MacroFactor Workouts vs BuffMeter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MacroFactor Workouts
This app offers science-based, personalized workout routines and an intuitive tracker for strength training. It automatically adjusts your plan based on progress and allows for custom routines, home gym setups, and detailed progress monitoring.
- Personalized workout routines
- Intuitive workout tracker
- Automatic progression adjustments
- Home gym equipment customization
- Progress charts and data insights
- Exercise technique videos
- Plate and PR calculators
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MacroFactor Workouts combines innovative coaching algorithms with science-based workout routines customized to your goals, fitness level, and gym equipment. Effortlessly track your strength training routines with an intuitive workout planner, and easily monitor your PRs and progress with charts and data insights. MacroFactor Workouts uses progressive overload to automatically adjust your strength training workouts based on your progress, helping you break through plateaus and reach your fitness goals. No gym? No problem. Create routines based on the equipment you have available in your home gym. Download to start your 7-day trial of this premium, ad-free workout tracker app. WORKOUT TRACKER & PLANNER FEATURES - Effortlessly track your workouts with an intuitive interface - Hundreds of strength training exercises with helpful tips and cues, and technique videos by Jeff Nippard - Customizable rest timers - Plate calculator based on available plates and bars - Tracker for supersets, partial reps, and myoreps - RIR tracker - Smart warm-up planner - Track different weights and reps on your right and left sides - Easily swap exercises with smart suggestions - Create new exercises - Notes sections for exercise and workout details - Create gym profiles for each of the places you workout CUSTOMIZED WORKOUT PLANS - Get a personalized workout routine based on your goals, fitness level, the gym equipment you have access to, and more - Built by fitness experts and based on science - Easily import and track popular Jeff Nippard routines - Customize your workouts with smart exercise swaps, custom exercises, and more - Prefer to create your own workouts? Use the workout planner for manual tracking, building, and saving custom routines and workouts SMART AUTO-PROGRESSION FOR STRENGTH TRAINING - Your plan automatically adjusts day-to-day based on your progress - Simply track your strength workouts, and the app will tell you what to do to keep making progress – just like a coach would - Reach your fitness goals efficiently – no wasted time, no guesswork, no pseudoscience REACH YOUR FITNESS GOALS - See your progress over time with beautiful and functional charts, visuals, and graphs - Easily access your workout history - PR tracker - Volume tracker - Progress photos and body metrics tracker - Design your dashboard to feature the insights you value most SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS MacroFactor Workouts is a premium strength training and planner app that offers three auto-renewing subscription options: $11.99 / month $47.99 / half year $71.99 / year (equal to $5.99 a month) MacroFactor Workouts has a free trial, but does not offer a free subscription tier. These prices are for US customers. Pricing in other countries may vary. Payment will be charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription to MacroFactor Workouts will automatically renew, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can cancel or manage your subscription from your Apple account settings. Terms & Conditions: https://terms.macrofactorapp.com/ Privacy Policy: https://privacy.macrofactorapp.com/
BuffMeter
This app uses AI to analyze your physique from a photo, providing detailed scores for muscle groups and an overall fitness level. It also generates AI-powered visualizations of your potential future body based on your goals and offers personalized daily targets for health habits.
- AI physique analysis from photos
- Individual muscle group scoring
- AI-generated future physique visualization
- Personalized daily health targets
- Progress charts for body fat and weight
- Integration with Apple Health
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You want to look better in the mirror. But you can't tell if what you're doing is working — or where to even start. Buff Meter fixes that. Snap a photo, and AI breaks down your physique in seconds — how lean you are, which muscles are developed, which ones are lagging, and exactly what you'd look like if you committed to a transformation. SEE WHAT YOU'RE WORKING WITH Every scan scores your chest, back, shoulders, arms, legs, and core individually. You'll know exactly where you're strong and where you're falling behind. Your overall Buff Score tracks your physique from Untrained to Genetic Freak — so next time you scan, you'll know if you actually improved. SEE WHAT YOU COULD LOOK LIKE Pick a goal — lose fat, build muscle, or both — and the app generates an AI image of your future physique. Not a generic model. Your body, transformed. It's the version of you that's 12 weeks of consistency away. BUILD THE HABITS THAT GET YOU THERE Personalized daily targets for sleep, water, calories, protein, and training. Check them off as you go — or let Apple Health fill them in automatically. You'll see exactly which days you showed up and which ones you didn't. WATCH YOURSELF CHANGE Charts for body fat, weight, and Buff Score over weeks and months. The kind of progress that's invisible day to day becomes obvious when you have the data. FREE TO START Your first body scan is free. Daily check-ins and progress charts included. BUFF METER PREMIUM Unlimited scans, goal visualization, and full Apple Health sync. Weekly, yearly, or lifetime. Stop wondering. Get your score. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: BuffMeter at free with in-app purchases against MacroFactor Workouts's subscription. BuffMeter also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). MacroFactor Workouts's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (4.6K vs 7). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. MacroFactor Workouts sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month and BuffMeter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MacroFactor Workouts holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MacroFactor Workouts has 4.6K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MacroFactor Workouts ships an update every 10 days, BuffMeter every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MacroFactor Workouts | BuffMeter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.6K ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.6K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #104 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 299 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Stronger By Science Technologies LLC | Power Craft Training, LLC |
Customer experience
MacroFactor Workouts
BuffMeter
In-app purchases
MacroFactor Workouts
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$11.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$11.991 Month
- Semiannual Subscription7 Days trial$47.996 Months
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- Semiannual Subscription14 Days trial$47.996 Months
- Annual Subscription14 Days trial$71.991 Year
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$71.991 Year
- Annual Subscription Bundle2 variants$89.991 Year
BuffMeter
- Premium Access – Weekly$4.997 Days
- Premium Access - Monthly$19.991 Month
- Premium Access - Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
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