Cronometer's Affiliate Program: Two Routes and What They Pay (September 2026)

Cronometer is a nutrition tracking app made by Stronger By Science. It has two distinct creator earning paths: a direct partnership form with private rates and a public ShareASale affiliate program with published terms. Understanding both routes and how they compare to renewable-rate programs is important before deciding whether to apply.

What is Cronometer's Partner With Us form?

Cronometer's official partner page presents a form asking several questions: what best describes you (creator, nutritionist, dietitian, etc.), whether you currently use Cronometer, which social profiles you have, what your ideal partnership looks like, and what compensation you are looking for. The company states upfront that it only collaborates with people who genuinely use and love the app.

No rate is published on the page. The process is a closed negotiation: fill in the form, wait for a reply, and if Cronometer is interested, agree terms directly with them. There is no public way to know what any individual creator is offered through this route, or whether it pays more or less than the ShareASale listing below.

What does Cronometer pay through its ShareASale affiliate program?

Cronometer also runs a parallel affiliate program through ShareASale, a major affiliate network. As of September 2026, the published terms are clear and transparent:

Metric	Published term
Per-lead commission	$0.10 per lead
Per-sale commission	35% of sale proceeds
Product: Cronometer Gold yearly	$59.99 list price, so 35% = approximately $21 per yearly sale
Product: Cronometer Gold monthly	$10.99 list price, so 35% = approximately $3.85 per monthly conversion
Attribution window	365-day cookie
Minimum payout threshold	$50
Payment schedule	Monthly payment on Net-20 terms

Net-20 means payment is processed and issued 20 days after the calendar month ends. If you earn less than $50 in any month, the balance rolls into the next month, so a small balance is batched into a single payment rather than sent every month.

What does the ShareASale listing not say?

The affiliate program publishes explicit rates but leaves details undefined. It does not state whether you earn commission on renewals or rebills. Cronometer Gold is a subscription: users pay $59.99 yearly or $10.99 monthly and renew automatically. The 35% commission appears to apply to the initial sale, since the listing describes it as a per-sale rate; whether a renewal inside the cookie window is also counted is simply not stated.

The listing also does not clarify the free-to-paid conversion path. Cronometer offers a free version with limited features. The listing does not state whether someone who tries free Cronometer and upgrades later is attributed to your affiliate link. The 365-day cookie window suggests it could be, but the mechanism is not explained.

How does the 365-day cookie affect your earnings?

A 365-day cookie means you get credited for any referral who clicks your affiliate link and converts within a full year, which is a longer window than YAZIO's FlexOffers listing, at 30 days. A 30-day window means someone who clicks your link but waits 45 days to sign up would not be attributed to you. With 365 days, there is room for someone to discover the app, download it, try it, and decide to upgrade weeks or months later.

Cookie-based systems have a structural limit worth reasoning through: if the referral opens the app on a different device or clears their browser data, they may not be re-recognized when they convert, even if the initial click came from your link, because a cookie is stored per browser and per device. A referral who clicks your link on their phone but later upgrades on a tablet might not be attributed to you for that reason. For app installs driven by code-entry during onboarding, the way Nutrola's creator code works, this device-switching problem does not arise, since the code is typed inside the app itself. Why that distinction matters for an app goes into the mechanics.

How does Cronometer compare to programs that pay on renewals?

The Nutrola creator code pays 20% of every subscription renewal with no cap and no minimum payout. A referral who signs up for a yearly subscription at $39.99 generates $8 in commission the first year. If they renew the next year, that is another $8; over five years of renewal, that is $8 a year for five years, $40 from that single referral. The earnings are uncapped and there is no cookie window to miss.

Cronometer's affiliate setup, based on published terms, pays once per sale: a yearly subscriber brings in about $21 to you in a single payment, larger than Nutrola's single-year $8. Whether that subscriber renewing next year pays you again is not stated in the ShareASale listing. Illustration, not a claim about either program: if a program pays once and most referred subscribers cancel within a year, a one-time payment and a renewal-based payment return close to the same total over that year; the more years a subscriber keeps renewing, the further ahead a renewal-based program pulls.

To understand the long-term impact, read which programs pay on renewals and what a referred subscriber is worth over time. Cookie windows and their limits explains why code-based attribution works better for apps.