Comparison

Microgram vs HoopsProtocol

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

Head to head
About

Microgram

This app helps you track over 50 nutrients, including macros, vitamins, and minerals, to achieve your health and fitness goals. Log meals easily through various methods like photos or voice commands. It offers personalized plans for weight management, muscle building, or overall well-being.

Highlights
  • Track 50+ nutrients
  • Log meals via photo, voice, text, barcode
  • Personalized fitness goals
  • Focus on longevity and overall health
  • Track macros, fiber, sugar, vitamins, minerals
  • Support for pregnancy and lactation
Features
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Meet Microgram - the next generation nutrient tracker. Track calories and over 50+ nutrients, including macros, fiber, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, omega-3/6, and more. Powered by reliable USDA-sourced data, Microgram makes it easy to log meals by snapping a photo, using voice commands, texting, barcode scanning, or searching manually. REACH YOUR UNIQUE GOALS Whether you want to lose weight, build muscle, gain weight, or maintain your current physique, Microgram personalizes your daily targets to help you get there efficiently. No fitness goal in mind? Microgram also helps you focus on longevity and overall health, supporting sleep, digestion, skin and hair, energy levels, inflammation, brain function, and more by ensuring you meet your essential nutrient needs. WHY TRACK MORE THAN JUST CALORIES? TRACK MACROS: Manage proteins, carbohydrates, and fats to reach weight goals, maintain energy levels, and build muscle. TRACK FIBER: Boost your digestive health and support balanced blood sugar levels and weight management by monitoring your daily fiber intake. TRACK SUGAR: Monitor your sugar intake to maintain steady energy, manage cravings, and support healthy weight management. TRACK VITAMINS & MINERALS: Invest in long-term health and achieve peak performance by preventing deficiencies and supporting vital functions like immune health, bone strength, and energy production. TRACK AMINO ACIDS: Promote muscle repair and growth by tracking essential amino acids in your diet. TRACK OMEGA-3 & 6: Reduce inflammation, maintain heart and brain health by balancing essential fatty acids. HOW IT WORKS 1. Enter your details for a personalized plan 2. Log your meals via photo, voice, text, barcode, or manual search* 3. Track over 50 nutrients to achieve fitness goals and optimize long-term health* PREGNANCY & LACTATION-FRIENDLY Microgram also supports pregnant and breastfeeding women with tailored nutrient targets designed for both mom and baby, including folate, choline, iron, calcium, omega-3, vitamin D, and other key nutrients critical for development and recovery. If you have any questions or feature requests, please email us at team@microgramapp.com. *A subscription is required for certain features. NOTE: We do not provide medical advice. Always consult a professional before making changes to your nutrition. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

