MacrosFirst vs Mendr
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
Mendr
This wellness journal helps adults reflect on their nights and manage their mornings. Log sleep, food, movement, and feelings, and connect wearables for comprehensive insights. It offers a guided care plan and pattern analysis to support your wellness journey.
- Nightly wellness logging
- Morning routine planning
- Wearable device integration
- Four-step care plan
- Pattern and trend analysis
- Optional social features
- Data export and privacy controls
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Better mornings, together. Mendr helps you find out what makes your mornings good, and lets your friends check in with you every day. It's a journal for sleep, energy and daily routines, and it works without a wearable or an account. The app interface is currently available in English. CHECK IN EACH MORNING Answer one question at a time: sleep, food, water, movement, how you feel and a goal for today. It takes about a minute. Add an optional private note about your day; it's never scored and never shared. You can say your answers instead of typing: speech is turned into text on your iPhone, never recorded, and Mendr only suggests answers for you to confirm. Apple Health can fill in sleep, water and movement, and WHOOP or Oura can fill in sleep and workouts, for you to review first. SEE WHAT HELPS Your Morning Snapshot sums up your check-in from 0 to 100, with its method and limits explained. Say how each morning feels, from Great to Very low; that answer is yours and never scored. Explore your calendar, trends, insights, a weekly report and small experiments from your own records. Sample sizes and limits are always shown: patterns are not proof of cause and effect. SLEEP AROUND TOMORROW Turn on your calendar and Mendr suggests a bedtime based on when tomorrow morning starts. It reads event start times on your iPhone, never titles, places or guests, and never changes your calendar. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME Follow a four-step care plan, record your choices and add reflections. Plan Progress tracks what you do; it never changes your Morning Snapshot. WAKE UP TOGETHER Start an invite-only crew of up to eight friends. On a crew day, once you've checked in yourself, see who else has and how many care steps each person did. Crews also have messages and photos. Optional accounts add private backup, friends and two-week seasons where points come only from taking part. Report content and block people from social screens. COACH The optional AI Coach answers questions about sleep, energy and your routines. It stays off until you turn on AI processing, and your notes are never sent to it on their own. KEEP YOUR CHOICES YOURS Use the core journal and plan without an account. Lock the app with Face ID, and export or erase your data at any time. Apple Health connections are optional; Mendr reads from Apple Health and never writes new data to it. WHOOP and Oura need a Mendr account and a provider account with recorded data. NOT MEDICAL ADVICE Mendr provides general wellness information, not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. The Morning Snapshot describes your answers; it is not a health assessment. Mendr is not an emergency service. A minimum age applies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mendr at none against MacrosFirst's 9. Mendr also leads on ads (none vs shown). MacrosFirst's advantage is ratings volume (23K vs 2) and chart position (#81 vs unranked). On price, rating, update cadence and device support 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. Mendr asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for MacrosFirst against 5.0 for Mendr. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MacrosFirst has 23K ratings behind it against 2, 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 | Mendr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #81 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 212 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | MacrosFirst, Inc. | ALBERT ZORZOLAN |
Customer experience
MacrosFirst
Mendr
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
Mendr
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
Mendr
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is MacrosFirst free?
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