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MyFitnessPal Combats Higher Food Costs With New Paid Feature

Tim May 6, 2025 10

MyFitnessPal, the same app that placed its best feature behind a paywall, recently introduced a new paid feature. Said to help combat the increasing cost of food, Meal Planner can take your budget, then with the help of machine learning, build you a weekly...

Ditching MyFitnessPal? Here’s a Few Alternatives With Free Barcode Scanners

Tim August 24, 2022 17

MyFitnessPal's news of placing its barcode scanner feature behind a paywall has users looking for alternative apps today. Honestly, that's good. If anything, maybe MFP will notice the issue and reverse its course. Ultimately, that would be ideal, but just in...

MyFitnessPal Puts Barcode Scanner Behind Premium Paywall

Tim August 24, 2022 35

MyFitnessPal, an extremely helpful app for those looking to track calories or count macros, announced this morning to its users that it is placing its fantastic barcode scanner feature behind a paywall beginning October 1. Not cool. Very not cool. The barcode...

MyFitnessPal Informs Users of Data Breach, Usernames and Passwords Compromised

Tim March 30, 2018 7

Yesterday, MyFitnessPal announced a data breach, one that affects its database of usernames, email addresses, and passwords associated with those accounts (the majority with the hashing function called bcrypt used to secure passwords). While MyFitnessPal...

Under Armour is Serious About Fitness Tracking, Buys MyFitnessPal and Endomondo

Kellen February 4, 2015 29

This afternoon, Under Armour announced that it has acquired both Endomondo and MyFitnessPal for a combined $560 million, broken out as $85 million and $475 million, respectively. These purchases give them the right to say that they own the "world's largest...