Heala vs MyFitnessPal

MyFitnessPal is the default food logger and it earned that. This page is about what it does not do — and what that costs you in other subscriptions.

MyFitnessPal

• Nutrition logging
• The largest food database
• Barcode scanning

Heala

• Nutrition logging
• Training and cardio
• Sleep and recovery
• Body composition
• Cycle, habits, meds

The short version

MyFitnessPal is a nutrition app. Heala is a nutrition app that also holds your training, cardio, sleep, recovery, body composition, cycle, habits and medication, and reads all of it with one coach.

They cost the same for a year on the US App Store: both $79.99, checked in August 2026. The difference is not the price. It is how many other subscriptions you still need afterwards.

What MyFitnessPal does better

The food database. MyFitnessPal has had two decades of user submissions and it is the largest in consumer nutrition — if you eat something obscure, it is more likely to be in there.

Recognition of packaged food and restaurant menus, for the same reason: a database gets better the more people use it.

If all you want is to count calories and nothing else, MyFitnessPal is a complete answer and you do not need this page.

What Heala adds

One sentence logs anything. "Slept about six hours, squats 5×5 at 100 kg, and chicken and rice for lunch" writes three separate entries across three domains — sleep, a workout and a meal. Typed or spoken.

The coach has 41 actions it can take across eight domains, so it is an input layer for the whole app rather than a chat window bolted onto a food diary.

A 3D body twin from four photos, with ten circumference estimates, that you can rotate and compare against last month.

Training that adapts, cardio with GPS, sleep and recovery, habits, medication and cycle — in the same subscription.

Native capability — built into the app, not displayed from another one. Prices are US App Store, August 2026.

	Heala	MyFitnessPal
Nutrition logging + food AI	Yes	Yes
Adaptive strength programming	Yes	Partial
Cardio with GPS routes	Yes	No
Sleep, recovery and strain	Yes	No
3D body composition	Yes	No
Cycle, habits and medication	Yes	Partial
A year	$79.99	$79.99

Who should switch

Switch if you are already paying for a second or third app — a workout app, a running app, a recovery app — and would rather have one bill and one place where those numbers meet.

Do not switch if you only track food, you are happy, and the database is why. You would be paying the same money for features you will not open.

Questions