MacrosFirst vs SayBright
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MacrosFirst
This app helps users track their food intake, calories, and macronutrients to achieve health and fitness goals. It offers features like custom goal setting, automatic serving size calculation, and quick food logging via barcode scanning or label analysis. Users can also monitor progress, share meals, and even convert alcohol calories into macro equivalents.
- Custom macro goal setting
- Automatic serving size calculation
- Barcode and label scanning for food logging
- Detailed macro and nutrient tracking
- Progress analysis and trend reporting
- Meal sharing and social support
- Alcohol calorie conversion
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MacrosFirst is the most powerful macro tracker, food logger, calorie counter, and meal planner—designed to help you easily achieve your health and fitness goals, no matter your diet or fitness level. [ SET & TRACK YOUR MACRO GOALS ] • Create custom daily and meal-level macro goals, including unlimited custom meals, to fit any schedule or diet plan. [ AUTO-CALCULATE SERVING SIZES ] • Automatically calculate serving sizes to hit your specific macro targets with precision. [ LOG FOODS & MEALS IN SECONDS ] • Search a database of over 3M+ verified foods or scan barcodes with the barcode scanner for quick, accurate tracking—and easily copy meals or entire days between dates. [ SCAN NUTRITION LABELS ] • Instantly import nutrition facts by scanning food labels with your camera—no manual entry required. [ TRACK MACROS & NUTRIENTS ] • Get detailed breakdowns of calories, protein, carbs, fats, and more, and customize your view to track the metrics that matter most. [ ANALYZE YOUR PROGRESS ] • Track body weight trends and compare them with your food intake over time using detailed progress reports. [ SHARE MEALS & STAY CONNECTED ] • Share meals, foods, and recipes with friends and family, and view their daily logs for mutual support. [ CONVERT ALCOHOL INTO MACROS ] • Allocate alcohol calories as carbs, fat, or a combination of both, keeping your calorie and macro tracking perfectly aligned. ▶ GET EVEN MORE WITH PREMIUM ◀ [ UNLIMITED DAILY GOALS ] • Set personalized macro targets for specific days, perfect for carb cycling or training and rest days. [ SMARTER FOOD SEARCH ] • Find foods fast using AI—just describe your meal with voice or text, or snap a photo of your plate. [ PERSONALIZED EXPERIENCE ] • Save meal and day notes, and use Extra Meals to track unplanned or one-off meals seamlessly. [ ANALYZE YOUR NUTRIENT TRENDS ] • View nutrient trends and averages over any date range to track long-term progress and insights. [ SAVE & EXPORT DATA ] • Export your meal history to Excel or sync your data to Google Sheets for a deeper analysis of your nutrition. [ IMPORT RECIPES ] • Import recipes from any website, complete with ingredients and step-by-step instructions. [ MACRO MATH CALORIE REPORTING ] Calculate calories based on the actual macros to ensure that calories and macros always match, even when nutrition labels are inconsistent. [ UNLIMITED CONNECTIONS ] • Follow unlimited friends and share your progress, meals, and nutrition insights with your support network. [ VIP SUPPORT ] • Enjoy priority VIP support for Premium subscribers, ensuring your questions and needs are addressed promptly. ▶ SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS ◀ MacrosFirst is free to download and use, with optional Premium features available through auto-renewing subscriptions. Privacy & Security Policy: https://www.macrosfirst.com/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.macrosfirst.com/terms.html
SayBright
Cultivate a consistent daily affirmation habit with personalized messages. Choose from various categories, track your progress with streaks, and share uplifting quotes as beautiful social media cards. Stay motivated with reminders and home screen widgets.
- Personalized daily affirmations
- 10 affirmation categories
- Streak tracking and rewards
- Shareable quote cards
- Home screen widgets
- Daily reminders
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SayBright helps you build a daily affirmation practice that sticks. Every morning, SayBright greets you with a personalized affirmation from the categories you care about most: confidence, gratitude, self love, morning energy, and more. Swipe through beautiful cards, save your favorites, and share them as stunning quote cards on social media. DAILY AFFIRMATIONS Choose from 10 categories and 340+ carefully crafted affirmations. Each one is designed to feel authentic, uplifting, and actionable. BUILD YOUR STREAK Open SayBright daily to build your streak. Celebrate milestones at 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 180, and 365 days with special animations and rewards. SHARE YOUR LIGHT Generate beautiful, branded share cards from any affirmation. Share them to Instagram Stories, iMessage, or anywhere you want to spread positivity. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Keep affirmations front and center with home screen and lock screen widgets that update throughout the day. DAILY REMINDERS Set a daily reminder to never miss your affirmation practice. Choose your perfect time and let SayBright come to you. SAYBRIGHT PREMIUM Unlock all 10 categories, unlimited daily affirmations, home screen widgets, watermark free share cards, and an ad free experience. Subscription options: Monthly: $0.99/month Annual: $9.99/year Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://ramseysmith.github.io/SayBright/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://ramseysmith.github.io/SayBright/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MacrosFirst at weekly against SayBright's every 5 weeks. MacrosFirst also leads on ratings volume (23K vs 3) and chart position (#98 vs unranked). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. MacrosFirst sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month and SayBright sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for MacrosFirst against 5.0 for SayBright. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MacrosFirst has 23K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MacrosFirst ships an update weekly, SayBright every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MacrosFirst | SayBright |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #98 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 212 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MacrosFirst, Inc. | Graysmith Labs LLC |
Customer experience
MacrosFirst
SayBright
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
SayBright
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
SayBright
- SayBright Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
- SayBright Premium$9.991 Year
Questions
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