# Macros - Calorie Counter — user reviews > 238 indexed App Store user reviews of Macros by JosmanTek, rated 4.70/5 from 876 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/macros-calorie-counter/id1216666985/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/macros-calorie-counter/id1216666985.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 746 · 4★ 69 · 3★ 26 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 27 ## What do users think of Macros? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Straightforward interface - 🔓 No subscription required - 💰 Affordable premium version - 📊 Customizable macro settings - 🔍 Extensive food database - 🔍 Barcode scanning feature - 🔍 Ability to create own recipes **Cons** - 🐛 Inaccurate food data - 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches - 🔍 Limited ability to adjust serving sizes - 🔍 Lack of weight tracking feature - 🔍 Ads in premium version **Commonly reported bugs** - Barcode scanner not working - Saved data being deleted or changed - Constant freezing and loading issues **Most requested features** - Ability to share recipes with friends - Integration with fitness trackers - Weekly/monthly progress tracking - Easier way to add nutrition data manually - Calorie cycling feature ## Newest reviews (19 of 238) ### 4/5 — Great calorie tracker for cheap *2026-06-15, version 2.0.7* It’s an affordable calorie tracker that does pretty much everything you need, as long as you already know how many calories you should be eating. The only feature missing is a mode where you can input how many calories of a specific food you want to eat and then the app tells you the g that you need to get to those calories . Adding that would make it a 5-star app. ### 5/5 — Very happy *2026-04-20, version 2.0.7* Super easy to use. Love that you’re not bombarded with ads. Very easy to add new products or recipes ### 5/5 — It just works *2026-03-26, version 2.0.7* Nothing extra and no stupid features that have nothing to do with diet or food. The food database is loaded and I am yet to not have it work. I use it every day. ### 3/5 — Not the worst *2026-01-24* It’s by far, not the worst app for tracking macros, I purchased the subscription to unlock everything. My biggest issue with this app is the way it tries to force you to set your macros goals based off of calories. When in custom settings, you should not be limited by how you set your macro, such as protein, two carbs to fat ratio, depending upon what you have set for recommended daily calories. If you just want to follow the norm and stick to what this app tells you you should do then it would be fine ### 5/5 — Very good app *2026-01-23, version 2.0.7* I love this app. It allows you to learn how to keep heathy from the app and lose weight! ### 5/5 — The best app for tracking. *2026-01-18, version 2.0.7* Get a food scale and track with this app. You are guaranteed to be successful as long as you do the work. The best app out there. ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-01-16, version 2.0.7* Easy to use ### 5/5 — I like it *2025-12-15, version 2.0.7* I have tried a bunch of apps. This one is the best in the free version. Also the design and interface are very calm nothing sensory overloading ### 5/5 — highly recommend *2025-11-27, version 2.0.7* i’ve been using this app for (going on) 3 years now and i’ve tried almost every other macro app on the market and they don’t beat this. no pushing ads, nothing extra, just calculate your macros. simple to use, simple to change things and simple to create foods. i also really love that the app is user-orientated and focus on improving the experience. ### 5/5 — Happy Customer *2025-11-18, version 2.0.4* Tried a variety of calorie/macro apps prior to choosing Macros. And years later… still renewing membership. Used free version for a couple years, but now simply want to support a great app (plus there are some great features on the plus version). Keep up the good work and great customer service.👍 ### 4/5 — Why ads with subscription? *2025-10-29, version 2.0.4* I’ve been using this for years and pay for the subscription and now there are ads? ### 5/5 — Boston Mike *2025-10-10, version 2.0.4* Day one today . I will update every month . Excited about the details and the journey . ### 5/5 — Great app, maybe 1 thing missing ?? *2025-09-30, version 2.0.4* I have been using the app for 3 years now. It as good feature, i even tried premium. The price is relevant for what it offer. The one thing I feel is missing is an easier way to add nutritional values. Right now, everything has to be entered by hand. For example, it would be amazing if we could just take a picture of nutrition label and have the values uploaded automatically. When I first started using the app, it