MyFitnessPal is a nutrition tracking app that combines calorie and macronutrient counting, food logging, and intermittent fasting. It claims to have more than 280 million users and 5.5 million five-star reviews.
Key capabilities
- AI nutrition coach: provides personalized suggestions based on the user's food diary and goals, backed by its 20 years of expertise and nutrition data.
- Meal Scan: uses the camera to recognize food on the plate and quickly log calories, macronutrients, and portions.
- Voice Log: say the foods you ate directly, with no need to type or search, and log them after confirmation.
- GLP-1 progress management: log dosage and side effects while tracking nutrition to follow weight management progress.
- Barcode Scan: quickly obtain and log nutrition information for packaged foods (premium feature).
- Food database: contains more than 18 million global foods, covering fresh foods, packaged goods, restaurant dishes, and foods and recipes saved by users themselves.
- Multi-dimensional tracking: in addition to calories, it can also track macronutrients, vitamins, other micronutrients, water intake, weight, exercise, steps, and intermittent fasting.
- Device syncing: can connect with more than 40 apps and fitness devices to sync steps, calories burned, weight, and even sleep, supporting Apple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin, Samsung Health, Google Fit, Health Connect, smart scales, and more.
How to use Users can register for a free account and download the app. Free members can perform simple food searches and log food on the app's main screen. Premium members can use time-saving tools such as barcode scanning and using the phone camera to recognize individual foods. When setting goals, the app asks for height, weight, age, and gender, uses a BMR calculator (based on the Mifflin St. Jeor formula) to estimate basal metabolic rate, and combines it with daily activity level to calculate daily calorie needs, increasing or decreasing calories according to weight goals (about 500 calories per pound of body weight change per week). A BMI calculator is used when setting a safe weight goal, and it does not allow setting a weight goal below a specific ratio.
Use cases Suitable for people who want to log their diet, manage their weight, build muscle, or improve nutrition habits, and it can also be used for weight management alongside GLP-1 medication, intermittent fasting, and comprehensive tracking of health data such as exercise, water intake, and sleep.
Pricing and limitations The free version allows basic food search and logging, and tracks weight, exercise, water intake, and more. The premium version unlocks barcodescanning, intermittent fasting, custom macro goals, and other tools. Users who upgrade for the first time or who have never started a premium trial can enjoy a 7-day free trial. After the trial ends, it automatically renews (monthly or yearly). It can be canceled at least 24 hours before the renewal date; after cancellation, premium features remain available until the end of the current paid period. More specific pricing information is not currently provided.