Forward vs Macro App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Forward
Capture ideas and tasks to be delivered to you at a future date, up to a week in advance. This app acts as a rapid note-taking tool and a time-independent reminder system.
- Quickly capture ideas
- Schedule notes for future dates
- Set reminders up to a week ahead
- Time-independent reminders
- Rapid note taking
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Have a thought you don't need right now? Email it to your future self. forward is part rapid note-taker, part time-shifted reminder. Type what's on your mind, pick the day it matters - now, tomorrow, or any day this week - and it lands in your inbox that morning. All of a day's notes arrive gathered into a single email: one tidy list, not ten pings. Your inbox is the one list you already check - forward simply puts things there on time. WHY IT WORKS • Capture instantly - open the app and type; your note is one tap from sent. • Share from anywhere - push links, text, and ideas into forward from any app. • Schedule by day - notes for the same day travel together, in one email. • Forget on purpose - write it tonight, see it Thursday morning, think about it never in between. NEW IN 1.7 • Dark Mode - follows your system theme, or stays dark for good. • Sign in with your email - no usernames to remember. • More dependable scheduled delivery. A SMALL APP WITH A LONG STORY forward began as a weekend project by Dan Hopwood of drivn.co - an app called Jot, born in 2014. We used it every single day, so when it shut down in January 2017, we bought it and brought it back, renamed for what it does: pushing notes forward to the day you need them. We've been emailing our future selves ever since.
Macro App
This workspace app integrates email, messaging, notes, tasks, PDF viewing, diagram creation, file storage, and code editing. It also features LLMs that can access context from all your content.
- Unified workspace
- Email and messaging
- Notes and task management
- PDF and diagram tools
- File storage
- Code editor
- LLM integration
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Macro is a workspace offering email, messaging, notes, tasks, pdf, diagrams, file storage, and code-editing—all alongside LLMs that have context on everything you touch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Forward at 100% against Macro App's 50%. Forward also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Macro App's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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
Macro App is free to download; Forward costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Forward holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Forward's written reviews are positive against 50% of Macro App's.
Forward ships an update every 2 weeks, Macro App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Forward | Macro App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | westlink | Macro |
Customer experience
Forward
Macro App
In-app purchases
Forward
No in-app purchases
Macro App
No in-app purchases
