MacrosFirst vs PCM Lifestyle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MacrosFirst
This app intelligently adapts your calorie and macro targets based on your metabolism and weight trends. Log meals quickly with AI, barcode scanning, and a vast food database. Track over 50 nutrients, monitor progress, and sync with health platforms.
- Adaptive calorie and macro targets
- AI-powered food logging
- Barcode scanner
- Extensive verified food database
- Track 57 nutrients
- Weight trend analysis
- Sync with Apple Health
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MacrosFirst is the macro tracker that learns your metabolism. It calculates how many calories you really burn from your food log and weight trend, then updates your calorie and macro targets every week so you keep making progress toward your goal. Log meals in seconds with AI, a barcode scanner, and 4+ million verified foods. [ TARGETS THAT ADAPT TO YOU ] • Autopilot: MacrosFirst sets your calories, protein, carbs, and fat, then updates them in weekly check-ins. • Copilot: MacrosFirst sets your weekly calorie budget and you set the macros for each day of the week. • Manual: set your own targets for each day of the week, great for carb cycling or training and rest days. • Your pace is a percentage of body weight per week, so targets stay realistic as your weight changes. Built on validated, peer-reviewed models with guidance from a metabolism scientist formerly at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). [ LOG FOODS & MEALS IN SECONDS ] • Search 4+ million verified foods or scan a barcode. • Scan a nutrition label to add a new food without typing. • Daily Meals: set up your meal schedule once, including recurring foods, and it appears in your Journal every day. • Copy meals or whole days, save meals and recipes, or quick-add calories and macros. • Auto-calculate serving sizes to hit an exact macro target. • Count alcohol as carbs, fat, or both so calories and macros always line up. [ AI FOOD SEARCH ] • Describe a meal by voice or text, paste a recipe, or snap a photo. AI finds each food, even the cooking oil you can't see, and matches it to our verified database. [ 57 NUTRIENTS, NOT JUST MACROS ] • 28,000+ lab-tested Core Foods from the USDA and research databases, with data for up to 57 nutrients. • Track vitamins, minerals, fiber, and more against automatic targets based on your calorie target, age, and sex. • See which foods drive each nutrient with Top Sources. [ SEE YOUR REAL PROGRESS ] • Trend weight smooths out daily swings to show where you're really heading. • Track steps and water alongside your nutrition. [ LOG FROM ANYWHERE ] • Apple Watch app, Home and Lock Screen widgets, and Siri Shortcuts for hands-free logging. • Sync food, water, weight, and steps with Apple Health. [ SHARE & STAY CONNECTED ] • Follow friends and family to see their logs, or let your coach follow you. Share foods, meals, and recipes in a tap. ▶ GET EVEN MORE WITH MACROSFIRST PLUS ◀ • Autopilot, Copilot, weekly check-ins, and Expenditure charts. • AI Food Search by voice, text, or photo. • Different Daily Meals for each weekday, plus recurring foods. • Custom nutrient targets, plus nutrient trends and reports for any date range. • Macro Math: calories that always match your macros, even when labels don't. • Import recipes from any website. • Export to Excel or sync daily totals to Google Sheets. • Personal API access to build your own apps and dashboards. • Meal and day notes, unlimited friends, and priority VIP support. ▶ SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS ◀ MacrosFirst is free to download and use. MacrosFirst Plus is an optional auto-renewing subscription you can cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy & Security Policy: https://www.macrosfirst.com/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.macrosfirst.com/terms.html
PCM Lifestyle
This app offers a holistic approach to health and well-being, focusing on nutrition, exercise, medication, and mental health. It provides program-based weight loss support and integrates with various wearable devices and health apps for comprehensive tracking.
- Holistic health approach
- Program-based weight loss
- Nutrition, exercise, medication, mental health
- Apple Watch integration
- Connects to other wearables and apps
- Track workouts, sleep, nutrition, body stats
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At Pioneer Comprehensive Medical, we do more than prescribe medications. We approach your treatment from a balance of nutrition, exercise, medications, and mental/emotional health and analyze your health history to get to the root of the problem. Health and well-being should be a way of life, and a balanced approach to health is the best. That’s why our practice is progressive, research-driven, and entails a holistic approach to each patient (meaning we take into the account the emotional and mental as well as the physical). The type of medicine we practice is called functional medicine. For the last 20 years we have been successful in helping people lose weight. However we have learned that even though we spend a lot of time teaching patients how to lose weight, it needs to be taught over a period of time and not just in one appointment. That is why we have changed the way we do weight loss at PCM. It is now program based. This way you can find what works best for you, and you can have as much or as little support you need to be successful. - Connect your Apple Watch to track workouts, steps, habits, and more right from your wrist - Connect to other wearable devices and apps like the Apple Health App, Garmin, Fitbit, MyFitnessPal, and Withings devices to track workouts, sleep, nutrition, and body stats and composition
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PCM Lifestyle at none against MacrosFirst's 9. PCM Lifestyle also leads on ads (none vs shown). MacrosFirst's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (24K vs 4). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement 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. MacrosFirst sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. PCM Lifestyle asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for MacrosFirst against 5.0 for PCM Lifestyle. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MacrosFirst has 24K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MacrosFirst ships an update weekly, PCM Lifestyle every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MacrosFirst | PCM Lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (24K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #97 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 222 MB | 157 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MacrosFirst, Inc. | Pioneer Comprehensive Medical Buy-Sell, LLC |
Customer experience
MacrosFirst
PCM Lifestyle
Bugs and requests
MacrosFirst
Reported bugs
3 issues- Search function not working properly
- Time zone issues causing date discrepancies
- Scanning feature recording incorrect nutrition info
Requested features
5 requests- Integration with Apple Health
- Ability to share meals/recipes with friends
- Customizable macro goals (e.g., carb cycling)
- Improved reporting and progress tracking
- Option to submit food data corrections
PCM Lifestyle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MacrosFirst
- MacrosFirst Premium7 Days trial2 variants$11.991 Month
- MacrosFirst Premium14 Days trial2 variants$11.991 Month
- MacrosFirst Premium7 Days trial$41.991 Year
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- MacrosFirst Premium7 Days trial$71.991 Year
- MacrosFirst Premium14 Days trial$71.991 Year
- MacrosFirst Premium7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- MacrosFirst Premium14 Days trial$79.991 Year
PCM Lifestyle
No in-app purchases
Questions
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