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I’m really impressed with all the features the app offers and the new options like the meal planner. It makes food logging much simpler, and meal planning less time consuming. The goal setting also is pretty incredible. I feel like I’m with a health coach who is listening and can really put things together and customize a meal plan for me. And I like being able to pick my own recipes and swap out recipes that don’t appeal to me and that the recipes are selected based on the amount of time I have, my food preferences, and if I’m cooking for myself or others, our appetites and if we like leftovers. I like the grocery list that are generated and the ability to take off what I already have. I like the step by step directions for food prep and cooking. And I like, on the food log, that I can insert my own recipes or food favorites to make it easy when I’m eating similar foods and logging them. I also like the advanced features including the ability to customize my nutrient goals and select the information I want to see. I like the different reports and the occasional questions that pop up to allow me to further customize or view helpful information. I’m sure I have not even learned a small portion of all that’s available on this app. I feel the app is definitely worth $99 for the year for all that I’m able to do with it. I actually enjoy logging my food and I never thought I would say that. Thank you for all the time, effort, and thought you have put into creating this useful app.

I’ve used MyFitnessPal off and on for 4 to 5 years. In my late 20’s, I put on 45 excess lbs; lost it through a better lifestyle, and kept it off for many years. However, in the last ten years, my weight started to see-saw within a 10 pound spread; from trim and fit, to uncomfortably mufffin-toppy. MyFitnessPal works with any specific plan you like; low carb, low sugar, high protein, vegan - you name it. As long as you’ve learned to keep track with their system, you’re golden. It’s a bit of work to get all your foods in there to begin with- but as time goes on it’s incredibly easy. My choice is to be freer than any ‘diet’, as long as 80% of my foods are whole and healthy. I’ve gone off MyFitnessPal when my habits get super-good and I’m back to my low favorite weight. That always lasts for a while. And nowadays, I don’t wait to get to the high end of my 10 lb spectrum. At 6 lbs over my low weight, I jump back onto MyFitnessPal; they save all your food data from years ago! Instead of feeling, ‘I’m just getting older, oh well..’ this helps me feel absolutely empowered. It works! I’ve occasionally bought the high end package, which is great for learning about important micronutrients. Overall; this is an incredible system. Oh yeah, when you exercise, besides feeling better, you see how much more you can eat; or how much quicker you’ll lose weight. It’s basically about learning how the body calculates all of this stuff. It’s pretty amazing. Have a healthy and happy journey!

I am excited about using the meal planner and the option to add my family members. The meal planner makes it easy to generate a grocery list and plan meals for the week. I have a few suggestions. On the meal planner, portions could be adjusted to add the “half of a portion” option for those of us with little kids. Or for a partner that needs one 1 1/2 portions. The only options are portions equal to mine or double. Also, adding family members to meals, some recipes don’t tell you how many ingredients to use per family member. For example, the turkey BLT wraps don’t tell me how much bacon to put in each person's wrap, especially when adding portions for leftovers, so I have no idea how much I need to put in each wrap for each person. If you don't want to premake the leftovers, having ingredients broken down per wrap would be nice. Maybe I am missing something. I admit this is my first day using the meal Planning feature. Also, I wish there were a feature to edit some of the ingredients for some of the family members. For example, my husband is not eating as high a fat diet as I am. He uses My Fitness Pal, so it would be a convenient feature adjust the ingredients for a specific person, and then I could plan his meal and send him in a quick format what I put into his meal, so he could log it on his profile… if that makes sense. Overall, I am happy with the app and looking forward to achieving my fitness goals, using My Fitness Pal to hit my macros.

I highly recommend this app! I personally have learned so much about my routine and how to better my nutrition using this app. I have used both the free version and the membership benefits for different reasons and love how much I have learned from both. I took the advantage to learn from all the benefits of the paid annual membership and I now continue to use the app (free version) for general food logging and nutrition goal tracking. It provides me a sense of achievement to be able to look back at the results and more importantly this app has helped me realize what foods were interfering with my nutrition and weight management. Weight is never a concern when you start to eat healthy, and with the appropriate macros your body needs the extra weight falls off. This app displays a very good and simple macronutrient content for goals and it lets you know when you are getting off track as you log what you will be eating for the day. I have learned to plan ahead for meals thanks to this app features. Long story short, it all started when I injured my knee and I paid a fitness coach for personalized recovery training to get back to 100% mobility and strength. My trainer recommended this app to learn about nutrition habits and meals that will improve my overall fitness and recovery. My body has changed, I feel energetic and healthy thanks to the advice of both my trainer and this app.

Thank you for an awesome app! I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes 8 weeks ago and I have to keep track of my food intake. This is perfect for the task. I can log my food, create meals so I don’t have to log it all separately however, you have to be mindful of the entries you choose and match up nutrition information- the green check mark by a listing helps. If it has no green check, scroll down to see nutrition amounts and per serving. This app has so many food listings, it is not difficult to find the name brands you use. I have been following the Diabetic exchange list, so any entry has to be tailored for those portion sizes. Like a serving on a food or on a food container is different from the amount allowed on the exchange list. Which is not a big thing for logging with myfitnesspal. You can adjust the serving size. The only thing that is difficult with type 2, the carb intake is adjustable to compensate blood sugar and so if my limit is 105 carbs per day, it makes me over on healthy fats and protein as everything has to add to 100% of intake. I haven’t figured that part out yet, however, with the calculations on MyFitnessPal and mySugr, my blood sugars are in the normal range for someone WITHOUT diabetes!!!! Next testing if I go as I am, my A1c should be around 5.2, which is normal, compared to 10.1 a1c at diagnosis!! Anyone with diabetes out there who has to watch everything they eat, these apps are perfect!! Thanks again for the app, it’s awesome!!

A great service providing a platform for success on a human health quest. The My Fitness Pal application allows anyone to compile a detailed log of nutritional and fitness info into an easy to use, easy to interpret, easy to afford (free), and simple to navigate system. The breakdown of information into multiple charts and graphs is a phenomenal resource. The flexibility of being able to modify multiple facets of your goals such as macro nutrients, weight loss/gain per week, etc. is extremely intuitive and suitable for a wide range of fitness/nutritional goals. Nearly anyone can master this application within a reasonable timeframe of consistent effort and in turn become the master of their fitness/health destiny. My Fitness Pal has provided a great service and allowed for anyone with the desire to do so to achieve the best version of themselves possible. Also, after a long endeavor spanning months or years and reviewing your data in retrospect allows for a particular cognizance for what worked well and what did not. This, in turn, provides a chance to hone an adequate regimen into the ultimate program fine tuned to your personal goals. My Fitness pal provides an amenity that fosters a healthier and happier human race to those who utilize it. This application has earned a large following of motivated individuals for these reasons and stood the test of time. Go forth and conquer your goals with profound efficiency. -Klahr

I really like this app. I use it for calorie counting. It links to Garmin Connect for integrating exercise calories into the overall balance for the day. You can scan barcodes for food items for easier logging. You can select items from your history of previous entries (great for frequently eaten foods). You can text search for foods, which accesses an enormous list of prior entries that I assume have been entered or scanned by other users. So why only four stars? My only peeve with the program is that it doesn’t seem to let users edit the serving size for many items, beyond being able to select from a too often extremely limited and sometimes arbitrary mix of imperial/metric/liquid/solid measures. The options presented vary widely from item to item, with little apparent logic. The best solution I have is to try to find items that use 1g as a serving size and then list the number of grams for that day’s serving as the number of servings for that entry. Since I’m using a food scale, that works for me. Seems a better solution would be to allow users to edit any food item to select from a full complement of serving sizes (or to just directly enter the desired serving size using the keyboard). Or just provide 1g as a choice in all cases (or at least all solid cases). In any case, I love and recommend the app, with the measurement detail being my only pet peeve.

