Comparison

MacrosFirst vs Orbit Fasting

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 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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Orbit Fasting

This app offers a flexible intermittent fasting timer and tracker. It provides insights into metabolic phases, allows for journaling, and tracks weight and hydration. It also integrates with Apple Health and prioritizes user privacy.

Highlights
  • Flexible fasting schedules
  • Fasting phase insights
  • Weight and hydration tracking
  • Journaling and streaks
  • Apple Health integration
  • Privacy-focused data export
Features
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Orbit is a flexible intermittent fasting companion designed to help you fast on your terms, understand your progress, and build sustainable habits. Whether you follow 16:8, 18:6, OMAD, or a custom schedule, Orbit gives you a simple fasting timer, educational metabolic phase insights, hydration and weight tracking, journaling, streaks, and Apple Health integration in one privacy-focused experience. FASTING THAT FITS YOUR LIFE • Start, pause, resume, or extend a fast whenever you need. • Choose popular fasting plans or create a schedule that works for you. • Track elapsed and remaining time with a smooth visual fasting ring. UNDERSTAND YOUR FAST Follow an educational timeline of fasting phases, including digestion, glycogen use, fat burning, ketosis, and later-stage fasting. See what may be happening during each stage and learn what to expect as your fast progresses. JOURNAL YOUR PROGRESS Keep a chronological record of completed fasts. Add mood, energy level, notes, photos, and tags so you can look back and understand your habits over time. WEIGHT & HYDRATION • Log body weight and follow trends over time. • Track progress toward your weight goal. • Quickly add 250 ml or 500 ml of water. • View hydration progress throughout the day. INSIGHTS & STREAKS Stay motivated with current and longest streaks, consistency tracking, average fasting duration, completed fasts, and personalized insights based on your history. APPLE HEALTH Sync supported body weight and dietary water data with Apple Health for a more connected health-tracking experience. YOUR DATA, YOUR JOURNEY Orbit is built with a privacy-first approach and gives you tools to export your fasting, weight, and hydration history as CSV files. Orbit is intended for educational and personal tracking purposes only and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Consult a qualified healthcare professional before beginning extended fasting or making significant dietary changes.

Screenshots

MacrosFirst4 screens
Orbit Fasting4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MacrosFirst at Free against Orbit Fasting's $1.99. MacrosFirst also leads on chart position (#75 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). Orbit Fasting's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

MacrosFirst is free to download; Orbit Fasting costs $1.99 up front. MacrosFirst sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Orbit Fasting asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
MacrosFirst versus Orbit Fasting: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMacrosFirstOrbit Fasting
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.9 (23K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
Best chart rank#75 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size211 MB3 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperMacrosFirst, Inc.Maydaysec

Customer experience

MacrosFirst

All ratings22,932 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral1.6%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews513 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral6.4%
Negative19.5%

Orbit Fasting

Written reviews1 reviews
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

Orbit Fasting

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
None

Orbit Fasting

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MacrosFirst free?
MacrosFirst is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbit Fasting free?
Orbit Fasting costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do MacrosFirst or Orbit Fasting have ads?
MacrosFirst shows ads; Orbit Fasting does not.

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