Comparison

MacrosFirst vs Eight Health

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Eight Health

This app consolidates tracking for all 8 pillars of wellness, offering quick logging and AI-powered insights to understand health patterns. It connects daily habits to lab results and provides a comprehensive health score based on established frameworks.

Highlights
  • Track 8 pillars of wellness
  • AI Health Analyst (Helix)
  • Quick daily logging (<2 mins)
  • Import and analyze lab results
  • Health Score based on Life's Essential 8
  • Connects habits to data patterns
Features
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Your health and wellness tracking is broken. Steps in one app. Sleep in another. Food somewhere else - IF you manage to log it. None of it is easy and fast enough to create a lasting habit. And the worst part? You're tracking everything and understanding nothing. How do next day workouts relate to last night’s sleep? How does mood correlate to nutrition? Does substance use materially limit your goals? Is that supplement you’re taking actually doing anything? Eight Health fixes this. One app to track all 8 pillars of wellness. Every healthy choice you make, counted. Every pattern in your data, exposed. And a built in AI Health Analyst to help you make sense of everything. Eight Health – your complete health, decoded. Plus - your data is stored on your phone, not on Eight Health’s servers. LOG YOUR DAY IN UNDER 2 MINUTES Most tracking apps fail to create lasting habits because they take too long, but Eight Health is built around speed. Quick-tap meal cards learn your favorites over time. One-tap workouts. A short evening reflection that covers mood, gratitude, and social connection in under 30 seconds. Connect a wearable to sync sleep, steps, workouts, and heart rate automatically, or log manually if you prefer. Eight Health works either way. The more you log, the smarter it gets. MEET HELIX, YOUR AI HEALTH ANALYST Helix is not a generic chatbot. It knows your nutrition history, your sleep patterns, your workout frequency, your substance use, your mood trends - everything you’ve logged across all 8 pillars. Ask it anything. Am I eating in a way that supports weight loss? Why is my energy low this week? How can I improve my deep sleep? Helix digs into your actual data and gives you a context-aware, tailored response – not generic Google advice. Beyond chat, Helix delivers Daily Insights that surface patterns as they emerge and Deep Analysis reports that connect data points you would never think to compare. Your sleep drops 23% after substance use. Your score spikes on days with outdoor time. Your nutrition score predicts your next-day energy better than your sleep does. Helix finds these connections automatically, so you don't have to. IMPORT YOUR LAB RESULTS Upload your bloodwork as a PDF and Helix reads it, flags what is outside range, and connects your results to your daily habits. See how your diet might affect your cholesterol. Understand what your sleep is doing to your hormone levels. Track changes between lab draws and watch your habits move the numbers over time. Your doctor gives you results. Helix helps you understand what to actually do with them. A SCORE THAT ACTUALLY MEANS SOMETHING Your Health Score is not a vanity number. It is built on the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 framework, a research-backed model that weighs physical activity, nutrition, sleep quality, substance management, mental wellness, and more. Every pillar contributes. Every choice moves the needle. Watch your score climb as you build consistency across all 8 pillars, and watch it tell you exactly where to focus when it dips. YOUR PANTRY, YOUR WAY Eight Health remembers what you eat. Build a personal pantry of your go-to foods and log meals in seconds from what you already have. Scan a barcode, import a grocery order, or let Helix suggest what to cook tonight based on what is in your kitchen and your current nutrition goals. The more items in your pantry, the faster logging gets. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • 8 pillars covering complete wellness • One Health Score derived from everything you track • Helix AI that knows your data and gives context-aware, tailored answers • Daily logging under 2 minutes, no friction, no complicated setup • Lab results imported, decoded, and connected to your daily habits • Hidden patterns and correlations surfaced automatically • Works with or without a wearable • Built for people who have tried other health apps and given up

Screenshots

MacrosFirst4 screens
Eight Health4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Eight Health at none against MacrosFirst's shown. MacrosFirst's advantage is ratings volume (24K vs 2) and chart position (#86 vs unranked). On price, rating, update cadence 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. MacrosFirst sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month and Eight Health sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for MacrosFirst against 5.0 for Eight Health. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MacrosFirst has 24K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MacrosFirst ships an update weekly, Eight Health every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
MacrosFirst versus Eight Health: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMacrosFirstEight Health
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (24K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings24K — better2
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#86 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size222 MB29 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperMacrosFirst, Inc.Eight Health

Customer experience

MacrosFirst

All ratings23,659 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews530 reviews
Positive73.6%
Neutral6.4%
Negative20.0%

Eight Health

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Eight Health

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

MacrosFirst

Subscriptions7
  • 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
2 purchases

Eight Health

Subscriptions2
  • Eight Health+ Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Eight Health+ Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is MacrosFirst free?
MacrosFirst is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Eight Health free?
Eight Health is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MacrosFirst or Eight Health?
Eight Health is rated higher. MacrosFirst averages 4.9 out of 5 from 24K ratings, while Eight Health averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do MacrosFirst or Eight Health have ads?
MacrosFirst shows ads; Eight Health does not.
Which is updated more often, MacrosFirst or Eight Health?
MacrosFirst ships an update weekly, and Eight Health every 5 days. Most recently, MacrosFirst was updated on November 9, 2026 and Eight Health on October 31, 2026.

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