In 2017 I got in the best shape of my life. At 38 and a mother of 3 (at the time) I was at my leanest and strongest through a combination of my workout regimen and very dedicated tracking of my protein intake. Now at 44 and a a mother of 4, l'm looking to do it all over again! I decided for Christmas I wanted to give myself the gift of my best health and hopefully start 2024 with a PR run- which means I have to get everything dialed in! I've locked in my workouts and I knew I needed to return to using My Fitness Pal to track my food. As I began tracking again I was very unaware of just how far off I was from meeting the amount of protein I needed. As a personal train I know often times women can hit a wall when it comes to weight loss because despite working out they aren’t getting the amount of protein that they need. Despite knowing this and educating clients on it, I had lost sight of that myself. My Fitness Pal helped me to identify this and make changes daily and easily on the go. My Fitness Pal provides with helpful notes about what is big in protein, critical vitamins (C, D, iron, fiber, etc.) that out your body needs. The large database of foods helps you to account for everything and often can help you make a smarter choice when eating out. Additionally, it gets you in the habit of planning and thinking ahead for what your next meal will look like (meal prep, splitting a portion between lunch/dinner, etc.). It can be said that, "Failing to prepare is Preparing to Fail." My Fitness Plan is such a useful tool to help ensure your success!

At the start I downloaded this app about 4 years ago on one of those “New year new me” trend but never stuck to it. But in may of this year I started this journey with my Girlfriend to lose weight and this app has been a huge help. I was able to accurately scan barcodes to find a item and place it into my calorie counter while also accurately placing my exercise in. It was easy to use, and user friendly. While also showing you the goals you have and will achieve with the hard work you put in. Now why not 5 Stars? It’s hard for me to commit to a monthly subscription because of how tight money is currently. And what I liked about this service was what if offered for the free subscription. Compared to others It was more expensive for less. Recently they had taken away the “Scan the barcode” feature for free users having you manually type on the product. Which wouldn’t be a huge deal if there wasn’t so many products! (I’m not upset about that don’t worry it’s honestly a good thing there’s so many logged in) it was just a quality of life aspect that made things quick and easy. Especially on the go. Normally though I wouldn’t mind paying the Fee since I have a gym membership. But I do feel like 20 dollars is a bit pricey for the monthly subscription all considering. If it was a little cheeper I would definitely pay for it considering all it gives you. All in all though if your looking to lose weight or live a healthier lifestyle this app is one of the greats. Good luck on any journey you take! Hard work will take you there I promise!

I’ve been using this app for years. There are so many ads now which I understand. But some of them pop up on your feed right when you open the app and there are some really gross images. A lot of times I am eating when I enter my calories and the images for the weird ads are so gross it makes me stop eating and lose my appetite. There was one that came up for weeks that showed someone getting ear wax removed. Now I logged in and it shows a close up of someone removing some type of gross substance from the back of their throat. Why would you have these kinds of ads show up on the home page of a food log app? Also, if you sync with Fitbit it enters your workouts automatically but it also tracks your steps and gives you a calorie adjustment for that as well, which Is like double tracking. If you go for a run for example, it will sync the workout from fitbit and give you the calories for that, and then also add in your steps from the run and give you more calories which I don’t think is accurate. Other than that, no other food app compares as far as the extensive food database and the ease of being able to enter recipes, meals, etc. I also love the social functionality where friends can comment on your status. Of course they have to scroll through all the ads in the feed to find your updates, and overlook the gross images of earwax and other things.

At the beginning of 2012, I began charting everything I was eating. I weighted 192 lbs. I am female and 5'4". I then looked in the app and saw the proportions of nutrients I was gaining or missing. From then, I could begin controlling my diet. I was losing or gaining slowly, two point kilos daily. I still yo-yo!😊 I weigh 119 lbs. now. My goal is 107. MyFitnessPal offered me chances not only to post dishes from American cuisines, but also dishes from where I lived in the Caribbean and Middle East. Uncommon fruits are listed as well as desserts from around the world. I continue to rely on MyFitnessPal and highly recommend it to anyone serious about keeping track of their nutrition and calories. As a Cancer survivor, MyFitnessPal offers me easy ways to follow prescribed restrictions.😍In addition to MyFitnessPal, I weigh myself daily and post in lbs. & kilos. Each month, I can see more easily where I was and am. I found looking at kilos and point kilos far more inspiring than looking at pounds. You can clearly see the point gains and losses which contributes to one's motivation level. It is true, managing a diet using a mobile app is easier. It took a long time to create a lifestyle of maintenance. I see it as one being hyperconscious in planning meals ahead. I advise serious dieters not to eat out often, and have a low calorie beginning of the day. Have a healthy snack before going. Avoid doggy bags. They can be a trap. Order low calorie entrées and enjoy your dessert. MyFitnessPal will remain a lifelong pal.

I really love this app! It has helped me in so many ways and for several years! It has amazing features and is always getting better. I love the HUGE food dictionary it has, the macronutrient breakdowns, and the exercises! I figured this would be a good place for some ideas I've brainstormed for future updates... 1) Having foods color-coded or labeled with a little icon that categorized the type of food it is (veggie, fruit, grain, dairy, protein) and then you can more easily visualize how many servings of each type of food category you’re eating! Like for example, if you log 2 cups of spinach, you would get 2 green leaf symbols to show that you ate 2 servings of veggies! 2) this is not necessary, but could be a fun change for those long-term MFP users: allowing us to change the color of our diary. Right now, the default is blue. What if we had the option to change that?! It would spice it up a bit, especially if you’ve been using it for years! Again, the app is amazing but if they're looking for different things to change it up, there's my two cents! 3) Being able to check a bubble that indicates if you stopped eating at enough and ate when hungry to help with intuitive eating. This view could also have an option to hide calories and macros.

I have Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy, and I am a recent heart transplant patient. I lost about 30 pounds before my transplant because I knew it would be a hard transition and it is important to give yourself and those helping you the best edge you possibly can. It’s also important to really educate yourself on nutrition and your body, I studied nutrition on my own did all the exercises I could, learned my body type and how I metabolize food. I also consult with my doctors and get blood work done so I know how to best tweak my diet to maximize my diet and health. Get some it’s always wise to consult with your doctors and even get a basic basic metabolic panel done to check your blood work. I recently gained a few pounds back from being on high doses of prednisone and others that made me super hangry like that already food loving person I am. As knowledgeable I am about nutrition I’m not a machine and this app keeps me accountable and allows me to make the most of my health habits. The key is to have a healthy balance and not obsess over losing weight and constantly over analyzing everything. It also helps me remember to hydrate. Don’t go crazy extreme, pace yourself and allow yourself to have many of the things you crave don’t over indulge make healthier versions of what you crave and eat smaller portions of the things you really want.

I love MFP. I’m the type of person who has gone up and down in weight my whole adult life. Between having 3 children and just my basic big appetite I need structure. I have most recently lost 30 pounds over the course of about a year. I log my food quickly every day. No obsessing, just keeping track to stay within my calorie range. Of course there is the occasional Holiday that I will not track but found that if I get right back to tracking the next day I will not gain weight from my Holiday eating. After all these years I have it down to a science and it just works for me. It’s very user friendly. You can keep all your favorite foods and meals so it’s very easy to quickly log in your food diary and keep yourself accountable. There are so many features like setting goals , logging exercise, and reading community for inspiration or tips. When I want to loose some weight I know how many calories and how much exercise will do it because of MFP. I am at my normal weight at the moment give or take a few pounds and loving it. And I still track. That’s the key for me. I could go on and on but take my word for it. If you really want to get in shape or stay in shape and need some help try this app. Dedicate yourself and you will succeed!

This app was recommended to me by my dietitian. So far I have been using the fee version. It has kept me on track with my calorie counting and exercise tracking, which is what I needed. I am a bit confused about the high calorie intake it recommended for me which was 2400 calories, since my dietitian said I’m supposed to stick to 1300 for my age, weight etc. if I want to loose weight. So I calculate for the one my doctor set me to. If there’s anything I would love the app to change or update it would be the ability to edit your own recipes after they are saved & while your typing in your recipe it be nice if a pop up would go up if you want to save or delete. Right now if you scroll your screen to fast to double check your ingredients, it deletes the whole recipe and you have to start all over. Also it would be nice if they kept the upper logo where it indicates which row is for Cal, Carbs, Sodium, Fiber, Protein Etc. steady through out all the meals….So when your scrolling down past Breakfast, to Lunch/Dinner/Snack you can easier tell which row of numbers indicating your macros belongs to which. Currently they have the rows with your numbers and if you forget which row is what I count the rows and have to scroll back up to see whether I’m looking at the Calorie or Protein row. Other than that it’s a great app.

