MacrosFirst vs Dawdle
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
Dawdle
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Take a quiet moment for yourself. Dawdle guides your breathing with a gentle animated orb, sound, and haptics—with sessions for calm, sleep, focus, and energy. Get a suggestion for your time of day and goals, or choose a pattern and practice at your own pace. PRACTICE YOUR WAY • Start with five free breathing patterns for calm, sleep, focus, and energy. • Choose your session length and follow gentle sound and haptic cues. • Set a gentle daily reminder. • See your practice history and progress, free. GO FURTHER WITH DAWDLE PRO • Seven additional breathing patterns—all 12 included • Create and save your own patterns • Extra soundscapes and chime tones • Full breath-hold trend over time • Four extra themes and five alternate app icons SEE YOUR RHYTHM Review your completed sessions, weekly minutes, forgiving streak, 28-day activity, and lifetime totals. Optional mood check-ins stay with your local practice history. OPTIONAL BREATH-HOLD TREND Record a manual breath-hold score and follow your personal breath-hold trend over time. This is a general-wellness feature, not a medical test or a measure of lung capacity or lung function. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Dawdle has no account, advertising, analytics, or developer-operated app server. Practice data is stored locally. If you enable Apple Health, Dawdle writes session duration as Mindful Minutes and never reads Health data. If you contact support, you choose what to send. See our Privacy Policy for details. Dawdle Pro is available through Apple's auto-renewing subscriptions. Available plans, localized prices, renewal terms, and any eligible introductory offer are shown by the App Store before purchase. You can manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://dawdle.continuum.sa/terms Privacy Policy: https://dawdle.continuum.sa/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Dawdle at none against MacrosFirst's shown. MacrosFirst's advantage is chart position (#89 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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 Dawdle sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | MacrosFirst | Dawdle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Best chart rank | #89 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 211 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MacrosFirst, Inc. | Continuum Co. |
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
Dawdle
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
Dawdle
- Dawdle Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Dawdle Pro Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year








