How to export your MyFitnessPal data
MyFitnessPal's data export is for Premium and Premium+ only, as of October 2026. What it contains, what free accounts can do instead, and how to move to GreaseFit by hand.
Short answer: As of October 2026, MyFitnessPal's own export tool is only for Premium and Premium+ subscribers. It emails you a zip of three CSV files: meal-level nutrition, progress (weight and body measurements) and exercise. On a free account there is no export tool; MyFitnessPal points free users to a printable report on the website, diary sharing, or a personal data request. GreaseFit cannot import a MyFitnessPal export today. Lose It is the only importer, so the move to GreaseFit is manual, and this guide shows how to make it quick.
Every fact about MyFitnessPal below comes from MyFitnessPal's own help center, checked on 9 October 2026. Apps change their menus and plans, so the sources are linked at the end and worth a quick look before you start.
If you have Premium or Premium+
MyFitnessPal's help center says the data export is "available to Premium and Premium+ subscribers". It describes the steps like this as of October 2026:
- iPhone: open the More menu (or your profile icon), choose Nutrition, tap Export, pick a date range and tap Export My Information.
- Android: open the More menu, go to Progress or Nutrition, tap the export icon, confirm your email address and date range, and tap Export.
- Website: open Reports, click Export, choose a date range and click Export.
The data arrives by email, as CSV files inside one zip folder, with a download button. MyFitnessPal suggests downloading it on a computer rather than a phone. It goes to the email address on your account, so check that is an inbox you can still reach.
Every export contains the same three files. You choose the date range, not the contents:
- Meal level nutrition details: calories, macros, micronutrients and timestamps for what you logged, summarised by meal, plus food notes.
- Progress history: weight, neck, waist and hip entries.
- Exercise history: workouts, step counts and calorie burns from a connected tracker, plus exercise notes.
If you have a free account
MyFitnessPal states that free accounts do not include a data export tool. It lists two alternatives:
- A printable report on the website, from the Food section, where you pick the dates and then print it or save it as a PDF.
- Sharing your diary with a trainer, doctor or nutritionist.
Separately, MyFitnessPal's privacy pages describe a right to access and a right to data portability, which you can ask for through its Privacy Request Center or by phone. Whether that applies to you depends on where you live, and MyFitnessPal does not publish a turnaround time, so treat it as the slow route.
A PDF report is fine as a personal record. It is not something any tracker will import.
Can GreaseFit import it?
No, not today. GreaseFit has one importer, for Lose It, and it does not read MyFitnessPal files. I would rather say that before you spend time exporting than after.
Keep your export anyway. It is your history, and a zip of CSV files opens in any spreadsheet if you ever want to look back at your weight trend or a past diet phase.
If a MyFitnessPal importer is something you would use, tell me. Importers get built for the files people actually ask about.
Moving across by hand, in one evening
Without an importer the switch is manual. Most of what makes a tracker feel like yours is a small set of foods and a few settings, so it goes faster than it sounds.
- Create a free GreaseFit account. Signing up takes a minute. There is no guest mode.
- Set your targets. Use the built-in TDEE calculator for a starting calorie number, or the free calorie calculator on this site, then pick a macro preset (Balanced, High protein, Low carb, Keto) or set your own split.
- Choose a nutrient reference standard. Vitamins and minerals are scored against EU, US, UK or WHO reference intakes. Pick one and stick with it.
- Write down the foods you eat most. Look back through your last few weeks in MyFitnessPal. For most people it is twenty or thirty items.
- Add those foods once. Custom foods in GreaseFit take a full micronutrient set, so copy the label while you are at it.
- Scan as you unpack the shopping. Barcode scanning is free and unlimited. It searches GreaseFit's own registry of saved foods, not a global product database, so an unknown barcode asks you to create the food once and then stays linked to it.
- Rebuild two or three regular recipes. Enter totals and a serving count, and one portion comes out right. Building recipes by hand is free.
- Note your current weight. Your weight history stays in the export; start your GreaseFit log from today.
After a week of normal shopping, most of your regular foods are one scan away.
What GreaseFit will not do for you
So you can decide with the full picture:
- No MyFitnessPal or Cronometer import. Lose It only.
- No offline logging; you need a connection.
- From Apple Health or Health Connect it reads daily steps only, and writes nothing back.
- No watch app and no widget.
If those are fine, the MyFitnessPal comparison covers the rest, and the FAQ answers most questions that come up in the first week.
Sources
MyFitnessPal help center, checked 9 October 2026:
