Marco vs Fitbit Ace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Marco
Locate your misplaced Fitbit tracker using its wireless signal. The app guides you to its general vicinity, helping you find it before the battery dies. Supports a wide range of Fitbit models.
- Locate lost Fitbit trackers
- Uses wireless radio signature
- Guidance to general location
- Supports many Fitbit models
- Helps find before battery dies
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"Where did I leave my AirPods?" "Is my Fitbit in the couch cushions... or lost for good?" Marco is the fastest way to find any Bluetooth device you've lost. Open the app, tap your device, and follow the live signal — it glows brighter as you get closer. No more tearing apart your house. No more giving up. --- WHY MARCO --- - Works with ANY Bluetooth device: AirPods, Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch, JBL speakers, Tile trackers, and more. - Live proximity orb pulses faster as you close in. - Warmer/colder direction hints tell you which way to move. - Haptic feedback guides you without looking at the screen. - Smart signal processing cuts through Bluetooth noise. --- SAVE YOUR DEVICES --- Bookmark any device and Marco remembers it. Saved devices sit at the top of your home screen — even when they're out of range — so re-finding is one tap away. With Marco+, the app watches for your saved devices in the background and notifies you the moment any of them comes back in range. --- RING YOUR DEVICE --- Tiles, fitness trackers, and many headphones can play a sound on command. Tap "Ring" and Marco makes your device beep through the couch cushions. --- LAST-SEEN ON A MAP --- Marco quietly records where you last saw each saved device. Open the map to see exactly where that was. Retrace your steps and find it. --- PRIVATE BY DEFAULT --- Nothing leaves your device. No accounts, no tracking, no data sold. Just your devices, found. --- MARCO+ --- Remove ads and unlock: - Background scanning with notifications - Unlimited saved devices - Last-seen map history - Battery level for compatible devices $0.99/month or $4.99/year. Cancel anytime in App Store subscriptions. Subscriptions auto-renew at the same price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms: https://marco.apps.deucks.com/terms.html Privacy: https://marco.apps.deucks.com/privacy.html Screens created with AppScreenKit. https://appscreenkit.com
Fitbit Ace
Manage your child's Fitbit Ace LTE smartwatch. Securely call, text, track location, and monitor activity. Control contacts and ensure peace of mind.
- Secure calling and texting
- Real-time location tracking
- Activity level monitoring
- Contact management
- Child's smartwatch management
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The Fitbit Ace app is your home base for the Fitbit Ace LTE kids smartwatch. Use it to securely call or text message your child, see their location, check in on their activity levels, and manage their contacts. If you’re invited as a contact, you can also use the Fitbit Ace app to securely call or send messages to a child’s Fitbit Ace LTE smartwatch. *Fitbit Ace LTE device requires a paid Ace Pass data plan. Some features only available for kids with a supervised Google Account. Learn more about privacy for Fitbit Ace at g.co/fitbitace/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fitbit Ace at none against Marco's 2. Fitbit Ace also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Marco's advantage is ratings volume (6.8K vs 216) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating and review sentiment there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Marco sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Fitbit Ace asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Marco against 4.1 for Fitbit Ace. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Marco has 6.8K ratings behind it against 216, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of Marco's written reviews are positive against 49% of Fitbit Ace's.
Marco ships an update every 3 months, Fitbit Ace every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Marco | Fitbit Ace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (6.8K ratings) | 4.1 (216 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.1% of reviews | 49.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.8K — better | 216 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 195 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Deucks Pty Ltd | |
Customer experience
Marco
Fitbit Ace
User reviews
Marco
From 6.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Outstanding app
- 🚀 Reliable and accurate
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Found lost Fitbit
- 👍 Helped locate Fitbit
Room to improve
- 🐛 Doesn't have Fitbit Charge 5
- 🐛 Not useful
- 🐛 Pointless
- 🐛 Bad
- 🐛 Garbage
Fitbit Ace
From 216 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for kids' independence
- 🔒 Safe communication for kids
- 📍 Reliable location tracking
- 🏃 Motivates kids to be active
- 👨👩👧👦 Easy for parents to use
Room to improve
- 🚫 Incompatible with older iOS
- ⚠️ Inappropriate content risk
- 🚫 Features don't work offline
- 🎨 Awful UI aesthetics
- 🖼️ Cannot send images
Bugs and requests
Marco
Reported bugs
3 issues- Doesn't work with Versa 2
- Inaccurate location tracking
- Doesn't work when Fitbit is nearby
Requested features
4 requests- Instructions are not well
- Should set off alarm
- Needs to support more Fitbit models
- Needs to provide direction to the Fitbit
Fitbit Ace
Reported bugs
15 issues- Location, calling, and messaging features not working when disconnected from WiFi
- Incoming calls on iPhone from Fitbit Ace have no sound, only vibration
- Message history lost when moving to a new phone
- App does not connect to the watch
- App never loads or says no connection
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- App stops working and requires restoration
- Customer service never responded
- Some messages are delayed
- Some messages disappear after a bit
- Takes forever to receive text and update location
- App immediately asks for country and says not allowed
- App is completely unusable, clicking does nothing
- App freezes and nothing can be clicked
- Cannot invite spouse to family account
- Cannot contact other kids or their friends, only adults
Requested features
15 requests- Allow adjusting theme or colors
- Add basic features like photo sharing
- Allow communication between friends with watches
- Enable parents to approve friend connections
- Allow grandparents abroad to use the app
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- Add more parental control options
- More parental settings needed
- Add voice message feature for parents
- More child safety features updates
- More family quests
- More customization of night time hours
- Increase size of keyboard buttons
- Enable parents to call even during school time
- Modify goals to include other exercises
- UI tweaks for better user experience
In-app purchases
Marco
- Macro Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Macro Pro Yearly$4.991 Year
Fitbit Ace
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Marco free?
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