I’ve been using MyFitnessPal now for over 10 years. The food library has expanded greatly. I enjoy the ability to build recipes out to count calories and keep track of nutritional information. I find logging. My intake of food helps me to be aware of what I’m eating and that alone has contributed to calorie management and weight loss. I also like logging my water as I tend to see the figure and drink more to get the necessary daily intake. Some things that I am extremely disappointed in is the fact that some features that used to be part of the app and free, are now only available if you are a paid subscriber. For instance, scanning the barcodes of food items used to be free. I feel as though options that used to be free should remain free. And only new options that are elevated or considered premium. Should then be part of the paid subscription. It’s sort of like a bait and switch if my fitness pal continues to switch over free options to the paid subscription option, I will just no longer use this app, as there are plenty of other choices now that include many free benefits. Scanning a food product barcode is not that difficult to integrate and should not be something that is an option for paid subscribers only as it was once an included free benefit.

This is by far the best fitness app out there. I am 5’3 and with an inconsistent weight that jumps from anywhere between 96 pounds at my best and 88 pounds at my worst. I have tried different things and fitness apps for years and this is the first time I found one that I consistently use and that keeps me on track. I am amazed by all the things that are included in the free service (the calorie diary, nutritional reports, and select fitness videos)! The app gives you a recommended caloric and nutritional intake based on your height and weight and your goals (weight loss, gain, or maintaining your weight). It also logs your steps and you can add different types of exercise that will adjust your needed caloric intake based on your activity for the day. If this sounds complicated, I promise you it’s not, it’s a pretty simple app to use. The nutritional log is done automatically for you based on the foods you input. The calorie diary is so useful and so much easier than counting calories yourself. You can just search a food and add whatever serving size you had to your diary (it is very specific! You can input different measurement like ounces or grams or just the recommend serving size for the specific food and you can input servings sizes as small at 1/8th) and it calculates both caloric and nutritional intake, this is by far my favorite feature because often times I do not eat the recommended serving size and have a hard time trying to manually calculate how many calories I’m eating. So far I have not been able to find a food that isn’t listed on the app, including foreign food (hard to find on other apps, which is super discouraging to the immigrant user). 100% recommend!

Ever since I started my health/fitness journey a couple of months ago, using this app, I have seen the results, and I don’t think I’d be able to do it with so much success without it. I tried a couple of apps before it..that didn’t have everything I needed like this one does. I love that they give you a 30 day free trial, and the annual fee of 80 bucks is well worth it. So far, since February, I have lost 13 lbs, which is basically one pound a week, which is ideal for sustainable weight loss. I’m 45, and 5 feet tall, went from 134 to 122 lbs! Just 10 pounds more to go until I’ve reached my weight goal. Combined with a healthy diet, and logging in all my food intake daily, I also get plenty of exercise- cardio for 20 to 60 mins a day, 3 to 6 times a week- along with daily intermittent fasting, drinking lots of water, taking supplements, etc. I eat organic, and eat meat no more than twice a week, and make sure I get plenty of protein ( to build muscle), and limit my sugar consumption. I usually do the 16:8 via fasting ( 16 hour fast with 8 hour eating window). This app has become my best friend basically. I love how you just log in your food intake, log in cardio workouts, and it does all the rest! I’m really excited that I found this app! Thanks!

In my own, personal opinion, the features that would earn fifth star would be to expand compatibility toward Polar brand products and applications, and to allow users to enter in specific ingredient, calorie, macro/micronutrient restrictions to be alerted to in meals & recipes. It would be great to know if something I ate (or am logging because I'm about to eat) will conflict with a low FODMAP diet, or has more of a specific nutrient than I want at the time. I recall a previous version that would offer food tips ("this food is high in sodium", "this food is a great source of vitamin c", etc.) I haven't yet tried the paid version, and these could be included there, but I felt it worth mentioning. Overall, the app comes packed with so many intuitive, convenient features, I have succeeded in making journaling with it part of my daily dietary considerations. The terms and conditions of the challenges offered are abjectly terrifying, though, and ought to be more prominently featured before agreeing to them. Currently, the language you provide allows sponsoring companies the freedom to scour my phone for any notes I've taken to work on business projects of my own during my participation, and hamstrings me to do anything to defend my own privacy and trade secrets afterward if they take any action on them. Not cool.

CICO (calories in calories out) works. Even if you’re not planning on changing your eating habits, it helps to just track what you’re eating with MFP. There’s a whole world of nutrition and forums, videos, websites, cook books and apps dedicated to this type of thing. You can get into it all by starting with a calorie counting app like this one. I don’t use any of MFP’s features except for the calorie tracking ones. I do use the “recipe” feature a lot as it lets me portion out big batches appropriately. For example, earlier today I knew to portion a beef stew I made into 11 servings so they’d be at 538 calories each. How would you get that kind of insight without carefully tracking he ingredients of a recipe? You wouldn’t. My one complaint is that I’ve had the recipe app crash MULTIPLE times while I’m in the middle of cooking. Obviously this is a pain because I can’t just remember the itemized list of ingredients in painstakingly measured grams. My workaround is to save every few additions so I don’t lose too much if it crashes. And it shouldn’t be crashing, I’m using MFP on an iPhone 12 Pro. If it’s going to be an ideal user experience anywhere, it should be on this. Can’t imagine how much worse it is on inferior hardware. Get your $;&@/ together MFP devs, figure out how to not let your app crash and lose data.

Goodbye annoying extremely intrusive ads. I wish I can pay to support this fantastic service/app. But 30 is a way over what my budget will allow and not ever ready for drop 180 all at once for a year.

Shame on you My Fitness Pal for forcing users to consent to sharing their data if they want to use the app. If you don’t want your data shared My Fitness Pal wont let you use their app! They don’t even tell you who they are sharing your data with!

I’ve used this app since about 2018 two years after I gave birth to my first son all the way up until today. I’ve been tracking my weight progress through my first and second pregnancies through this app which has been super helpful! Unfortunately I go in today to log my data and my entire weight data is gone from 2018 up until the data from yesterday! It was quite devastating losing that Information because it was a point of reference for me tracking my weight loss between both pregnancies. I’m all for app updates and changing looks for new experiences but was it necessary to get rid of old data? Even if there was a charge for the weight tracker, I would’ve been content just going back to that information for reference and recording my weight elsewhere. But to lose it all in a matter of a update is insane. For new users I’m sure that doesn’t mean anything and the app works wonders !!! Especially when you’re new to calorie counting. It does work, you can lose weight and keep it off with consistency using this app. However for the old users the new changes is another reminder that nothing lasts forever, so sometimes you have to keep track of these things on your own. Update: I was able to locate my information again!! So happy. the weight tracker and data is hidden pretty well with the new dashboard. A suggestion would be to put alongside the data entries for food! The new dashboard is nice just need a bit more organization like other reviews mentioned because it is tricky navigating .

Several years ago, this app was the best out there when it came to tracking calories, nutrition and exercise data. If you wanted to lose, maintain or gain weight, you could find a good way to make the app work for you. The UI was fairly intuitive. There was a good ‘free’ service (‘free’ still cost your personal data of course), and an expensive but tolerable expanded service for those that needed to track more details or had some alternative dietary plans. Over the past year plus, unfortunately, the company continues to make terrible decisions. The UI was dramatically changed, and it became far more difficult to do the most basic tasks (for most people this was logging food, water, exercise and weight). Bugs have become the norm. Features have been reduced or eliminated, especially from the ‘free’ plan. In short, the value plummeted, yet the price did not. Now, after years of using this app, I and many others are moving on. There are better apps out there that make it easy to log calories in and out. There are still apps out there that let all users log food by scanning barcodes. There are apps out there that offer more premium options for a much better price. Like many companies out there. MFP became so focused on raising the price and forcing users into subscriptions, they forgot that if they don’t provide value, they’re just going to lose market share. Hopefully they’ll change things around and we will see more value in the future.

