Garmin’s Connect app is a familiar sight for any Garmin wearable owner, as it’s where you can see all your fitness stats, activity analysis, and any ongoing training plans you have running. But, for a long time, it’s been largely relegated to just those elements, with related stats like nutrition being completely missing.
That’s no longer the case. Garmin announced at CES 2026 that full nutrition tracking has arrived on Garmin Connect — as long as you’re using the subscription Connect+ service, that is.
Full and easy nutrition tracking
This doesn’t appear to be a low-effort implementation by any means. According to Garmin’s press release, Connect+’s nutrition tracking will have everything you’ve come to expect from similar apps like MyFitnessPal.
That includes full nutritional breakdowns from the food you track, like calories and macros, as well as AI-powered analysis of what you eat and when, and how that affects your day, exercise, and sleep.
You can enter food by using Garmin’s searchable database, scan barcodes, or, most interestingly, use the camera to let Garmin’s AI figure out what you’re eating and how much. If that last option works well, it could take away a lot of pain of food tracking, which is finding accurate calorie and macro counts for home-cooked food. And if all else fails, you can create your own meals in the app too.
You’ll be able to calculate personalized calorie and macronutrient recommendations based on your physical stats, activity level, and other data. You’ll also be able to create daily, weekly, and monthly food reports too. It’s the full suite that Garmin’s software has needed for some time.
Will this make Connect+ worth the cost?
The sting in the tail that that this excellent feature doesn’t come for free. Garmin caused much consternation when it revealed a paid tier for its Connect service, as all of Garmin’s services had been available for free up until this point.
However, from a personal standpoint, Garmin introducing a paid tier didn’t really matter because it didn’t put anything particularly good behind it. The AI-powered advice that was… okay, I guess, and the access to personal coaching felt a bit much for the more casual person. So it didn’t matter too much, because I wasn’t missing out.
But now? This is actually a good addition, and it’s a genuine draw to pay the $7 a month (or $70 a year) for Garmin Connect+.
However, it’s also worth keeping in mind that MyFitnessPal can still do this sort of thing for free, so it’s not exactly a sure thing for Garmin — yet.
