Comparison

Arrow vs Caf Coach

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

Head to head
About

Arrow

This app helps you achieve your body composition goals by tracking workouts and nutrition. It provides adaptive calorie and macro targets based on your progress and offers insights into your training and diet effectiveness. Features include smart meal scanning, personalized workout planning, and progress visualization.

Highlights
  • Adaptive calorie and macro targets
  • Smart meal scanning and logging
  • Workout planning and tracking
  • Progress visualization and insights
  • Arrow Score for overall progress
  • Rest timer and live activity integration
Features
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Arrow is the #1 workout and nutrition tracker built for changing your body. Log your lifts, meals, and weight in one app, get calorie and macro targets that adapt to your real results, and see whether training and diet are actually adding up, whether you're cutting, bulking, or just looking to maintain. TRAINING AND NUTRITION IN ONE LOOP Changing your body is one problem, not two. Your lifts create the stimulus, your food decides what your body does with it, and your weight trend tells you whether the plan is working. Most apps track one piece. Arrow connects all three. • Adaptive TDEE: Arrow estimates your real daily energy expenditure from your weigh-ins and food log, not just a formula, and keeps your calorie and macro targets adjusted as your body responds • Scale Weight vs. Trend Weight: every weigh-in is plotted against a rolling trend, so you can tell a water swing from true gain or loss before you change your plan • Oil detection: if a scanned meal was likely cooked in oil, Arrow asks before you log, so hidden calories don't slip past your numbers • Arrow Score: one number built from Strength (PRs and volume), Nutrition (calories, macros, weigh-ins), and Consistency (workouts and meal logs), weighted for your goal. A cut and a bulk are scored differently. • Estimated daily deficit or surplus and a four-week projection • Arrow Coach flags when a sudden scale jump or drop is likely water, not fat NUTRITION TRACKING THAT'S FAST AND HONEST • Smart Scan: photograph your plate and get the foods, calories, and macros • Describe a meal in plain words or by voice, scan a barcode, or look it up in the database • Heads Up before you log a scanned meal, and a meal score when you do • Edit any target yourself. Arrow never locks you into its numbers. • Recent foods, saved meals, custom foods, and copy-a-previous-day for meals you eat on repeat • Optional meal and post-workout reminders WORKOUT TRACKER BUILT FOR THE GYM • Log sets, reps, and weight in a few taps, no clutter mid-set • Plan your own routines or generate one from your goal, equipment, days, and session length • Flip any exercise card to see your history and personal records • Rest timer, dropsets, cardio and activity tracking • Custom exercises, swap exercises mid-workout, reorder on the fly • Lock Screen Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep your workout in view • Close the app mid-session and resume where you left off ARROW COACH Coach reads training and nutrition together: a recap of your week after workouts and on your Stats screen, a Heads Up on meals before you log them, and a call-out when a weight swing is likely water. Every note ends with what to do next. PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE • Muscle diagram shows which muscles you hit this week and how hard • Volume, PR, and lift progress over time • Week Overview calendar for training and nutrition days • Apple Health steps on your Profile and in Performance • Arrow Wrapped: your year in review TRAIN WITH FRIENDS • See your friends' workouts (and their meals, if they share them) in your feed • Share workout cards to Instagram Stories OPTIONAL GAMIFICATION Want extra motivation? Turn on levels, streak multipliers, and trophies. SUBSCRIPTION Access to Arrow requires a subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Powered by fatsecret nutrition API (www.fatsecret.com) Barcode data also from Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), licensed under ODbL. Terms of Use: https://arrowfitnessapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://arrowfitnessapp.com/privacy Questions? support@arrowfitnessapp.com

About

Caf Coach

This app helps students track their dietary goals by creating personalized meal plans based on their campus dining hall menus. It allows users to set macro targets and log meals quickly through various input methods, including photo scanning.

Highlights
  • Personalized macro goal setting
  • Meal plans from campus menus
  • Scan menus and dishes for nutrition
  • Quick meal logging with adjustments
  • Log food outside the cafeteria
  • Visual progress tracking
Features
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Caf Coach turns your campus dining hall into a macro-friendly meal plan. Tell it your goals (calories, protein, carbs, and fat) and Caf Coach builds a plan from your school's actual dining menu so you know exactly what to eat to hit your numbers. Caf Coach was built by Fletcher, a Harding University student who got tired of guessing macros in the dining hall. It is still made by a small team of students, it works at hundreds of campuses, and every feature is free. FEATURES • Personalized macro goals: set them yourself or use the built-in calculator (cut, maintain, bulk, or recomp). • Plans from your real dining hall menu: Caf Coach builds balanced meals around your targets from your campus menu. • Scan a menu or dish: snap a photo and Caf Coach reads the nutrition so you can log it fast. • Swipe to log what you actually ate: adjust servings with a quick slide and watch your daily rings fill. • Log anything, anywhere: the Log tab tracks food outside the cafeteria by search, barcode, a typed sentence, or a photo, and saves the meals you repeat. • Track your climb: a visual progress mountain shows how close you are to finishing your plan for the day. Whether you're cutting, bulking, or just trying to eat better in the dining hall, Caf Coach makes hitting your macros on campus simple. Every feature in Caf Coach is free. No paywall, no subscription. Caf Coach was formerly called MacroPeak. Terms of Use (EULA): https://cafcoach.org/terms Privacy Policy: https://cafcoach.org/privacy

Screenshots

Arrow4 screens
Caf Coach4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Caf Coach at none against Arrow's 10. Caf Coach also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). Arrow's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (9.3K vs 19). On price, 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. Arrow sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.39 per month. Caf Coach asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Arrow holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Arrow has 9.3K ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Arrow's written reviews are positive against 100% of Caf Coach's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Arrow ships an update every 2 weeks, Caf Coach weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Arrow versus Caf Coach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArrowCaf Coach
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9.3K ratings) — better4.6 (19 ratings)
Positive reviews77.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9.3K — better19
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size125 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLevelUp App Studios LLCFLETCHER REECE STOBAUGH

Customer experience

Arrow

All ratings9,293 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews750 reviews
Positive77.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative15.1%

Caf Coach

All ratings19 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Arrow

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Assisted pull-ups incorrectly adding weight instead of subtracting
  • Muscle distribution not accurately tracking
  • Workout data not always logging correctly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to edit previous workouts
  • Allow reordering of exercises in a workout
  • Implement a rest timer
  • Add more workout options, especially for cardio
  • Provide different tiers/achievements for men and women

Caf Coach

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Arrow

Subscriptions10
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$4.391 Month
  • Gold Access1 Month trial$4.391 Month
  • Gold Access$5.991 Month
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  • Diamond Access$12.991 Month
  • Secret Discount (Gold Access)$17.491 Year
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Diamond Access7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Diamond Access7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Diamond Access7 Days trial$79.991 Year
None

Caf Coach

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Arrow free?
Arrow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Caf Coach free?
Caf Coach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Arrow or Caf Coach?
Arrow is rated higher. Arrow averages 4.8 out of 5 from 9.3K ratings, while Caf Coach averages 4.6 from 19 ratings.
Do Arrow or Caf Coach have ads?
Caf Coach shows ads; Arrow does not.
Which is updated more often, Arrow or Caf Coach?
Arrow ships an update every 2 weeks, and Caf Coach weekly. Most recently, Arrow was updated on November 5, 2026 and Caf Coach on November 5, 2026.

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