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BrianKHaycraft2
BrianKHaycraft2 Posts: 1 Member
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I've lost over 90 pounds this time and about 100 first time. I keep quitting and gaining but point being now I have to pay for bar code scan. Disappointed in you My fitness. I've bragged to everyone how awesome it is and how it helps you for free. Now 20$ a month. Wow. Thanks for the help. I'll start using paper and pencil for keeping track tho

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  • cowsfan12
    cowsfan12 Posts: 6,198 Member
    BrianKHaycraft2 wrote: »
    I've lost over 90 pounds this time and about 100 first time. I keep quitting and gaining but point being now I have to pay for bar code scan. Disappointed in you My fitness. I've bragged to everyone how awesome it is and how it helps you for free. Now 20$ a month. Wow. Thanks for the help. I'll start using paper and pencil for keeping track tho

    You can still - use the search option which doesn’t take that Much extra time - still better than tracking manually imo
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,767 Member
    How did I not see that coming?
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    BrianKHaycraft2 wrote: »
    I've lost over 90 pounds this time and about 100 first time. I keep quitting and gaining but point being now I have to pay for bar code scan. Disappointed in you My fitness. I've bragged to everyone how awesome it is and how it helps you for free. Now 20$ a month. Wow. Thanks for the help. I'll start using paper and pencil for keeping track tho

    As a trend over the last couple of years I've seen most of these diet and fitness apps go to very barebones for their free versions and are moving most features to premium subscriptions. It's money. They make a lot more money with subscriptions than they do algorithm generated ads on free versions.

    Many of these former "mom and pop" apps are also being bought by larger corporations and investment firms as well which kind of does away with the "personal" aspect of the app. In the case of MFP, Under Armour bought it in 2015 from it's "mom and pop" owners and UA recently sold it to a large tech investment firm called Francisco Partners. Basically it's one of many apps and other tech investments in their investment portfolio and that's about it.

    Like I said, most of these types of apps are going in this direction, even those that are still privately owned. I finally forked out a subscription for a training app a few months ago because everything that was out there that was free no longer provided what I was looking for and was so limited as to be virtually useless.

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