How to Delete Your MyFitnessPal Account in a Few Easy Steps

Maybe you’re switching to a different fitness app, or just taking a break from calorie tracking altogether. Whatever the reason, deleting your MyFitnessPal account is totally doable – and it’s not as complicated as you might think. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the exact steps to permanently delete your account, whether you’re using the app or the website.

Why You Might Want to Delete Your MyFitnessPal Account

Over the years, MyFitnessPal has evolved from a simple food log into a sprawling fitness hub. That’s perfect for some users, but plenty of us now find it cluttered, pricey, or just not aligned with a home-cooking lifestyle. Common reasons for moving on include:

• Feature Overload: The app packs in workouts, social posts, ads, and challenges, great if you want everything in one place, exhausting if you just want to track food.
• Paywalled Basics: Barcode scanning, detailed macro goals, and an ad-free experience now live behind a Premium subscription. If you’re watching your budget, these once-free conveniences can feel like nickel-and-diming.
• Data Accuracy Issues: A massive, crowd-sourced food database means countless duplicate or outdated entries. You can end up guessing which entry is correct, hardly ideal if you’re serious about macro precision.
• Privacy Concerns: MyFitnessPal shares data with third-party advertisers. If you’d rather keep your food logs out of marketing algorithms, that’s a red flag.
• Advertising Fatigue: Banner ads and pop-ups distract from the core task of logging meals, especially on the free tier.
• Subscription Creep: The annual Premium fee (plus add-ons) can rival a gym membership. If you’re not using every bell and whistle, it may feel like wasted money.
• A Shift Toward Real Food: Home cooks often need nutrition calculated from recipes, not barcodes. MyFitnessPal still leans heavily on packaged-food logging, leaving whole-food eaters to juggle manual entries.

If any of these points hit home, deleting or downgrading MyFitnessPal could free up both mental space and subscription dollars. And if you cook most of your meals from scratch, switching to a recipe-centric option like ReciMe may be exactly the fresh start you’re after.

How to Delete Your MyFitnessPal Account

Deleting your MyFitnessPal account can be done in just a few steps, whether you’re using the app or a web browser. Here’s how to do it based on your device:

From the Website:

• Go to myfitnesspal.com and log into your account
• Click on My Home
• Go to Settings
• Click Delete Account and follow the prompts

From the iOS App:

• Open the MyFitnessPal app on your iPhone or iPad
• Tap More (the three dots at the bottom right)
• Scroll down and tap Help
• Select Delete Account and confirm

From the Android App:

• Open the MyFitnessPal app on your Android device
• Tap the Menu icon (three lines or dots)
• Go to Help
• Tap Delete Account and complete the process

The Cost of MyFitnessPal: Is Premium Worth the Price?

While MyFitnessPal offers a free tier, most of the features that people actually want, like barcode scanning, custom macro goals, and an ad-free experience, are locked behind a paywall. Over time, these features have shifted into two separate subscriptions: Premium and Premium+.

Here’s what they cost:

• Premium: $19.99/month or $79.99/year
• Premium+: $24.99/month or $99.99/year

That means you could end up paying nearly $100 a year just to use features that many apps now include for free.

So what do you get with Premium?

• Barcode scanner, Meal Scan, and voice logging for faster food entry
• Custom macro and micro goals (down to the gram)
• Intermittent fasting tracker
• Ad-free interface
• Advanced nutrition dashboards with weekly and custom views
• Priority support

Premium+ adds meal planning on top of that, including:

• 1,500+ curated recipes categorized by diet and prep time
• Weekly meal plans with built-in grocery lists
• Grocery delivery support in some countries

It’s a robust system, but not everyone needs this level of automation, especially if you cook most of your meals and prefer a more flexible, less expensive tool.

If you’re logging every snack and measuring macros to the gram, MyFitnessPal Premium might be worth it. But if you cook at home, eat real food, and want to stay organized without paying a premium, you should try a better and more budget-friendly fit.

