MyNetDiary Community: Groups, Success Stories, and Shared Recipes

Sergey Oreshko - Co-founder and CEO of MyNetDiary

Public and private groups, 4,000+ member success stories, shared recipes with full nutrition facts, and food diary sharing with friends, all free inside the app. How the MyNetDiary Community works and how to use it. Already using MyNetDiary? Open the Community.

The MyNetDiary Community is the social part of the app, one tap from the dashboard. It shows no ads, and it never touches your diary unless you choose to share it. You can track for years without opening it, and many members do.

What is the MyNetDiary Community?

The MyNetDiary Community is a tab inside the app where members post updates, recipes, and success stories, join or create groups, add friends, and chat one to one. Participation is optional. It holds more than 7,000 public and private groups, more than 4,000 success stories, and nearly 5,000 shared recipes.

MyNetDiary Community at a glance, all free (as of September 2026)

Posts on the home feed and in groups come from members. Ask RD is a separate tab where members submit nutrition and tracking questions to MyNetDiary's registered dietitians, who also write the articles and the Premium recipes elsewhere in the app.

How do groups work in MyNetDiary?

Groups are sub-communities with their own feed. Public groups are open to anyone browsing the Groups tab; private groups are invitation-only, which suits a family, a workplace, or a few friends on the same plan. Any member can create a group, and they are organized by category.

Groups tab: browse public groups or create a private, invitation-only one
Posts made inside a group are visible to its members, who can comment, like, and share recipes there the same way they do on the home feed. MyNetDiary runs an official Recipes & Meals group for recipe posts.

If what you want is a weight loss support group inside your calorie counter, create a private group. Members do not see one another's diaries because they share a group: a diary owner enables Share My Diary for a specific friend, and sharing can be one-way or mutual.

What are MyNetDiary success stories?

Success stories are member posts about a result and how it happened, usually with before and after photos. More than 4,000 have been posted. Members write them, not MyNetDiary, and each one describes that member's own experience; individual results vary.

Success story posts pair before and after photos with the habits behind the result. Read them for the specifics, such as which meals someone pre-logged or how they got through a plateau. That practical detail is the part worth reading; the result is that member's own.

Separately, MyNetDiary's peer-reviewed cohort study of 5,132 engaged users, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, found more food-tracking days per week associated with greater six-month weight loss; it measured tracking behavior, not Community participation.
To post your own, open Home, start a new post, choose Success Story, and add your photos and text. Posts are moderated for the Community Standards described below.

How does recipe sharing work?

Any recipe saved in My Foods can be posted to the Community or sent to a friend as a link. Because MyNetDiary calculates recipes from its staff-verified food database, built on USDA and NCC research-grade sources, a shared recipe arrives with full nutrition facts, up to 108 nutrients per serving, rather than a calorie count alone.

Shared recipes carry full nutrition facts calculated from the verified database
The Share menu sits under the three dots on any saved recipe. Share Recipe Link puts a link in a chat; a friend taps it and the recipe lands in their My Recipes with servings included. The same menu can share recipes with friends who do not use MyNetDiary by email or text as a link, which opens a web page with the recipe and its nutrition facts, or as a PDF. Screenshots for each step are in our recipe-sharing guide.

Member recipes are separate from the 600+ recipes our registered dietitians designed for MyNetDiary Premium; member recipes are what other members cook and chose to share.

Friends, chats, and sharing your diary

Adding a friend does not expose your diary. Your food log stays private until you open Community, then Friends, select that person, and switch on Share My Diary; that friend then sees your food diary, exercise, water, and steps, while your weight, measurements, and notes stay private. You can switch it off at any time, per friend. Chats are one to one and carry recipe links, meal ideas, and check-ins.

Families use the same switch to log one dinner for everyone: a family member with access to your diary picks your logged foods from the Friends tab in food search and adjusts the amounts, on iPhone or Android. That option and the iPhone-only iMessage option are on the family food sharing page.

Sharing a diary with a friend is different from Professional Connect, which is how dietitians and coaches review client diaries with structured reports and messaging, at no cost to the practitioner.

Which calorie counter app has a community with groups and recipe sharing?

MyNetDiary, MyFitnessPal, and Lose It! have communities inside the app; Cronometer runs a separate web forum, and MacroFactor points members to Facebook and Reddit groups. MyNetDiary combines public and private groups, success stories, recipe sharing, optional diary sharing, and a free Ask RD tab, with no ads in the free tier; MyFitnessPal and Lose It! show ads in theirs.

In-app community features across major calorie counters (verified September 2026)

Sources and methodology: competitor features verified September 2026 from the MyFitnessPal Help Center, Cronometer Support, the Lose It! Help Center, the MacroFactor Help Center, and in-app testing. MyNetDiary figures are counts from MyNetDiary's production database as of the same date. Features and prices change; check each app for current details.

Privacy, moderation, and age

You appear in the Community under a display name and avatar you choose; nothing from your diary is visible unless you share it with a friend. Posts and comments must follow the Community Standards in the MyNetDiary Terms of Use: no harassment, no derogatory remarks about weight, body type, or any personal characteristic, and no promotion of eating disorders or very-low-calorie diets.

Members can report a post, a comment, or a profile from the app, and MyNetDiary can remove content or restrict accounts. Posts on the Home feed and in public groups are visible to other Community members; posts in a private group are visible to that group's members. Keep your address, full name, and medical details out of posts either way. Community is for adults 18 and older.

Does MyNetDiary have challenges or leaderboards?

No. MyNetDiary has no head-to-head challenges and no public leaderboards. Accountability comes from groups, from friends who can see your diary when you allow it, and from your own progress reports and charts.

Our guide to social support for weight loss covers how to get the most out of it.

The bottom line

For members who want social support alongside tracking, the Community adds groups, friends, success stories, shared recipes, food diary sharing, and a registered dietitian to ask, without adding another app or subscription.

Open the Community tab in the MyNetDiary app to look around. If you’re new, the MyNetDiary Community is one tap from the dashboard: try MyNetDiary free on iPhone and Android.

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