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amjmortensen48
amjmortensen48 Posts: 40 Member
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Is premium worth the $$

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  • Xellercin
    Xellercin Posts: 924 Member
    edited May 2022
    I haven't seen anything that premium offers that would move the needle in terms of outcomes for the average person.

    That said, whst benefits it might have for an individual? I don't know. Perhaps for some people, the added features really would make a difference in terms of their lifestyle choices??

    Only you can intuit if these features are likely to help you.
  • Hungry_Annie
    Hungry_Annie Posts: 807 Member
    Before when I paid like $13 a month for premium, it was worth it. I like being able to adjust my macros to the gram and not percentage. I liked being able to see which foods had the highest protein and what not. I like to be able to turn off exercise calories. But now it’s almost $30 a month Canadian and I’m not paying that much that’s insane
  • willboywonder
    willboywonder Posts: 137 Member
    The cost of premium now isn't worth it, in my opinion. I used it before, and it didn't offer me any benefit. Now, the only benefit I can think of is being able to scan products rather than entering them manually. That's not worth paying $79 USD a year. I want to know what percentage of users have premium.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    If you need the features it offers enough, then yes. Otherwise, no.

    I don't understand how someone who knows literally nothing about you would be able to give you a generic answer?

    For sure, try free MFP for a few weeks/months to start. It includes the vital basics for many scenarios. After that, look at the list of premium features, and decide whether they're worth the cost to you.
  • jaceface87
    jaceface87 Posts: 35 Member
    Feels like another cash grab to me. You used to be able to scan labels for food. Now, you have to pay for premium for it. I refuse to reward a company for its greed, so I refuse to pay for premium.
  • Mean110
    Mean110 Posts: 1 Member
    Hey @myfitnesspal___ staff… this one's for you.

    I'm happy to pay for premium services if they are in-fact premium. Sadly, the premium features offered by MyFitnessPal don't address any of my needs (at least not for the price that's being asked).
    • One of the things that REALLY bothers me about the MyFitnessPal app, is how slow it is and how often it crashes. I had hoped that joining premium and getting rid of the ads MIGHT improve this. It didn't. In fact with the premium features enabled, the app became less stable… not a great selling point.
    • No ads is great, but $130AUD per year is too much just to get rid of them. So what else do we get?
    • Macronutrient tracking. That's nice if you're an athlete, or if you need (or want) to do that. I don't.
    • Correcting the time of meal entries. That's nice, or you can just remember to record when you eat.
    • Scan Meal, sounds very cool, but in reality it isn't accurate enough to be at all useful.
    • Guided Meal & Workout Plans, are available elsewhere for free & already included in Apple Fitness+
    • Intermittent Fasting is a feature I'd use (and happily pay for) if it didn't make the app crash even more often.

    I'd consider re-subscribing to MyFitnessPal premium, if doing so would make the app more stable and less clunky, not the other way round.

    I'd love this feedback to go to the MyFitnessPal developers, but when I tried to navigate to "feedback" on the website, I was instead directed to these forums… so I'll just have to hope MyFitnessPal devs read the forums.

    For everyone else here… I wish I could recommend an alternative that didn't come with the frustrations of using the MFP app, but I've not found an app with a database that's even close to this one… yet 😉
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    edited May 9
    Mean110 wrote: »
    Hey @myfitnesspal___ staff… this one's for you.

    I'm happy to pay for premium services if they are in-fact premium. Sadly, the premium features offered by MyFitnessPal don't address any of my needs (at least not for the price that's being asked).
    • One of the things that REALLY bothers me about the MyFitnessPal app, is how slow it is and how often it crashes. I had hoped that joining premium and getting rid of the ads MIGHT improve this. It didn't. In fact with the premium features enabled, the app became less stable… not a great selling point.
    • No ads is great, but $130AUD per year is too much just to get rid of them. So what else do we get?
    • Macronutrient tracking. That's nice if you're an athlete, or if you need (or want) to do that. I don't.
    • Correcting the time of meal entries. That's nice, or you can just remember to record when you eat.
    • Scan Meal, sounds very cool, but in reality it isn't accurate enough to be at all useful.
    • Guided Meal & Workout Plans, are available elsewhere for free & already included in Apple Fitness+
    • Intermittent Fasting is a feature I'd use (and happily pay for) if it didn't make the app crash even more often.

    I'd consider re-subscribing to MyFitnessPal premium, if doing so would make the app more stable and less clunky, not the other way round.

    I'd love this feedback to go to the MyFitnessPal developers, but when I tried to navigate to "feedback" on the website, I was instead directed to these forums… so I'll just have to hope MyFitnessPal devs read the forums.

    For everyone else here… I wish I could recommend an alternative that didn't come with the frustrations of using the MFP app, but I've not found an app with a database that's even close to this one… yet 😉

    @Mean110, if you'd like to speak to MFP staff, you might want to post here, in an area where they routinely read and often reply:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/feature-suggestions-and-ideas

    They don't read all of the many hundreds of posts everywhere in the Community; that would be impractical . . . and speaking for myself only, I'd prefer that they focus their time elsewhere.

    Alternatively, you can reach them directly via DM using IDs you can find here:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10028709/meet-our-community-team#latest

    You can DM them even if they're not on your friend list, unlike with other regular users. Don't bother with contacting any of the moderators: They're just volunteers with a few very limited extra powers in the Community part of MFP, without any special access to the developers.

    I'd point out that those MFP staff members are (my term) user relations kind of staff, not developers per se. It's pretty clear, though, that they do communicate with the developers. Having worked in IT, I think it would be kind of a horror show to have users of a mass-market app able to contact the developers directly. They should be designing/coding/testing, if you ask me, not answering various user emails.

    There's also a support email address, support@myfitnesspal.com, that directly reaches level 1 in the code support realm. You haven't mentioned it specifically, but note that the Community functions are a 3rd party app, Vanilla forums, not really MFP itself.

    Me, I'm just a plain MFP user, with no more access to the developers than you have. I did fine with free MFP, but like premium for a bit more nuance in things like nutritional information, which obviously isn't as important to you. (That's not a jab: We're all different, and that's part of what makes life interesting, IMO.)

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