What MyFitnessPal Premium costs, and where coaching comes in

MyFitnessPal is a food diary with a free version and a paid tier called Premium, and a third tier, Premium+, adds meal planning. Its help centre says prices vary by country and by the length of the plan, so what Premium costs is quoted here from two places. The euro prices come from its listing on the Irish App Store, and the sterling prices from its Premium page, which showed sterling when we read it. The rest of the MyFitnessPal facts come from its help centre and its terms of service, and the sources at the foot of the page carry the date each one was read.

What MyFitnessPal Premium costs

On the Irish App Store, the euro prices belong to purchases named Monthly Premium and Yearly Premium. The listing has ten in-app purchases, from €9.99 to €79.99, among them an Annual Premium purchase at €79.99 and two named only MyFitnessPal Premium, at €9.99 and €49.99, and it gives no sign of which prices are introductory. On Google Play, the Irish listing puts MyFitnessPal's in-app purchases at €1.09 to €124.99 per item when they are billed through the store.

MyFitnessPal's Premium page quoted £15.99 a month and £64.99 a year, and it says the monthly plan has the same features as the yearly one, paid a month at a time. One Premium subscription covers the iPhone app, the Android app and the website. Premium+ is sold in the US, the UK, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia, and you choose it monthly or yearly, when you set up meal planning in the app, which has a 7-day free trial, or on the website once you are logged in. The pages this article draws on give no price for Premium+.

What the free version includes

The free version needs only an account, and it is free on iPhone and Android, and on the website. MyFitnessPal's Premium page lists tracking for your food, your weight and your exercise as free, and its help centre adds measurements and your past progress, your own foods, meals and recipes, a view of your macros, diary sharing and partner apps. You can add recipes by typing them in, from a web address or by importing several at once, and set macro goals as percentages, in steps of five. You can print a report on the website only, and there are community forums to join.

The app sets you a daily net calorie goal from your fitness profile and shows how many calories you have left for the day as you log your meals and exercise. It recommends weighing in about once a week, and each new weight you log adjusts your calorie goal to it. MyFitnessPal connects to more than 35 apps and fitness devices, among them Apple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin, Samsung Health, Google Fit, Health Connect and smart scales, which bring in your steps, calories burned, weight and sleep. With a fitness tracker connected, the app adds calories to your day when the tracker expects you to burn more than MyFitnessPal's own estimate, and taking calories away when the tracker expects you to burn less is a setting you switch on.

What Premium adds

The Premium page lists what it adds to the free app as barcode and meal scanning, voice logging, macro tracking with goals of your own, logging without ads, intermittent fasting, and insights into your food with comparisons. With Voice Log, you describe a meal out loud and log it with one tap. Barcode Scan and Meal Scan identify a barcode or a food through your phone's camera, and Meal Scan is for English-language users, on iPhone and Android. Multi-day logging lets you log the same food on up to 7 days at once. For macros, Premium lets you set macro goals in grams or as percentages, give each day of the week its own goals, quick-log the carbs, fat, protein and calories of a meal, and follow your progress on the dashboard. The help centre also lists calorie and macro goals for each meal, timestamps on the foods you log, daily digests, exercise calorie settings, a home-screen dashboard, workout routines, a data export and priority support among Premium's features.

Premium also brings Nutrition Coach, an AI nutrition assistant for Premium and Premium+ members, on iPhone and in English, in the US, the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and still rolling out. It works from your diary for today and the last couple of weeks, your calorie and macro goals, your saved meals and recipes, MyFitnessPal's food database and recipes, and your steps. It cannot log food for you or see your weight history yet, and it cannot edit your goals, which you change yourself in the Goals section of the settings. MyFitnessPal says it answers questions on nutrition and MyFitnessPal only, and that its answers are AI-generated, can contain mistakes and are general information, not medical advice.

Premium+ adds a meal plan builder, a meal prep mode, diet preferences, grocery lists and shopping services. It has more than 1,500 recipes, logging straight from your plan, and plans shaped around your budget and your time, and its features are only in the iPhone and Android apps.

Logging on your own, or with a coach

With MyFitnessPal, you keep the diary and you act on what it shows. Each new weight you log adjusts your calorie goal, and when you want to change your goals, you do it yourself in the settings, since Nutrition Coach cannot edit them. That works for as long as you know what to change when the numbers stall.

A coach earns their place when you are no longer sure what to change, or when your training and your food need to move together. At TriageFit, the weekly check-in puts the food you logged beside the sessions your programme set, your macros are adjusted from it, and a real coach reads it.

The trial, cancelling and refunds

Premium begins with a 7-day free trial, open to anyone who has not had Premium or a Premium trial before, and the first charge comes when the trial ends, unless you cancel before then. MyFitnessPal's terms say a free trial may need a payment method, nothing is charged until it ends, and a trial you cancel cannot be restarted. After that, Premium renews automatically and is charged monthly or yearly, and the terms say you are billed at the start of each monthly or yearly period.

