MyFitnessPal is the default. It has been the default for over a decade, and the reason is its food database: enormous, crowd-sourced, and containing the specific supermarket own-brand thing you are holding. That is a genuine moat and this page is not going to pretend it isn't.
But MyFitnessPal was built as a calorie counter that later added some exercise logging, and it shows. If you lift, you have almost certainly ended up running it alongside a real workout app.
What each app covers
| OneRep | MyFitnessPal | |
|---|---|---|
| Food search | Yes, USDA-backed | Yes, very large database |
| Barcode scanning | Yes, free | Yes |
| Photo meal logging | Yes | Yes |
| Recipes and saved meals | Yes | Yes |
| Meal prep batches and grocery lists | Yes | No |
| Water, supplements, fasting | Yes | Partial |
| Strength training logger (routines, sets, rest timer) | Yes | Very limited |
| Previous set numbers, exercise history, volume trends | Yes | No |
| Video form analysis | Yes, 5 analyses/mo free | No |
| AI coach reading your training and food | Yes, 10 requests/mo free | Partial |
| Combined training + nutrition trends | Yes | No |
| Free tier | Yes, permanent | Yes, limited |
Where MyFitnessPal is the better choice
- Database breadth. If you eat a lot of packaged food from a lot of different regions, MyFitnessPal will have entries OneRep does not. That is the honest trade-off of a curated USDA-backed catalogue versus a crowd-sourced one.
- You do not lift. If your training is running, cycling or classes, most of what OneRep adds over MyFitnessPal is a strength logger you will not open.
- Integrations. MyFitnessPal connects to a very long tail of other fitness services.
The flip side of a crowd-sourced database is worth naming too: duplicate entries with different macros for the same food, and user-submitted numbers nobody has checked. OneRep starts from USDA FoodData Central instead (roughly 455,000 distinct products cleaned from the raw release), which is smaller and considerably more trustworthy per entry.
Where OneRep is the better choice
It is an actual workout app. Routines, previous weight and reps beside every set, a rest timer, exercise history, volume and strength trends, two concurrent workout slots, persisted active workouts. MyFitnessPal's exercise logging is a calorie-offset feature, not a training log, and lifters have always known that.
Nutrition and training on one timeline. Twelve weeks of strength trends, weekly consistency, body measurements and calories in the same view. This is the thing neither app in a two-app stack can show you.
Free means free. Food logging, barcode scanning, recipes, workout logging, progress and cross-device sync are unlimited with no trial window. Photo-assisted meal logging is included. The AI features are not walled off either: free accounts get a monthly allowance of 10 requests, and the €4.99 Coach subscription raises it to 500 rather than unlocking the feature.
Coach reads both sides. Ask for a dinner that fits your remaining macros and it works from today's actual log and your goals, then saves the recipe and offers to log it in one tap. Ask it to reshape the week around a missed session and it works from your real routine. Every write is shown before it saves and undoable afterwards.
Snap the plate. Photograph a meal, get an estimate of the portions and macros, correct anything that looks wrong, and log it. It is faster than searching when you are eating something homemade.
The honest summary
If you already log food in MyFitnessPal and lift with a separate app, the question is whether one slightly smaller food database in the same app as your training log beats two apps with a bigger database in one of them. For most lifters tracking both, it does. For someone who mainly counts calories and rarely touches a barbell, it probably doesn't.
Pricing
OneRep Core is free forever, AI included within a monthly allowance; OneRep Coach is €4.99 a month via Stripe and raises that allowance from 10 requests to 500. Cancel any time. MyFitnessPal has a free tier and a Premium subscription; check their pricing page rather than trusting a number on a competitor's site.
Try it
Create a free account. Log tomorrow's food and tomorrow's session in the same place and see whether the connection between them is more obvious.
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