On this platform you will be tracking your food, counting calories, setting up a diet plan, and making an exercise plan to reach your fitness goals. The MyFitnessPal app allows you to focus on your health and wellness.
Features of the app
- Food logging and calorie counter: The main function is to track the food you eat, count the calories and also search in its database. You can also customize recipes for a much more detailed tracking.
- Tracking exercise: It is very useful to be able to record physical activities either by synchronizing with other devices and applications such as Fitbit, Garmin and Apple Health, but you can also upload the data manually. This will give you detailed tracking of your progress so that you can effectively measure caloric burn.
- Meal planning: MyFitnessPalt will help you with day to day planning of your meals. It allows you to set calorie and macronutrient goals, offers you healthy meal suggestions and recipes which are based on your favorite foods.
- Nutrient analysis: The app allows you to make a detailed analysis of which nutrients you are incorporating into your meals. With this feature you can also see breakdowns of macronutrients such as proteins, carbohydrates and fats and micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals, all of which will help you to have a balanced diet.
Security
All data entered into the platform is encrypted in order to protect your personal data.
Accessibility
The app is available for IOS and Android devices, but you can also access it through its web portal, everything is focused yet easy to use for people of all ages and with different levels of experience with technology.
Free version vs. premium version
- Free features: The platform lets you use the basic functions needed to track your exercise and nutrition, including the food database and the physical activity registry.
- Premium features: The paid version offers you advanced options to track goals and meal plans, access to more personalized and complete reports, elimination of ads and also detailed analysis of micro and macronutrients.
Integration with other apps
One of its main strengths is that you can integrate with a variety of fitness apps and devices, including the most common ones such as Apple Health, Google Fit, Garmin, and many more.
Access to a fitness community
It is interesting that there is also an online community where you as a user can share your achievements, get tips, participate in challenges and support each other socially in all kinds of fitness activities. Access to a fitness community is an important source of motivation to maintain a healthy lifestyle over time.
Barcode scanning
Something new and useful is that it has a barcode scanner. This allows you to record food quickly, although sometimes it is not so accurate, it saves you a lot of time. It should be noted that this feature is not available in all countries, so it is important to take this into account before downloading the app.
Conclusions
- In my personal opinion, I found it to be a complete, useful and easy to use platform that helped me to control my health and wellbeing.
- I think it's significant to highlight the tracking functions for tracking both food and exercise because with this you can measure your progress in a much more efficient way.
- Its integration with Apple Health works great, and the paid version has a reasonable price, which makes it accessible to everyone.
- What I didn't like is that the database is so extensive that it's easy to get lost among so many options.
- I also didn't like that the ads are intrusive, however I believe it is good value for money to get a premium account.
