Comparison

Nutrition tracker vs Simple Macro

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

Head to head
About

Nutrition tracker

Easily track your daily calorie and nutrient intake to achieve your health and fitness goals. This app helps you understand macros, calculate caloric needs, and monitor water consumption for a healthier lifestyle. Achieve weight loss, muscle gain, or maintenance with its powerful tracking features.

Highlights
  • Calorie and nutrient tracking
  • Macro calculation
  • Daily calorie calculator
  • Water intake tracker
  • Custom food and diet options (Premium)
  • Health app integration
  • Dark mode
Features
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Calorie counting is as easy as 1-2-3. Get the most out of your diet with this easy-to-use app that allows you to keep track of your daily calories, nutrients, and meals. Our calorie counter and water tracker app that gives you access to all your nutrition data, so you can make healthier lifestyle choices. Cut fat, build muscle, maximize health. Lose weight and get fit with this super-easy app that tracks your food. Simple, fast, powerful! Calorie counters and macro trackers both work to help you lose weight, but macro trackers are more effective. A macro tracker is a next generation food tracker that focuses on macros, not only calories. The Food & Macro Tracker By lilbite is a free app that makes tracking your food easy, and helps you reach your fitness goals. The Food & Macro Tracker App by lilbite has been designed to help anyone understand what a calorie is, much less a gram of carbohydrate. For those who are health-novices, the idea of using a macro tracker can be overwhelming. Many barely understand what a calorie is, much less a gram of carbohydrate. With the Food & Macro Tracker App, that has changed. The underlying reason any diet works is because of energy balance. Food faddism comes and goes, but calorie trackers have been around since the beginning of time, because they are the reason any diet can or does work. Calories consumed and calories expended determine an energy surplus leading to weight gain and fat gain, or an energy deficit leading to weight loss and fat loss. This is why calorie counters are so popular. They help people reach their fitness goals. Macronutrients are the nutrients that create any calories from the foods we eat. Without macros, no calories will be made. Macros serve different purposes in the body. For example, protein builds and repairs muscle tissue, and fat helps store energy. A balance of macros ensures optimal weight loss and health improvements. Great Lilbite features :- Use the Daily Calorie Calculator to find out how many calories you need per day to reach your target weight. •Choose your goal, lose weight, maintain it or gain muscle mass. • Nutritional information of thousands of foods. • Calculate your caloric needs. • Calculate all your macronutrients. • Create Custom Foods (Premium) • Water Tracker - track your daily water intake needs (Premium) • Set Custom Calorie Intake (Premium) • Set Custom Water Intake (Premium) • Set Custom Diet (Premium) • Custom Reminders / Notifications to keep you on track (Premium) • Dark Mode! • NO registration or sign up required! Powered by fatsecret Platform API INTEGRATION WITH THE HEALTH APP • Write nutrition data to the Health app - calories, carbs, protein, fat. Terms & Conditions: https://www.lilbite.app/tos Privacy policy: https://www.lilbite.app/privacy --------------------------------------- Optional auto-renewing Premium Subscription is available (price varies by territory, includes free trial) located on the Upgrade page. Payments will be charged to your iTunes Account after confirmation. Subscription automatically renewed unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the subscription period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed in your iTunes Account’s Settings after purchasing. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. NOTE: Lilbite is not a medical app. Suggested calorie intake is just an estimate based on your profile. Please consult your health provider if you want to use it for medical purposes or to obtain specific diet needs.

About

Simple Macro

Easily monitor your daily macro and micronutrient intake on iOS and Mac. Set personalized targets for lifting and rest days, visualize your progress, and quickly log meals by searching past entries. Integrates with Apple Health for comprehensive tracking.

Highlights
  • Track macro and micronutrients
  • Set daily macro targets
  • Visualize goal progress
  • Quick meal logging
  • Apple Health integration
  • Cross-device sync (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
Features
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Simple Macro allows you to easily track both the macro and micronutrients that you eat using your iOS device or Mac. - Keep track of your goals for lifting and rest days by setting macro targets. - View goal progress throughout the day with simple visualizations. - Search previously used foods to create meals quickly and easily. - Connect with Apple Health to track important information. - Seamlessly switch between your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to update your food and meals. Simple Macro is a personal project built on SwiftUI, HealthKit, CloudKit, and Catalyst technology.

Screenshots

Nutrition tracker4 screens
Simple Macro3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Nutrition tracker at 4.6 against Simple Macro's 4.0. Nutrition tracker also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 33%) and ratings volume (323 vs 8). Simple Macro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and 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

Both are free to download. Nutrition tracker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Simple Macro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nutrition tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nutrition tracker has 323 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Nutrition tracker's written reviews are positive against 33% of Simple Macro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nutrition tracker ships an update fortnightly, Simple Macro every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and July 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Nutrition tracker versus Simple Macro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNutrition trackerSimple Macro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (323 ratings) — better4.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings323 — better8
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAbhinav KhangerLuke Quigley

Customer experience

Nutrition tracker

All ratings323 ratings
Positive89.8%
Neutral3.7%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral8.3%
Negative29.2%

Simple Macro

All ratings8 ratings
Positive62.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Nutrition tracker

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App freezes when selecting food items
  • Barcode scanner crashes app consistently
  • Scanner requires app restart to function again
  • Metric to imperial measurement conversion errors
  • Lost meal entries when not saved before crash
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  • Food search returns no suggestions for common items
  • Subscription notifications appear for already-paid users
  • No way to cancel subscription within app
  • Weight logging feature missing after update

Requested features

9 requests
  • Weight logging feature (removed in recent update)
  • Barcode scanner as complimentary feature
  • Free trial for premium features without payment details
  • iPad/multi-device sync capability
  • Ability to manually enter custom macros and calories
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  • Improved food database with user corrections
  • Better accessibility features for blind users
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics and insights

Simple Macro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Nutrition tracker

Subscriptions6
  • Unlimited access$9.991 Month
  • Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Yearly Discount7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

Simple Macro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nutrition tracker free?
Nutrition tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Macro free?
Simple Macro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Nutrition tracker or Simple Macro?
Nutrition tracker is rated higher. Nutrition tracker averages 4.6 out of 5 from 323 ratings, while Simple Macro averages 4.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Nutrition tracker or Simple Macro have ads?
Neither Nutrition tracker nor Simple Macro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nutrition tracker or Simple Macro?
Nutrition tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Simple Macro every 5 days. Most recently, Nutrition tracker was updated on September 28, 2026 and Simple Macro on July 8, 2026.

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