Noom vs WeightWatchers

What each one charges

Medication only. Both companies bill the membership separately, and neither membership includes any medicine.

Noom

Membership

A starting figure with no period attached. Noom never says what $149 buys

WeightWatchers

Membership

Care only, at the monthly rate. Medication is charged separately

Where they differ

Each line is one criterion. A line that names a company names it on that criterion only. Nothing here says which provider anybody should choose.

• What the headline price buys

  WeightWatchers

  Lilly publishes WeightWatchers at $149 a month for care, or $74 a month on an annual plan, medication excluded. Noom states "Starting at $149" with no period attached anywhere in the document, so it cannot be compared to a monthly rate or to anything else.

• Whether a price appears on the page you land on

  WeightWatchers

  Both technically publish a price before an intake form. WeightWatchers price is on Lilly own panel. Noom price is in the page description only: every product on the visible page is a "Get started" button under "SEE IF YOU RE ELIGIBLE", and a reader who opens it sees no figure at all.

• Who prescribes

  WeightWatchers

  WeightWatchers states that its medical services are delivered through an affiliated medical group, WeightWatchers Clinic. Noom Med refers to "our clinical team" and "your clinician", names nobody and gives no licensing state.

• Which pharmacy dispenses

  No difference

  Neither names one. This cell is open on both records and renders as not checked rather than as a finding against either company.

• Compounding

  No difference

  Noom Med sells two compounded lines of its own, Noom GLP-1Rx and Noom Microdose GLP-1Rx, and discloses in its own boilerplate that "any compounded medications are not approved by the FDA or reviewed for quality, safety or efficacy". WW International is a public company and its annual report carries no 503A or 503B language anywhere, which is why that record reads retail. Neither fact is a safety finding on its own; it decides what is legally in the vial.

• Which medicines each one lists

  Noom

  Noom Med lists both molecules people search for, semaglutide and tirzepatide, as Wegovy, Ozempic, Zepbound, Mounjaro and the Wegovy pill. The WeightWatchers record covers tirzepatide and orforglipron, so semaglutide is not on it.

• Cancelling

  No difference

  Both can be canceled without a phone call, and both carry a deadline worth knowing. Noom must be canceled before 11:59 p.m. Eastern on the day before the next billing date, and an app-store subscription has to be canceled at the store instead. WeightWatchers processes requests within 72 hours and cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period, so neither button stops a charge today.

• LegitScript certification

  No difference

  Neither publishes one this site could verify. Noom carries a LegitScript link it wrote itself with no seal served by LegitScript behind it, and no LegitScript reference of any kind was found for WeightWatchers. Anyone can write the link; only LegitScript can serve the seal.

The same five checks, both companies

Checked by hand on each company's own pages. A hatched cell means nobody has confirmed it yet, which is not the same as a no.

• Dispensing pharmacy

  Noom

  not checked

  WeightWatchers

  retail

• LegitScript certified

  Noom

  none published

  WeightWatchers

  none published

• Price shown before intake

  Noom

  Yes

  WeightWatchers

  Yes

• Cancel online

  Noom

  Yes

  WeightWatchers

  Yes

• Prescriber disclosed

  Noom

  none published

  WeightWatchers

  Yes

The full audit for each

Referral fee from some providers we list, and from neither of these two. Nothing here is ordered by what pays. How we make money

Noom

The app and the clinic are two products, and only one of them prices anything

Read the audit

WeightWatchers

On Lilly’s panel, and it runs its own affiliated medical group

Read the audit