Is MyFitnessPal free? MyFitnessPal Premium cost in 2026

By BodyPal Team · Published October 13, 2026 · Prices checked October 13, 2026

Real screens from the MyFitnessPal iPhone app, EU App Store, October 13, 2026. US prices below come from MyFitnessPal's own pricing announcement and the US App Store.

MyFitnessPal is free to use, with ads, for as long as you want: manual food and exercise logging, weight and progress tracking, and basic nutrition insights. MyFitnessPal Premium costs $19.99 a month or $79.99 a year in the US, and Premium+ costs $24.99 a month or $99.99 a year (it adds the Meal Planner). The barcode scanner, meal scan and voice logging are all paid features. First-time subscribers get a 7-day free trial. Every number on this page comes from MyFitnessPal's own pages, the App Store listings and the app's paywall, all checked on October 13, 2026.

Want barcode scanning without the $79.99? BodyPal keeps barcode scanning and manual logging free and unlimited, shows your macros on the free plan, has no ads, and adds one AI photo scan every day. Unlimited scans cost $29.99/year or $7.99/month, with no card needed to start.

Full disclosure: BodyPal is our own calorie-tracking app. The MyFitnessPal facts on this page are quoted from MyFitnessPal's published pages and from screens we took inside the app, with dates, so you can verify every one of them. Where MyFitnessPal is the better pick, we say so.

MyFitnessPal cost calculator: what you pay over 1 to 5 years

Drag the slider to see what Premium ($79.99/year or $19.99/month) and Premium+ ($99.99/year) add up to over time, and what the same period costs with BodyPal. All figures are US list prices with no sales applied.

Is MyFitnessPal free? What the free version actually includes

Yes, and the free plan is still the one most of its users are on. MyFitnessPal's own Premium page describes the free tier as "Nutrition & Weight Tracking" and "Exercise Tracking", and the in-app Plans screen lists it as "food and fitness logging, progress tracking, nutrition insights". In practice you get a daily calorie goal, the full food database searched by name, meal-by-meal logging, exercise entries, weight check-ins and the basic progress charts, indefinitely and without a card.

Two things define the free experience in 2026. First, ads: on our free account the Today screen showed a banner ad between the macros card and the meal list, with the line "Get ad-free tracking in Premium, upgrade now" under it. Second, the barcode scanner is not free. MyFitnessPal moved it behind Premium in October 2022, and it has stayed there; the Plans screen lists "Log food faster: barcode and multi-day logging" as a Premium feature. If scanning packages is how you log, the free plan will feel like half an app.

What free users do keep is the thing MyFitnessPal is known for: the largest food database in the category, including millions of user-submitted entries. That breadth is why many people stay on the free tier and simply type the product name instead of scanning it.

How much does MyFitnessPal cost? Premium and Premium+ prices

MyFitnessPal Premium is $19.99 per month or $79.99 per year in the US. Premium+ is $24.99 per month or $99.99 per year. Both renew automatically through the App Store, Google Play or MyFitnessPal's website, and both unlock the same core features; Premium+ adds the Meal Planner. The annual plans are the ones to compare: paid monthly, Premium costs $239.88 a year, three times the annual price.

Sources: MyFitnessPal's announcement "Premium+ Is Here! Find Out Which MyFitnessPal Membership Is Right For You" (blog.myfitnesspal.com) and the US App Store in-app purchase list, both read October 13, 2026.

MyFitnessPal Premium vs Premium+: is the extra $20 worth it?

Premium+ is a bundle: Premium plus the Meal Planner, a tool that builds a week of meals around your calorie and macro targets, swaps dishes you do not like, and writes the grocery list. MyFitnessPal's own description puts the difference at "$1.67 more per month" on the annual plan, which is the $20 gap between $79.99 and $99.99.

• Pick Premium+ if you want the app to decide what you eat, you cook most meals at home, and you will actually follow a weekly plan and shopping list.
• Pick Premium if you already know what you eat and you are paying for the scanner, macros and the ad-free experience. The Meal Planner is the only feature you give up.
• Note on availability: Premium+ is sold in the US; in some countries the app shows a single "Premium" plan only, which is what our EU screenshots show.

MyFitnessPal price by country

Apple and Google price Premium per store country, so the number on your paywall depends on the country of your account, not where you are standing. The US and EU figures below are from MyFitnessPal's pages and the in-app paywall; the UK, Canada and Australia figures are the Premium purchases listed in each country's App Store on October 13, 2026 (for MyFitnessPal the store list matches the paywall: the US list shows exactly $79.99 and $19.99).

The surprise is the euro price: 42,99 € a year is about $47 at October 2026 rates, roughly 40% less than the US annual price, while the UK, Canadian and Australian prices sit close to the US one. This is why "myfitnesspal premium cheapest country" is a real search; the honest answer is that Apple and Google tie the price to the country of your account, and changing that country is not something either store makes easy or intended.

MyFitnessPal free vs Premium: what is locked

The list below combines MyFitnessPal's Premium page, the in-app Plans screen we photographed, and what our free account could and could not do on October 13, 2026.

For most people the decision comes down to one row: the barcode scanner. It is the feature that makes a packaged-food diet loggable in seconds, and MyFitnessPal is one of the few major trackers that charges for it; Cronometer and BodyPal both keep it free, and Lose It! charges for it too.

