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Head-to-head

Personify Health vs MyFitnessPal

Personify Health 4.8★ · Free to download 60
Winner MyFitnessPal
MyFitnessPal 4.7★ · Free + IAP 75

MyFitnessPal is generally a better choice for calorie and macro tracking due to its extensive food database, but Personify Health might appeal to those whose employers offer it as a wellness benefit with rewards, despite its significant technical issues.

Full reviews: Personify Health · MyFitnessPal

MyFitnessPal excels with its vast food database and long-standing user base for calorie and macro tracking, though recent UI updates have frustrated many users. Personify Health, often used as an employer wellness program, offers comprehensive health tracking and rewards, but is plagued by persistent syncing issues and app instability.

Head to head

Features and Scope tieR1R2R5R17
Personify Health Personify Health offers a broad range of health tracking, including movement, diet with tailored recipes, weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, sleep, rest and recovery, financial wellness, exercise videos, and reminders for exams, often with points for engagement R2R5R17. However, some users find the content generic or irrelevant, like daily cards about weaning from breast milk for a 55-year-old R1.
MyFitnessPal MyFitnessPal is primarily a calorie and macro tracking app with an extensive food database and barcode scanner . It allows users to log meals, track progress, and offers premium features like custom macro goals R64. Recent updates have introduced a GLP1 tracker , but some users miss the ability to track specific exercises like CrossFit or net carbs without paying .
Ease of Use and User Interface tieR1R4R13R20
Personify Health Users have mixed experiences with Personify Health's ease of use. Some find it easy to navigate and use R20, while others describe it as hard to use, clunky, and slow R1R4. Accessibility for Voiceover users has also been an issue R13.
MyFitnessPal MyFitnessPal has historically been praised for its ease of use and intuitive interface . However, recent updates have significantly degraded the user experience, with many users finding the new layout difficult to navigate, requiring more clicks, and making it harder to see daily food logs and macros at a glance R61R64R73.
Reliability and Performance edge: MyFitnessPalR3R4R6R7
Personify Health Personify Health suffers from widespread and persistent reliability issues. Users frequently report problems with syncing data from devices like Fitbit, Apple Watch, and Apple Health R3R7R12. The app is also prone to crashing, slow responses, login failures, and not loading content, especially after updates R4R6.
MyFitnessPal MyFitnessPal users have also experienced reliability issues, particularly after recent updates. These include bugs, login problems, data not being retained, and slow load times . Syncing issues are also reported, especially for premium users .
Price and Value tieR1R5R11R12
Personify Health Personify Health is often provided through employers as a corporate wellness program, allowing users to earn points and rewards, sometimes linked to health insurance contributions R1R5. Some users appreciate the motivational aspect and the ability to earn rewards R11. However, the value is diminished by frequent app issues that prevent earning points R12.
MyFitnessPal MyFitnessPal offers a free tier with in-app purchases for premium features . Many users find the free version valuable, but some essential features like the barcode scanner have moved to premium R85R107R113R117. Premium users, paying up to $79.99 annually, feel the recent updates have made the app less valuable and not worth the cost R73R117.
Customer Support edge: MyFitnessPalR22R34R51R52
Personify Health Personify Health's customer service receives negative feedback, with users reporting it as terrible, argumentative, dismissive, and unresponsive to emails R22R34R52. While some users report positive experiences with quick fixes for login issues R51, these seem to be exceptions to a general pattern of poor support.
MyFitnessPal MyFitnessPal users have reported issues with customer support, particularly regarding syncing problems, with claims that support will not fix them . One user also mentioned that the tech support part of the website had issues with login credentials .
Pick Personify Health if

You are part of an organization that uses Personify Health as a corporate wellness program and offers incentives or rewards for participation R1R5. You are looking for a comprehensive health tracker that monitors various aspects of wellness beyond just diet and exercise R5.

Pick MyFitnessPal if

You need a robust and extensive food database for calorie and macro tracking . You are comfortable with a free tier that has some limitations or are willing to pay for premium features like custom macro goals and barcode scanning R113.

Evidence note: Personify Health's reviews are heavily skewed towards recent negative experiences related to app updates and syncing issues, despite its higher lifetime rating. MyFitnessPal, while having a lower lifetime rating, has a much larger review volume, and its recent negative reviews primarily focus on UI changes rather than fundamental functionality.

