Calorie & Nutrition Trackers · sentiment profile
MyFitnessPal
The long-running calorie tracker with an enormous crowd-built food database; public sentiment is broadly warm on habit and breadth but increasingly sour on how much has moved behind the Premium paywall.
Sentiment by aspect
One row per aspect. The dot is our reading of how the public conversation leans — positive, mixed, negative — never a number. Each sentence is paraphrased in our words from the linked source.
Because the database is crowd-sourced, posters in r/caloriecounting and r/loseit warn each other that many entries are duplicated, mislabelled or simply wrong, so the running advice is to verify a food the first time and build your own trusted favourites rather than tapping the top result. The ceiling for accuracy is high once you curate, but the default experience leans on the user to catch bad data, which is why this aspect reads as divided. Paraphrased · our words, not a quote
r/caloriecounting →Long-time users in written App Store reviews say that once their recents and meal templates are set up, day-to-day logging is fast and second nature. Newer reviewers and r/MyFitnessPal posters push back that the interface feels cluttered with prompts and upsells, and that having the barcode scanner gated behind Premium slows down the single quickest way to add a packaged food — so speed depends heavily on tenure and whether you pay. Paraphrased · our words, not a quote
App Store reviews →The size of the catalogue is the feature people credit most: across r/loseit and written reviews, users say that obscure brands, restaurant items and international foods are far more likely to already exist here than in rival apps. The same crowd-sourcing that creates the duplicate-and-error problem is also what makes the breadth hard to match, and on coverage alone sentiment leans clearly favourable. Paraphrased · our words, not a quote
r/loseit →This is the loudest complaint across every source we read. Written App Store reviews and r/MyFitnessPal threads return repeatedly to the barcode scanner being moved behind Premium, and longtime users describe a pattern of features they once used for free migrating to the paid tier. Many say the free version now feels deliberately thinned out, and sentiment on price and the free tier leans firmly critical. Paraphrased · our words, not a quote
r/MyFitnessPal →In r/loseit the app is frequently named as the one people stuck with across long weight-loss stretches, with multi-year streaks cited as evidence that the logging habit became routine. The familiarity of an interface someone has used for years is itself part of why they keep going, and on whether people manage to sustain tracking with it, sentiment reads favourable. Paraphrased · our words, not a quote
r/loseit →Users value the cross-device setup — phone plus a genuine web interface — and integrations with fitness wearables and apps come up as a real plus in written reviews. Offsetting that, r/MyFitnessPal carries recurring reports of sync hiccups after updates and frustration at slow or templated responses from support, so the picture is genuinely split rather than settled either way. Paraphrased · our words, not a quote
r/MyFitnessPal →What users praise
Short, sourced highlight themes — paraphrased, never quoted.
Largest food database
The most consistent point of praise across reviews and r/loseit is the sheer breadth of the catalogue — obscure, regional and restaurant foods are usually already in it.
r/loseit →Long-haul tracking habit
Users frequently credit it as the app they kept logging in for years, with multi-year streaks cited as proof the routine stuck.
App Store reviews →Real cross-platform setup
The phone-plus-web combination and wearable integrations are repeatedly called out as conveniences rivals do not all offer.
App Store reviews →What users criticise
Every profile carries real, sourced criticisms — favourites included. This block is never empty.
Barcode scanner behind Premium
The single most repeated grievance: a feature many remember as free now requires a paid subscription, and reviewers describe it as the moment their goodwill toward the app turned.
r/MyFitnessPal →Creeping paywall
Beyond the scanner, longtime users describe an ongoing pattern of once-free features migrating to Premium and a free tier that feels increasingly stripped back.
App Store reviews →Unreliable crowd-sourced entries
The user-built database contains many duplicate and inaccurate foods, so people in r/caloriecounting caution that top search results need checking before you trust the numbers.
r/caloriecounting →Synthesis
A neutral read of the whole picture. No verdict, no score, no ranking.
Across written App Store reviews and the main food-logging communities, MyFitnessPal draws strong praise for breadth and habit alongside sharpening frustration over its paywall. Its crowd-built database is the one users name as the broadest in the category, and many credit it as the app they sustained a tracking habit with over years — sentiment on food coverage and on long-haul adherence leans favourable. The same crowd-sourcing fuels persistent accuracy complaints, logging speed depends on tenure and on whether you pay, and sync and support draw mixed reports. The dominant negative thread, raised in nearly every source, is value: the barcode scanner moving behind Premium and a broader sense that once-free features keep migrating to the paid tier. Its 4.71 App Store rating sits alongside that mix rather than settling it. This profile does not rank MyFitnessPal against other apps and assigns no score.
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Ratings as of May 2026 · Sentiment last reviewed May 30, 2026
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