Calorie Counter: MyFitnessPal is an Editors’ Choice app on Google Play. Astoundingly, the app has helped its users lose over 200 million pounds in weight. That’s the weight equivalent of a small city inhabited exclusively by average-sized American men (190 lbs).
The app also says that 88% of users who track their weight for at least seven days lose weight using MyFitnessPal.
But it is not just MyFitnessPal blowing its own trumpet. The app has been the Number One Health and Fitness app for four years straight and rated as the top diet app by Consumer Reports. Even PC Magazine got in on the act ranking the app an Editor’s Choice Selection.
Consequently, the app has picked up a lot of influential media coverage in such august publications as the New York Times, USA Today, Wired, Marie Claire, NBC, CNET, and even the Wall Street Journal.
The enormous appeal of MyFitnessPal is its holistic approach to weight loss. It lets you track your food, eat healthily, set weight loss goals, and log your exercise and walking. And it connects up with all the leading fitness apps and devices such as Fitbit, Strava, Misfit, Garmin, Runkeeper, Jawbone UP, etc.
Largest food database around
Barcode scanner
Nutrition information about your favorite recipes
Restaurant menu logging
Healthy food advice
Calorie counter
The big kicker with MyFitnessPal is that the free version is severely malnourished compared to the subscription package.
With the free service, all you are getting is the Nutrition Tracker to log your food intake via the app’s extensive database.
To unlock all the other tools, you need to take out the subscription package, which works out at $9.99 billed monthly or $49.99 if you opt for the annual deal. However, you can try both options on a month’s free trial.
The Premium memberships let you access all the app’s features, including meal plans and recipes and personalized guidance and coaching to help you reach your weight loss goal. Plus, you won’t have to put up with ads.
Predictably, perhaps, MyFitnessPal says users are 65% more likely to lose weight when they take out a subscription package.
Since fast food will be off the menu anyway, you may well be saving your monthly subscription in any case. The $9.99 per month subscription costs less than two Big Mac meals.
It makes losing weight and staying healthy a lot easier
Syncs with over 50 exercise and fitness apps
Great way to keep track of your food intake
Multi-language support
Advanced fitness enthusiasts are likely to be disappointed
The free version is underwhelming
The MyFitnessPal app is downloadable from Google Play and Apple’s App Store.
The Android app’s requirements vary by device. Google Play users are fans, giving the app a solid 4.4 out of five.
Meanwhile, the version for iOS needs 143 MB of storage and iOS 13.0 or later. They are big fans, too, awarding MyFitnessPal on iOS 4.7 out of five.