took me hours to enter all my foods manually ! If this process were simplified, the app would be a true 10/10. Right now I will give it a 9/10. Because it can always be better. ### 5/5 — ***Outstanding App*** *2025-09-30* I have had this app for about 18 months, and I have nothing but good things to say about it. It’s extremely easy to use, accurate and customizable. Everything from changing the food macros to be accurate, make your own recipes and a useful visual aid to quickly reference your macros. If you are just getting into this as a beginner or if you are a long time Macro counter, this app is a tool that will only enhance your journey. ### 4/5 — Barcode Scanner doesnt work *2025-09-28, version 2.0.4* With the new update the barcode scanner no longer works. It’s pitch black and non functional ### 2/5 — Péssima experiência do usuário *2025-09-26* Eu amava esse app, mas agora para inserir o alimento, ao invés de o botão principal ser adicionar, inseriram o buscar/procurar. E o adicionar fica num canto direito em cima muito ruim! Se estamos adicionando a comida seria o botão adicionar como central! Agora toda vez erro e tenho que inserir o nome do alimento novamente. Péssimo ### 4/5 — Simple and easy to use. Recommended for sire *2025-09-24* I did a 7 day water fast and wanted to track my foods and diet as I returned to eating. I’ve used most of the other apps at one time or another and they’re all too complicated and there’s too much bloat inside of them. I don’t need recipes I don’t need motivation. I just need something to track my food. This app did a great job at it about the only things I’d like to see are a way to look/graph at my food intake over a week or a month or some extended period and the ability to see what happens when I change my diet type with the existing data in the app. But those are just nice to have the rest of the app works fantastic. ### 2/5 — Constant crashes/glitches *2025-09-06, version 2.0.4* Ever since the new update this app constantly crashes and glitches. Takes multiple reboots just trying to add a food item, a recipe, crashes a lot when trying to scan barcode and switching between days gets stuck on loading. It’s a great app however, it’s malfunctioning real bad at the moment. Please fix soon. ### 3/5 — Era bom *2025-09-05* Anteriormente, era possível optar entre a função de contador ou de planejador de alimentos; atualmente, essa possibilidade não está mais disponível. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — All food macros are incorrect *2026-02-02, version 2.0.7* I’ve used this app before without a problem, but since a couple weeks it’s been a pain to use because every single food I scan or search for has wrong macros, no exceptions. It’s always randomly off about 20-40 cal, and somewhere 4-5g under for the protein. I have to correct every entry manually, making it just non-practical. ### 1/5 — Não funciona mais no espelhamento do iPhone *2025-09-03* Uso o app há alguns anos para montar planos para meus pacientes. Infelizmente, nessa última atualização não é mais possível utilizá-lo via espelhamento do iPhone. A versão para Mac também apresenta falhas, principalmente na busca pelos nomes dos modelos de dieta. Tenho mais de 1000 modelos cadastrados e agora preciso procurar um por um até encontrar o que desejo, antigamente tinha como filtrar o nome. Esses detalhes inviabilizaram meu uso. No geral, a estética ficou bacana, mas esses problemas me fizeram parar de usar o app. ### 1/5 — Used to be great *2025-08-25, version 2.0.4* This app used to be fast and simple. Now it's riddled with adds and animations that make it unusable. Glitch, slow, terrible. Don't change a good thing. ### 1/5 — Hate hate hate the redesign *2025-08-03, version 2.0.2* Used this for years and really hate the change you did ### 1/5 — Macros vc cal *2024-03-18, version 1.10.12* Hitting the macros but not the calories... impossible and weird. Something is not right. I used to use this app a lot before. I dont know what happened in the meantime ### 1/5 — Pretty pointless app *2023-12-06, version 1.10.12* It’s a decent app to keep track of your macros if you’re going to enter everything manually as almost all of the default foods already on the app have incorrect information with the correct food label so you think it’s correct but you will actually be getting a different daily calorie intake to what the app is telling you unless you read and enter each nutrient count yourself which defeats the object of the app since you could do that in your notes on your phone or on paper. ### 1/5 — Relies on pseudoscience for recommendations *2023-10-25, version 1.10.12* I’ve used this app a few times to record my calories when I feel like I’m under eating. It’s helpful for that. However, I recently stop using it because I realized that the calorie recommendations are based on BMI. The Body Mass Index was invented by a mathematician, not a medical doctor. As a short person my BMI is often high. Yet I am healthy and heavier than other females my height due to muscle mass (not that there’s anything wrong with being or having fat). The app assumed I wanted to lose weight and recommend I put myself in a caloric deficit when I gave it my true weight. TLDR; app assumed my goal was to lose weight without asking and encouraged me to go into a calorie deficit. All based on the sketchy science of the BMI. Wouldn’t recommend. