Optimize vs MyFitnessPal.

The short version

MyFitnessPal is built for one job — counting calories and macros from a huge food database — and it does that job well for a general audience. Optimize is built for people who measure their whole protocol: food and compounds (peptides, anabolics, HRT), training, weight, body composition, and multi-phase cycle plans, with an AI coach that actually understands biohacking. If food logging is all you need, MyFitnessPal is fine. If you need everything else in one place, that's the gap Optimize fills.

Where MyFitnessPal wins

Credit where it's due. MyFitnessPal has a massive crowd-sourced food database and barcode catalog built over many years — for obscure packaged foods you'll sometimes find a match there that nothing else has. It has native app-store apps, a large community, and integrations with a long list of fitness platforms. If your needs are purely "count my calories and macros," it's a mature, capable tool.

Where Optimize wins

Everything that isn't food. MyFitnessPal has no concept of a peptide, a vial, a reconstitution, an injection site, or a multi-phase protocol — because it was never built for that user. Optimize was. You log a dose in two taps and the vial decrements itself; your reconstitution recipe saves per compound; site rotation is automatic; and your cycle plan puts macros and compounds on the same timeline. The AI coach reads your actual numbers — calories so far, doses due, training load, recent wellbeing — instead of generic tips.

And it's genuinely free: no premium tier hiding the useful features, no ads, no per-scan AI limits.

Which should you use?

• Use MyFitnessPal if you only track food and want the deepest packaged-food database.
• Use Optimize if you track compounds, TRT, peptides, training, body composition and cycles — and want them in one free app that understands them.

Optimize is a PWA, so there's nothing to install from an app store — open it, sign in with Microsoft or Google, and you're tracking in under a minute.