MyFitnessPal app update degrades usability and performance
💚 healthproduct problem6 reports ●●●●●
A MyFitnessPal user reports that the latest app update introduced persistent freezing caused by bottom-screen ads, removed landscape mode functionality, and increased the number of steps required to log food.
What people do today
- Switching to a competitor fitness tracking app
- Canceling subscription
- Attempting to force-close and restart the app
🔧 Fix this
Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:
- Develop a browser-based dashboard extension that allows users to view macro breakdowns in landscape mode regardless of mobile app limitations.
- Create a simplified 'quick-log' widget or companion app that bypasses the main app's ad-heavy interface for faster food entry.
- Build a community-driven 'app version tracker' that alerts users to performance regressions in specific software updates before they upgrade.
- A browser extension that injects a simplified, high-contrast dashboard overlay onto the web version of the app.
- A community-built 'classic view' skin or plugin for mobile users who prefer the previous UI layout.
Real voices
“It locks up all the time because of the ad on the bottom of the screen. I can no longer rotate the app and use it in landscape format which means I can no longer see my breakdown of macros per meal. I have to go through 50 extra steps to now log my food.”
“it is so hard to see now how many calories you have left, what any of your meals involved and how many calories or any of your nutritional data.”
“Every update brings new features that are annoying, like the confetti with almost every entry that continues despite numerous complaints (mine included). This week’s update added a link to a “tip” where the swipe function had been, no way to bypass it.”
“they out price the value, cut the features out of the free version (you can’t even add something multiple days in a row without paying)”
“within the last few months each AI update has brought the app completely down”
“Someone in marketing told them they needed AI and apparently they outsourced it to someone’s 80-year-old parent who logged into ChatGPT with their AOL email.”
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