I consider myself very tech savvy and the user interface for this app is very confusing for me. My husband who also uses it is totally lost and I have to enter his data for him. What is confusing is searching for foods. Depending on which page you are on, the “scan barcode “ may be in a different place. When creating a meal or recipe, no confirmation a food was added and return back to add in the next food. Multi add should have the ability to scan too. It is also not intuitive to find your recent foods. When you put in a recipe, in order to actually cook the item, you have to edit the recipe to see the amount of ingredients to create it. The other disappointment is sharing meals, recipes, and foods with friends you have added. The ability to favorite individual items should be there that is used weekly or monthly, instead of having to scan the item again as the recent foods is not listed alphabetically. The developers suggested I create a Meal for each of my grocery items to find. I’ve done that, but again, my husband doesn’t have access to that, so if he eats something I bought, but I didn’t, he has to scan it too. This is not usable for couples or families that eat similar items but not the same. I’ve already paid for my premium. I’m not going to continue with my husband’s. $79 is way too expensive for the minimal features provided. Also, it doesn’t sync correctly with my Apple health and watch data. I’m constantly having to edit it.

It has been a while since I’ve used this app and I decided to use it again since I’m picking up my weight loss journey again. I remembered how easy it was to log food in, counts your steps just having your phone in your pocket, and they gave fun exercise suggestions and food suggestions. Now that I’m returning to the app so much has changed, and I can’t day it changed for the better. When you load it up it seems difficult to navigate now to just get to where you want to on that homepage. Feels like things got needlessly complicated when before it was simple and easy. Then now they put scanning a barcode for your food behind a paywall? Really? I think I find that to be the most annoying new thing since basically any other app like this they let you scan it for free. Not too sure why it was decided you should pay in order to scan your food’s barcode. It seems like many things that used to be available now you have to pay for, it’s rather unfortunate it’s turned into something to get your money instead. There are still features I can use for feee like logging my food and counting my steps. I don’t really have the desire to see extra nutrient content on the food I eat, but if you are extremely serious in knowing everything the premium feature is there. Along with eating plans and exercise plans if you don’t already have your own plan like say with a doctor or a trainer. I think what has just led me not wanting to use this app very much anymore is the fact the easy access stuff is now locked behind a paywall and it’s rather unfortunate.

So let me start by saying that purchasing the premium membership kinda add nothing to the experience. I got it as it promised tailored meals and workouts but that wasn’t the case,as I can’t find out how to get that. The home page it’s self is very distracting. you get a strip of your daily info at the top and bunch of news and articles just like you’d open your Facebook page which I don’t appreciate it. Of course you’re not given the option to alter your home page to your liking. The information display is annoying also, as it only tells you how much portions you have remaining. On my Apple Watch I have a slightly better view with circles showing how much portions are remaining at the center , and a line around the circumference to portray how much you have consumed. A better info display would have all your nutritional facts for the day, rather than just three, displayed on the home page screen with lines or circles that fills up as you log in info. Another problem I faced was logging food in. They have a great library, However they don’t let you log in the portions as you’d measure it which is inconvenient really! So if I used 60 grams of tomatoes I can’t just write it in. rather I have to choose a serving and alter the serving amount till I get a number that matches the amount. I wish you can choose the item and immediately write 1 cup or 100 g, 1 oz etc. will be using it still I just don’t believe the premium membership was any beneficial

Years ago, I used this app to drop some pounds and really liked its features. I’m at a point where I need to reassess my diet and thought this would be a good option to return to, but the moment I opened the app after re-downloading, I just felt like it wasn’t for me. Calorie counting apps are a dime a dozen now, and a lot of them have worked hard on providing an interface that’s both efficient (because who wants to work around a clunky app when it already takes lots of time out of your busy day to record meals?) and visually pleasing (weight and dieting can be an unpleasant subject, right?). MyFitnessPal was clunky from the moment it requested my vitals (difficult to scroll and go to the next input field), to the tutorial, to the constant pop ups demanding I consider upgrading to premium. I’ve barely used the app yet, why not leave me alone and try again when I’ve actually had time to experience it? There is no focus on calorie information on the home page, instead dedicating screen space to blog posts etc. that I don’t have the time or desire to read anyway. It’s difficult to find the wearable device/app integration options. The camera scanner is much slower than other apps I’ve used with the same technology. Overall there is no sleek design or cute graphics that would make the this app unique or pleasant to use regularly. I was just disappointed in how far this app has fallen behind, and you probably will feel the same.

The iPad version of the app is not great. The layout could use some serious refinement, it looks like they just enlarged the iPhone version. This is especially true in landscape mode. The app is also very jittery in the iPad version. Syncing from the iPhone to the iPad is also laggy or sometimes doesn’t happen at all for hours. I like to track on my phone and then(try) to use my iPad in the kitchen to verify I am making what I decided to from my phone. The overall interface for navigating the system catalogue of foods vs. saved meals could also use some refinement. There are some features that I would like to see implemented as well. Better organizing the information in the diary between “my meals” versus individual items would be a welcomed change. A simpler way to adjust quantities after the fact, especially when selecting a “my meal” would be amazing(I have an egg breakfast set up, sometimes I eat 2 eggs sometimes 4. Seems ridiculous to make that into two separate meals.). The ability to take an item that is based off of a restaurant menu and delete or add items from it to get an accurate calorie count. Like removing pickles or cheese, or adding extra sauce. The search function as a whole is a little glitchy, sometimes the keyboard pops up for no explained reason. All in all I have dropped from 30% BF to sub 15% largely with the help of this app. But I am now at a stage where these improvements would make my next phase much easier. PS. The choice of which features are behind a pay wall seems a little arbitrary.

I have been using this App for years. I took an 8 month break and picked it up today. Just found out that you can no longer scan barcodes without buying the premium. I was able to scan barcodes for years. It just feels like a ripoff. I’m not buying your premium even if the entire app is no longer free. I will just go use 1st Phorm’s app. One thing that I learned after studying a lot about nutrition is that your caloric intake should not be below your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate). At least not for an extended period of time. And yet, years ago in the beginning of my weight loss journey the calories goals had me at 1100 calories and I found out my BMR was closer to 1400. This had a profound effect on my mental health and weight loss. I had chronic fatigue and anxiety. It was awful. There was no warning about consuming lower calorie and being in starvation. There was no place I could add a BMR so the app would take that into account. I really hope you guys can refine that more because you would be able to teach people about BMR and good nutrition. You would be able to make sure people are not starving themselves and putting a wrench in their weight loss journey. You would be able to help people not feel awful and have more energy. You would help people not have their mental health suffer due to starvation. Please fix this and give back my barcode scan and I will change my rating to 5-stars!

I have been using this app off and on for years. Since before even Under Armor purchased it. I loved using it and I loved the fact that it was totally free. But since it has been getting more and more expensive. I understand that companies need to make money and I get having some premium basic features. I was even comfortable, although a little annoyed, when they put small ads here and there. Today I opened the app to begin using it again after about a year of not and found that when I try to log something an add pops up that I must wait for the countdown and then try to find and hit the tiny little X that pops up which results in usually the App Store popping up that I then have to close. This has made the basic functions of this app unusable in the free version in my opinion. So I looked to see what it’s gonna cost me to remove ads, because I love this app, I want to keep using it. $20 a month! Yes you get other features, none of which I’m interested in. But $20 a month. That’s a scam! I’ll pay you $20 one time to remove ads, maybe even $1 a month. This app went went from a group of developers who cared and wanted to make something good for the community, to a large company who introduced premiums, to another company who decided to try and squeeze out every cent from the users by making the app unusable without a subscription or a ton of patience. If you are thinking of trying this app look elsewhere!