How to Cancel Your MyFitnessPal Premium Subscription

If you’re switching to ReciMe or simply no longer need MyFitnessPal Premium, it’s important to know how to properly cancel your subscription to avoid unexpected charges. Here’s how to do it based on the platform where you originally signed up:

Important: You must cancel using the same platform where you purchased the subscription (iOS, Android, or Web). Cancel at least 24 hours before your next billing date to avoid auto-renewal.

Cancel on iOS (Apple App Store)

If you subscribed to MyFitnessPal Premium through your iPhone or iPad:

1. Open the Settings app on your device
2. Tap your name at the top
3. Tap Subscriptions
4. Select MyFitnessPal
5. Tap Cancel Subscription

Apple manages all billing, so MyFitnessPal cannot cancel or refund purchases made through iTunes.

Cancel on Android (Google Play)

If you purchased your subscription via the Google Play Store:

1. Open the Play Store app
2. Tap the Menu (three lines)
3. Tap Subscriptions
4. Find and select MyFitnessPal
5. Tap Cancel Subscription

For more details, visit Google’s support page.

Cancel on the Web

If you subscribed directly through the MyFitnessPal website:

1. Log in at www.myfitnesspal.com
2. Go to My Home – Premium
3. Click Subscription Settings in the upper right corner
4. Set Auto-Renewal from “On” to “Off”

Your Premium access will continue until the end of your current billing cycle. After that, your account will revert to the free version.

Look Beyond MyFitnessPal: Why ReciMe Is Different

If you’ve decided to delete MyFitnessPal or stop using it altogether, ReciMe is a great alternative, especially if you cook at home and want to focus on real, healthy food.

When we created ReciMe, we weren’t trying to build just another nutrition app. We noticed a real gap in the market: most apps are built around logging packaged foods, scanning barcodes, or tracking every bite like a math problem. But what about people who actually cook their own meals?

That’s where ReciMe comes in. We designed it for people like us, people who love to cook, care about what they eat, and want tools that actually fit into a real kitchen, not just a food database.

Key Points at a Glance:

• Calculate calories, protein, carbs, and fat for any saved recipe with one tap
• Save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook,or  Google Docs
• Auto-generate grocery lists sorted by aisle or by recipe
• Plan breakfasts, lunches, and dinners on an easy visual calendar
• Sync data in the cloud for access on your devices
• Scale ingredients to match serving sizes and convert units between metric and standard
• Keep the screen awake in cooking mode so the recipe stays visible while you chop and stir
• Share recipes by email, text, or social media in seconds

Just try it – you’ll love it:

Nutrition That Starts With Real Food

Let’s be honest: if you’re cooking your meals from scratch, barcode scanners and food logs filled with brand-name snacks don’t help much. You’re chopping vegetables, measuring spices, roasting proteins, and mixing sauces, not microwaving frozen meals or eating from a box.

ReciMe stands out because it calculates nutrition based on actual recipes, not pre-packaged foods. That means:

• You get accurate calorie and macro breakdowns for the food you actually cook
• You can adjust serving sizes or ingredients and instantly see the nutrition update
• You’re not forced to “guesstimate” by selecting the closest store-bought option in a database

This makes ReciMe way more useful for anyone living a healthy, home-cooked lifestyle. You’re eating real food, shouldn’t your nutrition app reflect that?

Final Thoughts

Deleting a MyFitnessPal account is straightforward, but deciding why you’re doing it, and what comes next, matters even more. For many home cooks, MyFitnessPal’s paywalls, ads, and packaged-food focus add friction instead of clarity. If you’re craving a nutrition app that speaks the language of real ingredients rather than barcodes, ReciMe is ready when you are.

So go ahead, close out MyFitnessPal, free up your digital space, and give ReciMe a spin. Your next nutritious recipe (and a far less stressful tracking routine) is just a tap away.

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