Minthe vs MyFitnessPal
Choose MyFitnessPal if
- Calories and macros are your goal and your gut is fine.
- You eat out a lot and need restaurant dishes in the database.
- You use Android, Wear OS, or one of its 40+ connected trackers.
- You are on a GLP-1 medication and want to log side effects next to your nutrition.
- You want an AI nutrition coach or meal plans with grocery delivery (Premium Plus).
Choose Minthe if
- You log food already and still cannot say which of it drives your bloating.
- You want each food compared against how often you bloat anyway.
- You want FODMAP groups counted by dose and a suspect confirmed by a test.
- You want barcode lookup without paying for it.
- You want one app for macros and gut symptoms, on iPhone.
Where MyFitnessPal is genuinely better
- The database, by a wide margin. More than 20.5 million foods, including restaurant dishes. Minthe has a little over a thousand generic foods and 370 trigger foods. It reaches packaged products through Open Food Facts. For a restaurant meal or an obscure brand, MyFitnessPal will find it and Minthe often will not.
- Maturity and scale. On the App Store since 2009, with 2.37 million US ratings averaging 4.7. Minthe launched in August 2026.
- Platforms and integrations. iPhone, Android and Wear OS, plus more than 40 fitness trackers, watches and health apps. Minthe is iPhone only.
- GLP-1 side-effect tracking. It lets you log how you feel on GLP-1 medications to spot patterns in your symptoms and side effects. Minthe has nothing built for medication.
- Coaching and planning. A built-in AI nutrition coach plus meal planning with grocery delivery on Premium Plus. Minthe has neither.
The question a calorie counter does not ask
A food log answers "what did I eat". Bloating raises a different question: which of what I ate comes before my bad days more often than chance. Answering it needs your symptoms in the same place as your food. It needs an allowance for reactions that arrive hours or a day later. Above all it needs a comparison against how often you bloat on days without the food. MyFitnessPal’s listing describes none of that for gut symptoms. It is not what the app was built to do.
Minthe is built around exactly that comparison. Minthe compares every food with how you usually feel, allows for reactions that arrive hours or a day later and filters out results that could be coincidence. Then it schedules a with-and-without test before calling anything a trigger. Here is how it works.
What Minthe does for macros
Minthe is not a macro tracker first, but it does track macros. Pick the nutrition and macros mode at setup and it gives you calorie and macro targets from your body metrics with per-macro overrides, sugars, saturated fat, sodium and fiber per food, alcohol as its own macro, a weight history with a trend line and maintenance calories measured from what you actually logged against how your weight moved rather than from a formula alone. Barcode lookup through Open Food Facts is free on every plan, a label scan reads the printed nutrition panel, macros on any item can be corrected by hand and homemade mixes can be built by weight. A Home Screen and Lock Screen widget shows the macros left today. The nutrition you log can be written to Apple Health. All of that is free, with AI scans limited to a few a week on the free plan. Nothing in it scolds: over target is not a failure state. Minthe is not a weight-loss app. It does not count vitamins and minerals.
