Diet App Scorecard: Monthly User Ratings for Popular Calorie Trackers

Sergey Oreshko - Co-founder and CEO of MyNetDiary

Which calorie tracking app do users rate highest? The Diet App Scorecard analyzes App Store reviews for top diet apps monthly. See the latest ratings.

Latest Snapshot

• MyNetDiary led April 2026 with a 4.54 average rating based on 196 filtered reviews, essentially unchanged from March.
• MyFitnessPal's redesign backlash deepened into a second month, dropping another 0.59 stars to 2.31 on review volume that nearly doubled to 1,438 — a 1.36-star cumulative decline since February.
• Six of ten apps in the April scorecard showed review patterns flagged for authenticity concerns, up from one app in March.

What Is the Diet App Scorecard?

Choosing a calorie tracking app based on App Store ratings is harder than it should be. The displayed star rating is an all-time average that can span a decade, the auto-generated Review Summary often stays positive even when recent reviews turn negative, and the default "Most Helpful" sorting tends to surface older reviews instead of what's happening now.

Most "best calorie tracker" roundups don't solve that problem. They compare features, but not how those features hold up in daily use — how easy logging feels after a few weeks, how accurate the food database is for meals you actually eat, or what happens when you try to cancel. Those signals usually show up most clearly in recent user reviews.

MyNetDiary has been on the App Store since 2008. I'm Sergey Oreshko, the CEO, and I read competitor reviews constantly. The Diet App Scorecard exists because I believe users deserve a clearer view of what current users are actually experiencing before they download. As one of the apps analyzed, MyNetDiary should be evaluated with that context in mind.

Every month, we pull user reviews from the US App Store for calorie and food tracking apps ranked in the top 100 Health & Fitness category. We then run the same AI workflow and the exact same prompt on every app to filter duplicates and unrelated content, calculate that month's average review rating, and generate the review summary. Because every app is processed the same way, the analysis is impartial and avoids the subjective bias a human analyst would bring. We disclose the specific AI model for reproducibility, and publish the full prompt, and methodology on our methodology page.

If you prefer to do your own research, we recommend the five-minute review method: go to Ratings & Reviews on any app's store page, sort by Most Recent instead of Most Helpful, and read 20 to 30 reviews to spot patterns. For a step-by-step guide, see How to Find the Best Calorie Tracker App.

Current Scorecard: April 2026 at a Glance

# = download ranking in top 100 Health & Fitness, April 30, 2026.
*Flagged: review patterns show signs consistent with rating inflation — clusters of brief, content-light five-star reviews paired with detailed, specific one-star reviews.
See the methodology.

MyNetDiary received the highest average user rating (4.54) among the calorie tracking apps analyzed in the Diet App Scorecard for April 2026, based on 196 filtered reviews. April was a turbulent month for the category: MyFitnessPal's redesign backlash deepened to a second consecutive month of major decline, falling to 2.31 on review volume that nearly doubled to 1,438. Six of ten apps in the scorecard now show review patterns flagged for authenticity concerns, up from one app in March. See the full Diet App Scorecard April 2026 for detailed analysis.

Which Apps We Analyze

We don't maintain a fixed list of apps chosen by our editorial team. On the last day of each month, we check the US App Store's top 100 apps in the Health & Fitness category and identify all apps whose primary function is calorie tracking, food tracking, or diet tracking. We exclude apps that aren't primarily diet or calorie tracking — workout-only trackers, step counters, meditation apps, period trackers, and the like.

The scorecard adapts to the market. If a new app rises in popularity, it enters the analysis. If an app falls out of the top 100, it exits. If an app is popular enough to rank in the top 100 — whether it got there organically or through paid marketing and advertising — it belongs in the analysis. The market decides which apps are relevant, not us.

Some of the most interesting findings come from this approach. Apps that spend heavily on advertising to reach the top 10 in downloads but receive poor user reviews once people actually use them reveal a gap between marketing-driven popularity and actual user satisfaction. That gap is exactly what the scorecard is designed to surface.

What Each Monthly Scorecard Includes

Each monthly installment covers every qualifying app with:

• Filtered average rating. The average star rating recalculated from that month's reviews only, after removing duplicates and unrelated reviews. This is a review rating for the current month — not the all-time star rating the App Store displays.
• Review summary. A 100 to 120 word AI-generated summary of what users said, representing positive and negative sentiment proportionally. Each app's summary is independent and doesn't compare to other apps.
• Authenticity assessment. Whether each app's review patterns appear organic, bimodal, or suspicious, as assessed by the AI using the same analysis prompt applied to every app.
• Comparison table. All apps side by side with ratings, top praise, top complaint, and authenticity, listed in download ranking order.
• Trend analysis. Cross-app observations about the themes that dominated reviews that month.

For deeper analysis of specific dimensions like food database accuracy, free tier value, and logging speed, see our companion articles in the Diet App Scorecard series.

Which App Might Be Right for You?

There isn't one best calorie tracking app for everyone. Different apps appeal to different users. The Simple app often resonates with people who want intermittent fasting structure and a coaching-oriented experience. Some fitness-focused users are drawn to MacroFactor's more analytical style, though reviews also point to execution issues. MyNetDiary is most often praised for ease of use, free barcode scanning, broad nutrition detail, and a staff-verified food database. The purpose of the scorecard is not to choose for you, but to show which strengths and tradeoffs users are reporting right now.

Scorecard Archive

Diet App Scorecard April 2026: 10 Apps, 2,995 Reviews Analyzed. MyNetDiary led with 4.56; FoodPilot lowest at 1.95. MyFitnessPal dropped 0.77 stars following its March redesign — the sharpest single-month decline in the scorecard.

Diet App Scorecard March 2026: 12 Apps, 2,900+ Reviews Analyzed. MyFitnessPal's redesign backlash deepened to a second consecutive month of major decline, falling to 2.31 on review volume of 1,438. Six of ten apps now show review patterns flagged for authenticity concerns, up from one in March. Cal AI users reported daily calorie targets as low as 200. MyNetDiary held at 4.54; Cal AI lowest at 1.92.

Diet App Scorecard February 2026: Which Calorie Tracker Has the Best User Ratings? Nine apps, 1,601 reviews analyzed. MyNetDiary led with 4.56; BitePal lowest at 1.79.

About the Methodology

The scorecard uses one consistent process across all qualifying apps. For the exact analysis prompt, data sources, filtering rules, AI model, and authenticity framework, see the full Diet App Scorecard methodology.

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