Comparison

Thrivify Connect vs Based Macro Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Thrivify Connect

Connect your Bluetooth FTMS cardio equipment and outdoor activities to your Apple Watch and iPhone. Track workouts in real-time, log data automatically, and sync with Apple Health for comprehensive fitness insights. Enjoy gamified challenges, virtual routes, and live performance charts.

Highlights
  • Real-time workout tracking
  • Bluetooth FTMS equipment sync
  • Apple Watch workout logging
  • Apple Health integration
  • Gamified workout challenges
  • Virtual route simulation
  • Live performance charts
Features
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Your Gym. Your Outdoors. Your Data. Connected. Turn your cardio equipment into a powerful fitness tracker, or take your training outside. Thrivify Connect effortlessly links your Bluetooth FTMS gym equipment and your outdoor workouts to your Apple Watch and iPhone, offering real-time tracking, automatic logging, and seamless Apple Health syncing so every sweat session counts. Indoor treadmill, bike, rower, elliptical, or an outdoor run: monitor performance, visualize progress, and build lasting fitness habits. No more manual entry. Just seamless data. Beyond the Console: • Momentum Quest: Hit live targets for speed, power, cadence or heart rate to drain the boss's health bar. Targets are set from your own baseline, so every boss is a fair fight. Beat one and the next steps up, while your XP keeps building all session. Works on any connected machine. • Virtual Journey: Pick a real-world route and ride it on a live 3D map that moves as you move. Watch the miles tick by instead of staring at a console. • Live Diagram: Turn speed, power, cadence, heart rate and calories into rolling live charts you can read at a glance. Switch between modes anytime, mid-workout. • Machine Control: On supported FTMS machines, set target power (ERG), resistance, incline or simulated grade straight from your phone, and hold it there for the whole session. • Workout Goals: Set a duration goal before you start and watch it count down while you train — on any connected machine, whether or not its console accepts targets. Key Features: • Sync Tracked Workouts with Apple Watch: Leave your phone behind and log every session from your wrist. Start the Apple Watch workout app and your heart rate, distance, pace, and time sync straight into ours. • Real-Time Workout Tracking: Live speed, distance, time, calories and heart rate, with support for Bluetooth chest straps and armbands. • Multi-Equipment Support: Connect to treadmills, rowers, exercise bikes, stair climbers, ellipticals, and steppers. • Apple Health Integration: Automatically sync your indoor and outdoor workout data, calories burned, and active minutes directly to Apple Health. • Deep Workout Reports: Review splits, pace, cadence, heart rate zones, and your GPS route with its elevation profile, then export any report as a PDF or image. • Coach Thrivify: AI-powered workout tips, training insights, and personalized meal and workout plans. • Thrive Index: Balances your Recovery and Strain scores so you know exactly how hard to train without burning out, and tracks the Thrive Age your health trends add up to. • Workout Weather: Hourly, weather-optimized windows that tell you the best time today to head outside. • Thrivify Stream: Say goodbye to boring cardio. Stream your favorite YouTube videos inside the app while you train, with your live metrics displayed right alongside the video. Send it to the TV with AirPlay, and come back to a freshly curated playlist every day. Built for Better Fitness Results: • Track both indoor cardio and outdoor training in one complete history • Monitor calories burned and workout performance • Stay motivated with measurable progress • Make smarter, data-driven fitness decisions Compatibility: • Optimized for Bluetooth FTMS machines. Check your equipment manual for Bluetooth FTMS support to start tracking your workouts. • Machine control (ERG, resistance, incline, simulation) requires a machine that advertises those FTMS capabilities. • MyCloudFitness support is no longer available for newly registered users. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Disclaimer: • This app is a third-party client utilizing the YouTube APIs. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. This application is not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by YouTube or Google. • Thrivify scores and insights are wellness estimates, not medical advice.

About

Based Macro Tracker

Features
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Based Macro Tracker - Macro tracking, simplified - The whole idea behind this is for you to be able to add your own personalized food that you eat frequently. You know yourself, you know your habits, and you usually know the foods you like to eat - whether you're cutting or bulking, the hard part is tracking it, but not anymore! If you're into health and don't eat-out all the time, you'll find this extremely useful. Log with speed • Add your own custom foods • Quick-add foods from your library, favorites, and recent items • Meal templates and smart suggestions so dinner isn’t a blank page • Portion tools with automatic unit conversion (g / oz / lb) - macros automatically calculated by portion sizing Know your numbers • Daily calorie and macro targets with clear remaining progress • Stats and charts for weight, calories, and macros over 7 / 30 / 90 days • Bulk or cut goal modes that match how you train Scan and look up food • AI photo and nutrition-label scanning to pull macros from the real world • Barcode lookup via Open Food Facts • USDA FoodData Central search for public nutrition facts • Personal food library plus community/public foods Grocery that stays in sync • Shared grocery lists with live updates across people in your household • Aisle grouping, buy-again history, and batch add from meals Ai assistance - it's there when you need it, and out of the way when you don't. Take photos of the labels of foods for easy macro food additions Privacy-first: meal and weight data stays tied to your account. We don’t sell your food log.

Screenshots

Thrivify Connect4 screens
Based Macro Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Based Macro Tracker at none against Thrivify Connect's 6. Based Macro Tracker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Thrivify Connect's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Thrivify Connect sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Based Macro Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Thrivify Connect ships an update weekly, Based Macro Tracker every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Thrivify Connect versus Based Macro Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThrivify ConnectBased Macro Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB8 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLifeSmart LLCKolio Kolev

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Thrivify Connect

Subscriptions6
  • Plus3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Premium3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Ultimate7 Days trial$7.991 Month
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  • Plus3 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Premium3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Ultimate7 Days trial$59.991 Year
None

Based Macro Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Thrivify Connect free?
Thrivify Connect is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Based Macro Tracker free?
Based Macro Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Thrivify Connect or Based Macro Tracker have ads?
Thrivify Connect shows ads; Based Macro Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Thrivify Connect or Based Macro Tracker?
Thrivify Connect ships an update weekly, and Based Macro Tracker every 3 days. Most recently, Thrivify Connect was updated on November 8, 2026 and Based Macro Tracker on October 31, 2026.

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