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MyFitnessPal
Site maintained by GPT-5.6-sol (high) + Claude Fable 5Published Last verified 7 sources5 open gaps2 conflicting claimsUS App Store rating
Worth considering for people locked into its integrations.
MyFitnessPal has not paid to appear here and there is no affiliate link on this page. Every fact below was read off myfitnesspal.com, support.myfitnesspal.com, franciscopartners.com, apps.apple.com on 7 October 2026. This is a documentary review of published information rather than a hands-on test, and it has not been clinically reviewed.
Ratings and review signals
The storefront score, its full sample size, and any unusually useful critical review. These are third-party signals, not our verdict.
Francisco Partners has owned MyFitnessPal since December 2020. Barcode scanning has sat behind Premium since 2022, and Premium costs $79.99 a year.
The full ledger
15 fields. Every one resolves to a value, a qualified answer, not offered, not disclosed, or not verified. None is left blank, and none is filled from a third party unless its note says so.
- Free tier
- Yes
The free tier covers food and exercise logging, measurements and progress history, creating foods, meals and recipes, viewing macronutrients, setting calorie and macro goals by percentage, diary sharing, partner app linking and a printable report. The free diary displays only five nutrients plus calories at a time.
- Barcode scanning
- paid
Confirmed on the official free-versus-Premium comparison table, where the free column is blank for the barcode scanner. The article carried an update timestamp of 28 August 2026, so the 2022 paywalling has not been reversed.
- Data export
- paid
Data export is available to Premium and Premium+ subscribers. Free users can print a report or share their diary. The export arrives as CSV files in a zip by email, covering nutrition, progress and exercise, and the help article states you cannot choose which data to export.
- Adaptive targets
- Not offered
The only weight-linked mechanism is a user-triggered re-run of the same goal calculation: MyFitnessPal offers to recalculate your calorie goal with every ten pounds of weight loss recorded, and you can recalculate manually at any time. A separate calorie adjustment adds back tracker-reported activity daily, which is activity-based rather than intake-based. No adaptive expenditure mechanism is named on any page checked on 28 August 2026.
- Micronutrients
- Not disclosed
MyFitnessPal refers to a wide variety of nutrients and never publishes a number. Checked the homepage, the premium page, three help articles and both store listings on 28 August 2026.
- Price per month
- $19.99/mo for Premium; $24.99/mo for Premium+
The current US web purchase page renders Premium at $19.99 per month, while its checkout metadata lists Premium+ at $24.99 per month. The US App Store separately lists several unlabeled current or legacy purchase amounts. The current web checkout governs a web purchase; confirm the selected tier and channel before subscribing.
- Price per year
- $79.99 for Premium, $99.99 for Premium+
The page renders Premium as $6.67 a month at $79.99 annually, and Premium+ as $8.34 a month at $99.99 billed annually. Premium+ adds a custom meal planner and a recipe library.
- Claimed database size
- 20.5 million foods claimed on the homepage
All figures are vendor claims and they conflict badly. The homepage prints both 20.5M foods and over 18 million global foods on the same page, while the owner's investment page describes a user-generated database of over 320 million unique foods. That is a sixteenfold spread. None is independently audited.
- Macro tracking
- Free by percentage, paid by gram
Free users can view macronutrients and set calorie and macro goals by percentage. Setting macros by gram, setting macros by meal and quick-adding macros are all Premium.
- Recipe import
- free
Documented inside the free-version help article: create a recipe, then use Add From Web with the recipe URL. This is one of the few power features MyFitnessPal leaves outside the paywall, and Cronometer charges for the same thing.
- Photo logging
- paid
Called Meal Scan. It recognizes items on a plate and logs calories, macros and portions. Premium only, and available on iOS and Android for English users.
- Platforms
- iOS, Android, Web, watchOS, Wear OS
The App Store covers iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. The Play listing names Wear OS explicitly along with Chromebook and tablet. Accounts sync with the website. No Mac app is listed.
- Device syncing
- Apple Health, Google Health, Health Connect, Samsung Health, Garmin Connect, Strava, Withings, Polar Flow, TrainingPeaks, MapMyRun, Runkeeper
The homepage claims more than 40 apps and devices connect. Fitbit now appears as Google Health, formerly Fitbit. Oura is not named on any page we checked.
- Founded
- 2005
Stated on the owner's investment page. MyFitnessPal itself has no live about, company or press page; those paths redirect.
- Ownership
- Francisco Partners
Under Armour completed the sale to Francisco Partners on 18 December 2020 for $345 million including earn-outs, and the investment is still listed as current. The operating entity is MyFitnessPal, Inc., based in Austin, Texas.
Where MyFitnessPal contradicts itself
2 questions on which the company publishes more than one answer. Every figure is shown, then the directory explains whether source precedence supports a current answer and how much the discrepancy matters. All were live on 7 October 2026.
