But, it's an app that's connected to hardware that was sold, and that /is/ news, because the hardware is now much less useful than it was when it was marketed and sold.
Agreed, although the idea of MyFitnessPal being killed for a moment activated my long-held desire to build an alternative. MFP is bloated, locked down (without a premium subscription) and the UX lacks thoughtfulness in many painful ways (two examples: navigating between diary dates and viewing macronutrients per meal).
I know there are at least 2 popular alternatives. My only real complaint of MFP is it takes like a full minute to start up. Don't know if its because I run adblock on my phone, and they have a long timeout to some metrics endpoint. But its a minor annoyance.
Nah, I'm usually doing something else while I log. So I just pay attention to that for a minute. They already data mine my input I'm sure, as well as there are ads. I can find something better to spend $3 on per month.
There are lots of good alternatives. I've been bootstrapping my alternative tracker since 2011. Started as a hobby project back then but now at $2M ARR and growing.
Same here, I was about to spend all weekend scrapping their data to rebuild it if they were just going to shut it off. It’s definitely the top calorie tracker out there right now