Frequently asked

Can I use Personify Health if I don't have a job?
No, to create an account with Personify Health, you typically need to specify an organization you work for, as it's designed as a corporate wellness program R10.
Does MyFitnessPal offer a free barcode scanner?
MyFitnessPal used to offer a free barcode scanner, but recent updates have moved this feature behind a paywall, requiring a premium subscription to use it R85R107R113R117.
What are the main issues with Personify Health?
The main issues with Personify Health are persistent syncing problems with various health devices and apps R3R7R12, frequent app crashes and login failures, especially after updates R6, and poor customer service R22R34R52.
Why are MyFitnessPal users unhappy with recent updates?
MyFitnessPal users are unhappy with recent updates primarily because of significant changes to the user interface that make the app less intuitive, requiring more clicks and scrolling to log food and view daily macros R61R64R73R75.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R1] Personify Health 1/5 · US Horrible: What a waste of time. Hard to use. Useless information. Only reason I use is corporate money contributions. All DEI people.
  2. [R2] Personify Health 5/5 · US It’s full of great information on so many topics such as health, diversity, exercises and a lot more: I love it
  3. [R5] Personify Health 5/5 · US Personify Health app is so comprehensively health helpful!: Monitors movement of all kinds and anything you need to meet your healthcare goals including, diet with recipes tailored to the way you wish to eat, weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, sleep, rest and recovery, financial, exercise videos for any level, yearly eye exam, dental, well visit and much more and I get to earn points for it all
  4. [R17] Personify Health 5/5 · US Let’s get physical: I’m going to look for more options for keeping my body healthy and clean thanks again for Personify
  5. [R4] Personify Health 1/5 · US App perf revision still needs: The client app responds slow and sometimes asynchronous result. Your execution does not apply to the score immediately. The support agent said I could use Desktop version. This is the known issue. It’s been years with this problem and reported a few times. The app has rooms to improve for those basic operations.
  6. [R13] Personify Health 2/5 · US Frustrating for Voiceover users: The latest updates have made completing daily tracking more difficult for Voiceover users by the way that they are laid out and by the apps persistent jumping back to the top of the list forcing me to have to repeatedly scroll through to find what needs attention. Also, I can find no way to print out the Biometric Screening form to take to my doctor for completion.
  7. [R20] Personify Health 5/5 · US So easy to use!: Easy to navigate!
  8. [R3] Personify Health 3/5 · US Sync function: Steps do not sync despite manual device synchronization
  9. [R6] Personify Health 3/5 · US When it works it’s great: The app frequently breaks with the last few app updates requiring an uninstall and reinstall to fix.
  10. [R7] Personify Health 1/5 · US 6200 steps behind: The tracker app matches the tracker, but this useless app refuses to update.
  11. [R11] Personify Health 5/5 · US Motivational: Engaging
  12. [R12] Personify Health 3/5 · US Sync Issues: Hasn’t synced with my Fitbit in days, I lose out on points for not consistently connecting and there are points I don’t get at all unless there’s a sync. The occasional not syncing until I reconnect (or attempt to) has been an issue for years. I will update my review when the app connects properly.
  13. [R22] Personify Health 1/5 · US Horrible Customer Service: Customer service is terrible and the supervisor was argumentative when I had an issue.
  14. [R34] Personify Health 1/5 · US Poor Customer Service: After several emails, I still have not received a response. The app is garbage and they’re not interested in fixing it.
  15. [R51] Personify Health 5/5 · US Great support team: A recent update introduced a new issue for my Personify Health app. I couldn’t sign in anymore and log my stats. I could sign in just fine with my email and password on my work computer, but not on my phone. After contacting the Personify support email, they resolved my issue that same day by providing a link to push a fix to my app. Everything works great now and I appreciate
  16. [R52] Personify Health 1/5 · US Does Not Work Well With Any Major Platform: I have tried to get this to work with Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Strava and more. Auto-syncing is unreliable, customer service is curt and dismissive, and I will be pushing my employer to find another app solution for our employee health program.
  17. [R10] Personify Health 1/5 · US Can’t use!!!: To create an account you have to tell them whatever organization you work. I don’t have a job so how am I supposed to make an account!!!😡
  18. [R85] MyFitnessPal 1/5 · US New update: The layout is absolutely trash. You should fire whoever came up with this idea. I could tolerate losing the barcode scan on the free portion but holy moly this is a major step backwards. Go back or make it way better Update: ITS GOTTEN EVEN WORSE, oh my god how do you guys change how we manage how many calories and macros we want, just put the whole app behind a paywall at this point.
  19. [R107] MyFitnessPal 4/5 · US Helpful App, Update eh: I loved MyFitnessPal, I’ve been a user for 6 years. I love how easy it is to search items and it used to be free to scan them too (shame to miss this feature now). The new update has left me a little confused as to wear to find things, like the full spread of each day in once glance.
  20. [R113] MyFitnessPal 4/5 · US Decent App However: This app for the years has gotten gradually worse and worse I used to rate it five stars, but over the course of several years I noticed that several features that were once free are no longer available, put without having to pay for them such as the barcode scan and dealing with increasingly more and more ads on this app just recently I tried logging some food on this app, and
  21. [R117] MyFitnessPal 3/5 · US Lack Luster: If you want to count calories its an ok app but its time consuming filtering everything. Unless you pay for the subscription which actually allows you to scan products Im not sure it’s worth it and the subscription is overpriced for what it does. I plan to keep looking for a better app.
  22. [R61] MyFitnessPal 2/5 · US Edit pathways are not intuitive: How to remove an item logged into a meal? Could not find a way to do so. Also, there is no online help embedded into the app. (Part of Premium?)
  23. [R64] MyFitnessPal 1/5 · US Latest updates: I have been a loyal customer of mfp for the last 10 years and have enjoy the robust user friendly app until recently. The app has undergone through major updates changing the look and feel of it and not for the better. There have been a lot of bugs and most recently it reset my macros to “recommended “ which is way out of line with what i have been using. I dabbled in bodybuilding
  24. [R73] MyFitnessPal 1/5 · US Updates are awful: This app used to be 5/5. Now trying to log things takes scrolling and multiple clicks. I’m taking the effort to weigh my food - I don’t want more steps to try and log my food and exercise as a deterrent. Maybe the free version is slimmed down and easier to use, but this is absolutely not worth paying for (and yes, I am paying for the premium version). There are so many other
  25. [R75] MyFitnessPal 3/5 · US Bad update - early June: I’ve been using MyFitnessPal for about two years, but the recent layout changes have made the app difficult to use. The interface is no longer intuitive, and I find myself spending extra time just trying to log my meals, when I’m already unmotivated to log my calories. Because of this, I would no longer recommend the app to others. One major issue is how meals are display

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store