Comparison

Stupid Simple Macro Tracker vs Arrow

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

Head to head
About

Stupid Simple Macro Tracker

This app simplifies calorie and macro tracking with a focus on ease of use and a judgment-free interface. Log meals in seconds with custom icons, save calories for special occasions, and benefit from unobtrusive ads and a one-time premium purchase option.

Highlights
  • Simple meal logging
  • Custom food icons
  • Calorie saving feature
  • Barcode scanner
  • Apple Health integration
  • Intermittent fasting support
  • Home Screen widget
Features
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Join 2.7 million people who chose simplicity over stress. Stupid Simple Macro Tracker is the app people switch to when they're done fighting with the other guys. Tired of cluttered dashboards, screen-hijacking ads, and menus that make logging a simple food feel like filing your taxes? Done paying annual subscription fees that keep climbing? We took a different path — and 2.7 million users agree it was the right one. What makes us different: * Actually simple — log a meal in seconds with custom food icons you build once and tap forever. Most users are up and running in minutes, not days * The Food Bank — save up calories for date night, a party, or the weekend without blowing your goals * Positive habit forming — our clean, judgment-free layout makes tracking so quick and painless that users tell us they never miss a day * No ad torture — our optional short ads are unobtrusive, not screen-hijacking interruptions * Lifetime Premium for less than the other guys charge per year — pay once, own it forever * Responsive support — real humans who actually reply Everything you need to meet your gaols: * Daily macro, calorie, fiber, and water tracking displayed front and center. No need to hunt for it. * Fast food logging with personal food icons * Barcode scanner — scan a label and move on with your day * Custom foods and meals * Apple Health integration to earn extra macros from workouts * Intermittent fasting support * Flexible, customizable meal times * Home Screen widget * Free device sync Go Lifetime Premium once. Use it forever. With Lifetime Premium, there’s no renewal, no price hikes, and no regret. Just the full experience at a price that beats what the competition charges you every single year. Eat whatever you want, as long as it fits your macros. You have nothing to lose but your excuses. From the makers of Stupid Simple Keto.

About

Arrow

This app helps you track workouts and nutrition to achieve your body composition goals. It offers adaptive calorie and macro targets based on your progress, smart meal scanning, and detailed workout logging with performance insights.

Highlights
  • Adaptive calorie and macro targets
  • Smart meal scanning and logging
  • Detailed workout tracking
  • Progress visualization
  • Workout and nutrition integration
  • Arrow Score for overall progress
Features
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Arrow is the #1 workout and nutrition tracker built for changing your body. Log your lifts, meals, and weight in one app, get calorie and macro targets that adapt to your real results, and see whether training and diet are actually adding up, whether you're cutting, bulking, or just looking to maintain. TRAINING AND NUTRITION IN ONE LOOP Changing your body is one problem, not two. Your lifts create the stimulus, your food decides what your body does with it, and your weight trend tells you whether the plan is working. Most apps track one piece. Arrow connects all three. • Adaptive TDEE: Arrow estimates your real daily energy expenditure from your weigh-ins and food log, not just a formula, and keeps your calorie and macro targets adjusted as your body responds • Scale Weight vs. Trend Weight: every weigh-in is plotted against a rolling trend, so you can tell a water swing from true gain or loss before you change your plan • Oil detection: if a scanned meal was likely cooked in oil, Arrow asks before you log, so hidden calories don't slip past your numbers • Arrow Score: one number built from Strength (PRs and volume), Nutrition (calories, macros, weigh-ins), and Consistency (workouts and meal logs), weighted for your goal. A cut and a bulk are scored differently. • Estimated daily deficit or surplus and a four-week projection • Arrow Coach flags when a sudden scale jump or drop is likely water, not fat NUTRITION TRACKING THAT'S FAST AND HONEST • Smart Scan: photograph your plate and get the foods, calories, and macros • Describe a meal in plain words or by voice, scan a barcode, or look it up in the database • Heads Up before you log a scanned meal, and a meal score when you do • Edit any target yourself. Arrow never locks you into its numbers. • Recent foods, saved meals, custom foods, and copy-a-previous-day for meals you eat on repeat • Optional meal and post-workout reminders WORKOUT TRACKER BUILT FOR THE GYM • Log sets, reps, and weight in a few taps, no clutter mid-set • Plan your own routines or generate one from your goal, equipment, days, and session length • Flip any exercise card to see your history and personal records • Rest timer, dropsets, cardio and activity tracking • Custom exercises, swap exercises mid-workout, reorder on the fly • Lock Screen Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep your workout in view • Close the app mid-session and resume where you left off ARROW COACH Coach reads training and nutrition together: a recap of your week after workouts and on your Stats screen, a Heads Up on meals before you log them, and a call-out when a weight swing is likely water. Every note ends with what to do next. PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE • Muscle diagram shows which muscles you hit this week and how hard • Volume, PR, and lift progress over time • Week Overview calendar for training and nutrition days • Apple Health steps on your Profile and in Performance • Arrow Wrapped: your year in review TRAIN WITH FRIENDS • See your friends' workouts (and their meals, if they share them) in your feed • Share workout cards to Instagram Stories OPTIONAL GAMIFICATION Want extra motivation? Turn on levels, streak multipliers, and trophies. SUBSCRIPTION Access to Arrow requires a subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Powered by fatsecret nutrition API (www.fatsecret.com) Barcode data also from Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), licensed under ODbL. Terms of Use: https://arrowfitnessapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://arrowfitnessapp.com/privacy Questions? support@arrowfitnessapp.com

