Dietly vs MyFitnessPal
MyFitnessPal is a calorie and macro diary built on a very large food database. It advertises Meal Scan (camera recognition of a plate), Voice Log, Barcode Scan, micronutrient tracking, weight and exercise logging, intermittent fasting, and an AI Nutrition Coach.
Dietly scores one weekly photo out of 100, names the weak point holding the score back, and builds that week's training around it, with food logging attached.
The short answer
Pick MyFitnessPal if you want to count calories accurately and nothing else — it is the best free tool for that and it is not close.
Pick Dietly if you want the training decided for you from a measurement of your physique, with food logging attached.
Plenty of people log in MyFitnessPal out of habit and use Dietly for the scan and the plan. That works.
What each one costs
Dietly
Free to start. Pro unlocks unlimited scans, the full weekly plan, unlimited logging and the coach. The current price is on the App Store and Google Play listings — we do not restate it here, because a price copied into a second place is a price that goes stale in one of them.
MyFitnessPal
Premium is $79.99/year. Premium+ is $99.99/year or $24.99/month, as published on MyFitnessPal's own Premium page
Yes — a free tier exists. Barcode Scan and Meal Scan are listed as features of the paid tiers.
7-day free trial, stated for new or first-time users.
Prices above were read from MyFitnessPal’s own pages on 18 September 2026 and are quoted in the currency those pages use. They change, and they vary by country, platform and promotion — check the vendor’s page before you subscribe rather than trusting this table.
Feature by feature
| Dietly | MyFitnessPal | |
|---|---|---|
| Food database size | Partly Enough to keep the plan honest. It is not a research-grade food database. | Yes The largest in the category, and the reason most people are already using it. |
| Photo meal logging | Yes Photo, sentence or voice. | Yes "Meal Scan uses your camera to recognize everything on your plate." |
| Photo physique score | Yes One photo a week, scored out of 100 with a body-fat estimate. | No No body scanning or physique assessment appears on MyFitnessPal's feature pages. |
| Training plan built for you | Yes A full week of sessions from the scan, your goal and the equipment you have. | No Exercise logging is offered; workout programming is not advertised on its product pages. |
| Names a weak point to train around | Yes The scan names one area holding the score back, and the week is built around it. | No |
| Free tier | Yes Free to start; Pro is priced on the store listings. | Yes Free logging, with scanning and the coach in the paid tiers. |
Where MyFitnessPal is better
- The database. Fifteen years of user-submitted and verified entries means the obscure supermarket item you are holding is probably already in it, and no newer app has closed that gap.
- It is free to log, and free is the right price for a food diary if logging accurately is all you need.
- Micronutrients, fasting windows, recipe import, and integrations with nearly every wearable — the surface area is far wider than ours.
Where Dietly is better
- MyFitnessPal is a diary. It records what you did; it does not decide what you should do next, and it has no view on your training at all.
- Dietly is a training app first: the scan produces a score and a weak point, the week follows from it, and food logging exists to keep that plan fed rather than as the product itself.
- If you want a number told to you rather than a spreadsheet of your own history, this is the difference.
Questions
- What is the difference between Dietly and MyFitnessPal?
- MyFitnessPal is a calorie and macro diary built on a very large food database. It advertises Meal Scan (camera recognition of a plate), Voice Log, Barcode Scan, micronutrient tracking, weight and exercise logging, intermittent fasting, and an AI Nutrition Coach. Dietly scores one weekly photo out of 100, names the weak point holding the score back, and builds that week's training around it, with food logging attached.
- How much does MyFitnessPal cost?
- Premium is $79.99/year. Premium+ is $99.99/year or $24.99/month, as published on MyFitnessPal's own Premium page. Checked on 18 September 2026 — verify on MyFitnessPal's own page before subscribing, because prices change.
- Should I use MyFitnessPal or Dietly?
- Pick MyFitnessPal if you want to count calories accurately and nothing else — it is the best free tool for that and it is not close. Pick Dietly if you want the training decided for you from a measurement of your physique, with food logging attached.
Where these MyFitnessPal facts came from
MyFitnessPal is a product of its respective owner and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Dietly. Names and trademarks are used here to identify the product being compared. Everything on this page was taken from public pages published by MyFitnessPal on 18 September 2026; if something here is wrong or has changed, tell us and we will correct it.