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3.9 · 1 review

MyFitnessPal is one of the most comprehensive nutrition tracking and fitness apps available, with a food database of over 14 million items. Founded in 2005 by Albert Lee and Mike Lee, the app was acquired by Under Armour in 2015 and later sold to Francisco Partners in 2020. MyFitnessPal has been downloaded over 200 million times and helps users track their daily calorie intake, macronutrients (protein, carbs, fat), and micronutrients. The app features a barcode scanner for quickly logging packaged foods, recipe import from URLs, meal planning, and custom food creation. Users set personal goals for weight loss, maintenance, or muscle gain, and the app calculates daily calorie and macro targets. Integration with fitness trackers and apps like Apple Health, Google Fit, Garmin, and Fitbit allows automatic exercise logging. Premium features include food analysis, nutrient timing, advanced macro tracking, and an ad-free experience.

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MyFitnessPal's greatest asset is its food database -- with over 14 million items and barcode scanning, logging meals is faster and more convenient than any competitor. The sheer breadth of foods, including restaurant items and brand-specific products, makes it practical for daily use in a way that apps with smaller databases cannot match. Macro and calorie tracking against personalized goals works well, and integration with fitness trackers from Garmin, Fitbit, Apple Health, and others provides a comprehensive picture of calories in versus calories out. Recipe import from URLs is a genuinely useful feature. However, the user-submitted food database can contain inaccurate entries, and the premium pricing feels steep for features that were previously free. As a fitness app, MyFitnessPal tracks exercise calories but does not provide workout programming. Health tracking is nutrition-centric rather than holistic. The multiple ownership changes have introduced some instability and feature churn. For calorie counting and macro tracking specifically, MyFitnessPal's database scale makes it the practical default.