Side by side
| MyFitnessPal | Minthe | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Calorie and macro tracker | Gut symptom tracker with a statistical trigger engine, plus a nutrition mode |
| Platform | iPhone, Android, Wear OS | iPhone only, iOS 18 or later. No Android, no web. The app is in English. |
| Food database | 20.5M+ foods, including restaurant dishes | About 1,100 generic foods and 370 trigger foods, plus Open Food Facts barcodes |
| Free tier | Nutrition, weight and exercise tracking | Logging, macros, barcode lookup, export, 3 AI scans a week |
| Paid price | Premium $19.99/month or $79.99/year. Premium Plus price not verified | $6.99/month or $39.99/year. Elite $59.99/year for more scans. |
| Barcode scan | Premium | Free on every plan |
| Photo logging | Meal scan, Premium | AI photo scan: 3 a week free, 50 on Premium |
| Gut symptom logging | Not described in its listing | Yes: bloating, gas, pain, reflux, stool and more |
| Symptom tracking of any kind | GLP-1 side effects | Gut symptoms; no medication-specific feature |
| Food-to-symptom analysis | Not described in its listing | Yes, in plain English at /method. |
| FODMAP data | Not described in its listing | FODMAP groups counted by dose |
| Micronutrients | not verified | Sugars, saturated fat, sodium and fiber. No vitamins or minerals |
| Maintenance calories | not verified | Measured from logged intake and weight trend |
| Apple Health | not verified. Lists 40+ connected apps and devices | Reads sleep, steps, active energy, resting heart rate, weight and cycle. Can write the nutrition you log back to Health. |
| Widgets | not verified on iPhone. Wear OS tiles | Home Screen and Lock Screen: macros left today and today’s step of a running test. |
| Coach | AI nutrition coach | No. There is no dietitian or coach in Minthe. |
| Track record | Since 2009, 2.37M US ratings averaging 4.7 | Launched August 2026. No long track record yet. |
Checked September 2026. "Not verified" means we could not confirm it from public sources, not that the feature is missing.
Keep it, switch, or run both
Keep MyFitnessPal if you track for calories and macros and your gut is not the problem. Nothing here is a reason to move. Its database will serve you better than ours.
Consider switching if your gut has become the main question and you want one app. Minthe tracks calories and macros well enough for most people and adds the symptom side. You will notice the smaller database on restaurant meals and niche brands.
Run both if you rely on MyFitnessPal’s database or integrations and want the gut question answered too. Be honest with yourself about double logging: a second diary you abandon in week two tells you nothing.
The other macro trackers: Minthe vs Cronometer and Minthe vs MacroFactor. Choosing a food diary for symptoms more broadly? The food diary roundup.
Minthe is a wellness and self-tracking tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose or treat any condition and isn't a substitute for professional medical advice. If you have red-flag symptoms such as blood in your stool, unintentional weight loss, difficulty swallowing, persistent vomiting or a fever alongside gut symptoms, see a clinician rather than tracking them.
Frequently asked
Can I use MyFitnessPal to track IBS or bloating?
You can use it as a food log, a thorough one. What its listing does not describe is any way to log gut symptoms against that food, or to work out which foods come before your bad days. The one symptom feature it lists is for GLP-1 medications: logging how you feel on the drug to spot patterns in side effects. For bloating and IBS the food record is the easy half. The hard half is the comparison. A calorie counter does not make it.
Should I switch from MyFitnessPal to Minthe?
Only if your main question has become your gut. If you log for calories and macros and that works for you, keep MyFitnessPal: its food database is vastly larger than Minthe’s, it covers restaurant dishes, runs on Android and connects to more than 40 trackers and apps. If you already log carefully and still cannot say which food sets off your bloating, that is the question Minthe is built for. It tracks macros too if you want one app.
Can I use both?
Yes. For some people that is the right answer, though double logging is the fastest way to stop logging. A workable split is MyFitnessPal for the numbers and Minthe on the days and meals you want to test. Minthe writes the nutrition you log to Apple Health. There is no import from MyFitnessPal, so each app only knows what you logged in it.
Does MyFitnessPal have FODMAP information?
Not that its listing describes. It tells you the nutrients in a food, not its FODMAP groups. Minthe’s catalogue of 370 trigger foods carries FODMAP groups by dose. A pre-meal lookup tells you how much of a food it takes to count as an exposure.
I am on a GLP-1 medication. Which should I use?
MyFitnessPal has a feature built for you: it lets you log how you feel on GLP-1 medications to spot patterns in symptoms and side effects, next to the nutrition you track. Minthe has no medication-specific feature. What it adds is the food side: whether a particular food, rather than the drug, lines up with your worse gut days. If you have severe or persistent abdominal pain or vomiting on any GLP-1 medication, contact your prescriber rather than tracking it.