Simple Macros vs Celuna
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Macros
Effortlessly achieve your calorie and protein targets with personalized meal suggestions for home and fast food. Track progress, sync with health apps, and gain smart nutrition insights to stay motivated.
- Personalized restaurant meal combinations
- Effortless health tracking with Apple Health sync
- Smart nutrition insights and food logging
- Progress visualization with charts
- Daily updated protein and calorie targets
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Simple Macros is a completely free calorie counter and macro tracker. No subscription, no paywall, no free trial that turns into a bill. Every feature is free for everyone! Log food with a photo, a barcode, or a quick search, and your calorie and protein targets update as your weight changes, so you avoid plateaus and keep losing. Whether you're eating at home or at your favorite fast food restaurant, Simple Macros tells you exactly what to eat to hit your diet and fitness goals. 100% FREE. REALLY. Other calorie counters lock their best features behind a monthly fee. Simple Macros doesn't. Restaurant meal combos, photo logging, barcode scanning, AI assistant tracking, full macro tracking, favorites, and progress charts are all free. There is nothing to upgrade to. WHY YOU'LL LOVE SIMPLE MACROS: Know What to Order Anywhere: Pick a restaurant and get meal combos that fit your calories and protein, built from each chain's official nutrition. Or build your own order from the full menu, down to extra meat, light sauce, or no bun, and watch the macros update as you go. Over 200,000 restaurant locations are on the map. Track From ChatGPT, Claude and Grok: Connect Simple Macros to your favorite AI assistant. Tell it what you ate, ask how much protein you have left, or ask what to get at Chipotle to finish your day. Everything shows up in the app. Set it up in Settings under AI Assistants. Snap a Photo to Log: Take a picture of your meal and Simple Macros estimates the calories and macros for you. Packaged foods are matched to their real Nutrition Facts. You can even snap a restaurant menu and pick what you ordered. Barcode Scanner: Scan a barcode to log calories and macros in seconds. Can't find a product? Snap the nutrition label and add it yourself. Track All Your Macros: Count calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, sugar, and sodium in one place. You always know how each meal lines up with your daily goals. Favorites: Save the meals you eat all the time, including your own recipes, and log them again in one tap. Weight Loss Made Simple: Set a goal to lose weight, maintain, or build muscle, and Simple Macros adjusts your daily calorie and protein targets as your weight changes. Stay in a steady deficit without the guesswork. Effortless Health Tracking: Sync with Apple Health to track your steps, weight, and workouts automatically. Streaks and Progress: Build a streak every day you hit your calories, earn badges, and watch your weight, steps, calories, and macros trend over time. Whether you're counting calories for weight loss, dialing in your macros for a cut or a bulk, tracking protein to build muscle, or just want a simple food diary, Simple Macros keeps your nutrition on track, for free. Get meal combos for McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle, Starbucks, Taco Bell, Subway, Panda Express, Wendy's, Popeyes, In-N-Out, Raising Cane's, and over 100 more, with new restaurants added all the time. Thousands of people use Simple Macros to lose weight and stay consistent without giving up the food they love. There's no math to do, no subscription to cancel, and you can change your plan anytime. Download Simple Macros free and hit your goals today. APPLE HEALTH USAGE: Simple Macros uses your health data to show your step count, weight, and workouts, to help you reach your fitness and nutrition goals. Terms of use: https://simplemacros.com/terms-of-service Privacy policy: https://simplemacros.com/privacy-policy
Celuna
This app provides a private and organized space for dementia caregivers to track medications, daily activities, and important memories. It allows families to share caregiving responsibilities and access information collaboratively.
