Reviews for MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter

Simple to use, tracks food if you manually enter it. But now, you can't scan in food with bar codes, so I'm adjusting my rating down. Edit: Another update focused exclusively on making the app WORSE, so I'm removing yet another star. It forced me to log in, which deleted all of my weigh ins, recipes, foods, and goals. Also there's now full screen ads you have to wait to finish when you use the app. Why aren't any updates focused on making the app better?

Kind of sucks tbh. I can't edit anything. There is no way to change an entry if you make a mistake. I logged dinner after midnight and the app posted this dinner to the next evening instead of the dinner earlier in the day. There is no way to change or fix this. I'm giving this app until the end of the week then I am deleting it. I need it to work around my schedule. Update: Email sent but it's not a bug. It's poor design. Update: I can't add my fitness tracker either.

UPDATE: I had to take this down to 3 stars now because as of how this app has become BOMBARDED with ads AND you can no longer scan barcodes without paying for the premium version of the app which also, by the way, removes the ads. How convenient! Otherwise it's a good app for tracking your food entries and viewing your nutritional intake. Those ads are very annoying though. If the cost wasn't so high I would consider purchasing just to remove them.

Terrible, terrible design. User interface is the most confusing, non-intuitive design imaginable. Also, wildly inconsistent calorie counts for food items. I typed in 1 cup cooked quinoa and saw search results ranging from 120 calories to 225. The search results appeared crowd sourced, so accuracy is dubious. People just write in their opinions, defeats the purpose of counting calories. Stay away from this app.

Update: that's a stupid to add to the notes This sucks that you can't track magnesium for your electrolytes. They don't even have the option to add magnesium when you create a food. Their help site says to create a food and add your supplements there. Hello!!! It's not listed. I mean how hard is it to add it to the list of nutrients. That post was a few years ago and it's still not an option. They have no problem changing the app for the worse. I have premium. I expect to be able to custom add.

App is running worse & worse, day by day. This app used to be the best. I recently installed MFP because I started a serious weight loss goal. At first it was working perfectly. I'm familiar with MFP because I had used it 5 years ago to lose weight & it 100% helped me reach my goal then. Now, the app is VERY unreliable. It never picks up my steps from my fitness watch or other apps like Map My Fitness. It's adding exercises on days I've done zero (couch potato days). Very, very unreliable.

Database is entirely user generated, resulting in completely inaccurate information, incorrect spellings, and just outdated data. On top of that, the barcode scanner is a paid premium feature despite the information being completely wrong more often than not. Additionally, I track my net carbs, and this app has been an absolute nightmare due to sugar alcohols being missing from basically every item's nutrition breakdown. I have never been more displeased spending money on an app.

Good but features keep becoming premium. This morning I went to enter my food, and after I searched and found what I wanted, entered the quantity and went to add it to my diary it wouldn't respond. I've tried closing and reopening the app. uninstalling and reinstalling it. The only thing I can figure is that now the food diary has become a premium feature as well. Very quickly becoming a useless service if you don't want to pay top money for what other apps give for free.

Incredibly hard to update goals, loggs you out every other day, cumbersome to log meals copy or move around meals, and feels like you are constantly being told to buy premium which is out rageous when half of the normal parts dont even work. oh and stupidly hard to log food by grams, which is the most accurate way to log thing is by uaing a digital scale... nutrient info is accurate. that is a plus

Edited Rating to 1-star. App is pretty sub-par these days. Does not sync with my Fitbit app to transfer calories burned and steps. This doesn't work regardless of syncing is done via HealthConnect (updates sporadically and randomly) or directly with Fitbit. The entire platform is becoming useless if it cannot track the most basic and relevant metrics. Disappointing as a paying subscriber. Will cancel if it isn't resolved satisfactorily.

App is consistently getting worse, even for my paid subscription. Now the app is completely shutting down every time I go to add food- which is it's main purpose! Before today I was able to log if I clicked their reminders, which will while inconvenient worked usually, but now even that doesn't work. Don't waste your money (or your time on the free version- so many ads you can't do anything).

I love this app. I have been using just the free version for several years. It is a great aide for mindful nutrition, weight management, and identifying food allergies. The barcode scanner makes tracking foods easy. It tracks nutrients, and pops up alerts if you are getting near or go over your goal limit. Update: I'm using this again after gaining pregnancy weight. It is great still, but I am frustrated that the barcode scanner for the food diary isn't free anymore.

id like to rate this higher. I use it daily for tracking calories, and its great for that. However, its integration is absolutely terrible. I've given it permissions to Samsung health data, I've given it permissions for health connect, it doesn't seem to matter what you do. if you want it to update and show your exercise calories you'll probably have to force close it multiple times. the most frustrating part about it is that if you just go to the web site its usually got the right data.

Update glitch? I've used this app to track my weight for years. I like being able to see my progress over time. Used to present all weight from newest to oldest. With recent update, everything is showing oldest to newest (except for 1 week option). Please fix so all time frames show newest to oldest. It's a pain to have to scroll through 10 years of weight logs to see most recent time frame.

all of a sudden the app has stopped retaining most, if not all of the foods I log. i log foods today and tomorrow there will be no history of it in my recently logged foods. this is so frustrating as I'm having to go back and find barcodes or manually search for every single food I am trying to log for the day. please fix this! this app used to be reliable, now it is giving me nothing but issues.

This used to be a great app, but the most recent update is a major step back. Meals you save and then use on another day used to put the exact foods, so you could easily customize amounts. Now the meal gets added as a single item Search algorithm got a huge downgrade. You used to be able to search by maker and no longer can. Searching Starbucks in my recents doesn't bring up my Starbucks drinks, I now need to type the specific drink

The log in problem has been fixed. I like the app and how it can track stuff even if you're not using the premium version. The only actual critique I can give is if only there was a way to implement measurements in grams for ALL food types. I like the different measurement options but I feel like to be precise and have some sort of credibility, there should always be an option to use grams (or ounces) as a measurement.

What is going on with the app the last few weeks? So many issues out of the blue and it's really annoying. From calculating daily calories wrong (several hundred calories too high) to notifying me to update the app even though there is no update available to showing weight history from oldest to newest (lots of scrolling from 2012 to 2025) to sometimes not showing recently added foods in the history and several other issues is getting really ridiculous. How much longer until everything is fixed?

What Am I paying for, if every time I do a search for something I ate within the last day doesn't show up? This is annoying and time consuming. There really isn't much of an advantage to paying for a premium membership if I have to go through all the extra work to find the foods that I'm commonly eating anyway. Perhaps it's an algorithm change to get people to pay for the premium plus. Regardless, I likely will not be renewing my membership.

While I have been using the app since 2013, the latest update has ruined the functionality of the app. Previously, I could type a brand name into the search and pull up recent items. Now I have to type in a keyword from the item description. Bring back the ability to search by brand! It also deleted all my recent foods and I now have to re-enter them. An update should make the app better, not break previous functionality!