IM8 Review Australia

The quick verdict

IM8 is not a gimmick. Daily Ultimate Essentials, the flagship powder, is a professionally built all-in-one with real credentials behind it, and if the longest ingredient list is what you are shopping for, it wins that contest outright.

The question an ingredient count cannot answer is what your body actually gets in grams. IM8's published panel is an 11.8g sachet carrying 40 calories, 3g dietary fibre and no protein line at all. That single missing line is where this review ends up, because it is the difference between a micronutrient product and a daily nutrition product.

This page reviews IM8 on its own published figures, retrieved 21 August 2026, states plainly where it beats HLTH+, and then shows the label comparison so you can judge both on the same rows.

What IM8 is, and what it genuinely gets right

IM8 describes itself as co-founded by David Beckham, with a scientific team it says draws on experts from Mayo Clinic, Cedars-Sinai and a former NASA chief scientist. Its product page markets 90 ingredients across nine organ systems in one daily drink (their page, retrieved 21 August 2026; some retailer listings still carry the earlier 92 count).

Credit where it is due, from their own published material:

• The certification is real. IM8 is NSF Certified for Sport and states it is tested against 280 plus banned substances. For tested athletes, that is a meaningful mark most of the category does not carry.
• The sugar line is excellent. Under 1g total sugars and 0g added sugars per serve on the published panel. That beats HLTH+'s 1.5g (Women's) and 1.7g (Men's), and we will not pretend otherwise.
• The inclusions are considered. CoQ10, magnesium bisglycinate and vitamin K2 MK-7 appear on the ingredient list, alongside probiotics at 10 billion CFU with prebiotics and digestive enzymes.
• The breadth is unmatched. Ninety ingredients is more than any product we have compared, HLTH+ included.

So this is not a review that calls IM8 an illusion. It is a well-made premium multivitamin-style powder. The honest question is whether a multivitamin-style powder is the product your day actually needs.

What the published panel says, and the line it does not have

Here is IM8 Daily Ultimate Essentials by its own Supplement Facts, as published on its retailer product listings (retrieved 21 August 2026): serving size one 11.8g sachet, 40 calories, 5g total carbohydrate, 3g dietary fibre, under 1g total sugars, 0g added sugars.

Protein is not a line on that panel. An 11.8g sachet at 40 calories has no room for a meaningful protein dose, and IM8 does not claim one. That is not a flaw in IM8; it is the shape of the category it belongs to, the same shape we found in other all-in-one and greens products where published protein runs at 1-2g per serve.

It matters because the macronutrients are the part of daily nutrition most Australians are actually missing. Over 90% of Australian adults do not meet dietary guidelines (AIHW), and the shortfall is not only vitamins: protein contributes to the maintenance and growth of muscle mass, and dietary fibre contributes to regular laxation. Neither fits inside an 11.8g sachet, which is why we map the whole category by what each format can and cannot hold in the buyer's map for supplement shoppers.

IM8 pricing in Australia

From IM8's own storefront with the currency set to Australia (retrieved 21 August 2026): a one-time 30-serving purchase is $203 AUD, which works out at $6.77 a serving. The 30-day subscription is $162 a month at $5.40 a serving. The cheapest rate is the 90-day subscription at $142 a month, billed $426.00 every 12 weeks, which is $4.73 a serving.

HLTH+ sits at RRP $6.00 for a serve bought outright, and on subscription $142.80 across 28 serves is $5.10 a day, or $75.60 across 14 serves is $5.40 a day, with pause, skip or cancel anytime. So on subscription the two products land close together, and on a one-time buy HLTH+ is the cheaper of the pair. Prices move; verify both at checkout.

Which reframes the price question entirely. It is not which sachet costs less, because the money is similar; it is what the serving buys: an 11.8g micronutrient sachet, or a 55g serve (Women's; Men's runs 60-62g) that also carries 30g protein and 7g dietary fibre.

HLTH+ vs IM8: the label comparison

One organism note before the table, because the live-culture row is not like-for-like. IM8 uses probiotics, live bacteria. HLTH+ uses a postbiotic, Lactobacillus Plantarum Postbiotic: the compounds produced by bacteria during fermentation, rather than the live organism, which makes it stable without refrigeration. Both list 10 billion CFU, but a probiotic count and a postbiotic count are not directly comparable, so read that row as two different approaches at the same stated number.

Figures are each brand's published nutrition information, retrieved 21 August 2026. Flavours vary and brands reformulate; check current labels before buying.

The fair note on DHA. IM8 sells a second product, Daily Ultimate Longevity, and third-party label reviews of it report 200mg DHA (retrieved 21 August 2026), more than three times HLTH+'s 60mg; IM8's own published pages do not print a DHA figure in readable text, so treat the number as reported rather than label-verified. If a bigger DHA dose is your single priority, on those reported figures that IM8 product beats HLTH+ on that line. It is also a second product at a second price, which is exactly the shelf-of-products problem a daily formula is supposed to solve.

