Is MyFitnessPal Premium Worth It? Price, Features and a 30-Day Test

MyFitnessPal Premium is worth paying for if you use the features it locks, mainly the barcode scanner, Meal Scan, macro goals in grams and ad-free logging, and if you log for enough days to spread the price. The US App Store lists Premium at $19.99 a month or $79.99 a year (as listed on the US App Store, checked October 2026). A yearly plan used for 90 logged days costs $0.89 per logged day. Used for 360 days, it costs $0.22.

Key takeaways

• Premium is $19.99 a month or $79.99 a year in the US. Premium+ prices come from a third-party review only.
• Barcode Scanner, Meal Scan, macros by gram, data export and no ads are Premium. Logging, percentage goals and a printable report are free.
• Cost per logged day is price divided by days you log. The yearly plan has the lower total past 4 monthly payments (4 x $19.99 = $79.96).
• Two small studies found gaps between MyFitnessPal entries and national food tables. Neither compared free with Premium.
• Test free for 14 days, then use the free trial (7 days on the Premium page we opened outside the US), before you pay.

Is MyFitnessPal Premium worth it? The short answer

It depends on three things you can check before you pay.

1. Do you use the paywalled features? MyFitnessPal's help center puts Barcode Scanner, Meal Scan, Voice Log, macros by gram, different goals by day, data export, food analysis and ad-free logging in Premium.
2. Will you log long enough? A subscription is a bet on logging days. The price per logged day falls the longer you keep going.
3. How much do you rely on crowd-sourced entries? We found no source saying Premium changes the food database.

Price range, as listed on the US App Store, checked October 2026: $19.99 a month or $79.99 a year. We do not claim Premium is or is not worth it for everyone.

What does MyFitnessPal Premium cost?

MyFitnessPal's help center says pricing varies by country and plan length. The US figures below come from the US App Store listing, opened on 2026-10-16.

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We could not find the Premium+ prices on MyFitnessPal's own pages. Its help center says Premium+ is sold in six countries, including the US, and adds meal planning and grocery tools to Premium.

The US App Store listing also shows in-app purchases at $9.99 and $49.99 under similar names (Premium, Monthly Premium, Yearly Premium) with no description. We cannot tell which plan they belong to, so we do not use them.

Arithmetic from the Premium prices:

• Twelve monthly payments: 12 x 19.99 = 239.88.
• The yearly plan is 79.99 / 239.88 = 33.3% of that, a difference of 239.88 - 79.99 = 159.89.
• Four monthly payments: 4 x 19.99 = 79.96, three cents under the yearly price. Past four months, the yearly plan has the lower total.

What does Premium cost per logged day?

The price on the screen is not the cost of use. The cost of use is the price divided by the days you actually log.

cost per logged day = amount paid / days logged

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How each column is built, from the US prices read on 2026-10-16:

• Yearly plan: 79.99 / days logged. At 90 days, 79.99 / 90 = 0.89.
• Monthly, kept 12 months: 239.88 / days logged, what happens if you forget to cancel.
• Monthly, stopped: you cancel when you stop and log every day. 19.99 / 30 = 0.67, the same at any length.

The yearly plan and monthly-then-stop meet at about 120 days: 79.99 / (19.99 / 30) = 120.05. If you log only some days, the monthly figure rises: 20 logged days in a 30-day month is 19.99 / 20 = 1.00 per logged day.

How long do people keep logging?

The yearly plan wins only if you keep going. Two studies speak to effort and habit, though neither measured Premium.

• Harvey et al. (Obesity, 2019) followed 142 people in a 24-week online weight-control program with a web-based food journal. Logging time fell from 23.2 minutes a day in month 1 to 14.6 in month 6 (full text on PubMed Central).
• Cordeiro et al. (CHI 2015) surveyed 141 current and lapsed food journalers and read 5,526 forum posts about three food apps. They report three challenges: barriers to reliable food entry, "negative nudges" from current techniques, and difficulties with social features (full text on PubMed Central).

These are program participants and survey respondents, not a sample of MyFitnessPal users. They do not predict your habit, and neither says how many people stop.

What does Premium add over the free plan?

The table follows MyFitnessPal's help center comparison, features page and export page.

