Our verdictfitvee, if you want your food diary to come with a plan
You’ve logged lunch. You’ve logged the cookie. The number looks fine, you have twenty minutes before anyone needs feeding, and your food diary has nothing to say about them.
fitvee does. Today’s session sits at the top with one big button, what you have left to eat sits under it, and the twenty minutes are spoken for. That one screen is our case for picking it. “Every MyFitnessPal plan starts in the same place: your food,” its help page says (plan comparison), and it does food very well. fitvee starts with what you’ll do today, and brings the food diary along.
Moving and eating share a screen.
Log a food and fitvee offers a food row for Today: calories left, a bar, scan and +, directly under your session.
No tier stands between you and the shortcuts.
Scanning, search and portions are in the membership, and so are macros and meals you can type, say or photograph.
It answers back.
Tell it a session was too hard and the next one eases off. Ask the coach about dinner and it starts from your diary.
How they scored
| fitvee | MyFitnessPal Premium | |
|---|---|---|
| Workouts | 5/5 | 2/5 |
| Personalisation | 5/5 | 3/5 |
| Progress and motivation | 5/5 | 4/5 |
| Food tools | 4/5 | 4/5 |
| Coaching | 4/5 | not scored |
| Value | 4/5 | 3/5 |
You pay $15.19 for the first 28 days, then $38.95 every 4 weeks. On the walking plan, 12 weeks is $25.99, then $66.65 every 12 weeks (fitvee pricing). Yes, that’s more than MyFitnessPal. Price, both ways says exactly how much.
On this page
Our verdictWhy people switchfitvee and MyFitnessPalWhat each one is likeWhich one is more fun to come back toPriceWhat members sayPick your planQuestionsHow we compareSourcesWhy people switch
The shortcuts moved.
Barcode scanning has needed Premium since 1 October 2022 (scanner help). Paying for something you once had for free stings more than paying for something new.
The ads.
MyFitnessPal is frank about it: “The core of MyFitnessPal is free, and it stays that way because ads help pay for it. That is the honest trade” (ad-free help). It is honest. Some people get tired of the trade.
The log stops at the log.
This is the reason to look at fitvee rather than another tracker. You can record every meal for a year and still have no plan for your body. Across 122 evaluations of diet and activity programs, tracking worked better when it came with another technique, such as a goal or feedback. And in 8 trials of mostly women, diet plus exercise matched diet alone at 3 to 6 months, then pulled about 1.7 kg ahead at a year.
“I came to fitvee from MyFitnessPal. The diary is simpler: fewer screens between me and the food I ate. Missing for me: I wanted to import my old foods and did not find how.”
fitvee and MyFitnessPal, feature by feature
The scores
Each score is out of 5 and rests on what’s named beside it. MyFitnessPal is scored as Premium, since that’s what you’d pay for. What the scores mean.
| Job | fitvee | MyFitnessPal Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Workouts | 5/5Follow-along plans for walking, chair yoga and strength, 141 move cards, a Library and a check-in that moves the next session. It won’t log gym sets you’ve planned yourself | 2/5Free logging of cardio and strength, then “exclusive Premium routine content” on iOS and Android, in English (Premium features) |
| Food tools | 4/5Scan, search, portions, undo and a quiz-based goal, plus macros, usual foods and meal reading. Calories and macros only | 4/5Scanner, Meal Scan, voice and macros by gram over a free log. The Meal Planner is a tier up |
| Personalisation | 5/5A quiz that sets your level, a check-in that moves it, and reminders that learn when you train | 3/5Goals by percentage are free. Goals by day and by meal need Premium, and meals built around your budget and time need Premium+ |
| Progress and motivation | 5/5A plant, a forgiving week and four badges, all earned by sessions | 4/5Measurements, progress, friends, shared diaries and forums are free, and unlimited weekly digests are Premium |
| Value | 4/5Plan, Library, diary and coach in one price. No free tier, and it costs more | 3/5A low yearly price and a free tier below it, but meal plans cost a tier more |
What’s included, row by row
MyFitnessPal’s cells are what its own help pages say. It wins several of these, and you should read those rows closely.
| You want to | MyFitnessPal | fitvee |
|---|---|---|
| Scan a package | Premium, in the iOS and Android apps | Included |
| Log a plate from a photo | Meal Scan: Premium, iOS and Android, English | Included: you check the foods before they log |
| Say or type a meal | Voice Logging: Premium | Included: a “What did you eat?” box with a mic |
| Set macro targets | Percentages free, in 5% steps (what’s free); grams in Premium | Presets or your own percentages, shown as gram targets |
| Vary goals by day or meal | Premium | One daily goal, which you can edit |
| Keep exercise out of your calorie goal | A Premium setting | Built in: the goal already allows for light activity |
| See vitamins and minerals | Free, for foods and in the Nutrients tab | Not tracked |
| Build recipes and custom foods | Free | Star your foods and reuse your usual ones |
| Get meal plans | Premium+: Meal Planner, 1,500+ recipes, grocery lists (Premium+ help) | One day’s meals to try |
| Fast, or count net carbs | Premium | Neither |
| Sync a watch or other apps | Partner apps, free | No sync |
| Follow a session today | “Routine content” in Premium | Every day, 7 to about 20 minutes |
What each one is like
One lunch, both apps
Take a pot of yogurt and a chicken salad you made yourself.