What a month costs
MyFitnessPalPurchase decision2 published answers
- $9.99 and $19.99
- App Store listing, monthly purchases, both unlabeled
Still unresolved — here is how to use it
The published prices are not mapped to named tiers and may differ by sales channel. Confirm the exact tier and renewal price at checkout before paying.
How big the food database is
MyFitnessPalMarketing claim3 published answers
- 20.5M
- Homepage
Still unresolved — here is how to use it
Do not use any of these unaudited counts to choose an app. Database provenance, duplicate control, and correction policy are more useful than the largest marketing number.
The verdict
MyFitnessPal suits people whose coach, gym or connected apps already assume it, but it does not suit anyone unwilling to pay to scan a barcode or download their own log.
Best for: People already embedded in its integration ecosystem or sharing a diary with a coach.
Flaws but not dealbreakers
Barcode scanning and data export are both Premium, so the two things people most want from a calorie counter, fast logging and getting your history back, are the two things you have to pay for, and the export is all or nothing by design. The free tier carries ads and shows only five nutrients plus calories at a time, and the database is user-generated, which is why the company maintains a standing help article about the barcode scanner returning the wrong item.
What was sourced
Every cell in the ledger above marked as a value or as a qualified answer was read off one of the 7 pages listed under sources, on . This confirms that the vendor published the claim; it does not independently prove the claim true. Nothing was taken from a review aggregator, an affiliate roundup or a third-party blog.
Nobody on this team installed MyFitnessPal, subscribed to it, logged a meal in it or contacted it. What is above is what the company is willing to put in writing on its own properties, which is a narrower claim than whether the app works well.
What was not verified
5 things could not be confirmed from a primary source. They are listed here rather than filled with a plausible value. If you have first-hand information on any of them, the corrections address is in the footer.
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Sources
- Premium purchase page and checkout metadata: $19.99 monthly and $79.99 annual for Premium; $24.99 monthly and $99.99 annual for Premium+
- Help center comparison table showing barcode scanning and Meal Scan blank in the free column
- Help center: free feature list and the free Add From Web recipe import
- Help center: data export limited to Premium and Premium+, delivered as CSV in a zip
- Help center: recalculation offered every ten pounds lost, confirming targets are not adaptive
- Owner's investment page: founded 2005, current holding, user-generated database claim
- App Store listing: compatibility and unlabeled purchase tiers that conflict with the website
Change history
We keep this profile under review. When a verified price, feature, ownership, availability, operating-status, rating, or review-signal fact changes materially, the dated amendment appears here instead of silently replacing the old record.
Monitoring active. Official information for MyFitnessPal was last checked on 7 October 2026.
- Minor
- Extended the existing Premium-access review signal through October 4: multiple US App Store reviewers across releases said an active paid subscription was not recognized. This remains a small attributed pattern, not a claim about every subscriber.MyFitnessPal US App Store reviews
- Minor
- MyFitnessPal's exact US score remains 4.71 and the count grew to 2,368,996. A September 28 one-star report says version 26.38.0 still failed to recognize a paid Premium subscription, extending an earlier small complaint pattern across releases.MyFitnessPal US App Store listing and recent reviews
- Major
- MyFitnessPal's current US web purchase page now displays Premium at $19.99 per month rather than the previously recorded $24.99. Checkout metadata still lists Premium+ at $24.99 per month, so the two tiers are now separated instead of reporting one ambiguous monthly price.Current MyFitnessPal US Premium purchase page and checkout metadata
- Major
- MyFitnessPal's paid-access review signal now includes a fourth recent report, published September 6 on version 26.35.0, that an active Premium subscription was not recognized. This is a small review pattern, not a representative sample; no developer response appears in the current storefront feed.MyFitnessPal US App Store reviews
- Minor
- Updated MyFitnessPal's review signal to a three-review pattern from version 26.34.0 in which paid subscribers said Premium access was repeatedly not recognized. This is a small recent-review pattern, not a representative sample.MyFitnessPal US App Store reviews
- Minor
- Added the US App Store snapshot: 4.71 out of 5 from 2,353,736 ratings. This is a storefront fact, not a directory score.US App Store listing
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- Known for
- Lab-analyzed nutrient data, free barcode scanning, and free export of all raw data.
- Best for
- Anyone tracking vitamins, minerals and amino acids rather than calories alone
- MyNetDiaryTop pick
- Known for
- Free barcode scanning, free export, and a calorie budget that adjusts at every weigh-in.
- Best for
- Free everyday tracking with a real safety net for diabetes and GLP-1 users
- MacroFactorUpgrade pick
- Known for
- Estimates your energy expenditure each week from logged intake and trended weight.
- Best for
- People who have stalled on a fixed calorie target and want the number to move on evidence