You cancel on the platform you paid on. On an iPhone, that is in your iPhone's Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions and MyFitnessPal. On Android it is in the Play Store, under your profile, then Payments and subscriptions and Subscriptions, and on the website it is under Settings and then Subscription Settings, by turning auto-renewal off. You can cancel at any time before the renewal date, though a cancellation in the 24 hours before it may not stop that renewal, and Premium's features stay until the end of the period you paid for. The terms add that deleting your account or the app may not cancel a subscription, and the help centre says going back to the free version keeps your logs, recipes and progress history, and you lose only the paid features.

MyFitnessPal's terms call purchases final and not refundable, except at MyFitnessPal's sole discretion, and an app store's own rules may limit a refund. They also say that someone outside the US may be entitled to a full refund if they change their mind within 14 days of signing up. For a subscription bought on an iPhone, Apple handles every cancellation and refund request.

How TriageFit coaches you

TriageFit puts your food and your training in one account, and a real coach reads your week. Joining starts with an intake that takes about half an hour, which you can save partway and finish later. It covers your goal, your training so far, the equipment you can use, any injury you are working around and the days you are free to train.

From the intake comes a calorie target matched to your metabolism, with protein spread through your day, and each weekly check-in adjusts your macros. Logging a meal means searching our food database, tapping a recent meal to log it again or logging a saved recipe as a serving, and a food the database lacks goes in by name with its macros.

Your programme runs in phases our coaches designed, each four to six weeks long, one after another for as long as you stay. Its sessions come from 382 exercises matched to your equipment and your level, leaving out any that would aggravate an injury you told us about, and every exercise carries coaching cues, with video for the main lifts.

The check-in comes once a week, on a day you choose. Your logged calories and macros are filled in for you, next to the sessions your programme set, and you score your energy, recovery, motivation, sleep and stress and add a note if you like. You get a reply within seconds, and a real coach reads the check-in as well. If you logged too little that week, your targets stay as they were, and after a long stall you may be offered a diet break at maintenance, which starts only when you confirm it.

The AI coach is there at any hour. On a hard day it can shorten a session, swap an exercise or move a session to another day, and it can set your protein and fat to the grams you choose with your calories left alone, changing nothing until you say yes. A coach reviews any set you film, and the group has coaches in it, with questions answered in the open and challenges to join.

The body page shows your weight next to your waist, hip and chest measurements and your progress photos, with the trend across the weeks ahead of any one weigh-in. Data from an Apple Watch, a Garmin, a Whoop, an Oura ring or a Fitbit comes in as an export you upload, and your recovery readings set how hard your sessions ask you to work. TriageFit runs in the browser on your phone or your computer.

From a free food diary to a coached programme

A nurse in Galway has logged every meal in MyFitnessPal's free version for two years, and now wants a programme built around their shifts, with a coach reading their week. They join TriageFit, and in the intake they put down the full gym near the hospital, a lower back that tightens after a long shift, and Tuesday, Friday and Sunday as the days they can train.

Their programme sets a session on each of those days, using the gym's equipment and leaving out the exercises that would aggravate their back. In the first week they search the food database for the yoghurt and granola they eat before a shift, and after that a tap on their recent meals logs it again. The lentil soup they make in a big pot goes in as a recipe, so a bowl logs as a serving, and the chicken wrap from the hospital shop, which the database does not hold, goes in by name with the macros from its label. When a swapped shift lands on a Friday, they ask the AI coach to move that session to the Saturday, and it moves once they confirm it. In the third week they film a set of goblet squats, and a coach reviews it.

Their check-in falls on a Monday. The week's calories and macros are already there beside the three sessions their programme set, and after two night shifts they rate their sleep and recovery low and say so in the note. The reply comes back within seconds, and a coach reads the check-in too. They wear an Apple Watch, so they export its data and upload it, and their recovery readings adjust how hard the sessions ask them to work. On the body page, their waist measurement sits beside their weight, with the trend over the weeks shown first.

What TriageFit costs

In Ireland, TriageFit costs €50 every 4 weeks with VAT included, or €500 for a year, and the block price is more than twice what Premium costs a month on the Irish App Store. In the UK the price is £45 every 4 weeks, and in the US it is $55. The block plan has no contract, so you can stop when you choose, and you can pause for one to three months for an injury, a holiday or a busy stretch.

Which one suits you

MyFitnessPal suits someone who wants to keep their own food diary for free, in an app with more than 20.5 million foods, restaurant dishes among them, and who is happy to pay for Premium's barcode, camera and voice logging. TriageFit suits someone who wants their training built around their equipment, their injuries and the days they have, their food coached alongside it, and a real coach reading each weekly check-in, for €50 every 4 weeks.

How to start

Choose a plan on the pricing page, create your account and pay, and the intake opens. Online nutrition coaching shows how your food targets are set and moved each week, and an AI nutrition coach with real coaches behind it covers what the AI coach answers and what it can change once you confirm it. For the prices of other food apps, what MacroFactor costs covers its nutrition and workout apps, and what Weight Watchers costs sets out its plans.