The 7-day free trial: how it works and how to cancel

MyFitnessPal's Premium page is explicit: "If you've never upgraded to MyFitnessPal Premium or never started a Premium trial before, you are eligible for a 7-day free trial", and "the first Premium subscription charge on your credit card will take place at the end of your trial unless you cancel before then." Three practical consequences:

1. One trial per account, ever. If you tried Premium in 2021 and cancelled, you will be charged from day one this time. Check your subscription history before you tap.
2. The trial converts to the plan you selected. On the "Choose your plan" screen the annual plan is pre-selected ("Save 58%"), so an untouched trial becomes a $79.99 charge, not a $19.99 one. That is the better deal if you stay, and the bigger surprise if you forget.
3. Cancel where you bought it, at least 24 hours before day 7. iPhone: Settings → your name → Subscriptions → MyFitnessPal → Cancel. Android: Google Play → profile → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. Web: myfitnesspal.com → Premium → Subscription Settings → turn off auto-renew. You keep Premium until the period ends.

How MyFitnessPal pricing compares with other calorie apps

At $79.99 a year, MyFitnessPal Premium shares the top of the mainstream calorie-counter price range with Lose It!, and Premium+ at $99.99 is the most expensive plan among the apps below. The chart shows annual list prices in the US App Store; the free tiers differ a lot, so read the notes.

MyFitnessPal, Lose It!, Cronometer, YAZIO, Cal AI and BodyPal prices verified in the US App Store and on the apps' own pricing pages on October 13, 2026. MacroFactor: US list price from our August 2026 comparison; re-check in the store before buying.

MyFitnessPal discounts: does Premium go on sale?

MyFitnessPal does not publish a sale calendar, and the "Choose your plan" screen already presents the annual plan as the discount: "Save 58%" against paying monthly. Beyond that, here is what the searches for "myfitnesspal premium discount", "promo code" and "3 months free" actually lead to:

• The annual plan is the discount. $79.99 a year versus $239.88 paid monthly is the only reduction that is always available, and it is the one the app pushes.
• Trials are limited to first-time users. Offers such as "3 months free" circulate as partner promotions tied to specific devices, employers or insurers; they are not something you can claim from the app itself, and we could not verify any current public code.
• Student, military and family plans: MyFitnessPal does not list a student or military discount, and Premium is tied to one account, so "myfitnesspal premium family sharing" is a no.
• Regional prices differ (42,99 € in the euro-zone store versus $79.99 in the US), which is what the "cheapest country" searches are about. The store sets the price by the country of your account.

Is MyFitnessPal Premium worth $79.99? Who should pay, who should not

Premium makes sense if: you log mostly packaged and branded foods and want the barcode scanner back; you want macros in grams rather than percentages; the ads genuinely bother you; or you already rely on MyFitnessPal's database breadth and its 35+ device integrations and just want the friction removed. For a heavy user of packaged food, the scanner alone saves minutes a day.

Stay on Free if: you cook from whole ingredients and search is fine; you want a calorie number and a weight chart and nothing more; or you can live with a banner ad in the diary. The free tier is still a complete calorie counter with the biggest database in the category.

Think twice if: you are paying mainly for photo or voice logging. MyFitnessPal added meal scan in 2024, but it is a Premium add-on inside a search-first app, and the user-submitted entries it matches against are the top accuracy complaint in its reviews. If scanning is your primary way of logging, an app built around it, with a verified database, is the cheaper and cleaner path.

MyFitnessPal vs BodyPal: the price and free-tier comparison

Since we make BodyPal, here is the comparison as plainly as we can put it. MyFitnessPal has a far larger user base, a bigger food catalogue (including the user-submitted entries that cause its accuracy complaints), community forums, a web version and 35+ device integrations. BodyPal is built around AI photo logging and a verified 3M+ food database, has no ads, and is priced at less than half of MyFitnessPal Premium.

Scan barcodes free, see your macros, no ads: try BodyPal today.

Frequently asked questions

Sources and how we checked

• MyFitnessPal, "Premium+ Is Here! Find Out Which MyFitnessPal Membership Is Right For You": the US prices for Premium ($19.99 / $79.99) and Premium+ ($24.99 / $99.99) and the Meal Planner description.
• MyFitnessPal, Premium page: the 7-day trial conditions and the Premium feature list (barcode and voice log, custom macros, ad-free, intermittent fasting, food insights, multi-day logging, net carbs mode, 35+ integrations). Read October 13, 2026.
• MyFitnessPal on the US App Store: in-app purchase list ($79.99 and $19.99 Premium entries), 2.4M ratings on October 13, 2026; UK, Canada and Australia store pages read the same day.
• Screens taken inside the MyFitnessPal iPhone app on October 13, 2026 (EU App Store): "Choose your plan" (42,99 € / 8,49 €), the Plans feature list, and the free Today dashboard with a banner ad. Shown at the top of this page.
• BodyPal prices and free-plan limits: our own US App Store and Google Play listings, October 13, 2026.

Note: Prices are US list prices unless stated and change by country, device and promotion. We re-check this page quarterly and update the date at the top when anything changes. BodyPal provides general nutrition information, not medical advice.