Premium review
125mgg
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I would love to know your thoughts if you have upgraded to the new premium. Worth it? Pros and cons?
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Bump!0
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ooh!! I want to know too. bump bump!0
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Anyone??0
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I would also like to know if the premium is worth the money.0
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Thinking of trying for 9.99. Wonder if I like it if I can ur that towards the 49.99?0
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HappyCampr1 wrote: »Premium has the same database, forums and app layout as the regular version. Whether you upgrade or not will depend on which features you think are worth it. For me, it makes my most useful app much more in-tune with my needs. For most people, I think the regular app will continue to do just fine.
Thank you! This is what I was looking for. I do wish I could set my macros by gram, but I can get close enough with percentages that it's not worth the $10/month for me (at least not right now). Hope this helps other people too!
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It told me how to spot reduce. Worth it.0
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I wish there was a one-time payment option for the standard version minus ads. I'd pay up to $20 for it.0
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Sadly the 9.99 option will wind up costing you 119.88 per year. I am disappointed in some aspects of MFP since Under Armour bought them out. As Under Armour has bought out Map My Fitness also too. MFP was great when I started 3 years ago, when UA bought them, then ads started to appear. UA's hook to get you to pay for their stuff.0
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Thanks0
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HappyCampr1 wrote: »
Lol. I can't see many people paying for each month, one at a time, instead of purchasing a year. Most will either do a trial month and let it lapse, or go ahead and upgrade to the premium after the first month. Since I'm not going anywhere anytime soon, I went ahead and got the full year for the $49.99 straight off the bat.anaconda469 wrote: »Sadly the 9.99 option will wind up costing you 119.88 per year.
Most will do a trial month, forget to unsubscribe, and keep getting charged for it until they notice. That's what all monthly charge programs count on, just like gyms.0 -
yup...true story!
The free site seems to be pretty buggy lately...lots of malware and viruses coming with MFP. I don't even think it's ads, it seems to be happening navigating between pages0 -
I'd love to review it, but the MFP team seems to think they don't have users in parts of the world other than the United States and only accepts American credit cards in this modern era of global finances. So, no review.0
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Thx good info to have...it's not offered in Canada yet but I won't pay that to adjust my macros.0
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HappyCampr1 wrote: »
Lol. I can't see many people paying for each month, one at a time, instead of purchasing a year. Most will either do a trial month and let it lapse, or go ahead and upgrade to the premium after the first month. Since I'm not going anywhere anytime soon, I went ahead and got the full year for the $49.99 straight off the bat.anaconda469 wrote: »Sadly the 9.99 option will wind up costing you 119.88 per year.
Most will do a trial month, forget to unsubscribe, and keep getting charged for it until they notice. That's what all monthly charge programs count on, just like gyms.
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Also Canadian, but even if I could, I wouldn't pay for premium either. Not when there are plenty of other sites that are free that can do what MFP does, no problem.
The way I see it, the features probably aren't worth the upgrade now... but presumably, any new features that MFP launches will be limited to premium members only. With time, the free version will probably decline in quality and experience, until such time as people start moving elsewhere in big numbers. At that point, either MFP will be making enough money through premium subscriptions to not care about the lost ad revenue, or they won't and they'll throw a few crumbs at the free version to lure people back. Either way, it's probably bad news.0 -
Chief_Rocka wrote: »It told me how to spot reduce. Worth it.
You must be special.0 -
So is this available in Australia?0
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TimothyFish wrote: »Chief_Rocka wrote: »It told me how to spot reduce. Worth it.
You must be special.
Oh, it teaches magic!0 -
^Haha cool
I decided to go ahead and try it out. The regular version is just fine for me. I don't think I'll be doing it another month.0 -
I was going to look for one of those t shirts with a headless body on the front, where you head is the head.
One where the image in the front is a knight in armour.0 -
@HappyCampr1 thanks for the review. I don't think the premium is for me but I do know someone who is more interested. I'll make sure he sees your post.0
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I deleted my card from the app store just so I wouldn't be charged in the coming months lol. I would be the one who forgot0
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The free site has slowed down and gotten buggy.0
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HappyCampr1 wrote: »I upgraded so that I could set my macro goals by the gram. There was a program that a lot of older users had that did the same thing, but it was an aftermarket program, written by another user, and I never used it. I was very happy to be able to change my goals like that. I want to get 1g of protein per pound of lean body mass. For me, that's 111g. Before, if I used 20%, it would give me 130g and if I used 15%, it would give me 99g. I was just supposed to "know" I was supposed to be off. Being a numbers person, like I am, this has driven me crazy since I hit maintenance last July.
I did change the header on top of my newsfeed to show my macros instead of my exercise calories because I'm using the TDEE method for figuring my goals and I don't eat back my exercise. Here's what my new header looks like...
You have the option of putting any three nutrients in those little circles and tracking them like that. If iron, fiber and calcium are your thing, you can do that.
If gives a food analysis by nutrients. For me, this is just a curiosity factor. Say, I'm always under on calcium, I can click calcium in my nutrients breakdown and it will show me what foods I've eaten in order from most calcium to least calcium. It does the same for any of the macro or micronutrients, by day or by week. If I want to know what I ate this week that was highest in fiber, I can just click fiber and I'll know. Maybe more useful for others than for me, but it's a feature.
I turned off my exercise calories, so it doesn't adjust my goals. This is great for TDEE because before I couldn't track my steps in MFP because it would change things. I always enter my gym workouts manually as one calorie, but it's nice to have my iPhone health app syncing my steps too.
You can customize your goals by day, so if you want to eat less during the week in order to save calories for the weekend, you can set that up and have real goals, rather than an abstract "less". People who like to eat more protein or carbs on workout days can change their goals for those days to reflect what they want. I haven't done this myself.
And, of course, it's ad free. You still see ads for MFP's most recent blog posts, but that's about it. No page reloading because some ad is messing everything up.
Premium has the same database, forums and app layout as the regular version. Whether you upgrade or not will depend on which features you think are worth it. For me, it makes my most useful app much more in-tune with my needs. For most people, I think the regular app will continue to do just fine.
Thanks for the review-I'd be interested in the premium version if the cost was lower (like $19.95 a year or something). Hopefully they'll adjust it down at some point.
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