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Calorie Counter – MyFitnessPal is an smartphone app designed by Albert Lee and Mike Lee。 The app focuses its business on health caring. It tracks user’s diet and exercise, and uses gamification elements to motivate its users.

Since its establishment in 2005, it has gone through a long history of perfection. And now, it has become one of the best performing fitness apps in health caring market. In 2020, it was rewarded as “Best Fitness App” by GQ 2020 Fitness Awards.

On iOS AppStore, Calorie Counter - MyFitnessPal’s rating is 4.7 out of 5.0, which is an undoubtedly a high rating on iOS AppStore. And we can see that more than 90% of users’ rating are from 4 to 5. The 1-star rating is negligible. Numbers of user reviews on iOS AppStore is 1,300,000. On Google Play, its rating is 4.4 out of 5.0, with 2,460,630 user reviews and more than 50,000,000 installs.

As one of the best performing health caring apps, Calorie Counter – MyFitnessPal is in the 11th place on iOS AppStore. And it is regarded as No.1 Diet and Nutrition App in the U.S.

The recent updates are basically about bug fixes, performance updates and reliability improvements. And its frequency is about twice a month, which is not that frequent compared with other apps (which are about once to twice a week). And the reason may be that the app is fully developed and what the development team needs to do is to maintain its good performance.

Food Database: MyFitnessPal provides its users with the biggest food database with nutrition facts for over 14 million foods. Log what you eat to the app, and you can have insights about your nutrition. The app helps you to track your nutrition and calorie.

Health Caring: MyFitnessPal improves your health by offering you 250+ healthy recipes and 150+ workouts. Following the recipes is like having a dietitian, and doing the workouts is like having a coach. Set your fitness goals, and you will get customized advices from the app.

Online Community: Pursuing your own fitness goal may be boring. But how about keeping fit with 200 million fellows? MyFitnessPal provides you an online community where you can get inspired by sharing opinions with the other members.

Premium Features: A 30-day trial is available for the premium features.

Pros:

-People find it really helpful for those who need to lose/gain weight.

-The app offers you a detail insight of the nutrition of almost any food you can think of.

-The app is easy to use and it’s convenient that it can be integrated to other health devices.

-It’s convenient that you scan the barcode of what you eat and the calories and nutrition will be counted automatically.

-The free version is nice but the paid one is even better, and cheap at the same time.

Cons:

-Some people found that after 30 day’s free trial, they will be automatically signed up to the premium subscription.

-Problems may occur when users try to connect the app with other health apps or devices.