MacroForge vs AfterFire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MacroForge
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MacroForge helps you track calories and macronutrients in a simple, flexible way. Designed for clarity and control, MacroForge makes it easy to create a plan, log foods, and understand your nutrition without clutter or complexity. Whether you’re maintaining, cutting, or bulking, the app adapts to your goals and keeps everything easy to manage. Key features: • Personalized calorie and macro targets • Track protein, carbs, and fats clearly • Flexible portions and custom foods • Visual breakdowns for quick insights • Clean, distraction-free design • Secure iCloud sync across devices MacroForge is built for consistency — giving you the tools you need to stay on track, without getting in the way.
AfterFire
This app helps you build strength and understand your fitness progress with AI-powered coaching. Track workouts, nutrition, and recovery to get personalized insights and guidance. It's designed for general wellness and strength training, not medical diagnosis.
- Create, edit, and save strength workouts
- Exercise library and guided sessions
- Record sets, reps, weight, and rest
- AI Coach for personalized guidance
- Track nutrition, sleep, and body progress
- Meal-photo analysis
- Optional Apple Health connection
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Build strength. Understand your progress. Keep your training connected. AfterFire brings strength workouts, fitness tracking, and contextual AI coaching together. Start with free workout tools, then add AfterFire Pro for coaching informed by the goals, equipment, training history, nutrition, and recovery information you choose to share. YOUR STRENGTH FOUNDATION — FREE • Create, edit, and save strength workouts. • Browse the exercise library and follow guided workout sessions. • Record sets, reps, weight, rest, and supersets. • Review workout history and keep building your routine. CONNECTED COACHING — AFTERFIRE PRO • Ask the AI Coach questions about your permitted training and wellness history. • Get help creating strength workouts and review proposed routine changes before applying them. • Track food, drinks, hydration, supplements, sleep, and body progress. • Use AI-assisted logging, including meal-photo analysis, and review estimates before saving. • Explore muscle-coverage insights, goals, trends, and recovery context. • Create reports from your recorded information. OPTIONAL APPLE HEALTH CONNECTION Connect selected Apple Health information to add context to your tracking and coaching. Access is optional and read-only. You control which information you share with Coach. CONTROL YOUR CONTEXT Manage AI data-sharing categories separately. Coach uses the information you allow, and proposed workout changes remain yours to review. AI answers and nutrition estimates may be inaccurate; check them before relying on them. AfterFire focuses on strength training. It is for fitness and general wellness, not medical diagnosis or treatment. AfterFire is free to download. Pro features require a subscription. Available plans, localized prices, and any eligible trial are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple account settings. For adults 18 and older. Privacy Policy: https://afterfire.broadbrain.dev/privacy/ Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MacroForge at none against AfterFire's 2. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. AfterFire sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. MacroForge asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MacroForge | AfterFire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Braulio Gabriel Villegas Jimenez | Jacob Broadhead |
In-app purchases
MacroForge
No in-app purchases
AfterFire
- AfterFire Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- AfterFire Pro Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year









