Nine years ago I surveyed Calorie Counter apps and apparently settled on Nutritionix Track, which I don't really remember so must have stopped using it soon after. I've been using Lose It! for 1051 days and it's an acceptable app.

My notes back then were:

+ One window for everything eaten today.
+ Daily calorie intake by week.
- In-UI Ads, including motion ads.
- $30 yearly fee to remove ads.

Time and inflation marches on and it's now $80 per year to remove ads and unlock advanced features. Without a subscription the main view shows a banner ad and sometimes a bigger rectangular ad and also will do a full screen ad (and here is where you get ads for some really suspicious apps and services).

Lose It! has a large database of foods, probably mostly user entered. There is a lack of asian foods and of course the spelling of asian foods are quite varied so adding those is tougher. It keeps track of your previous entries and you can search just those so if you have the specific entry you like you can easily reuse (though you can't delete entries).

Also you can search by meal then add the whole meal (and unselect specific items but changing quantities you have to edit after the meal is added). You can also add by recipe, which I've never used. That suggests you can add recipes but I only see a way to do it from the add recipes page.

I don't use any of the insights or history tracking. It's mostly for tracking things so I get a sense of what I'm eating. It does sometimes try to give me an insight like "you eat less when this specific food is eaten". I think my point is that even minimally tracking meals and not learning anything is better than not tracking at all.