This used to be a wonderful app. Unfortunately, this app is losing sight of how people use it. None of us wants to spend 20 minutes logging in every meal, and that is the main reason we stop using the app for long periods of time. There are only two things we need to do. Log a weight for the day and quickly log food. Unfortunately the developers keep adding layers of information and clicks to get to those two functions. For example, when you go to login food now it asks you if you’ve already eaten the meal. Are you serious? Of course we’ve eaten it. That’s why we’re logging in calories! How is that a helpful addition? The face page has extraneous information when it should present the two most important things; logging your weight and food diary. Those should not be on separate pages. I get that every app wants the public to interact with it for hours at a time so that we see their ads. But logging in your food intake is a chore and the app has to allow for the quick entry of calories. Otherwise we grow tired of interacting with the app. New users won’t understand what I’m talking about, because they will have found an app for the first time that tracks their calories. But if you’ve been at this for more than 10 years you will know that this app has slowly become more cumbersome and more layered, hiding the tasks that you want to do quickly

UPDATE: today’s update broke the ability to add today’s weight. This happened once before. You tap on weight, and the little + in the top right corner no longer shows up. Please fix this! It happens on both iPad and iPhone, and I verified on the iPad it worked, I did today’s update, and now it’s broken. I was able to do this because I had already seen it break on the iPhone, and I assumed it would be the same on the iPad. Please fix this quickly! Well, when I saw the new update, I hated it, and I wrote a review about that, and I rated it one star out of five. But now that I’ve been working with it for a week or so, and I’ve learned how to use it, the interface is not bad. In some ways, it is simpler. But what’s most important, all the little bugs that used to drive me crazy, like the interface hopping somewhere else when I pulled up a screen, screens, frozen, a number of different problems, seemed to all be gone. I suspect this is built on a new platform, or was completely rewritten, something that makes it much more stable. So I came here to write this review, and indicate that I give this five stars now. This is quite an improvement over the old interface, and if you have patience to get through and learn it, I think you will enjoy it a lot. Kudos for making the brave step to make something better. This seems to be a very good app now.

Overall, I like the app. It has its issues and the team needs to do more work into finding an appropriate caloric amount for goals (it’s far too low and leads to an ED mindset). Luckily, we can adjust it ourselves, so at least there’s that. I agree that making the barcode feature premium was a low blow to your user base, and a cheap shot at making loyal users feel forced into going premium. I get it’s a business, but I would really rethink this decision. My main complaint is about the fasting feature though. I’ve been intermittent fasting for years. I use a different app to track it. I was excited when you announced you would be adding this feature. However, it makes the app very buggy. I find that whenever I open the app to pre-plan my meals for the day, I am being forced to end my fast. If I try to exit the fasting timer without ending my fast, the whole app crashes. Every time. I like to add my calories and plan my day in advance sometimes, or calculate a recipe I’m planning to make later on. Since I cannot do that, I will have to turn off the fasting feature and continue to use another app for this. Not a big deal for me, but this issue should be addressed and fixed, especially forcing people to pay premium. Also add more options for eating windows. Or let us pick our own amount of hours at least.

They got overly complicated. This site has a great for helping people lose weight, but the most important part, the diet and weight monitors, became almost lost in the scrum of everything else they added onto their app a few years ago. Nevertheless, MyFitnessPal was the primary tool I used to help me lose 120 pounds a few years back. Now, a few years removed, and I need to lose some weight again. Only to find that their premium package, which they were always begging me to get, now included the bar scan. What?!?! It is nearly impossible to track calorie counts without the bar scan. That’s not an inconvenience, that’s an essential. This isn’t paying for a convenience. It’s taking away an essential, creating a inconvenience, and forcing you to pay to not be inconvenienced. And the premium package is an utterly exorbitant $20/month!!! So I’m supposed to pay $20/month in order to use the bar scan?!?!?! Unfortunately, even without the bar scan, I’m my opinion, it’s the most comprehensive site for calorie tracking available. So even though it appears they’re actively trying to push app users away for some unknown reason, I’m stuck with them until someone else like Lose It either steps up their game or someone else entirely decides to be what MyFitnessPal originally was. A simple, convenient way to keep track of calories. Without being forced to go broke in the attempt.

I’m surprised by all the positive reviews. This app is so cluttered and difficult to use. I am trying to get a better picture of my nutrition and tune it to my goals, which is NOT body weight. The food database is vast which is mostly positive but also a negative because now you have to sift through a bunch of bad entries for the same food item. The UI presentation is terrible. I’m paying for premium yet my screen is full of ads (for more features!) and littered with unhelpful announcements. I just want to review the data but the screen is so dense with fluff and distractions. Look at the dashboard. The middle third of the screen has a mildly useful chart. Bottom third is an **ad**. The top third is some strange progress bar, I guess, but it’s curved for some unknown reason, and no indication what progress is being represented. Progress toward me deleting the app? If you are trying to track nutrition they make it about as hard as possible, and ultimately impossible. The information is all there, which is what makes it extra frustrating. You can either get a very high level view of a few macros or super detailed view of every micronutrient for one meal. But nothing in between. You **cannot** track nutrition with a plot over time (this same app used to offer this years ago). So if you want to monitor protein intake over a month, tough. Or what if fiber is a key micro you care about for health reasons. Too bad, just die. I will not be renewing the membership when it expires.

Please fix this or put it back!! Okay, I’ve used your product for many years and have been quite happy with it until this latest upgrade…for use on iPad the UI is downgraded!! I can handle that I can’t scan for free. I liked it but it’s not a big deal for me. On my iPhone the charts on the Dashboard are tolerably sized but I log my weight and calories on my iPad and for some reason the Dashboard page is stupid big, only showing parts of charts at a time. (Why have a chart that you can’t see the bottom and top at the same time?) So then you start the scrolling to get through to the place to enter your weight and that means actually fighting against the page. You have to go through 2 different spots where the page wants you to scroll left/right when you are trying to go down. It is SO ANNOYING-and it’s EVERY DAY!!! (Where is my little book of calm?) Yes, I contacted SUPPORT for help, they were very kind. They said basically too bad about the Dashboard but I can enter my weight by going to the “More” option. I was at first really happy to have an alternative, but it is pretty bad, too. You click about 8 times (with long lists, drop down menus, and then more clicking on different corners of the page) to finally get to the place to enter my weight. COME ON, GUYS!! (yes, I know I’m screaming). Please put the darn button back on to go directly to the weight entry. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

I have used MFP for so many years and would love to give it a five star review. It’s been invalubable to my weight loss journey. I didn’t mind the original advertisements two years ago. Now they have more aggressive advertisement, pop ups and interruptions while you are trying to log your calories. Fine. It’s free- I am willing to deal with it because I know developers have to make money. Imagine my surprise when I log in today when I can’t use the barcode scanner. It’s now, suddenly, locked behind a paywall. The subscriptions are any small matter either- 20 bucks a month or close to 100 a year to use the app that I have been using for years. No thanks. I’ll be switching to a new app. What a complete disappointment. It’s sad to see really good apps get ruined by greedy people. If the developer deigns to post an answer- please don’t. I’ve already read your article and it doesn’t change the fact you are greedy ********. Avoid this app and do not download. This goes double if you want to use developers not to suddenly lock features that you’ve literally been using for YEARS behind a substantial paywall. UPDATE: I switched to the app “Lose it!” And I love it! They don’t lock their barcode scanner behind a pay wall and their paid subscription is less than half the price and has way more features than MFP. I am very happy with my new fitness tracker “Lose it!” Available on the App Store now!!

I need a way to correlate carbohydrate intake with blood glucose in Apple Health. This app does not write data to Apple Health in a useful way. Unlike other apps, it doesn’t write anything other than a number, a date, a time, and the name of a meal and the name of a Meal. Both of the latter are always the same (e.g. Lunch). It appears that sometimes things are recorded right away before being corrected (I review entries at the end of the day because no, I had a teaspoon of pickle relish, not a “bucket”). Some seem to be entered on a day when something was edited rather than when it happened - for some yesterday there are 6 entries in Apple Health despite only 3 in MyFitnessPal. On Tuesday I have 6 entries in MyFitnessPal but there are only 2 data points in Apple Health. Sometimes there are obvious duplicates. Timestamps in Apple Health often don’t correlate with anything in MyFitnessPal. Because of the primitive logging to Apple Health I can’t sort out what’s supposed to be what, but in any event the only “solution” I see is to delete entries I think are wrong - I can’t edit dates or times in Apple Health and I don’t see a way to force a sync from MyFitnessPal to write correct data. Some of this may well be limitations of Apple Health, but it’d be a huge help if MyFitnessPal were to write the name of the meal in one of the meal/Meal fields and what it included in the other (e.g., “Snack” and “banana bread, orange juice” in the other instead of “Snack” in both). I know this is feasible since other apps do it.