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As of 2026-10-16, US. The help comparison page was updated on 2026-10-15. Three points the table hides:

• Macro goals are partly free. Free accounts can set calorie and macro goals by percentage. Premium adds goals in grams and different goals by day. An earlier version of this article listed custom macro goals as Premium without that split.
• Some features are limited by platform. The features page says Meal Scan is for iOS and Android and English users, and Net Carbs is for iOS and Android in the US and Canada.
• Barcode scanning moved behind the paywall in 2022. Droid Life reported on 2022-08-24 an email from MyFitnessPal saying: "Beginning October 1, Barcode Scan will be available only with a Premium subscription" (Droid Life). The current help comparison still lists it under Premium.

Does Premium fix the food database?

We found no MyFitnessPal source saying Premium changes the food database. The database is partly user-contributed, and two small studies measured what that means for logged totals.

Evenepoel et al., JMIR 2020: Belgium

Fifty adults each kept two 4-day records in MyFitnessPal about a month apart. The authors compared the app's database with Nubel, the Belgian food composition database. On the cleaned second record, energy averaged 1,984 kcal in MyFitnessPal against 1,958 in Nubel (+1.3%, not significant). Carbohydrate (-6.4%) and protein (-7.8%) means were significantly lower in the app; fat was -1.7%. Correlations were 0.96 for energy and 0.90 for the three macronutrients. Cleaning removed 2.8% of food items (full text on PubMed Central).

The authors list limits: participants had a detailed manual and pre-registered generic items, were likely more health-motivated than typical users, and portion estimation was not evaluated separately. Results are group averages over four days, not one person's day.

Banal et al., BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health 2024: Philippines

Thirty-seven adults with obesity in Manila (mean age 23.9) logged five days. The authors compared the app with the Philippine Food Composition Tables (FCT). Mean energy was 1,702.1 kcal in the app and 1,848.1 in the FCT. They concluded "poor construct validity and poor relative validity" in this group. The app lacked some Filipino foods, and the FCT lacked many packaged foods participants ate (full text on PubMed Central).

The paper reports differences in kcal and grams. We computed percentages from its means as (MyFitnessPal - FCT) / FCT:

• Energy: (1702.1 - 1848.1) / 1848.1 = -7.9%
• Carbohydrate: (215.6 - 236.9) / 236.9 = -9.0%
• Fat: (54.5 - 72.5) / 72.5 = -24.8%
• Protein: (76.9 - 61.5) / 61.5 = +25.0%

The signs match the authors' statement that the app underestimated energy, carbohydrate and fat and overestimated protein.

What to take from them

The studies differ in size. Energy in Belgium sat within 1.3% of the reference; in the Philippines it was 7.9% lower, and fat and protein gaps were about a quarter of the reference. Samples are small, each is one country, reference tables differ, and neither compared free with paid accounts. Do not treat either as a rate for all entries. Cordeiro et al. list barriers to reliable food entry among the challenges users report.

To check a food you log often, compare its entry with its USDA record, for example white rice. The methodology page explains how reference values work.

What does the research say about logging?

We describe two papers and draw no advice from them.

• Burke, Wang and Sevick (J Am Diet Assoc, 2011) reviewed 22 studies of self-monitoring in weight loss, covering diet, exercise and self-weighing. It found a significant association between self-monitoring and weight loss consistently, across 15 dietary studies among the 22. The authors rated the level of evidence as weak because of methodological limits, such as samples that were mostly White and mostly women (full text on PubMed Central).
• Harvey et al. (Obesity, 2019) compared 24-week participants by how much weight they had lost. Those who lost 5% or more of baseline weight logged into the journal 2.4 times a day in month 6, against 1.6 for those below 5%. For 10%, it was 2.7 against 1.7. The sample was 90.8% female and in a clinical trial.

Both are associations. Neither tested a paid tier or a specific app, so the research cannot tell you whether paying changes how often you log.

How do the free trial and cancellation work?

MyFitnessPal's Premium page, which loaded for a non-US region, offers a 7-day free trial to accounts that never upgraded or started a trial. It says charging "will take place at the end of your trial unless you cancel before then" and that the subscription auto-renews. The US App Store listing mentions a free Premium trial without a length. We could not confirm the length for standard Premium on a US page. The help article for Premium+, sold in the US, says "Start your 7-day Free Trial".