HoopsProtocol

Features
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Count your makes. HoopsProtocol keeps score of the one drill every player already does — form shooting, alone at a rim — and wraps it in the warm-up, landing and strength work that guards against basketball's worst injuries: the ACL, the rolled ankle, jumper's knee, gone on a rebound, a closeout, a cold first jump. Built with Cape Concierge PT, a Cape Cod physical-therapy practice. THE PRACTICE BOARD Home is a coach's half-court diagram: each section anchored to the spot where its work happens — Pregame at the center circle, Ball Work in the paint, The Weight Room, Bounce for landing, Postgame for recovery and The Scorer's Table for handouts. Over 60 drills across six sections, each with its cues written out — a structure a coach can run, not a video library to scroll. The shooting and ball-handling sections are filmed rep by rep. FORM SHOOTING THAT KEEPS SCORE Nine timed stations, Mikans to free throws, that run themselves — with two thumb-sized make and miss buttons, a shot chart drawn on the floor your session happened on, and a short history of past sessions. THE TAPE, COURTSIDE Start a session and its clips save to your phone, so a gym with dead Wi-Fi still plays every one; Settings can keep the full library. Sideline mode makes the buttons bigger and the screen brighter, and touch lock ignores a stray bump while the tape rolls. The practice clock runs by hand, on work-and-rest intervals, or by stations, and announces what's up next. Music plays under the drills, mirror flips a clip for the whole line, and AirPods, a clicker or Siri can run it. LANDING IS A SKILL The Bounce section teaches it directly — snap downs, drops to stick, single-leg landings — because the mechanics that keep a knee healthy are trainable, and almost nobody trains them. NO ACCOUNT, NO SIGN-UP SHEET No sign-in, no password, no roster. Install it and every section is already open, with free drills in each one — nothing to configure before a session that tipped off ten minutes ago. HOOPSPROTOCOL PRO Pro unlocks the rest of the library: the vertical plyometric block and the filmed shooting and ball-handling work. Choose a monthly or an annual plan, or buy it once and keep it — every way in opens the same drills. Both plans start with a week-long free trial for new subscribers, renew automatically at the price shown until canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed or canceled in your Apple Account settings or from the app's Settings; the one-time purchase never renews. Restore with the same Apple Account. What sits in the open tier is a coaching decision and may be adjusted as the program develops. Terms of Use: https://playprotocol.tatzel-labs.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://playprotocol.tatzel-labs.com/hoopsprotocol-privacy COURTSIDE CALCULATORS Sweat rate from a weigh-in and weigh-out, a single-leg hop screen with the left/right difference worked out, acute-to-chronic workload so a training spike shows before it costs you a player, and heat-index guidance for gyms with no AC. Screening tools for a coach, not a diagnosis; anything that hurts goes to a clinician. HANDOUTS FOR PARENTS AND PLAYERS Clean one-pagers you can text to a parent or print for the locker room. READABLE COURTSIDE, QUIET ABOUT YOU Type scales with your text size, VoiceOver reads every control, and it follows your light or dark setting. And there is nothing to track: no account, no advertising, no analytics, no tracking SDKs, no health records — the courtside calculators work out a number on your device and keep nothing. The one thing the app can send is the optional "ask CCPT to reach out" form in Settings — an email you type, sent only when you tap the button. Nothing is sold or shared with anyone else, ever. The program — the drills, the progression, the coaching — is built with Cape Concierge PT. The app is published and supported by Tatzel Labs LLC. Questions? Email support@tatzel-labs.com.

Screenshots

Microgram4 screens
HoopsProtocol4 screens

Verdict

The call

Microgram and HoopsProtocol are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Microgram sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and HoopsProtocol sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Microgram ships an update every 2 weeks, HoopsProtocol every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Microgram versus HoopsProtocol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMicrogramHoopsProtocol
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size207 MB7 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLurra, LLCTatzel Labs LLC

Bugs and requests

Microgram

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inconsistent calorie and nutrient tracking
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • More user-friendly food logging
  • Better integration with other health apps

HoopsProtocol

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Microgram

Subscriptions10
  • Microgram Monthly Access$9.991 Month
  • Microgram Monthly Access$19.991 Month
  • Microgram Yearly Access$23.901 Year
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  • Microgram Yearly Access2 variants$35.901 Year
  • Microgram Yearly Access$44.991 Year
  • Microgram Yearly Access3 Days trial$47.901 Year
  • Microgram Yearly Access3 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Microgram Yearly Access$59.991 Year
  • Microgram Yearly Access$71.901 Year
  • Microgram Yearly Access3 Days trial$71.901 Year
3 purchases

HoopsProtocol

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • HoopsProtocol Pro$149.99

Questions

Is Microgram free?
Microgram is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HoopsProtocol free?
HoopsProtocol is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Microgram or HoopsProtocol have ads?
Neither Microgram nor HoopsProtocol shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Microgram or HoopsProtocol?
Microgram ships an update every 2 weeks, and HoopsProtocol every 11 days. Most recently, Microgram was updated on October 28, 2026 and HoopsProtocol on October 25, 2026.

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