A MyFitnessPal alternative built around your lifting.
MyFitnessPal is built for tracking food. Ferro logs your food too, fills in each workout from your last one, tells you when to add weight and sets your calories from what you actually burn.
Ferro and MyFitnessPal, side by side
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What the app is for
Ferro
Your training and your food in one app, and Ferro sees both.
MyFitnessPal
Nutrition tracking. The home page calls MyFitnessPal “Nutrition tracking for real life.” and counts over 18 million foods.
Source: MyFitnessPal home page, as ofLogging a meal
Ferro
Snap a photo, scan a barcode or label, or type what you ate. Ferro lists each food with calories, protein, carbs and fat, and you can fix any line.
MyFitnessPal
Search, meal scan, barcode or voice. The Premium page lists “Barcode Scan & Meal Scan” and “Voice Log” as Premium features.
Source: MyFitnessPal Premium page, as ofLifting
Ferro
Ferro writes your training plan, fills in each session from your last one and suggests when to add weight, lift by lift.
MyFitnessPal
Every member can track workouts alongside food. The Premium page lists “Guided Meal & Workout Plans” as a Premium feature.
Source: MyFitnessPal Premium page, as ofYour targets
Ferro
Ferro works out what you burn from your meals and weigh-ins, and adjusts your calorie target to match. Or type your own and Ferro keeps yours.
MyFitnessPal
The Premium page lists custom goals for protein, carbs and fat as a Premium feature.
Source: MyFitnessPal Premium page, as ofCoaching
Ferro
Ask Ferro how your week went. Ferro answers from your workouts, meals and weigh-ins.
MyFitnessPal
An AI Nutrition Coach that, in MyFitnessPal’s words, “gives you personalized advice based on your diary and goals.”
Source: MyFitnessPal home page, as ofFerro is not affiliated with or endorsed by MyFitnessPal. Product names belong to their owners. What we say about MyFitnessPal comes from the public pages linked above.
When to add weight
Each lift shows what you did last time and the next step, like “Try 152.5kg (+2.5)”, or tells you to repeat the weight when your reps slipped.
Targets from what you actually burn
Ferro learns what you actually burn from your meals, movement and weigh-ins, and adjusts your calories to match. You can see your daily burn, the 12-week trend and how Ferro worked out the number.
Ask Ferro how your week went
Ferro reads the workouts and meals you logged and tells you what to change next.
Who should stay with MyFitnessPal
- You track food and don’t lift, so a training plan adds nothing for you.
- You rely on MyFitnessPal connecting to your other apps and devices.
- You have years of food diary in MyFitnessPal and want to keep logging in the same place.
Questions people ask
- Does Ferro have a food database?
- Yes. Search or scan a barcode and Ferro looks the food up in public food databases. Snap a photo or describe a meal and Ferro estimates each food on the plate. Fix a food once and Ferro keeps your version.
- Why would a lifter switch?
- Because your training and your food meet in one place. Each session opens with last time's weights and reps, Ferro suggests when to add weight, and your calorie target follows your weigh-ins. Ask Ferro how your week went and the answer covers both.
Log your next meal and your next session.
Ferro keeps your food and your training in one place, and tells you what to change next.
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