Why I Quit MyFitnessPal (And Built Something Better)
I've tried every calorie tracker. MyFitnessPal, LoseIt, Cronometer, YAZIO, MacroFactor, Noom. I always quit within a few weeks.
Not because tracking doesn't work. Because the apps are terrible.
Rant warning
If you love MyFitnessPal, you might want to skip this one.
The feature creep problem
Open MyFitnessPal today. You'll find calorie tracking buried under habits, workouts, recipes, meal plans, fasting timers, articles, challenges, community forums, and a dozen other features nobody asked for.
Every year they add more. AI logging? Sure, bolt it on. Intermittent fasting? Add a tab. Workout tracking? Why not. The app grows, but the core experience never improves.
It's not just MyFitnessPal. They all do this. LoseIt has recipes and challenges. YAZIO has fasting and meal plans. Noom has an entire psychology curriculum. They're all competing to be everything to everyone.
I just wanted to log my lunch.
The onboarding gauntlet
Before you can log a single calorie in YAZIO, you have to answer dozens of questions. Your age. Your weight. Your goal weight. Your activity level. Your diet preferences. Your timeline. Your motivation. Page after page of wizards.
By the time you finish, you've forgotten why you downloaded the app.
And of course, you have to create an account first. Every single one of them forces sign-up before you can do anything. So they can send you emails. So they can sell your data. So they can show you ads for premium features you don't need.
I just wanted to log my lunch.
The design problem
Here's what really bothers me: these apps don't feel like they belong on my iPhone.
MyFitnessPal looks the same on iOS and Android. So does LoseIt. So does YAZIO. They're cross-platform apps that feel like it. Generic UI components. Dated visual design. No adoption of modern iOS patterns.
Apple released iOS 26 with beautiful new design language. Native apps like Health, Fitness, and Photos look incredible. Meanwhile, calorie trackers still look like they were designed in 2015. Because they were.
They can't update. Years of technical debt and cross-platform constraints mean they're stuck with what they have. A fresh coat of paint on top of aging architecture.
The ad situation
The first thing LoseIt shows you is a full-screen cookie consent page. Then a sign-up screen. There's no way to even try the app without creating an account first.
MyFitnessPal interrupts your flow with premium upsells and banner ads. You're trying to log breakfast and they're trying to sell you a subscription.
I understand apps need to make money. But there's a difference between a business model and an assault on user experience.
The "AI" that isn't
Some of these apps have added AI features. MyFitnessPal has photo logging now. But it feels exactly like what it is: a feature bolted onto a 15-year-old app.
The AI doesn't change how the app fundamentally works. You still end up in the same clunky database search. You still navigate the same bloated interface. The AI is a checkbox on a feature list, not a rethinking of the experience.
What I actually wanted
I wanted a calorie tracker that feels like something Apple would have built.
Clean. Fast. Focused. Deeply integrated with iOS. No account required. No ads. No feature bloat. Just one thing, done well.
AI-first, not AI-bolted-on
Built from the ground up around AI logging, not added as an afterthought.
No account required
Your data stays on your device. Syncs through iCloud. We never see it.
Native iOS design
Built specifically for iPhone with iOS 26 design language.
Deep OS integration
Widgets, Apple Health, Apple Watch. Works with your phone, not against it.
So we built it
Track·ish is the calorie tracker we wanted to use.
One screen. One goal. Three ways to log (photo, voice, text) that all take about fifteen seconds. Native iOS design that actually looks like it belongs on your phone. Widgets on your home screen. Apple Health sync. Apple Watch support.
No habits. No workouts. No recipes. No fasting timers. No articles. No challenges. No community forums. No wizards. No ads. No account required.
Just calorie tracking, done properly.
The philosophy
We didn't want to build a better MyFitnessPal. We wanted to build what calorie tracking looks like when you ignore everything MyFitnessPal has become and start fresh.
Who this is for
If you've tried calorie tracking before and quit because the apps felt like homework, Track·ish might be what you've been looking for.
If you want an app that feels native to iOS, respects your time, and doesn't try to be your fitness coach, nutritionist, and life guru all at once, give it a try.
If you want 47 features and a fasting timer and workout logging and meal plans, there are plenty of apps for that. This isn't one of them.
We built the app we wanted to use. Maybe you want to use it too.