Start Simple with MyPlate is a government-backed nutrition app from USDA that helps users set easy, food-group based goals and celebrate progress with badges and challenges. With 100,000+ total downloads and 1.6K in the last 30 days, it blends goal setting, progress tracking, and motivational features in a focused HEALTH_FITNESS experience.
Pros & Cons
Government-backed nutrition guidance from USDA
Clear, food-group goal setting with Pick for me option
Visible daily progress and practical tips
Badges and social sharing to celebrate success
Smartwatch sync for on-the-go motivation
Narrow focus on food-group goals; lacks broader nutrition tracking or workouts
Fewer personalized meal plans or macro tracking compared to some competitors
Not ranked in top app lists
About Start Simple with MyPlate
Start Simple with MyPlate was a health & fitness app developed by USDA Food & Nutrition Service. It was removed from Google Play Feb 13, 2026 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Start Simple with MyPlate had been downloaded 260 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Start Simple with MyPlate was rated 3.17 out of 5 stars, based on 440 ratings.
App Information
Start Simple with MyPlate was free to download. The APK download size was 35.43 MB. The last available version was 1.25. The last update was on September 12, 2025.
Technical Requirements
Start Simple with MyPlate required Android 4.4+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play October 2019.
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★★★★★
I love this My Plate app You guys try this out because this will help you have healthy nutrients.
★★★★★
I think some people don't it's an app USDA that only gives articles and recipes for healthy eating.but its job is not to monitor you daily... Go somewhere else and pay for it like you should.
★★★★★
The app is educational and functions well, but it's not for me. It is best for people who prefer very simple daily food goals ("eat fruit with lunch"). I needed a way to track the servings of each food group. I give it four stars because you cannot create your own goals, you can only choose from the provided options. They are all good suggestions, but I ended up uninstalling it because I had additional/different goals. If you also want to count servings, not calories, I suggest the Nutrition app.
★★★★★
This app is wonderful, it's exactly what I need to be able to set and track simple and guided goals to eat healthier.
★★☆☆☆
So close, but it's not it. I want to be able to just choose that I ate a serving of vegetables. This isn't it. This has you set tandom goals, such as "add fruit to a salad" and then you track that.
★★☆☆☆
Very user-friendly but useless. It doesn't give a specified plan for your specific goals, as its ad suggests. It's basically a mini tracker for what food groups you ate, not what percentage of each you should be eating.
★★☆☆☆
Useless. I could've just written a checklist. I used the original my plate app to gain weight, and I've lost all the weight I gained since it went down, so I thought I'd try this app. But there's no calorie tracker, no food database, nothing. "I ate a fruit today, I ate protein today." What happened to my plate? The ease of use, the database of foods so I don't have to count the calories myself. I have a friend who's been gaining weight with a paid service, so I'll maybe try that app.
★★☆☆☆
Prompts to log in are way too frequent. Goals for food groups are great if that's what you want to do, but there should be an option for the quiz on their website to be incorporated for personalized recommendations.
Technologies used by Start Simple with MyPlate
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Trust & Safety: Requested permissions include network access and notifications (android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, android.permission.INTERNET, android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS), foreground service (android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE), boot completion (android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED), wake lock (android.permission.WAKE_LOCK), and attribution/ad identifiers (com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE, android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID, android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION, com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE, android.permission.AD_ID). These are typical for apps that deliver online content, update in the background, notify users, and support attribution analytics; no highly sensitive permissions are detected.
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