In MyFitnessPal you tap the blue plus on Today. With Premium you open Barcode Scan, line the code up inside the frame, pick the meal and serving, and log it. Without Premium you search by name, tap the result and adjust the servings. The salad is a search too, or a Meal Scan on Premium, which suggests entries from its database. If a product is missing, you can add it from the label, and your entry is there next time. The database is “built by our community”, and a help article covers fixing a wrong match.
In fitvee you press the scan button on the food row. The yogurt goes straight into today’s list, macros included, filed under lunch because of the time, with Not right? and Undo beside it. For the salad, write “chicken salad” in the box that asks “What did you eat?”, or snap it. You see the foods, their portions and what would be left, then press one button to log. Tomorrow, “Usual at lunch” has the yogurt waiting.
So who wins lunch? For most people it’s close. MyFitnessPal gives you more dials: grams, goals by meal, net carbs. fitvee gives you fewer decisions. Its data comes from 415 common foods drawn from USDA records, then Open Food Facts, a volunteer database, and we won’t pretend to know whose is better. Neither should be read as gospel: in one check of 30 food records from lower-income adults, five free apps came close to a research tool but each ran low somewhere.
The afternoon: where they part
Here’s where the two stop being the same kind of product.
MyFitnessPal’s exercise tools record what you did: open the plus, choose Exercise, then Cardio, Strength or Workout Routines. If you already train and just want everything written down in one place, that’s all you need.
fitvee tells you what to do. You get 28 days a round: 25 follow-along sessions and 3 rest-and-stretch days. Today might be Clouds, a 7-minute session of slow side-to-side arm and weight shifts on your feet. It plays one move at a time, and if one’s too much, its Easier tab gives you a lighter version on the spot.
Afterwards it asks whether you did the session and how it felt. Too hard, and your next session comes a step easier: “Easier still counts.” Skip a day and your place is kept, because the day number counts sessions rather than dates.
The evening: a coach that has seen both halves
Vee and Vin, fitvee’s AI coaches, can read your plan and your diary, so “What should I eat tonight?” starts from what you’ve logged and what’s left. They can change today as well: gentler, seated or off, and Vee can trim a walking day. We score that 4/5: they act on what you say, but their reach stops at today and your level. They can’t move a day or switch your plan, and they’re told never to treat eating under your goal as a win.
What MyFitnessPal does better
Plenty. It’s free to start, and fitvee isn’t. It tracks vitamins and minerals, keeps weekly views and, on Premium, exports your history. It has recipes you can pull from the web, partner apps, friends, shared diaries and forums. It has store apps, with 4.71 from about 2.4 million US ratings (App Store). And if you’ve kept a diary there for years, that history is worth something that no feature table can show.
Which one is more fun to come back to
MyFitnessPal’s motivation is social and factual. You get your numbers, your progress, friends who can see your diary if you let them, and on Premium unlimited weekly digests and a Food Analysis of your best and worst foods. For a certain kind of person, a tidy diary is its own reward.
fitvee goes after a different feeling, and we think it’s the better one for most people. Finish a session and the screen says “Day 21 of 28, done.” Your week fills in, and three session days make it count.
On walking and chair yoga you’re growing a plant: a petal for every session and a bloom for every week. Calisthenics gets the count, the rings and a darker look of its own.
A quiet week doesn’t wreck anything: a spare rest week covers your run, and if it lapses anyway, you can bring it back free within 7 days. All of this is earned by moving: logging food doesn’t feed the plant or the streak.
Price, both ways
MyFitnessPal is cheaper. It isn’t close, and we won’t dress it up. Each plan below shows a month at its renewal price, with yearly plans divided by 12 and 4-week plans counted as 13 charges a year.
| Plan | First payment | Then | A month at renewal |
|---|---|---|---|
| fitvee, 12 weeks, walking | $25.99 for 84 days | $66.65 every 12 weeks | $24.07 |
| fitvee, 12 weeks, chair or strength | $36.99 for 84 days | $94.85 every 12 weeks | $34.25 |
| fitvee, 4 weeks | $15.19 for 28 days | $38.95 every 4 weeks | $42.20 |
| fitvee, 1 week | $6.93 for 7 days | $38.95 every 4 weeks | $42.20 |
| MyFitnessPal Free | $0 | $0, with ads | $0 |
| MyFitnessPal Premium | Free trial on the web | $19.99 a month or $79.99 a year | $19.99; $6.67 yearly |
| MyFitnessPal Premium+ | 7-day free trial | $24.99 a month or $99.99 a year | $24.99; $8.34 yearly |
Prices are from fitvee’s pricing page, the US App Store and an archived Premium+ page from May 2026.
