Simple Calorie Tracker Makro vs Forward
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Calorie Tracker Makro
This app helps you easily track your daily protein, carbs, fats, and calories without any advertisements. It offers quick logging, flexible daily goals, and helpful reminders to keep you consistent with your diet for fat loss, muscle gain, or maintenance.
- Ad-free macro and calorie tracking
- Quick logging with saved meals
- Flexible daily macro and calorie goals
- Progress visualization
- Free reminders and widgets
- Detailed progress insights with Premium
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Simple Macro & Calorie Tracking. No Ads. Makro is a fast, clean macro and calorie tracker built for simplicity. No clutter. No unnecessary features. No ads. Track protein, carbs, fats, and calories with ease, whether your goal is fat loss, muscle gain, or maintenance. Log Faster Save your frequently eaten meals once and log them with a single tap using Quick List. Flexible Targets Set daily macro and calorie goals that fit your routine. Switch between different targets for training days and rest days anytime. Stay Consistent See what you’ve eaten, what’s left, and your progress for the day at a glance. Use free reminders and home screen widgets to stay on track with zero friction. Makro Premium Unlock detailed macro & calorie graphs and deeper progress insights. Always ad-free. Makro is for people who want macro tracking to be simple, fast, and distraction-free. * Subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account. * Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. * You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. * Manage your subscriptions in iTunes Account Settings after purchase. * Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Forward
This app helps you improve your life by tracking habits, logging nutrition through photos, and providing AI-powered strength training guidance. It focuses on progress without guilt, offering flexible routines and personalized coaching.
- Streakless habit tracking with flexible frequencies
- AI-powered nutrition logging via photo recognition
- Progressive overload strength training copilot
- Personalized AI coaching for specific advice
- Social features for shared goals and accountability
- Apple Health integration for seamless data sync
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Forward is your all-in-one personal growth OS. Habits, nutrition, training, sleep, steps, fasting and the things you want to quit live in one app, with a game layer that rewards showing up and friends who keep you honest. You choose what to track. Forward builds your day around it and turns every log into progress you can see. YOUR PILLARS, YOUR HOME Pick the trackers that matter: habits, calories, protein, workouts, steps, sleep, fasting, quit. Your Home shows exactly those as circles. Hold a bubble to swap a tracker or drag it to a new spot, and pick the look you like. Widgets for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, with habit check-off right on the widget. A GAME YOU PLAY BY LIVING Every log earns XP and your permanent Life Rank climbs on it. Three small quests a day; finish all three and tomorrow every log counts double. The weekly effort meter shows how strong your week is, with a target you pick. Keep a Life Streak with a weekly freeze, earn Sparks and open Mystery Spark Boxes for themes, frames, covers, ring styles, sounds and app icons. Everything cosmetic, nothing pay-to-win. HABITS THAT FORGIVE Build routines with flexible frequencies and reminders. Pause a habit instead of quitting it. Your progress is weekly, so one bad Tuesday never erases your work. Block the apps that steal your time until you log, if you want the extra push. NUTRITION WITHOUT THE SPREADSHEET Snap a photo of a meal, type it or say it: Forward reads the foods and realistic portions and matches them to the USDA database for calories, macros and key micronutrients. Save your go-to meals, keep meal photos, log in two taps. Your calorie ring follows your goal, whether you are cutting, maintaining or building. Fasting with six stages, protocols like 16:8, OMAD and 5:2, and an editable history. TRAINING THAT PLANS ITSELF Set up your week with a ready-made split, your own days, or import a routine from text, screenshots or a PDF. Log one exercise per screen with your last numbers beside you and let the progressive overload engine suggest what to lift next. Rest timer on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, supersets, PR celebrations, GPS cardio with live heart rate, Apple Watch workouts merged automatically, 225 exercises with hand-drawn icons. BODY, SLEEP AND STEPS Body Age turns your Apple Watch signals into a biological age and a fitness age, explained factor by factor: an estimate for perspective, not a diagnosis. Sleep debt with a weekly trend, sleep stages, schedule and bedtime reminders. A daily steps goal. Trends for every signal. NORTH, YOUR AI COACH North reads your real week and answers with specifics, not generic advice. A daily briefing, charts drawn from your own data inside the chat, and questions like "what should I eat tonight?". AI features ask for your consent first. BETTER TOGETHER Add friends and let streaks ignite on their own when you both keep logging. Group streaks, weekly Friend Quests, one-to-one chat, 24-hour stories, and an invite that rewards you both. Accountability without leaderboards or shame, with block and report built in. ALSO IN FORWARD - Apple Health connected: workouts and meals sync both ways; steps, sleep and heart signals come in - Live Activities for workouts, timers and the evening "Tonight" card, with Mark done and Log now on the Lock Screen - Stats that give verdicts, not squiggles, with weekly and monthly recaps - Meal reminders around your usual times, a morning check-in and streak alerts - Medication reminders, focus and interval timers - 7 themes plus colorways, all in light and dark - English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and German Forward is free to download and use. Every feature is available to everyone at no cost.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Forward at none against Simple Calorie Tracker Makro's 1. Forward also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). Simple Calorie Tracker Makro's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Simple Calorie Tracker Makro sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Forward asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple Calorie Tracker Makro against 5.0 for Forward. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Simple Calorie Tracker Makro ships an update monthly, Forward every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Calorie Tracker Makro | Forward |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bugra Sirin | Pablo Cordoba |
Customer experience
Simple Calorie Tracker Makro
Forward
In-app purchases
Simple Calorie Tracker Makro
- Makro Premium7 Days trial$2.991 Month
Forward
No in-app purchases
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