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2023-08-15, version 1.10.12* App keeps shutting down! Useless ### 1/5 — Not good *2023-08-10, version 1.10.12* Type in chicken breast and each selection has a different amount of protein with the same weight ### 1/5 — I will change my rating as soon I get confirmation from support. *2023-02-05, version 1.10.9* The reviews on this app lead me to believe this would allow me to create a diet plan based on adding my own food library or using their database. Thus I could share this with my healthcare providers. However, I could have saved hours and hours of tinkering around with adding products to “My Foods” and just wrote out my diet on a piece of paper like one would do it back in the day. I still cannot find this generic food database or whatever the list of features claims this app has. Basically all I did was enter a bunch of foods I eat as well as their barcodes and then to create my meals, all I can do is add one of those foods based on services sizes. Well that doesn’t work when you have a custom diet based on percentages. I hope I am wrong, and have missed something. But until support contacts me and confirms one way or another, this was not worth my money at all. Like I said, pen and paper would have saved hours and hours of product logging. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Keeping on track *2026-07-20, version 2.1.0* The app easy to follow and it keeps me on track ### 5/5 — perfeito *2026-07-15* eu uso esse aplicativo todos os dias e em 6 meses consegui perder 9 quilos, gosto muito do aplicativo pq tenho muito controle sobre oq eu como e quanto de água eu consumo no dia, a única melhoria que eu gostaria é q tivesse opções mais fixas sobre os alimentos, muitos dos alimentos são os próprios usuários q criaram e eu sinto falta de ter uma tabela certinha pra seguir, as vezes por exemplo as calorias de um alimento estão certas mas os macros não. Gostaria q tivessem mais alimentos com a tabela nutricional correta. Entendo q em receitas caseiras é interessante q nos usuários façamos ali uma nova criação, mas faz falta ter algo certinho já q o intuito é ter o controle sobre carbo, proteína e gordura. Entretanto, é um ótimo aplicativo, amo e vou continuar usando ksksk. É muito interessante que msm gratuito ele tenha como guardar sua idade, seu peso, e até escolher o tipo de dieta a seguir, tbm gosto bastante que o aplicativo recomenda uma quantidade de água diária e vc pode alterar podendo colocar uma meta maior do q seu corpo necessita. **Developer response:** Obrigado pela avaliação e parabéns pelos 9 kg! Estamos trabalhando para melhorar a base de dados, e você deverá notar melhorias nos próximos meses. ### 5/5 — Top demais ! *2026-07-10* O melhor aplicativo de contar calorias . **Developer response:** Muito obrigado pela ótima avaliação! Ficamos muito felizes em saber que o Macros está ajudando você no dia a dia. ### 5/5 — Macros *2026-07-09, version 2.1.0* The best app for Macros ### 5/5 — Excelente *2026-07-08* Simples e eficiente ### 5/5 — The best macros app *2026-07-07, version 2.1.0* I’ve tried other apps, but this is far the best. Even the free version is amazing. ### 5/5 — Mto bom *2026-07-06* Recomendo ### 5/5 — Love Macros *2026-07-05, version 2.1.0* I’ve been using this app for 12 months now. With its help I have lost 2 stone. Most foods or good alternative on here. Would love a scan facility. ### 5/5 — Ótimo app *2026-06-04* Aplicativo simples e muito útil de usar, consigo adicionar os alimentos que não tem na biblioteca muito fácil e com isso me manter alinhado com minha dieta independente do alimento que vou consumir no dia. **Developer response:** Muito obrigado! Fico feliz que o app esteja sendo útil e fácil de adaptar à sua rotina. ### 5/5 — Maravilho *2026-05-16* Sou apaixonada por esse app, ele é simples, objetivo, fácil e rápido de inserir informações. Há muito tempo isso ele, sem precisar pagar nada. **Developer response:** Muito obrigado pelo carinho! Fico muito feliz em saber que o app é simples e rápido para você no dia a dia. Isso significa muito. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*