I really love this app! It has helped me in so many ways and for several years! It has amazing features and is always getting better. I love the HUGE food dictionary it has, the macronutrient breakdowns, and the exercises! I figured this would be a good place for some ideas I've brainstormed for future updates... 1) Having foods color-coded or labeled with a little icon that categorized the type of food it is (veggie, fruit, grain, dairy, protein) and then you can more easily visualize how many servings of each type of food category you’re eating! Like for example, if you log 2 cups of spinach, you would get 2 green leaf symbols to show that you ate 2 servings of veggies! 2) this is not necessary, but could be a fun change for those long-term MFP users: allowing us to change the color of our diary. Right now, the default is blue. What if we had the option to change that?! It would spice it up a bit, especially if you’ve been using it for years! Again, the app is amazing but if they're looking for different things to change it up, there's my two cents! 3) Being able to check a bubble that indicates if you stopped eating at enough and ate when hungry to help with intuitive eating. This view could also have an option to hide calories and macros.

——1) The app works well enough until you’re forced to update, and only Heaven knows what will happen then (today it’s the recipe builder domain error … AGAIN). I’m not paying for features I neither want nor need just to use the barcode scanner. I found it useful but not that useful. Further, although I like the app, it hasn’t bought my loyalty. I will happily return to the FitBit app to continue my tracking should additional features suddenly end up behind an overpriced paywall. ——2) It’s an okay app, but not exceptional enough to fork out an ongoing fee. If they want to encourage premium membership, make it worth it. That includes accurate food entries. Too many, including those accessed by barcode, are wrong or outdated. They can’t be trusted. Better syncing with the various trackers and their apps. Although syncing has been more reliable with my Apple Watch than FitBit, it still has its idiosyncrasies. ——3) Entering recipes. Do you have any idea how infuriating it is to enter a recipe by hand, not once, but five times only to have it populate an “NSURLErrorDomain error 500” on the last step when one tries to save? I assure you, it IS infuriating and it happens every few uses. Oh, and my entered Foods and Recipes disappear from the app. I know I entered them, but they’re nowhere to be found for selection. I can’t even search them on the MyFitnessPal website. I’m not paying extra for something that hasn’t proven itself entirely reliable.

I have been using this App for years. I took an 8 month break and picked it up today. Just found out that you can no longer scan barcodes without buying the premium. I was able to scan barcodes for years. It just feels like a ripoff. I’m not buying your premium even if the entire app is no longer free. I will just go use 1st Phorm’s app. One thing that I learned after studying a lot about nutrition is that your caloric intake should not be below your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate). At least not for an extended period of time. And yet, years ago in the beginning of my weight loss journey the calories goals had me at 1100 calories and I found out my BMR was closer to 1400. This had a profound effect on my mental health and weight loss. I had chronic fatigue and anxiety. It was awful. There was no warning about consuming lower calorie and being in starvation. There was no place I could add a BMR so the app would take that into account. I really hope you guys can refine that more because you would be able to teach people about BMR and good nutrition. You would be able to make sure people are not starving themselves and putting a wrench in their weight loss journey. You would be able to help people not feel awful and have more energy. You would help people not have their mental health suffer due to starvation. Please fix this and give back my barcode scan and I will change my rating to 5-stars!