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 LLMs that can access context from all your content.
- Unified workspace
- Email and messaging
- Notes and task management
- PDF and diagram tools
- File storage
- Code editor
- 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 provides a unified workspace for teams building with AI, integrating issue tracking, customer support, and coding agents. It offers real-time synchronization across devices and allows users to interact with AI coding sessions and manage support tickets seamlessly.
- Real-time issue tracking with priorities and custom statuses
- GitHub-backed boards for product development
- Markdown descriptions and comments with @mentions
- AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, pi) integration
- Live coding session monitoring and steering
- Integrated customer support ticketing
- Open-source and self-hostable
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Vibecode together. Exponential is a realtime issue tracker for teams that build with AI. Issues, customer support and coding agents in one workspace, 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 workspace. 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 review sentiment: Exponential at 100% against Macro App's 50%. Exponential also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). Macro App's advantage is ratings volume (8 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 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Macro App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Exponential's.
Macro App ships an update monthly, Exponential every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Macro App | Exponential |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | 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 | 83 MB | 21 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









