Macro App vs Exponential
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.
Exponential
This app synchronizes issues, user feedback, and AI coding agents for teams building with AI. It offers real-time updates across devices, enabling collaborative issue tracking and AI-assisted code development.
- Real-time issue tracking with priorities and custom statuses
- GitHub-backed boards for product development
- Markdown descriptions with @mentions and task lists
- AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, pi) integration
- Live coding session monitoring and steering
- Customer support ticket integration
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Vibecode together. Exponential is a realtime issue tracker for teams that build with AI. Issues, user feedback and coding agents in one place, in sync on every device. Track work with your team: • Issues with priorities, labels, due dates and custom statuses • Boards for every part of your product, each optionally backed by a GitHub repository • Markdown descriptions and comments with @mentions, task lists and inline images • Realtime sync, the moment anything changes. No refresh, no stale views • Push notifications for mentions, assignments and PR activity Bring your own agents. Claude Code, Codex or pi run locally on your connected desktop, on your subscription. Pick an issue and hit Start coding, even from your phone. Your agent works on a real branch in your desktop IDE and opens the pull request when it is done. • Watch coding sessions live in the Agents tab and steer them by message • Answer your agent's questions right from your phone • Save actions for repeating AI tasks like code reviews, deploys or merge conflicts, and run them with one tap Customer support in the same place. Tickets from your users land next to your issues, replies go out by email, and the whole team sees the conversation. Free for teams of up to three on the hosted cloud, one plan when you grow. Exponential is open source under Apache-2.0, so self-hosting is free at any company size.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Exponential at 5.0 against Macro App's 4.3. Exponential also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). Macro App's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Exponential holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Macro App has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Macro App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Exponential's.
Macro App ships an update every 3 weeks, Exponential every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Macro App | Exponential |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Macro | Dennis Strahhuber |
Customer experience
Macro App
Exponential
In-app purchases
Macro App
No in-app purchases
Exponential
No in-app purchases