This was my “go-to” app for a very long time. I had the free version. I may have paid for no ads, as well. In the past 2-3 weeks, I have downloaded and deleted the app numerous times hoping I could justify having it but, alas, I have finally determined it is not worth the trouble. The interface has completely changed - the look and accessibility to parts of it are no longer available. It isn’t easy to navigate unless you just want to record meals and exercise. You no longer get nutrition information, other than calories and maybe fat. There used to be a bar scan to add foods that were not listed. If that function is there, it’s not easy to locate. The app would tell you if you were eating too little (calories, fat, carbohydrates, etc) or too much. All of the previously available helpful aspects are now locked. If anyone was fortunate enough to use the previous version as I was; you would understand why, for me, this version is horrible in comparison. I would even consider paying the yearly price but knowing the experience I’ve had thus far, the new interface and reviews of those who are actually paying for premium, I decided a different app would be better. I’m so disappointed. Return the previous interface. You could charge a small fee for certain things to be made available and to remove ads. I really wanted this app to give me the same streamlined version I used to have but sadly, it is not what it used to be. On a positive note, this app helped me reach my goals with the previous version. Now, it’s just a pain.

With premium being crazy expensive at $20 a month or $80 a year, I decided to use the free version. It worked so well & I loved it, personally I dint even mind all the different ad bombardments after logging food in. But sadly they decided to put a feature, the barcode scanner which I use regularly behind the premium pay wall. The barcode scanner made my food log ins easier & faster, it's literally a key reason as to why I became more consistent regarding tracking my food. I’m not even going to consider buying premium because it is extremely overpriced. Putting previously free features behind a paywall will not make me wanna buy into an overpriced premium. I guess onto another app that actually offers decent features for its free users. My problem with premium it’s overpriced. I realize premium offers a bunch of different features like a handy barcode scanner now & a lot of different tracking mechanics which is great if you want that. When my goal is literally track my calories & protein (that’s it, I’m not interested in anything else) why would I pay $80 a year or even $20 a month (that’s basically a gym membership by the way) Solution: Creat another cheaper more affordable tier to premium that allows you to do all the basic stuff free users do without ads & a barcode scanner. All the other fancy features could stay behind the more expensive premium tiers. Lets say $2 or $3 a month.

I had this app for a long time, stopped using it for several years and came back to it and now you have to pay for a premium membership to use what was free before and it’s really glitchy! I thought somehow I was screwing up but I see now from other reviews that many others have my same issue. Foods in the diary keep randomly duplicating and sometimes adding to previous days’ diaries. I added in something for today’s morning and it added it to yesterday instead of today and another item was duplicated. The barcode scanner is very limited, doesn’t work on most nutritional items and for me the worst thing is that it doesn’t track nutrients except for like 4 basic ones. I’m much more interested in tracking nutrition than calories or exercise which I did manually for years easily in a notebook. When you go over 100g of vitamin C it lists it in red like you did something terribly wrong. It reprimands you if your goal weight is less than what they think you should be even though I was that weight for years, was perfectly healthy and my doctor never once said I was underweight. It reprimands you if you go under 1000 calories for the day which is ridiculous, how can you lose weight eating more than 1000 calories? I have the free trial of the premium now and already cancelled it to make sure I don’t forget (you still get the free month). The weight should be lost by then anyway.

UPDATE: Developer responds with same fabricated response to everybody, suggesting that the consumer go out of their way FOR THE DEVELOPER, to read an article that only goes to say that the switch was premeditated. This is a shady and impersonal way to conduct business, and has left a sour taste in my mouth with Under Armour as a whole. I’ve used MyFitnessPal for years. They have been a somewhat convenient way to track my health, with added convenience from the barcode scanner, and very little push to upgrade to their premium paid accounts. In recent months, they have truly exposed their greed and questionable business tactics. I, first, became annoyed with the addition of ads to the app; but found it of minimal concern. But, now, just a couple months later; they have removed their barcode scanner from their free app. Now, as of the last few months, I’m required to pay $80 a year to enjoy features such as the barcode scanner, and be free of ads. These are things that, only a year ago, were FREE. If you want to make more money off your app, ADD more useful and helpful features to draw in new customers and add to the appeal of the paid membership. DO NOT alienate loyal consumers by making the free use of the app less appealing, and charging them to use features that have been free for years. Out of principal I cannot continue to use this app, as it has lost its convenience. I will download a different fitness tracking app, and recommend the same to others.

***Update to my review: I had a response from the MyFitnessPal development team and it completely eschews the fact that removing the free barcode scanner is something irking all of the users if you read the reviews sorted by newest. A company that is not willing to listen to its user base and to make changes to a misstep, has lost our loyalty and our respect. With our comments we are giving them a chance to redeem themselves. And, if we didn’t care, we wouldn’t comment. They are clearly not heeding to the call for change. Who is steering the ship?*** Wow, it used to be a great app. Unfortunately, now that they put the barcode scanner behind the paywall, they’ve lost me. I used to recommend them to everybody and tell them how great my fitness pal was. Now they’re making it too difficult. I didn’t mind ads and I certainly didn’t mind other ways for them to make money, but for the users that did want to use they’re free service, I feel that that was a penny wise pound foolish decision no pun intended. Moving on to the other apps now that count your calories such as Cronometer, Loseit, or Macros over this loss. MyFitnessPal, what you don’t understand is the key to keeping your users, is making it simple for them. Once you’ve lost us and our loyalty, there’s no getting us back as we are now vested in another system. Whoever is at the top needs to be aware that their change in business practice is going to hurt them.

Update!!! Developers are forcing users to the premium version. No longer are there JUST banner ads, now every screen brings a hanging ad that must complete its process before it can be closed. They also removed the barcode scan feature as of Oct 1st. Shame on you guys!!!! Don’t waste money on an app with so many errors. There are so many wrong food entries. Same exact food item with different nutrition values. Even those that are “verified” with a check mark are full of incorrect information. I’ve been using this app off and on for over five years and the food entries are only getting worse. The “report incorrect information” feature is horrible too! It’s a lot of work and when 75% of the entries are incorrect, it makes it impossible for users to effectively report errors. Suggestion: Make a specific group of trusted users that can make their food entries Public and then make a different large group of moderators that review food entries and remove the ones that are bad. Even send the information back to the user for correction. Allow users to choose location by continent to filter out food entries from different countries or languages. Allow users to “favorite” a specific food entry that is used often. This app can be so much more and totally worth the premium version but right now, even the free version is barely average.

I was a user of MyFitnessPal long before they sold out to Under Armor. Back then, the app was amazing for people who wanted a way to count calories and document their weight-loss journey. It wasn’t perfect back then, but it was steadily improving on their food database. Cut to now, and I’m wanting to get back into counting my calories. Now, I knew the company had sold out, and I knew Under Armor had purchased it. However, I didn’t realize that this was all with the intentions of cashing in on the app people used to rely on for helping keeping them accountable. I can see charging a premium OR implementing banner ads or something, but Under Armor has taken an app that was once entirely free to use, and they crippled it, so that people who can’t afford to, or just don’t want to, pay a subscription to lose weight have less features within the app. For instance, I used to love being able to scan barcodes to enter my food intake, well, that’s now a premium feature. Sadly, while this app is still great, I’m not going to pay a company to lose weight, when I’m still doing all the work myself, and I’m also not going to manually enter everything I eat, either. Unfortunately, I just uninstalled, and won’t be looking back, as better, and free, alternatives exist. In fact, I’m thinking of creating my own full-featured, entirely free calorie counter app to rival these out here trying to earn a buck off of people’s fitness goals. If this happens, I’ll update my review with the app name.

