Comparison

Meal Replacement Tracker vs Macro Sync

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Meal Replacement Tracker

Easily track your progress on a meal replacement program. Monitor meals, water intake, and daily weight with visual cues. Includes customizable reminders and program-specific features.

Highlights
  • Track meals and optional items
  • Monitor daily water intake
  • Record and view daily weight
  • Customizable meal reminders
  • Support for various meal plans
  • Record body measurements
  • iCloud backup and sync
Features
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Meal replacement tracker, the easiest way to keep track of your meal replacement program. MR tracker is simple and easy to use. Simply select the week and the day then mark the meals, optional items, and water as you eat/drink them. The day rings will serve as a reminder to what you have already completed and what you have left. It’s easy to make it a goal to close the meal ring and the water ring daily. Record you daily weight on the input screen and view it on the overview screen next to your food and water rings. Color coded to show an increase, decrease, or neutral change in weight. Local push notifications are used to remind you to eat a meal every 2.5 hours. Notifications can be customized with the In-App Purchase - "Custom Alarm". Reminders start after you click your 1st checkbox for the day. Current meal plans are: Standard, Nursing Mother, 4MR2 and 5MR2. Choose the amount of weeks you want to do the program. Standard plan can change Burn and Transition weeks. The other plans can only change the Burn weeks. Take pictures at the Start, Middle and End of your program. Record body measurements at the Start, Middle and End of your program. Restart button to erase all data and start the program over fresh. Added support for iCloud Backup and Sync. Your data will automatically be backed up and synced to your iCloud account and will automatically show up and sync with your other Apple devices using the same Apple ID. ***In-App Purchase - Custom Alarm Notification. Set you default alarm notification interval. Interval ranges from 15 min to 3 hours 30 min in increments of 15 min. You can also set a 1-time alarm notification for you next meal after you checkmark a meal. 1 time alarm notifications don't change the overall default alarm notification interval. This is great for those times when you forgot to checkmark a meal and need a shorter alarm notification for your next meal or if you know you have an appointment when your next meal is supposed to be, you can set the 1 time alarm notification for before or after your appointment. ***In-App Purchase - Overview Details. The Overview Screen can now show a graph representation of your weight for the week and your overall weight in graph form, min, max, and current weight. It will also show what time your next meal is at the top of the screen. It will also create a Live Activity on your lock screen with a timer counting down until your next meal. *It will also show in the Dynamic Island if your device supports it. ***In-App Purchase - Remove Ads. Removes ads from the app. As a bonus you get an extra row of water icons to fill up the space normally used for ads. Portrait orientation only. Ads are used at the bottom of the screen.

About

Macro Sync

This app simplifies health and fitness by making nutrition tracking easy. Log meals, organize recipes, and monitor calories and macronutrients with proven recommendations. It offers a user-friendly interface with powerful tools for personalized diet management.

Highlights
  • Macro tracking
  • Micro tracking
  • Custom goals
  • Barcode scanner
  • Recipe creator
  • Verified food database
  • Community support
Features
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Macros Sync simplifies your health and fitness goals without sacrificing the foods you love in a simple, easy way. Macro Sync is your free, user-friendly food-tracking app that centralizes everything you need. Quickly log meals, organize recipes, and see your calories in one place. Designed to streamline your nutrition journey, Macro Sync makes managing your diet effortless and effective. Achieve your goals and enjoy a healthier, happier you with Macro Sync. PROVEN RECOMMENDATIONS Macros Sync creates estimated calorie and macronutrient targets that help you reach your health and fitness goals. Our estimating equations have been used and tested in more than 4 million people and helped hundreds of thousands of individuals reach their goals. We know that your goals change so we have made Macro Sync to fit your changing life. You can change your goals and our technology immediately updates to provide you an updated plan any time, anywhere. SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE TRACKING TOOLS We designed Macro Sync from the ground up based on feedback from hundreds of thousands of individual people. Macro Sync has taken all of the powerful tools you want as a user (custom food entry, searchable database, recipe builder, barcode scanner, etc.) and made them incredibly simple and easy to use. Our tracker takes all of the premium/paid features of other trackers and provides them to you at no cost, including: Macro Tracking Micro Tracking Custom Goals Personalized Food Database Barcode Scanner Recipe Creator Custom meals Ad Free Experience Net Carbs Mode Community Support REAL FOOD DATA We’ve spent decades working with people on tracking food and we know what foods people actually eat. This is the foundation with which we built our food database, which undergoes constant updating. We know that the landscape of food tracking can be daunting, especially when you don’t know what data to trust. This is why we have included verified foods in our database that you can quickly and visibly confirm are verified. Our food database includes: Calories Macronutrients Micronutrients Toggleable net fiber Auto Calorie Calculators Confirmed Serving Sizes Popular Food Brands Barcodes COMMUNITY SUPPORT Macro Sync not only allows you to track your food but also welcomes you to join an already established community of over 500,000 people cultivated by Macros Inc, the developers of Macro Sync. In this free community you will have access to professional coaches who answer questions, provide feedback, and provide immense amounts of free education.

Screenshots

Meal Replacement Tracker4 screens
Macro Sync4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Macro Sync at 4.5 against Meal Replacement Tracker's 3.9. Macro Sync also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). Meal Replacement Tracker's advantage is review sentiment (74% vs 58%). On price, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Meal Replacement Tracker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Macro Sync asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Macro Sync holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Macro Sync has 602 ratings behind it against 61, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Meal Replacement Tracker's written reviews are positive against 58% of Macro Sync's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meal Replacement Tracker ships an update every 2 months, Macro Sync every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Meal Replacement Tracker versus Macro Sync: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeal Replacement TrackerMacro Sync
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (61 ratings)4.5 (602 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.3% of reviews — better57.6% of reviews
Number of ratings61602 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.616 — better
Further details — not scored
Size163 MB124 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJared GrantMacros Inc

Customer experience

Meal Replacement Tracker

All ratings62 ratings
Positive74.2%
Neutral16.1%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive74.3%
Neutral14.3%
Negative11.4%

Macro Sync

All ratings602 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral6.0%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews85 reviews
Positive57.6%
Neutral16.5%
Negative25.9%

Bugs and requests

Meal Replacement Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Macro Sync

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when adding new foods
  • Inability to access previous day's entries
  • Inconsistent nutrition data measurements

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to edit custom food entries
  • More advanced nutrition tracking options
  • Personalized daily macro goals
  • Improved barcode scanning reliability
  • Expanded food database

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Meal Replacement Tracker

One-time3
  • Overview Details$2.99
  • Custom Alarm$3.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
None

Macro Sync

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meal Replacement Tracker free?
Meal Replacement Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Macro Sync free?
Macro Sync is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Meal Replacement Tracker or Macro Sync?
Macro Sync is rated higher. Meal Replacement Tracker averages 3.9 out of 5 from 61 ratings, while Macro Sync averages 4.5 from 602 ratings.
Do Meal Replacement Tracker or Macro Sync have ads?
Meal Replacement Tracker shows ads; Macro Sync does not.
Which is updated more often, Meal Replacement Tracker or Macro Sync?
Meal Replacement Tracker ships an update every 2 months, and Macro Sync every 4 days. Most recently, Meal Replacement Tracker was updated on September 19, 2026 and Macro Sync on September 23, 2026.

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