Stop searching for your food. Just say what you ate.
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Almost everybody who tracks macros started here, and most of them eventually stopped. Not because the app is bad, but because logging six items a day by search is a chore nobody sustains for years.
The database is the moat, and it is a real one: the largest in the category by a wide margin, built over more than a decade of users adding the specific yoghurt sold in their specific country. If you eat a lot of packaged food, especially outside the US, MyFitnessPal will have your item when nothing else does. No AI estimate beats a correct label, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
It is also the category default, which matters more than people admit. Your gym friends use it, recipes quote its entries, and every coach knows how to read an export. That gravity is worth something.
Here is the loop MyFitnessPal asks you to run, per item, several times a day: open the app, tap the meal, search, scroll past nine near-matches of varying accuracy, pick one, discover the serving is in cups when you weighed grams, fix it, go back, repeat. It takes maybe forty seconds. Six items a day is four minutes. Four minutes a day for a year is twenty-four hours of your life spent on data entry.
That is the actual reason most people quit tracking, and it is why Fitly starts from a different place. You say "two eggs, sourdough toast with butter, and a flat white" and it is logged, all of it, in one go. Or you photograph the plate. Or you scan the label. The point is not that AI is magic; it is that the unit of work becomes the meal instead of the ingredient.
The second difference is scope. MyFitnessPal tracks exercise as a calorie offset, but it does not write you a training program. Fitly does both, in one context, so your protein target knows about your training day.
| Feature | MyFitnessPal | Fitly AI |
|---|---|---|
| Food database | The largest in the category by a wide margin, widely cited at 14 million-plus entries. Crowd-sourced, so quality varies. | USDA-backed catalogue plus AI estimation for anything not in it. |
| How you log a meal | Search, pick an entry, correct the serving, repeat per item. | Describe it, say it, or photograph it. One step for the whole plate. |
| Barcode scanning | Listed under the paid Premium and Premium+ plans on their own comparison table. | Barcodes and nutrition labels both included on the AI tier. |
| Workouts | Exercise entries for calorie offsets; not a real training programmer. | Full programs written and adapted around your goals, injuries and equipment. |
| Coaching | Content and articles. No agent that reads your actual data. | Conversational guidance with your logs, targets and history in context. |
| Price | A genuine free tier, plus paid Premium and Premium+ plans. Rates differ by country and currency. | $9.99/mo without AI, $24.99/mo with the full agent. No free tier. |
Feature comparison reflects MyFitnessPal as of July 2026. We deliberately do not quote exact MyFitnessPal prices: subscriptions are sold in-app, vary by region and currency, and change without notice. For current pricing see MyFitnessPal's own site. If anything here is out of date, tell us at hello@fitly.chat and we will correct it.
A scanned barcode is more accurate than an AI estimate. That is simply true, and if precision on packaged food is your priority then MyFitnessPal's database is a real advantage. Fitly scans barcodes and nutrition labels too, so for packaged items the gap is smaller than it sounds, but for a rare regional product MyFitnessPal will win.
What we would argue is that a slightly fuzzy estimate you actually record beats a precise number you never enter because you gave up in March. Consistency dominates precision at almost every level below competitive bodybuilding.
You want the cheapest option. MyFitnessPal has a genuine free tier and Fitly does not. If budget is the deciding factor, this is not a close call.
You eat mostly packaged food with barcodes. If your diet is the same twelve labelled products on rotation, the database advantage is real and the AI logging advantage is small.
Your coach or your community lives there. If someone else reads your logs, being in the app they know is worth more than any feature we could list.
Fitly AI is on iOS and the web. Start with a free trial, and if it is not doing the work for you, cancel from inside the app.
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