Comparison

Active Giving vs MacroChef

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

Head to head
About

Active Giving

This app allows users to track their runs and bike rides, and log past workouts. It connects activities to charitable giving and encourages social sharing to inspire others. Users can link their Strava accounts and participate in team challenges.

Highlights
  • GPS activity tracking
  • Manual workout logging
  • Social media sharing
  • Strava account integration
  • Team challenges
  • Charitable giving integration
Features
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Turn every run, walk, and workout into real-world impact. Active Giving is a fitness app that lets your movement plant trees,restore kelp forests, and remove plastic from our oceans. Get your daily exercise in while doing something meaningful for the planet. How it works Download the app, log your first activity (with built-in GPS tracking, or import your last workout), and see the environmental impact you've unlocked. Share your accomplishments with your friends and inspire them to move for a cause too. Create an Active Giving account to unlock the full set of features: • Strava sync: connect your Strava account to Active Giving to automatically sync activities across both platforms. • Apple Health integration: pull your workouts from Apple Watch, iPhone, and other trackers directly into your Active Giving impact. • Team challenges: exclusive challenges built for virtual events, company wellness programs, and community-led initiatives. • Impact leaderboards: see how you and your team stack up, and celebrate wins together. • Impact history: track every tree planted, every kilogram of plastic removed, every kelp forest supported. Press "Active Giving is a movement that gives people the opportunity to achieve something huge, while simply getting their daily exercise hit." Fashion Week Magazine Why our Active Givers love the idea Lauren: "With Active Giving, my workouts evolve from activity that's good for me to activity that's good for the world. I've been given a renewed sense of purpose that fuels my workouts as a driving force for positive change." Rene: "I'm an Active Giver because running is my passion. It connects people no matter their gender, religion, or origin. We run together." Ricarda: "Doing yourself a favor by moving your body AND doing good for this planet. Everybody should join. It's so easy to do good. What else are we waiting for?" Every step counts. Every ride matters. Every activity you log becomes real-world impact. #beactivedogood #activegiver Connect with us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/active.giving/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/activegiving/ Email: info@activegiving.de

About

MacroChef

Features
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Know what you're eating before you eat it. MacroChef turns recipes into structured meals with nutrition, then helps you plan, shop, cook, and track everything in one place. IMPORT RECIPES FROM ANYWHERE Paste a recipe website link, or share directly from TikTok or Instagram. MacroChef extracts the recipe, ingredients, steps, and nutrition automatically. Longer imports can continue in the background, with a notification when your recipe is ready. ASK CHEF Every recipe comes with its own AI assistant. Ask about substitutions, cooking techniques, timing, or anything else while you're cooking. AI-POWERED FOOD LOGGING Log what you ate by typing or dictating it in your own words, and let AI estimate the nutrition. Or search for individual foods and enter exact quantities yourself. Recipes you've cooked can be tracked automatically. YOUR RECIPE LIBRARY Find everything you've saved in one place. Search recipes, filter by cuisine or category, organize favorites into Collections, and see what you've recently cooked. MEAL PLANNING Plan your meals for the week and add multiple recipes to the same meal. Swap, add, or remove recipes without starting over. SHOPPING LIST Ingredients from your planned meals are organized automatically. Add anything else you need with My Items, right alongside your recipe ingredients. PERSONALIZED NUTRITION Set your daily calorie and macro targets, then customize individual micronutrient goals when you want more control. MacroChef combines AI with nutrition databases including USDA FoodData Central and Open Food Facts. MacroChef requires an internet connection for recipe importing and syncing. Saved recipes are available offline. MacroChef is free to download. Sign in with email to sync across devices. Terms of Use: https://stv-99.github.io/macrochef-site/terms.html

Screenshots

Active Giving4 screens
MacroChef4 screens

Verdict

The call

Active Giving and MacroChef are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Active Giving ships an update every 3 weeks, MacroChef every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Active Giving versus MacroChef: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActive GivingMacroChef
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperActive Giving GmbHSantiago Toro

In-app purchases

None

Active Giving

No in-app purchases

None

MacroChef

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Active Giving free?
Active Giving is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MacroChef free?
MacroChef is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Active Giving or MacroChef have ads?
Neither Active Giving nor MacroChef shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Active Giving or MacroChef?
Active Giving ships an update every 3 weeks, and MacroChef every 5 weeks. Most recently, Active Giving was updated on October 9, 2026 and MacroChef on October 2, 2026.

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