What the gap buys.
Premium is a better log. fitvee’s price is a daily plan, the Library, the check-in, the diary and a coach, so you’re paying for sessions you’d otherwise have to find or invent. If you never would have, Premium on the yearly plan is the sensible buy, and our Premium review says who it’s for.
How each one starts.
MyFitnessPal opens with a free trial, then charges its list price. fitvee opens with a lower first period, then renews higher, and both figures are on its pricing page. Its checkout shows the renewal date, and if you start on 4 or 12 weeks, an email reminds you a week before the full price begins (renewals).
Leaving either one.
Both renew until you stop them, and both keep you going until your paid time runs out. With MyFitnessPal you cancel where you paid, and under 24 hours before renewal may be too late (cancel help). With fitvee you cancel in your account (cancel). Neither is generous on refunds: MyFitnessPal’s terms make US purchases final unless it decides otherwise, and fitvee’s payments are final too, with no guarantee of your money back (refunds).
What members say
“Workouts and meals in one place. I notice the habit more than the app now.”
“On a tired evening I logged a bowl of pasta in a few taps and went to bed.”
“I had stopped logging because it felt like homework. Here I log meals in a couple of taps and look at what is left for the day.”
Pick your plan
Stay with MyFitnessPal if a free log is the whole job, if vitamins and watch sync matter to you, or if you already have training sorted. For a free scanner, see MyFitnessPal alternatives.
Move to fitvee if you want your food and your next session in one place. Memberships come with a movement plan, so you choose one on the way, and the diary is in all three.
Tai chi walking,
If you want the gentlest way in: 7 minutes, then an optional walk. The cheapest route, at $24.07 a month at renewal.
Chair yoga,
If you’d rather stay seated or hold a chair: 10 to 20 minutes.
Calisthenics,
If you want strength at home: about 15 minutes, using a doorframe, a stair, a sturdy chair and a mat or towel.
Questions
Which is better, fitvee or MyFitnessPal?
For food and a daily session together, fitvee. For a free log or the deepest nutrient detail, MyFitnessPal.
Is fitvee a good MyFitnessPal alternative?
If you want a plan with your log, yes. If you want a like-for-like tracker, see our list.
Does fitvee scan barcodes?
Yes, for every member, using your phone’s camera.
Is MyFitnessPal free?
The log is, with ads. Scanning and Meal Scan cost extra, and our Premium review lists the rest.
Where do the food numbers come from?
In fitvee, USDA records for everyday foods and Open Food Facts beyond that. In MyFitnessPal, a database its community builds.
Is MyFitnessPal accurate?
For calories and macros, it held up in a Belgian study of 50 people, with correlations of 0.90 or better against a food database. Sodium and cholesterol were weaker.
Does fitvee have a free version?
No. You can follow a full session free with no sign-up, and a 1-week start is $6.93, then $38.95 every 4 weeks.
Can I use both?
Yes, though keeping two food diaries gets old fast.
Can I move my history over?
Plan on a fresh diary in fitvee. Your old one stays in your MyFitnessPal account, and Premium’s Data Export gives you a copy.
Is fitvee on the App Store?
No. It runs in your browser, and added to your home screen it opens full screen. It’s sold in the United States (terms).
How we compare
MyFitnessPal’s side of this page comes from its own help pages, store listing, terms and archived Premium pages, read on 6 November 2026. fitvee’s shots use a preview of the app and a test member with sample history, which is why only one app appears in pictures. Full method: How we compare.
What the scores mean. Out of 5 for each job. A 5 is everything the job needs plus a standout, a 4 handles the main job, a 3 comes with a catch, often a key part that costs extra, a 2 does some of the job and a 1 very little. A job gets a score only where an app’s own pages say enough, and we don’t add the jobs up.
Who wrote and checked this page:
Priya Raman
Nutrition writer
Writes about food logging, macros and barcode scanning. Cooks most nights and counts protein, not points.
Nora Lindqvist
App reviewer
Reads each app’s help and pricing pages and goes through its screens. Keeps a list of every price she finds.
Sources
- fitveepricing, how it works, terms, refunds, strength plan. Help: missed days, easier moves, which plan, renewals, cancel.
- What we useda test member on a preview of fitvee, 6 November 2026.
- MyFitnessPalApp Store listing; help on Free, Premium and Premium+, what the free version includes, Premium features, Premium+, the barcode scanner, ads and cancelling; terms of service. Archived Premium page: May 2026.
- Food dataOpen Food Facts.
- ResearchMichie et al., 2009; Johns et al., 2014; Griffiths et al., 2018; Evenepoel et al., 2020.
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