- Medication tracking with reminders
- Daily activity logging (meals, mood, sleep)
- Memory and ability check-ins
- Saving helpful routines and preferences
- Voice memory recording
- Family caregiving circles
- Doctor-ready PDF summaries
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Caring for someone with dementia means holding a hundred small things in your head at once. The blue pill at eight. Thursday's appointment. Whether today was better or worse than last Tuesday. What the neurologist asked, and what you forgot to say. Celuna holds them for you. WHAT IT KEEPS Medications — what to give, when, and whether it's been given. Morning, afternoon and evening, each in its own colour, so a glance tells you where the day stands. Reminders come from your own phone, and in a shared circle they ring for every caregiver, so whoever is there can give it. The daily check-in — one tap for the kind of day it was, and a line about anything you noticed. Nothing clinical. Just what you saw, in your words. Appointments and the care team — who they are, when you're seeing them, who's driving, and what was said when you did. See the day, the week or the month at a glance, and add any appointment to your own iPhone calendar in a tap. Memories — record their stories in their own voice, while there's still time to. Everyone in the circle can add one. Documents — the power of attorney, the insurance card, the discharge letter. Photographed once and always findable. The handoff card — everything a helper needs to know, ready to print, for the evening you finally get to go out. SHARING THE CARE Caring alone is the hardest way to do it. Invite a sister, a neighbour, a paid carer — you send them a short code, and from then on you all see the same medications, the same calendar and the same notes, each on your own phone. Give each person a role: a co-caregiver who can log everything, or an observer who can see the record but not change it. Care shifts anyone can claim. One circle chat, with photos instead of six group texts. Each dose and reading names who logged it, and alerts tell the others. One subscription covers everyone in the circle, not one each. FOR THE DOCTOR Fifteen minutes with a specialist is not long enough to remember six weeks. Celuna turns everything you've logged into one clear PDF — the pattern of good and hard days, the readings, the medications — so you walk in with the answers already written down. It even shows when the hard moments cluster. Capture what set it off and what settled it, and the summary surfaces the late-afternoon "sundowning" pattern, and what's changed lately. It is a record of what you observed. It is not a diagnosis, and it never pretends to be. NO STREAKS. EVER. Most apps punish you for missing a day. Caregiving days are not yours to control, and a broken chain is the last thing you need on a hard one. Celuna counts care days instead. Five care days this week — not a streak; breaks don't erase them. Miss three days and nothing is lost, because nothing was ever being held against you. AND FOR YOU A breath, a glass of water, a private journal about your own day. You are half of this, and the app is built to say so — and your journal and your own check-ins stay on your phone, never sent to us or shared with the circle. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Celuna works on your phone. Everything you log is saved on the device, and the whole app works in aeroplane mode. It's in your iPhone's own backup too, so a new phone picks up where the old one left off. Nothing you write leaves your phone unless you share a circle or take Caregiver+ — and then your record is kept for you and the people you invite, and nobody else. Nothing tracks you across other apps. Nothing about your family is sold, or used to train anything. WHAT IT COSTS Everything above is free, with your full history and vitals kept as long as you like. Doctor summaries are free for your first three, after that they are part of Caregiver+. Caregiver+ is the shared circle and its alerts, a safe copy of your records, and the activities and games. One subscription for everyone helping. Celuna is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Celuna at none against Simple Macros's shown. Simple Macros's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days) and ratings volume (17 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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. Simple Macros sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Celuna sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Simple Macros against 5.0 for Celuna. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Macros has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Simple Macros ships an update every 2 days, Celuna every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Macros | Celuna |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Cody Anderson | JAKUB ANTONI PILASIEWICZ |
Customer experience
Simple Macros
Celuna
In-app purchases
Simple Macros
- Simple 6 Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Simple 6 Pro$9.991 Month
- Simple 6 Pro3 Days trial$12.991 Month
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- Simple 6 Pro$12.991 Month
- Simple 6 Pro1 Month trial$12.991 Month
- Simple 6 Pro7 Days trial$12.991 Month
- Simple Macros Pro3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Simple Macros Pro3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- $49.99/yr + 30-day trial3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Simple 6 Pro$49.991 Year
- Simple 6 Pro3 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Simple 6 Pro7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Simple 6 Pro1 Month trial$99.991 Year
- Simple 6 Pro7 Days trial$99.991 Year
Celuna
- Celuna Plus Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Celuna Plus7 Days trial$69.991 Year









