Macro App vs Beck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Macro App
This workspace app integrates email, messaging, notes, tasks, PDF viewing, diagram creation, file storage, and code editing. It also features integrated LLMs that understand your content.
- Integrated email and messaging
- Note-taking and task management
- PDF viewer and diagram creator
- File storage and code editor
- Context-aware LLM integration
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Macro is a workspace offering email, messaging, notes, tasks, pdf, diagrams, file storage, and code-editing—all alongside LLMs that have context on everything you touch.
Beck
Effortlessly manage your schedule through natural conversation. This AI assistant can add events from photos or text, answer questions about your day, and even prepare you for upcoming meetings. It integrates seamlessly with your existing calendars.
- Add events from photos or text
- Schedule using natural language
- Get meeting preparation summaries
- Ask questions about your schedule
- Integrates with iCloud, Google, Outlook, Exchange
- Smart recurring event creation
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Beck turns hours of calendar tapping into seconds of conversation — then goes further: it remembers your meetings, preps you before the next one, and answers questions no calendar grid can. Snap a photo of any schedule and every event appears. Add Sophie's soccer through June in one sentence. Ask "what does tomorrow look like?" and get a real answer. No forms. No menus. Just talk to your calendar like you'd talk to a chief of staff. WHAT BECK DOES Snap a Schedule Photograph a sports calendar, school syllabus, camp schedule, or printed agenda. Beck reads it and proposes every event in seconds. You review, confirm, done. Capture From Anywhere Share a screenshot, email, or text to Beck from any app and it becomes an event. Or just ask Siri. Get it out of your head the moment it lands in it. Talk Instead of Tap "Move my 3pm to Friday morning." "Block two hours Wednesday for deep work." "Lunch with Maria next week, anywhere mid-day." Say it the way you think it. A Calendar With a Memory "What does my Tuesday look like?" "When did I last meet with Jordan?" "What did we cover last time?" Beck answers in plain English, with context from your calendar history — and remembers what matters across meetings. Meeting Prep, Built In Save notes from your last call, paste in a brief, or record on-device. Beck surfaces what matters before you walk into the room. Answer "Can We Do Thursday?" in Seconds Ask Beck when you're free and share your open times as a clean card — no back-and-forth, no screenshots of your week. Smart Recurring Events Without Menus "Every other Tuesday at 5 through June." Beck handles complex recurrence — events and reminders — in a sentence, with no fiddling with end dates. WORKS WITH YOUR CALENDARS Beck connects through your iPhone's calendar system, so it works with iCloud, Google, Outlook, and Exchange — anything already on your device. Nothing to migrate. SAFE BY DESIGN Every change Beck proposes is shown to you first. You confirm before anything is written, moved, or deleted. Beck never silently edits your calendar. PRIVACY YOU CAN READ Your data is not used to train AI models. Meeting transcription happens on-device. We're clear about what gets sent to the cloud and what doesn't. WHO BECK IS FOR • Professionals living in back-to-back meetings • Parents coordinating kids, work, and the household • Students balancing classes, shifts, and side projects • Anyone with too much in their head and not enough hands SUBSCRIPTION Try Beck free and see what a week without calendar admin feels like. Beck is a subscription with a free trial; cancel anytime in your Apple ID Settings. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Renewal is charged within 24 hours of the period end. Terms of Use: https://beckai.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://beckai.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Macro App at none against Beck's 5. Macro App also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (67% vs 50%). Beck's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price 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. Beck sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Macro App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Beck holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 54 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Macro App's written reviews are positive against 50% of Beck's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Macro App ships an update fortnightly, Beck every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Macro App | Beck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (14 ratings) | 4.7 (54 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 54 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Macro | TRIBE INDUSTRIES, INC |
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Macro App
Beck
In-app purchases
Macro App
No in-app purchases
Beck
- Beck Ai Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Unlimited Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Beck Ai Monthly$9.991 Month
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- Unlimited Annually3 Days trial$79.991 Year
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