Cancellation depends on where you paid. MyFitnessPal's help center says:

• You must cancel on the platform you paid on. Only Apple handles cancellation or refund requests for App Store subscriptions.
• On iPhone: Settings, tap your name, Subscriptions, MyFitnessPal, Cancel Subscription.
• On Android: Play Store, profile icon, Payments and subscriptions, Subscriptions, your MyFitnessPal subscription, Cancel Subscription.
• On the website: Settings, Subscription Settings, then set the Auto-Renewal toggle from On to Off.
• If you cancel less than 24 hours before the renewal, the subscription may still renew.
• Premium features remain until the end of the paid period. Your logs and history stay in your account.

Apple's page says to cancel at least 24 hours before a trial ends. Google Play's help says you keep the subscription for the time already paid. Sources: MyFitnessPal help, cancel renewal, Apple Support and Google Play Help. Steps can change, so check the live pages.

Does the price change by country?

Yes. MyFitnessPal's help center says "Pricing varies by country and by plan length." Its Premium page loaded for us in Vietnamese dong on 2026-10-16:

• Annual plan: ₫1,119,000 a year, which the page describes as "57% savings over the Monthly Plan".
• Monthly plan: ₫219,000 a month.

Check on the page's own claim: 12 x 219,000 = 2,628,000 and 1,119,000 / 2,628,000 = 42.6%, so the yearly price is 57.4% under twelve monthly payments. In the US the same arithmetic gives 79.99 / 239.88 = 33.3%, so the yearly plan is 66.7% under twelve monthly payments. We did not convert dong to dollars. Amounts and the monthly-to-yearly gap both differ by country, so run the cost-per-day table with the prices on your own store screen.

Who benefits from Premium, and who may not?

This table lists situations, not verdicts. Cells say what the plans include.

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For a comparison of other apps, see MyFitnessPal alternatives. If you plan to leave at some point, read how exporting your food log works. The short version from MyFitnessPal's help center: Data Export is available to Premium and Premium+ subscribers, and free accounts can print a report or share their diary.

How can you test Premium before paying?

Two weeks free, then the free trial.

1. Days 1 to 14, free plan. Log every meal. Each evening, write down the minutes spent and the days logged so far.
2. Keep a limit list. Note each limit you hit: a barcode you could not scan, a goal in grams you could not set, an ad in the way.
3. Day 15, start the trial. Set a reminder to cancel at least 24 hours before it ends, as Apple's page advises.
4. Days 15 onward, for the length of the trial your store shows. Log the same way. Record minutes per day and which Premium features you opened unprompted.
5. Compare and price it. Compare time, days logged and the limit list. Project a year from your logging rate and read the cost-per-day table.

Is an AI chat another route?

Some people estimate meals by describing them to an AI chat, then keep the record elsewhere. Remembite is built for that second job. Your AI does the math. Remembite keeps the record: it stores each meal, charts it, and does not save a number that falls far from the USDA-based reference for foods it can confidently match, but sends a question back so your AI can ask you. Claude and ChatGPT (beta, via developer mode) can connect to Remembite today. Remembite's feature list does not include a barcode scanner or device sync. Read AI food logging explained and MyFitnessPal alternatives for more.

FAQ

Is there a free trial for MyFitnessPal Premium?

The Premium page, loaded for a non-US region, offers 7 days to accounts that never started a trial. The US App Store listing gives no length. We could not confirm it for standard Premium on a US page.

Can I cancel MyFitnessPal Premium anytime?

MyFitnessPal's help center says you can cancel before the next renewal date, on the platform where you paid. Cancelling less than 24 hours before renewal may not stop that charge.

Is the free version enough?

That depends on which features you use. Free includes logging, goals by percentage and a printable report. We do not claim either plan is enough for everyone.

Does Premium make entries more reliable?

We could not confirm that. We found no MyFitnessPal source saying Premium changes the food database, and the two database studies above did not compare free and paid accounts.

Can I export my data without Premium?

Not with the export tool. MyFitnessPal's help center says Data Export is available to Premium and Premium+ subscribers. Free users can print a report or share their diary with a trainer, doctor or nutritionist.

See the demo dashboard

Open the sample dashboard to see Today, History and My foods with sample data. Remembite is free to start. Any paid plan will be announced here before it begins. To try the Claude connector, create a free account. For the research behind AI estimates, see can ChatGPT or Claude track calories.

Remembite publishes this article and makes a product in this area, so we are not a neutral party. Remembite is not affiliated with MyFitnessPal. Remembite is not affiliated with Apple, Google, Anthropic or OpenAI.

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