Comparison

Playbook vs Macro Trainer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Playbook

Access thousands of workouts and classes from top fitness influencers, trainers, and athletes. Support your favorite creators directly with your subscription. Workout at home, at the gym, or while traveling with offline downloads and live streaming options.

Highlights
  • Creator-supported workouts
  • Thousands of classes and programs
  • Direct communication with creators
  • Offline workout downloads
  • Live streaming classes
  • Wellness guides (nutrition, mindset)
  • Progress tracking
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Playbook is one of the top fitness apps on the market where you can support your favorite creators directly. THE MAJORITY OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION GOES DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE CREATING THE WORKOUTS AND CLASSES YOU LOVE. Get access to the world’s leading fitness influencers, trainers, wellness gurus, athletes, and more all on your phone. With over 56,000 workouts and more than 500 instructors, there is something for everyone to achieve health and wellness goals. Take Playbook with you to the gym; workout at home and even while traveling — with the ability to download workouts you can sweat any time, anywhere. Premium features: • Join a community of motivated individuals to help reach your goals • Communicate directly with your favorite creators • Get daily workouts and access to programs and challenges (with prizes) • Wellness guides for the full experience: Nutrition, supplements, recipes, mindset, productivity, and more • Unlimited offline downloads, plus stream to other devices • Favorite workouts, schedule classes, and track your progress • Live streaming classes to workout with instructors in real time • Your subscription money supports your favorite creators directly • Compatible with Apple health SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS Playbook is free to download and includes a 7-day free trial period to unlock access to the entire platform, including all instructors, workouts, programs, and videos. After trial period there are two subscription options: $14.99/month $99.99/year These prices are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. Your iTunes account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. If you subscribe before your free trial ends, the rest of your free trial period will be forfeited as soon as your purchase is confirmed. Your Playbook subscription will automatically renew unless turned off in your iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before current period ends. You can go to your iTunes Account settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Read Terms and Conditions here: www.playbookapp.io/terms-of-use Read Privacy Policy here: http://www.playbookapp.io/privacy-policy

About

Macro Trainer

Features
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Most diet apps are ledgers. You log, they watch, nothing changes. Macro Trainer is a coach. You log, it thinks, and your plan adapts. Set a goal — cut, bulk, or recomp — and Macro Trainer builds your calorie and macro targets, programs your training, then pays attention. Stall for two weeks? It notices, explains why, and proposes the adjustment. Sleep and energy entries help you reflect on recovery. Every week you get a report card: what worked, what slipped, and what to do next. COACHING THAT ADAPTS • Separate coach conversations with saved history and draft recovery • A weekly report card with nutrition and workout scores • Automatic plateau detection with one-tap macro adjustments • Optional deload proposals for you to review before applying • Six coach personalities — from warm and nurturing to zero-excuses — or build your own. Chat runs privately, right on your device. LOGGING IN SECONDS • Snap a photo of your plate: your coach names each food and estimates the portions, you confirm, and it's logged as real servings • Or just say what you ate, typed or dictated — "two eggs, sourdough toast with butter, black coffee" — and your coach splits it into foods and sizes each one for you to check before it's logged • Over a million foods stored on the device — search is instant, even with no signal at the gym or the grocery store • Barcode and nutrition-label scanning • Smart recents and planned meals for one-tap repeat logging PROGRESS YOU CAN READ • A weight trend with 7-day smoothing, goal projection, and body-composition breakdowns • Recovery estimates and recorded biometrics, with explanations and sources for HRV, heart rate, sleep, blood pressure and ketones • Adherence trends that connect what you did to what happened TRAINING BUILT IN • Progressive workout programs with targets that follow your plan • Set logging designed for the gym floor: big controls, rest timers, volume tracking • Missed a session? Pick it up where the plan left off. EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Native on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Your data syncs with Apple Health. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Macro Trainer is at home in 34 languages — the interface, your weekly report card, and the coach itself. It follows your phone's language, or whichever one you pick. TRY IT FOR TWO WEEKS Download free and use everything for 14 days — long enough for two weekly report cards and a plan that has already adjusted to you. After that, a single purchase unlocks it for good. No subscription, no account, no ads. Everything — including the AI coach — runs on your device, so it's fast, it works offline, and your health data stays exactly where it belongs: with you. Your goal isn't a diary entry. Bring a coach.

Screenshots

Playbook4 screens
Macro Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Playbook at every 4 days against Macro Trainer's monthly. Playbook also leads on chart position (#198 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Playbook sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and Macro Trainer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Playbook ships an update every 4 days, Macro Trainer monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Playbook versus Macro Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlaybookMacro Trainer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (37K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings37K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
Best chart rank#198 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size173 MB769 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlaybook Technologies IncLittle Theta LLC

Bugs and requests

Playbook

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Videos not loading or playing correctly
  • Workout data not syncing or saving properly
  • Login and account management problems

Requested features

4 requests
  • Weight and rep tracking
  • Nutrition and meal planning integration
  • More video angles and exercise demonstrations
  • Ability to create custom workout routines

Macro Trainer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Playbook

Subscriptions4
  • Playbook Premium1 Month trial$14.991 Month
  • Playbook Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Playbook Premium7 Days trial$39.993 Months
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  • Playbook Premium7 Days trial$99.991 Year
1 purchases

Macro Trainer

One-time1
  • Macro Trainer Unlock$59.99

Questions

Is Playbook free?
Playbook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Macro Trainer free?
Macro Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Playbook or Macro Trainer have ads?
Neither Playbook nor Macro Trainer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Playbook or Macro Trainer?
Playbook ships an update every 4 days, and Macro Trainer monthly. Most recently, Playbook was updated on October 30, 2026 and Macro Trainer on October 24, 2026.

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