Screenshots

Stupid Simple Macro Tracker4 screens
Arrow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Arrow at none against Stupid Simple Macro Tracker's shown. Arrow also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 65%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Stupid Simple Macro Tracker sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Arrow sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.39 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Arrow holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8K and 9.5K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Stupid Simple Macro Tracker's written reviews are positive against 78% of Arrow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stupid Simple Macro Tracker ships an update monthly, Arrow every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stupid Simple Macro Tracker versus Arrow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStupid Simple Macro TrackerArrow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8K ratings)4.8 (9.5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.6% of reviews77.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8K9.5K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size162 MB127 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperVenn Interactive, Inc.LevelUp App Studios LLC

Customer experience

Stupid Simple Macro Tracker

All ratings7,961 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral3.3%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews260 reviews
Positive64.6%
Neutral8.5%
Negative26.9%

Arrow

All ratings9,338 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews755 reviews
Positive77.7%
Neutral7.0%
Negative15.2%

User reviews

Stupid Simple Macro Tracker

From 8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💯 Excellent for tracking macros
  • 🚀 Extremely easy and simple to use
  • 👍 Helpful for weight loss and fitness goals
  • 🔍 Useful barcode scanning feature
  • 💰 Good value for one-time payment

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches with recent updates
  • 🔒 Premium features locked behind paywall
  • 🔍 Limited food database, especially for international items
  • 🤔 Confusing interface and navigation for some users
  • 🔢 Inaccurate macro calculations at times

Arrow

From 9.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Helpful for tracking workouts
  • 🏆 Motivating with trophies and leveling system
  • 🙌 Great for competing with friends
  • 💪 Tracks muscle groups and progress
  • 📊 Provides detailed workout data and statistics

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes when switching between tabs or accessing friends tab
  • 🔍 Missing some common exercises
  • 🔧 Can't edit previous workouts or change exercise order
  • 🕰️ Rest timer is a premium feature
  • 🤔 Trophies/achievements may be unrealistic for women

Bugs and requests

Stupid Simple Macro Tracker

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App resets user data and progress
  • Syncing and connectivity issues
  • Scanning feature not working consistently
  • Macro calculations not matching nutrition labels

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more robust recipe and meal planning features
  • Integrate with fitness tracking and Apple Health
  • Improve search functionality and food database
  • Allow more customization of macro goals and settings
  • Add support for tracking additional nutrients like fiber

Arrow

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Assisted pull-ups incorrectly adding weight instead of subtracting
  • Muscle distribution not accurately tracking
  • Workout data not always logging correctly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to edit previous workouts
  • Allow reordering of exercises in a workout
  • Implement a rest timer
  • Add more workout options, especially for cardio
  • Provide different tiers/achievements for men and women

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Stupid Simple Macro Tracker

Subscriptions4
  • Premium Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
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  • Annual Premium14 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time4
  • Lifetime AI Upgrade$29.99
  • Lifetime Premium - On Sale!$49.99
  • Lifetime Premium$69.99
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  • Lifetime Premium with AI$99.99
10 purchases

Arrow

Subscriptions10
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$4.391 Month
  • Gold Access1 Month trial$4.391 Month
  • Gold Access$5.991 Month
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  • Diamond Access$12.991 Month
  • Secret Discount (Gold Access)$17.491 Year
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Diamond Access7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Diamond Access7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Diamond Access7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Stupid Simple Macro Tracker free?
Stupid Simple Macro Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arrow free?
Arrow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stupid Simple Macro Tracker or Arrow?
Arrow is rated higher. Stupid Simple Macro Tracker averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8K ratings, while Arrow averages 4.8 from 9.5K ratings.
Do Stupid Simple Macro Tracker or Arrow have ads?
Stupid Simple Macro Tracker shows ads; Arrow does not.
Which is updated more often, Stupid Simple Macro Tracker or Arrow?
Stupid Simple Macro Tracker ships an update monthly, and Arrow every 2 weeks. Most recently, Stupid Simple Macro Tracker was updated on November 6, 2026 and Arrow on November 10, 2026.

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