MacrosFirst vs IndexFit
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
IndexFit
This app gamifies fitness by turning workout progress into competitive leagues and fantasy sports elements. It offers AI-driven workout plans, tracks various activities, and allows users to import existing training data.
- AI-generated workout plans
- Strength and aerobic activity tracking
- Fantasy sports-inspired leagues and competition
- Workout video analysis for plan generation
- Import of existing training data (CSV, notes, pictures)
- Progress tracking with XP and standings
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IndexFit makes training feel like a game. The only fantasy fitness designed workout app that integrates strength, aerobic, AND health activities in a fantasy football inspired workout app. Track strength sessions, runs, plan marathon training, and recovery, then turn your progress into XP, league standings, matchups, projections, and weekly goals. Compete with friends, make it to playoffs, and see how every workout moves your score. Meet Indy, your AI training partner. Tell Indy your goals, schedule and experience, and it builds a strength and running plan around you. Message Indy to adjust a workout, shorten a session or decide what to do today. After every workout or run, Indy checks in and suggests what to change next. You can also paste a workout video, import old notes, upload a picture, or bring in a CSV, and IndexFit turns messy training ideas into clean workout history and usable plans. Indy and the other AI features are part of IndexFit Pro. New subscribers can try the yearly plan free for 3 days. Use IndexFit to: - Track strength workouts with sets, reps, weight, volume, and PRs - Log runs and activity with Apple Watch - Compete in leagues, matchups, and playoffs - See XP, projections, trends, and progress over time - Paste workout videos and generate structured workouts - Build a strength and running plan with Indy, your AI coach - Message Indy to adjust workouts, shorten sessions, or decide what to do today - Get a check-in from Indy after every workout and run - Set goals and follow your progress toward them - Log meals from a photo or a quick note - Import old training from pictures, notes, and CSV files - IndexFit is built for people who want training to feel more alive: serious enough to track progress, flexible enough for real life, and competitive enough to keep you coming back. Terms of Service → https://indexfit.app/termsofservice Privacy Policy → https://indexfit.app/privacy
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Verdict
MacrosFirst and IndexFit both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of IndexFit's written reviews are positive against 74% of MacrosFirst's. MacrosFirst's advantage is ratings volume (23K vs 4) and chart position (#93 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 IndexFit sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 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 4.8 for IndexFit. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MacrosFirst has 23K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of MacrosFirst's written reviews are positive against 100% of IndexFit's.
MacrosFirst ships an update weekly, IndexFit every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MacrosFirst | IndexFit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23K ratings) — better | 4.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #93 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 212 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MacrosFirst, Inc. | Brandan Balasingham |
Customer experience
MacrosFirst
IndexFit
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
IndexFit
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
IndexFit
- IndexFit Pro Student Monthly$9.991 Month
- IndexFit Pro Monthly$14.991 Month
- IndexFit Pro Student Annual$89.991 Year
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- IndexFit Pro Annual3 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Extended use$9.99









