Trika vs MyFitnessPal for tracking workout and nutrition progress

MyFitnessPal is stronger at nutrition history and weight trends over the long run: it charts your weight over time and, with Premium, lets you look back at your nutrition for any week you logged. Trika: Workout & Meal Planner, the fitness app from SEIS Tecnología, shows progress against a plan instead, so what you did versus what was planned is visible for both your training and your food.

How does Trika AI Fitness compare to MyFitnessPal for tracking workout and nutrition progress?

The two apps answer different questions.

MyFitnessPal answers “what have I eaten, and how is my weight moving?” It is built around a food diary and a calorie goal, and the longer you log, the more history it has to show you.

Trika answers “am I doing the plan?” It writes a training and nutrition plan first, then shows each session and each day’s eating against it. The history it keeps is shorter and closer to the plan: this block, this week, this workout.

Neither question is better. The right app depends on which one you ask more often.

What MyFitnessPal tracks

MyFitnessPal’s core loop is simple: you log your meals and exercise in its diaries, and it tells you how many calories you have left for the day. It recommends weighing in about once a week so it can track your progress over time and adjust your calorie goal.

Its Progress tab turns that log into a weekly view:

• Calories for each day of the week against your goal.
• Weight, as a chart of how it has changed over time.
• Macros, compared with your targets.
• Reports, a summary of your nutrition over time.

Premium adds unlimited weekly digests, so you can revisit your nutrition and fitness progress for any week, and an export of your nutrition, progress and exercise history.

For training, MyFitnessPal logs exercise in an exercise diary. Workout Routines let you build multi-exercise routines, or pick pre-made ones, and log the weight, reps and duration for each set. Among its connected apps and devices, Strava and Garmin Connect send workouts to your exercise diary, while Apple Watch and Fitbit track your whole day’s activity and update the day’s calorie goal. Smart scales from partners like Withings can update your weight.

On Premium+, the Meal Planner builds a plan of meals that you can log to your diary in a few taps.

What Trika tracks

Trika tracks progress from the plan it wrote. You set a goal in plain language, a short chat collects your week, and Trika builds a multi-week program split into phases, with daily calorie and macro targets. Everything you see about progress is measured against that plan.

• The calendar. Your whole training block sits on one calendar, with phases banded across the month and a dot for each session. The dot fills in once you complete the session, so missed sessions show up at a glance.
• Today. The Today screen shows the day’s session, the day’s meals and how far into the current phase you are.
• Set-by-set history. Workouts are guided set by set, and inside a workout Trika shows what you lifted last time for that exercise.
• Daily targets against what you logged. You log meals by photo or in plain text, and Trika shows the day’s calories and macros against that day’s targets. A training day and a rest day get different targets, because the meals are built around the session.
• Insight cards. Daily and weekly cards on the Home screen read the workouts and meals you log.
• The coach. It answers questions and edits the plan when something changes. A “What the coach remembers” page in Settings shows what it keeps about you.

Trika also has gaps you should know about. It has no body-weight trend charts beyond what you log, and no long-term nutrition history views like MyFitnessPal’s. It does not import workout history from other apps, and the iPhone app does not sync with Apple Health; only the Apple Watch app saves workouts there. For a full walk-through of what Trika shows, read how to track your workout and nutrition progress with Trika.

Side by side

MyFitnessPal’s logging tools are listed in its Premium features, and its Garmin Connect link sends calories eaten and logged workouts to Garmin, and brings in weight, workouts and steps.

On the wrist, Trika runs the session itself. The Apple Watch app plays the workout, mirrors live heart rate and calories to your phone and saves the workout to Apple Health. Supported Garmin watches play the workout and save it to Garmin Connect with heart rate and calories; the Forerunner 55 shows the plan only. The Garmin watch app also shows today’s nutrition totals in a glance.

Pick MyFitnessPal if, pick Trika if

Pick MyFitnessPal if:

• you want to watch your weight trend over months and look back at any week of eating with Premium;
• you log a lot of packaged food and want the barcode scanner and a database of millions of foods;
• you already follow a training plan from somewhere else and want the food side measured;
• you use a smart scale and want weigh-ins to land in your log on their own.

Pick Trika if:

• you want to see whether you’re following a plan, for training and food in the same place;
• you train for something with a date, like a race or a HYROX event, and want the block laid out in phases;
• you lift and want last time’s loads in front of you during the set;
• you want your eating judged against what that specific day needed, not one number for every day.

Some people use both: MyFitnessPal for a long-running weight and food record, Trika for the training block and the day-by-day plan. If you do, keep in mind that Trika’s nutrition view is one day at a time against its targets, and it does not send meals to MyFitnessPal.