EntrenAI or MyFitnessPal: a training plan or a food diary?
MyFitnessPal is the most popular app for logging calories and macros, and it won't plan your training. EntrenAI builds an adaptive plan for 12 sports and gives you eating guidance around each session, without a food diary. They solve different problems, and plenty of people use both.
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MyFitnessPal is the best-known nutrition tracking app in the world, with more than 200 million users at the time of writing. You log what you eat and it adds up your calories and macros (protein, carbohydrate and fat) against a daily target. A food database of more than 5 million entries, a barcode scanner, recipes and meal plans are what make it so easy to stick with. What it doesn't do is train you: nobody opens MyFitnessPal to find out what to do in the gym or on the road.
EntrenAI is an AI training plan generator for iOS and Android. You answer a short questionnaire about your goal, level, available days and hours, equipment and injuries, and it builds a periodized plan for one of 12 sports: hypertrophy, general strength, powerlifting, running, cycling, swimming, triathlon, duathlon, HYROX, hybrid training, speed and power, and public-service entrance tests. A daily check-in on sleep, stress and fatigue feeds a Readiness Score that raises or lowers the load, and a missed session is redistributed across the week instead of breaking the block. On the nutrition side it gives you eating and hydration guidance around each session, adjusted to your weight and the intensity of the day, but it doesn't log calories or macros and it isn't a substitute for a nutritionist.
So the choice comes down to the problem you want to solve. If the question is what to eat, MyFitnessPal wins by a distance. If the question is what to train tomorrow, that's EntrenAI. If you're chasing a body-composition goal, you'll probably end up using both.
EntrenAI vs MyFitnessPal: side-by-side
No marketing fluff, no half-truths. Here’s what each app actually offers.
| Feature | EntrenAI | MyFitnessPal |
|---|---|---|
| Generates personalized training plans | Yes | No MyFitnessPal has an exercise section for logging what you did, but it doesn't build a plan or tell you what to train. |
| Calorie and macro tracking | No calorie or macro logging; instead it gives you eating and hydration guidance around each session | Excellent, the best app in the market for this |
| Food database | No | More than 5 million foods at the time of writing, including restaurant dishes |
| Barcode scanner for food | No | Yes, scan a product and it's logged automatically |
| Recipes and meal plans | No | Yes, recipes and meal plans with the macros already calculated EntrenAI tells you what to eat around a session, not what to cook for the week. |
| Plans for 12 sports | Yes: hypertrophy, strength, powerlifting, running, cycling, swimming, triathlon, duathlon, HYROX and hybrid | No |
| Workout and exercise library | Every session comes from your generated plan, with videos or animations for the main exercises; the library is smaller than a gym-only app's | Limited, the focus is on nutrition |
| Hydration tracking | Hydration guidance before, during and after each session, but no daily water log | Yes, glasses of water and a daily hydration total |
| Apple Health and Google Fit sync | Apple Health and Health Connect, plus Strava and Garmin | Yes, extensive integration with health platforms and devices |
| Price | €7.99/month or €23.99/year, with a 7-day free trial | Generous free tier, or Premium at $19.99/month at the time of writing |
Competitor info: www.myfitnesspal.com (retrieved May 7, 2026).
Who should pick which app?
EntrenAI is for you if you eat reasonably well but keep improvising your training: the lifter repeating the same routine, the runner with no structure between races, the HYROX or triathlon athlete trying to fit several disciplines into one week. You want to be told what to do tomorrow, and to have that adjusted when you sleep badly or miss a day.
MyFitnessPal is for you if your main lever is food. If you're cutting, bulking or simply want to know how much protein you actually eat, a food diary with a huge database and a barcode scanner is the right tool, and EntrenAI doesn't try to replace it.
Use both when the goal depends on training and eating at the same time: hypertrophy with a calorie surplus, fat loss with a deficit, or a race where fueling matters. EntrenAI plans the sessions and MyFitnessPal keeps track of what goes on the plate.
Frequently asked questions
It depends on what you're trying to change. If you want a structured plan and already eat sensibly, EntrenAI on its own covers you; if you train on your own and your real problem is food, MyFitnessPal on its own is enough. For goals that depend on both, such as hypertrophy with a calorie surplus or fat loss with a deficit, the usual setup is EntrenAI at €7.99/month plus MyFitnessPal Free, so the whole thing costs €7.99 a month.
For most people, yes. At the time of writing, the free tier lets you log calories and macros without limits, which is what the majority of amateur athletes actually need. Premium, at $19.99/month, adds meal plans, an exercise calorie counter and a recipe importer, and most people never miss them. Start free and upgrade only if you find yourself wanting one of those features.
No, and it doesn't try to. EntrenAI gives you eating and hydration guidance around each session, before, during and after, adjusted to your body weight and how hard the day is, but it doesn't log calories or macros and it isn't a substitute for a nutritionist. If you want a food diary, MyFitnessPal or Cronometer do that job far better than a training app ever could.
There is no direct integration between the two at the time of writing. On iOS both apps talk to Apple Health, so data can move between them through that hub. On Android, EntrenAI syncs with Health Connect while MyFitnessPal has traditionally relied on Google Fit, so check what your version of MyFitnessPal supports before counting on it.
Practical guidance tied to each session rather than a food diary. Before, during and after a workout it tells you what to eat and drink, scaled to your weight and the intensity of the day, so a long ride and a light gym session don't get the same advice. It never asks you to log a meal, and if you want to check whether you're hitting your numbers, that's what MyFitnessPal is for.
Start with EntrenAI if your goal is to get stronger, faster or build muscle: without a structured plan you won't progress much, however well you eat. Add MyFitnessPal Free later, once the training habit is in place and you want to fine-tune your diet. If your only goal is losing weight and you already move on your own, flip the order and start with the food diary.
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