The breadth concession, and the arithmetic under it. IM8's 90 ingredients is a genuine achievement and we are not going to sneer at it. But an 11.8g sachet holding 90 ingredients has, on average, well under a gram of room for each; that is arithmetic, not an accusation. HLTH+ makes the opposite trade: fewer line items, and the sachet spends its 55g to 62g on the nutrients that need grams, led by 30g protein per serve and 7g dietary fibre, with 5g collagen and 60mg DHA on the label beside them, and a balanced multivitamin profile carrying the micronutrient side. Each serve supplies 30 essential daily nutrients. More on why the gram-scale nutrients are the hard part in where micronutrients slip when eating changes.

The formulation argument nobody else in this pairing makes. IM8 Essentials is one formula for every adult. HLTH+ is dietitian-formulated to the Nutrient Reference Values, the published government reference values developed by the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing and the New Zealand Ministry of Health, which set nutrient intakes by age and gender. That is why the range runs Women's, Women's 50+, Men's and Men's 50+ rather than one scoop for everyone: the reference values themselves change at those life stages.

Who should buy IM8, and who should buy HLTH+

Buy IM8 if:

• You want the broadest micro-ingredient coverage available in one low-calorie scoop, and your protein and dietary fibre are already handled by the rest of your diet.
• You are a tested athlete and NSF Certified for Sport is a requirement, not a nice-to-have.
• The lowest possible sugar line matters to you, and a 90-day billing cycle at $426.00 every 12 weeks suits how you buy.

Buy HLTH+ if:

• You want the macronutrients and the micronutrients consolidated in one serve: 30g protein per serve, 7g dietary fibre and a balanced multivitamin profile, so you stop running a shelf of separate products. It is not designed as a meal replacement, because it complements a food-first approach, but it works fine as a healthy snack or to tie you over between meals.
• You are eating smaller meals, for any reason, and want the smaller diet to still cover its bases; learn more about nutrition support when intake drops, and about why dietary fibre gets harder when meals shrink.
• You want a product dietitian-formulated to the Nutrient Reference Values for your life stage rather than one formula for every adult, Australian made in facilities complying with Good Manufacturing Practice, with hundreds of reviews across the range.

HLTH+ is sold at hlthplus.com and through Amazon AU and Chemist Warehouse online. Not sure which life stage fits? The ✦ Find My Formula quiz takes 30 seconds and shows what your current stack is not giving you.

The verdict

IM8 Daily Ultimate Essentials is one of the best products in the multivitamin-style all-in-one category, and if that category is what you want, buy it with confidence. Our review is not that IM8 is bad; it is that the category leaves the biggest gaps on the table.

A 90-ingredient sachet still hands you back the protein problem and most of the fibre problem, which for many Australians are the actual problems. If you are going to take an all-in-one every day anyway, you may as well take the one that also carries 30g protein per serve and 7g dietary fibre, so you do not have to think about it. That is the consolidation case, and on the published labels above, HLTH+ is the one sachet doing both jobs. For how we ran the same label method on a very different competitor, learn more in The Lady Shake review.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is IM8 available in Australia?

Yes. IM8's own storefront prices in Australian dollars: $203 one-time for 30 servings, a 30-day subscription at $162 a month ($5.40 a serving), or a 90-day subscription at $142 a month billed $426.00 every 12 weeks ($4.73 a serving), retrieved 21 August 2026. Check their checkout for current rates.

How much protein is in IM8?

Protein does not appear as a line on IM8 Daily Ultimate Essentials' published Supplement Facts panel; the serve is an 11.8g sachet at 40 calories. If protein is one of the jobs you are buying a daily formula to do, HLTH+ lists 30g protein per serve alongside 7g dietary fibre.

Does IM8 have DHA or omega-3?

The Daily Ultimate Essentials panel lists no DHA or omega-3 (retrieved 21 August 2026). Third-party label reviews of IM8's separate Daily Ultimate Longevity formula report 200mg DHA, which is more than HLTH+'s 60mg, as a second product at a second price. HLTH+ includes its 60mg DHA in the one sachet.

Is IM8 worth the money in Australia?

If you want maximum micro-ingredient breadth, NSF Certified for Sport testing and an under 1g sugar line, IM8 is a credible premium buy at $4.73 to $6.77 a serving. If you need protein and dietary fibre covered in the same serve, its panel does not do that job, and a daily nutritional formula fits better.

What is the main difference between IM8 and HLTH+?

IM8 is one multivitamin-style formula for every adult: 90 ingredients in an 11.8g sachet, no protein line on the panel. HLTH+ is a Formulated Supplementary Food in life-stage formulas built to the Nutrient Reference Values, carrying 30g protein per serve, 7g dietary fibre, 5g collagen, 60mg DHA and a balanced multivitamin profile in one serve.

This article is general information, not medical advice. Decisions about any medication belong with your doctor. Figures quoted are each brand's published information at the retrieval dates shown; check current labels before buying.