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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Five bright affirmations every morning, picked for what you want more of. Say them out loud, save the ones that land, and build a daily habit that keeps you on your own side. SAY IT OUT LOUD SayBright starts with your first affirmation in under a minute. Pick what you want more of, read it, say it, and feel the difference a kind sentence makes. FIVE A DAY, FREE Every day brings five fresh affirmations from the topics you chose, the same five your morning reminder points to. Swipe through them, save your favorites, and come back tomorrow for five more. TEN CATEGORIES, 340 AFFIRMATIONS Confidence, Gratitude, Morning Energy, Self Love, Career Growth, Relationships, Health and Body, Wealth and Abundance, Calm and Anxiety Relief, and Creativity. Confidence is fully open on the free plan, and every other category lets you read a preview. HEAR IT IN YOUR OWN VOICE Record any affirmation in your own voice and play it back whenever you need it. Hearing your own words is a simple way to make positive self talk stick. WRITE YOUR OWN Keep personal affirmations in My Affirmations, right next to the ones we wrote for you. BUILD YOUR STREAK Open SayBright each day to grow your streak, and celebrate milestones at 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 180 and 365 days. SHARE CARDS Turn any affirmation into a beautiful quote card for Stories, iMessage or anywhere you want to spread some light. HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Keep an affirmation in view all day with widgets that refresh throughout the day. DAILY REMINDERS Pick a time and SayBright sends one gentle reminder a day, so your practice becomes a habit. FREE TO START The free plan includes five affirmations a day, the full Confidence category, previews of every other category, streaks, share cards, reminders and your own written affirmations. SAYBRIGHT PREMIUM Premium opens all 10 categories and every affirmation with no daily limit, home screen and lock screen widgets, recordings in your own voice, watermark free share cards and no ads. Premium is offered as a monthly or a yearly subscription. Each plan starts with a 7 day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Prices are shown in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. If you start a free trial, payment is charged when the trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your App Store account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://graysmithlabs.com/apps/saybright-privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: MacrosFirst at 23K against SayBright's 3. MacrosFirst also leads on chart position (#81 vs unranked). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MacrosFirst | SayBright |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #81 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 212 MB | 47 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 Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- SayBright Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
Questions
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