I am a paying premium member (not for long). Whenever I entered my weight, I kept getting this message asking if I’d like to change my goal weight to match the recommended range. I click on the “No Thanks” button and that should be that, but it isn’t. The next day when I enter my weight, I get the same annoying message (and you have to answer it otherwise you cannot proceed). Again I click, “No Thanks,” but the app doesn’t care. So I contacted support and they made me go through all these hoops and hurdles and (including a full reinstall of the app) and a week of email exchanges later, and they tell me, “There is no way to turn it off as your goal weight is right on the line of healthy. While we do feel it's very important to keep the message in the app to deter users who may be attempting to reach dangerously low goal weights, we do acknowledge that it's not relevant for a member like you who is still in the healthy range." In other words, they’re going to do nothing because you'd prefer to "deter users who may be attempting to reach dangerously low goal weights." So not only is this a poor reflection on how you treat a premium member like me, but also on how you treat your other members whom you choose to treat like children and tell them what's good for them and not let them decide for themselves by REPEATEDLY giving the same message and not stopping until they change their goal.

I used to love this app and many of its features but I find it lacking after having my baby. Not only does the weight gain from my pregnancy look negative on the chart (well duh I made a child), but there are many of the features that make it seem like I’m lazy or not putting in the effort to stay healthy. The calorie intake is much less than what I should be eating because I’m breastfeeding but it turns negative when I include the snacks because it goes over the calorie goal. Not to mention that exercise is limited postpartum. I’m not asking for my fitness pal to keep track of my breastfeeding or anything like that (there are many other apps for that) but it would be nice if there was a note you could add or status change that one could add that encourages mamas who are recovering from labor. Not put us down for not being able to keep up with our diets and exercise habits pre-child. A little encouragement, especially around the 5th and 6th week postpartum would be beneficial since that is around the time when most moms can actually begin to work out and do light exercises. This app is really helpful because it helps me make sure I’m eating enough, especially since it’s hard to stay sane with a newborn and lack of sleep. I just wish it was more mama friendly because many fitness apps seem to completely forget that labor and recovery ain’t easy. 😥

UPDATE: the fact y’all literally replied to my original review with a copy/paste response saying “as a reminder, you can still log meals with the search bar” shows you didn’t even read my full message. As I stated before, we don’t care if there’s other ways to log meals. Charging $20 a month for a simple barcode scanner that other apps (like Loseit! and MyPlate) offer for free is insane and greedy. Now we know your customer service is just as poor as your app, no clue how you have a 4.7 rating when all the recent reviews are rightfully negative. ORIGINAL: I honestly loved using MyFitnessPal to monitor my calorie deficit until they took away the barcode scanner and made it a premium feature :/ losing this convenience ruined the app for me, there's no way I'm paying nearly $20 a month for it. I switched over to the app Lose It! which has a barcode scanner completely free and their premium is way cheaper with so many features that MyFitnessPal doesn't have. I never would've looked for a new app if it wasn't for losing the barcode feature, save your money and look at other apps before buying this ones overpriced premium plan. I see they’re responding to people who are upset with this feature loss that we can “still input meals using the search bar” but we don’t care about that. It’s purely about losing the convenience and this was the final straw that pushed MyFitnessPal into the trash for me.

I just tried this app after reading about it in a review for a different calorie tracking app, one I will continue to use instead of this. I created my account and went to enter my first meal, which includes 12g of sugar free Metamucil. I weigh all my food to make this easier. After scanning the barcode and pulling up the item, I see that I am unable to enter portion by gram. This is odd as the food label lists grams in a serving, so I check other Metamucil items in the database to see if that option is present. It is not. So I enter the tsp equivalent. Apparently “2 tsp(s)” is 30 calories, while “2 tsp” is 40... ok well 30 is the correct amount, however the app then shows incorrect carbs and fiber. To enter a generic banana by weight, I had to set serving size to 1 g and then enter 137.4 servings. As a developer that has also done a fair amount of quality assurance testing, if a simple method for entering portion by weight is available in this app, then I can confidently say the user interface in anything but intuitive. If the feature doesn’t exist, then it is hard to take this app seriously. A food scale allows an app like this to be much more accurate. I will stick to the app I’m already using, where I enter almost every item by weight, and the results match the label. Metamucil is not an obscure item. I should be able to scan a barcode and enter “11.6 grams”.

This app is ok except that it keeps triggering my antivirus software. This is disappointing because I’ve been using it for over a year and like the added ability to scan the upc to track my calories. I am going to have to look for a different app. This is what the security pop-up warning says is the problem with this app: Malicious Sources/Malnets Sites that host or distribute malware or whose purpose for existence is as part of a malicious network (malnet) or the malware ecosystem. Malware is defined as software that takes control of a computer, modifies computer settings, or collects or reports personal information without the permission of the end user. It also includes software that misrepresents itself by tricking users to download or install it or to enter personal information. This includes sites or software that perform drive-by downloads; browser hijackers; dialers; any program that modifies your browser homepage, bookmarks, or security settings; and keyloggers. It also includes any software that bundles malware (as defined above) as part of its offering. Information collected or reported is "personal" if it contains uniquely identifying data, such as email addresses, name, social security number, IP address, etc. A site is not classified as malware if the user is reasonably notified that the software will perform these actions (e.g., it alerts that it will send personal information, be installed, or that it will log keystrokes).

I’ve used my fitness pal for years, and I never had an issue until recently. Thankfully, I’ve also never had the misfortune of talking with any of their customer service representatives before these past few days. I’ve been unable to log into the app for quite a while now, which is extremely disheartening considering that I’ve been paying the exorbitant fees for premium access for quite a while now (off and on, of course). I tried requesting a password reset over 20 times, and I still have yet to receive any sort of email. Yes, my fitness pal, I’m sure that I’m putting the email in correctly, and yes I’ve checked my spam.🙄 So naturally, I submit a ticket. Here we welcome Frannie.🙂 After outlining the entire situation in my ticket, I get a generic mass-response type email outlining everything in the article which I’ve already read several times over. So I respond back telling her I still haven’t got a solution yet. To which she responds, “We have just sent you a password reset email. If you did not receive it, please let us know.” I wait a day, and still nothing. So I let her know twice, and, you guessed it, still nothing. Quite simply, I have no idea what to do now. I’m likely going to just have to request a refund for premium services seeing as how I can’t access the app on my phone or my computer. This is super frustrating and huge waste of time.

When signing up, once i fill out the page with my bday on it, it dosent take me to the next page and when i press the arrow on the top right an error pops up saying that the account cannot be registered

Since UA takeover this app has become a shadow of former self. Privacy invading, money hungry social network that left its first users (myself included) in the dirt after they helped build its massive food database. The app wants me to pay to take advantage of its features, many of which exist because others like me spent hours of ours lives adding bar codes and editing nutritional information of hundreds of products. We did this for free to help support a great app that could in return help us in our journeys. We didn’t need ads, social network features and surely we didn’t want to excessively share or personal info.( Never mind data breaches.) And sure as hell we didn’t expect that one day the very app we helped build will ask us to pay for the stuff we put into it. Thanks but no thanks. I’m out. Disgusting.

I cancelled my monthly plan and the next month was charged for a full year of premium, the kicker is that my app is still asking me to upgrade and I still have the basic plan. I contacted the company and got crickets....

This app is probably really amazing but it won't let me create an account even if I try logging in with facebook

Too much data is collected from users. I’d rather pay but have my health-related data stored locally tbh.

This is where Ed’s starts I’m 5’8 and 120 pounds and they told me to eat 1200 calories which is 800 calories to low

It just gave me an eating disorder and made my life miserable tbh

Wonderful way to track meals and monitor calories.

I developed an eating disorder because of this application. I experienced anorexia for 2 years. This application should no longer exist. To be in shape, you just have to eat healthy and be active everyday. You don’t have to count every calorie you eat.

In order to use the app you must agree that they are allowed to collect sensitive data and sell it to others and you have to agree that they can sell your information within the USA. Keep yourself and your information safe. Do not use this app

And to think, I was about to go premium and pay $10.00 per month. STAY AWAY from this app

The barcode scanner moving to the premium version ruined this app for me. Loved it beforehand

Barcode scanning used to be free for years and now costs money. Deleted immediately when I realized this.

