Arrow vs MacroPeak
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Arrow
This app gamifies your fitness journey, transforming workouts into a fun, competitive experience with friends. Track progress with a detailed log, earn rewards, and connect with a global community for motivation and support.
- Gamified workout experience
- Weightlifting routine planner
- Progress tracking and logging
- Social fitness network
- Earn trophies and EXP
- Workout social feed
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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
MacroPeak
This app helps students track their macronutrient intake using their campus dining hall menus. It generates personalized meal plans based on your calorie, protein, carb, and fat goals, and allows for easy logging of meals by scanning or searching.
- Personalized macro goal setting
- Meal plans from campus dining menus
- Scan menus or dishes for nutrition
- Swipe to log actual food intake
- Visual progress tracking
- Log any food item
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MacroPeak turns your campus dining hall into a macro-friendly meal plan. Tell it your goals — calories, protein, carbs, and fat — and MacroPeak builds a plan from your school's actual dining menu so you know exactly what to eat to hit your numbers. 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 — MacroPeak builds balanced meals around your targets from your campus menu. • Scan a menu or dish — snap a photo and MacroPeak 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. • Track your climb — a visual progress mountain shows how close you are to finishing your plan for the day. • Log anything — search foods, scan, or add your own, all in one place. Whether you're cutting, bulking, or just trying to eat better in the dining hall, MacroPeak makes hitting your macros on campus simple. Premium unlocks menu scanning, meal exchanges, and full food logging. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION MacroPeak Premium is offered as an auto-renewing subscription: Monthly ($7.99/month), Semester ($39.00/6 months), or Annual ($69.00/year). Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://macropeak.org/terms Privacy Policy: https://macropeak.org/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Arrow at none against MacroPeak's shown. Arrow also leads on ratings volume (9.1K vs 15). MacroPeak's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Arrow sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $4.39 per month and MacroPeak sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Arrow against 4.7 for MacroPeak. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Arrow has 9.1K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Arrow's written reviews are positive against 100% of MacroPeak's.
Arrow ships an update every 2 weeks, MacroPeak every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Arrow | MacroPeak |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9.1K ratings) — better | 4.7 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.1K — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LevelUp App Studios LLC | FLETCHER REECE STOBAUGH |
Customer experience
Arrow
MacroPeak
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
MacroPeak
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Arrow
- Gold Access7 Days trial$4.391 Month
- Gold Access1 Month trial$4.391 Month
- Gold Access$5.991 Month
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- Gold Access7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Diamond Access$12.991 Month
- Secret Discount (Gold Access)$17.491 Year
- Gold Access7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Gold Access1 Month trial$29.991 Year
- Diamond Access7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Gold Access1 Month trial$34.991 Year
- Gold Access7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Gold Access1 Month trial$44.991 Year
- Gold Access7 Days trial$44.991 Year
- Diamond Access7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Diamond Access1 Month trial$79.991 Year
- Diamond Access7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Gold Access$74.99
MacroPeak
- Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
- Premium Semester$44.996 Months
- Premium Annual$79.991 Year









