews a different way. Trustpilot and Reviews.io both let a company invite its own customers to review, and an invited sample runs high, because the company picks the moment and often the customer. Nourish, Found and WeightWatchers all run that kind of invitation program, and their pages say so. Calibrate, RP Strength and MyBodyTutor are not currently inviting on Trustpilot, so those scores come from people who showed up on their own, which tilts the other way, toward people with a complaint. The sample sizes run from 6 reviews to 10,946 reviews, a spread of three orders of magnitude. A 2.9 drawn from 6 reviews tells you almost nothing about a company. WeightWatchers also carries an App Store rating built on roughly 2.4 million ratings of a phone app, which measures the app and not a coaching relationship. Two services, Working Against Gravity and Precision Nutrition, carry no rating on any of these platforms at all, and that absence is not a bad score. Read each number next to its platform, its sample size and its collection method, or do not read it.
Below, one at a time, in the same order as the directory above, which is not an order of score. There are no stars here and nothing is sortable by a rating, because every one of these numbers was collected a different way. What each platform does with reviews.
Considered and not included, with the reason for each
9 of the 17 services identified are not in the directory above. Naming them, and saying why, is the part of this page a reader can least easily get anywhere else. One of them had closed, and it is still being recommended elsewhere.
- Stronger U
- Closed. Its own site states that 'Stronger U Nutrition will no longer provide services as of March 31st, 2026', that subscriptions ended after 1 March 2026, and that the app and community group were shut down. It is still widely recommended in older roundups, which is why it is named here rather than quietly dropped.
- Noom
- Primarily a behaviour-change app. Its site describes coaches only as 'board-certified health professionals' without naming a certification, and the prices shown on the homepage are for Noom Med, its medication tier, rather than for coaching. The coaching claim could not be pinned to a stated credential, and WeightWatchers covers the same reader need with clearer published pricing.
- Macros Inc
- A credible macro coaching service at $199/mo with fitness or $169/mo nutrition-only after a 14-day trial, and it includes weekly check-ins, daily messaging and a monthly video call. Excluded because its pricing page says 'certified coach' without naming any certification, which puts it behind Working Against Gravity on the criterion that separates this category.
- Carbon (Layne Norton)
- Not a coaching service. Its own site describes an algorithm that 'analyzes your weekly progress and refines your nutrition targets', with support from a team and a Facebook community rather than an assigned coach. It answers a different query.
- OnPoint Nutrition
- Publishes no pricing whatsoever on its site, and no plan tiers, commitment length or session cadence either. It states that Registered Dietitians deliver the service and that '70% of members who utilize their insurance benefits pay $0.00', but with cost and cadence both unpublished there was not enough verifiable material for an entry. Nourish covers the same insurance-billed dietitian need with published detail.
- Wellory
- Could not be verified. The site returned HTTP 403 to repeated fetches on 28 August 2026, so no current claim about its pricing, coach credentials or operating status could be sourced. Nothing here should be read as a statement that the service has closed.
- Fittr
- Operates a marketplace of independently priced coaches across six tiers rather than one service with one price, and its coach training runs through its own affiliated institute. Per-coach pricing means there is no single set of facts to verify, which does not fit this dataset's format.
- Healthi
- A points-tracking app built around a WeightWatchers-style system. It is a tracker rather than a coaching service, and no assigned human coach was found on its consumer pages.
- Avatar Nutrition
- An automated macro-adjustment service in the same mould as Carbon, without an assigned human coach at the base tier. Excluded on category grounds rather than quality.
What this guide does not know
Across 8 services and 112 factual cells, 22 are marked not disclosed or not verified rather than filled in, and 37 specific gaps are recorded on the entry pages. Every service page carries its own list. The largest of them:
MyBodyTutor6 open gaps
coachCredentials: no external certification is required, and the only certification the company names is its own in-house MPH Accountability Coach Certification
Nourish4 open gaps
priceMonthly for self-pay patients: not published on the site; the pricing and FAQ URLs tried both returned HTTP 404 on 28 August 2026
Found7 open gaps
Total monthly cost: subscription and clinical care fees are stated to vary with coverage and are not published
WeightWatchers6 open gaps
coachCredentials: no qualification named for workshop coaches or MED+ clinicians
Calibrate5 open gaps
contactCadence: coaching frequency is not published
Questions we get asked
Is the first service on this page the right one for me?
Not necessarily, and probably not for most readers. 4 services share the top position for 4 different people: one who wants a written reply from the same coach every day, one who wants a licensed dietitian billed to insurance, one who wants a macro coach and a weekly check-in, and one who wants a prescriber. The order on this page follows that vocabulary. It is not a quality ranking and there is no score behind it.
Do any of these companies pay you?
No. None of the 8 has paid to be listed, to be placed where it is, or to be described the way it is. There are no affiliate links on this site, no advertising and no sponsored placement. Nothing on this site earns money from any of the companies named.
What are you worst at?
Nothing here was bought or used. No account was opened, no coach was hired, no money changed hands and no company was contacted. This is a documentary review of what 8 companies publish about themselves, which means it can tell you what a company will and will not commit to in writing, and it cannot tell you whether the coaching is any good. 22 of the 112 factual cells here are marked as not disclosed or not verified rather than filled in.
Why is there no rating out of ten?
Because a score of ours would be invented. A computed score needs a laboratory or a published algorithm over public data, and an editorial score needs a track record this site has not got. What replaces it is a closed set of six superlatives, every one of them scoped to a named reader, and a ledger whose empty cells say which kind of empty they are. The star ratings further down the page are somebody else's numbers, reported one service at a time with the platform and the sample size attached, and they are not added up or ranked here.
Why only 8 services?
Because 9 of the 17 identified were excluded, each for a stated reason, and every one of them is named on this page. One of them, Stronger U, had closed. One returned an HTTP 403 and could not be read at all. Several are trackers or algorithms rather than services with a human coach.
What changed
- Major
- First publication. 17 services were identified, 8 were assessed, and 9 were excluded with the reason recorded for each.
- Major
- Stronger U was dropped before publication. Its own site states that it stopped providing services on 31 March 2026. It is named in the excluded list rather than quietly omitted, because it is still recommended in older roundups.
- Major
- Wellory was left unassessed. Its site returned HTTP 403 to repeated requests on 28 August 2026, so no current claim about it could be sourced. That is a gap in this guide, not a statement about the company.
- Minor
- Found's coach credential and assigned-coach fields were changed from a value to not verified. Older third-party write-ups describe health coaches and dietitians in the program; the live program page on 28 August 2026 describes clinicians and messaging, and no coach.
- Minor
- Calibrate's published outcome data was recorded as conditional rather than as a value. The company's Results Report page could not be opened on 28 August 2026, so the sample size and method behind its three-year figure are unchecked.
Who wrote this
- Written by
- Editorial team
- Clinically reviewed by
- Nobody. This guide has not been clinically reviewed, and no clinician has been named on it.
- Last verified
This is a consumer buying guide to what these services publish about themselves, not medical advice, and it has not been clinically reviewed; decisions about weight, medication or diet belong with a qualified clinician who knows your history. More about who made this and how it is paid for.