Gave me an ED

Full page ads, can’t download my data, and barcode scanner is now a premium feature. Ridiculous. I’ve used this app for 8 years but no more. Premium is very expensive and theres no value. Green check foods are often wrong. Just a bad time all around. Time to say goodbye myfitnesspal.

Used to be a good app, but now they’ve introduced pop-up ads & increased prices. Moving on to a competitor app after many years on MyFitnessPal. Thanks I guess

$30 a month premium!! Are you guys high? That is more than netflix, disney+, and spotify COMBINED! You think that’s worth it???

The most recent update is riddled with full screen apps. This intrusive update has now ruined what was an incredible problem free experience I’ve had since using the app first in 2014. It’s come a long way and unfortunately it took a sharp turn for the worst. Personally I’m switching over to MacroFactor.

The food database is full of duplicates and mistakes and other inaccurate or incomplete information. It’s not worth it to me to track if I’m not getting accurate nutritional info.

I really like this app. Although not perfect, it has many features I personally find helpful. I used to pay for a premium membership, but was disgusted to come back after a long break from the app to see that it is now $28 CAD per month. Not a chance you will ever get a penny out of me at that price.

This app is awful. it promotes disordered eating habits and dieting to vulnerable people. cancel it.

I have recently redownloaded this app after not using it in years and every useful feature (eg barcode scanner) is hidden behind a subscription. These features used to be free. Don’t support this.

Used this app for years. But over the past year or so after various updates it’s unusable. Either they block features behind a paywall now, or the app just doesn’t work. Every time I open the app I get maybe 10 seconds of being able to use it before it crashes. They really killed what used to be a great app

I’m unhappy with your decision to place the barcode scanner beyond a subscription. This USED to be free. Demanding a recurring almost $30 a month fee for something that used to be free is outrageous and incredibly greedy.

Now with the announcement that they are making the barcode scanner only available on the pro version there’s no point to using this over other apps. Plus they’ve been increasing adds lately to push it even more

I get it. Gotta pay your bills. But forcing full page ads that block me from actually using the app doesn’t make me want to pay for premium, it makes me want to find a new app instead of MFP. I end up quitting the app and reopening it later.

Recently there’s been WAY too many ads, useless ones at that. Like no, I do not want to try out some dumb tennis game. I’ve been using this app for years but I’m just about ready to pull the plug on it. Developers need to fix this ASAP.

Wow this new update is a disgusting user experience. Greatly limits all the features, you cannot escape the ads they pop up full screen and are so annoying to exit, can’t even see your macros anymore. Not to mention it is SO expensive for the paid version now. What a disappointment- deleting this garbage. There’s too many other calorie tracking apps to be dealing with these greedy developers.

Yeah right

Fitnesspal is going to see it’s nails in the coffin probably within a year. the company has decided to go ad heavy, and to essentially force people to switch to premium which is ridiculously priced. Thanks for the great years, but the poor choices you’ve made will cause a mass exodus among your loyal users. I highly recommend you all switch to a more reasonably priced and better laid out app.

The micro transactions in this app and all the interesting features behind the paywall are disgusting, especially considering the number of unavoidable adds in the app. Download Cronometer instead.

Are y’all high?? $30/month premium Here’s some alternatives: Cronometer, Loseit, or Macros

This app has crippling performance and stability issues. Also the “onbording” instructions can’t be dismissed all at once, which is annoying. Just get me to the app and I’ll find out how it works!

This app is a breeding ground for eating disorders.

I’m super disappointed to find rotating ads in the main UI of the app. 1. This is distracting and makes the UI look bad. 2. These ads use privacy invading trackers inside the app that sends your information back to the ad provider. I used to use this app, now I’ll be using LoseIt Try launching a free, reduced-feature, ad-free version and you’ll see increased traffic in your app.

I’m tired of the clunky controls and the constant errors when I scan barcodes. Really not seeing the value in a sub anymore. This is not worth $74/year. Please add a prompt if someone swipes down to cancel creating a recipe. It is so easy to accidentally swipe down instead of hitting the arrow thinking that will cancel adding an ingredient and instead it cancels the recipe and all of your progress is lost. The app should ask you whether you want to cancel creating a recipe before it just erases it. Also, I should be able to submit fixes for wrong information or add new foods while creating a recipe without needing to exit out and start over. Also, about a quarter to half of the things I scan lately are wrong. It makes the barcode scanner pretty useless if you need to take the time to submit a correction to all of the nutritional information anyway. I don’t know if this is a Canada vs US problem or what but in some cases it’s not even the same product at all. Also, why on earth can I not update the incorrect serving size while I am updating the rest of the incorrect nutritional information? It’s ridiculous. I feel like this app just keeps adding new features but ignores all of the problems with their existing features. You are known for having an extensive database of foods that can be scanned easily. Please take the time to quality control that database or it doesn’t matter how many foods it has in it.

I like this app. but you know what i have? anorexia. in fact a lot or probably even most of the people who use this app or apps like it have an eating disorder of some sort. so to all healthy people thinking about getting this app just don’t you don’t need to count calories and your beautiful just the way you are. to everyone else who already has it delete the app it isn’t helpful and if you have an eating disorder please seek help. so yeah wether the creators of this app intended for it to promote or aid eating disorders does not matter what matters is that it does.

Since the last update to the app, it’s become really slow to respond. Takes forever to log stuff. Not happy.

Since last update the app keeps asking authorization for "precise location-based content". There's no option to refuse, just "accept" or "remind me later". I'm a premium user and don't want any location based content. Rating 1 star until I get an option to disable / refuse personalized content.

LAZY company. Moving standard features to premium instead of coming up with new ideas. Will be deleting because of the barcode scanner.

All this app did was make me analyze everything I ate. For weeks I was obsessed and then Deeper and deeper into depression I fell, deeper and deeper into hating myself, my body, and what I put in it. Constantly starving myself, questioning my portions. The Worst experience. Just be you and love yourself. Oh and have a burger once in a while!

1. The app asks to login frequently and not clear what triggers that. 2. The ads repels users and do not make them pay. Probably some other policy is better such as removing some options like logging water and posting to community. 3. The font is too small it would be good to add an option in settings to allow users choose a bigger size.

Much less user friendly. Less information, not as easy to navigate. Preferred the older version.

Like the app for tracking and recently re-downloaded. Went to sign up again and not only is selecting a gender mandatory, there’s no gender neutral option. Last time I checked, the nutritional breakdown of food is the same no matter who’s eating it. I want to continue to use this app, but I need a gender neutral option.

The new update is absolutely terrible. The interface is awful, its harder to use

The user interface is counterintuitive, it takes multiple clicks/taps to get to essential information - namely, calories and macros for each meal and day. I don’t want a snapshot and then tap to see more. I just want the food diary. No social network. No nutrition plan I have to subscribe to. I absolutely hate the new MFP, especially the pricing. You have made a functional app complete garbage. I will be cancelling my subscription after being a loyal user for over 10 years. If anyone has an app recommendation similar to the old MFP let me know! I am switching as soon as possible.

I cant see everything on one screen like before, its just a bs summary of each meal and I have to click around like a crazy person to see and log. TRASHHH

I’ve had this app for years and it used to be super helpful. Ever since the update, it takes at least twice as long to do things. I can no longer easily swipe between the days. You can’t easily see all your logs for the day. It just says “lunch was xyz plus 2 more” so if I want to see what it was I have to click on the meals and scroll rather than it just being visible in the first place. It’s hard to tell which day I’m on because if I tap the black checkmarks to change days they are so small and all look the same so I have to pay very close attention to what day I’m clicking on. Plus, the feature where it shows what you ate vs burned off is a weird design and confuses me. Rather than just simply adjusting the original calorie target, it adjusts the entire number of what your target started with. Features are difficult to find and the data is structured weird so it’s hard to interpret. If the only version doesn’t come back soon I’m going to probably find a different app. Not sure why they would do this when the old version worked better and everyone hates the new update