Macrotarian vs Stepa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Macrotarian
Discover restaurants with verified macro and calorie data for millions of dishes. Filter by dietary needs and customize meals to fit your targets. Features an AI scanner for estimating any meal's macros.
- Verified restaurant macro database
- Discover restaurants with full verified macros
- Browse menus with complete macros
- Filter by dietary needs (keto, vegan, etc.)
- Customizable meal variants
- AI meal scanner for macro estimates
- AI meal planner for hitting macro goals
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Macrotarian has the most comprehensive and most accurate verified restaurant macro database in the world, and it is the only app that lets you discover restaurants with full verified macros near you. 40 million dishes, 240,000+ locations, 600+ brands across the US and UK, all sourced from official restaurant nutrition data and checked by a human. Nothing is crowdsourced. Nothing is AI-estimated. Nothing is wrong. No other macro tracker, calorie counter, or nutrition app comes close. • Find macro-friendly restaurants near you Open the map and see every restaurant near you with verified nutrition data. Browse the full menu with complete macros before you walk in. Pick what fits your targets. Log it in seconds. Not a general food tracker. A restaurant nutrition app built for people who eat out. • Why is this different from other macro trackers and calorie counters? Other calorie trackers make you search for a dish and hope a stranger entered it correctly. You get duplicate entries with different numbers. Some newer apps use AI to estimate restaurant macros and admit the data should not be treated as fact. Macrotarian gives you the actual numbers from the actual restaurant. US coverage: 300+ chains, 240,000+ Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, In-N-Out, Sweetgreen, Shake Shack, Panera, Five Guys, Subway, Taco Bell, McDonald's, Wendy's, Wingstop, Whataburger, Jersey Mike's, Popeyes, Dunkin', and hundreds more. UK coverage: 300+ chains, 20,000+ restuarants including Nando's, Greggs, Wagamama, Pret A Manger, Leon, Five Guys, KFC, McDonald's, Subway, Pizza Express, Tortilla, Itsu, and more. The most comprehensive verified restaurant nutrition database for the UK and US. • Find high protein low calorie meals in seconds Set your protein, calorie, carb, or fat targets and see which dishes at which restaurants near you match. High protein low calorie lunch? Low carb dinner? Macrotarian shows you what is available with verified data. Your high protein restaurant finder and low calorie meal planner for eating out. • Every dietary need covered Filter by keto, vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, dairy free, low carb, or halal. If you eat halal and need verified nutrition for halal restaurants near you, Macrotarian has that data. See which restaurants and dishes fit your diet with verified macros. • Customisations and variants Sizes, milk types, sides, crust options, cheese choices - verified macros for every variant. Not the base dish. The actual meal you order. • Macro camera Point your camera at any meal for an instant macro estimate powered by food recognition. Works for home-cooked food, independent restaurants, meal prep, or anywhere not in the database. A calorie scanner and macro estimator for any food. • Autopilot Tell it your macro targets and what you feel like eating. It searches verified restaurant menus near you and builds a meal plan that hits your protein, calorie, carb, and fat goals. • Track everything in one place Log restaurant meals from homemade meals, verified data or scanned estimates. Track daily calories, protein, carbs, and fat against your targets. Save favourites for quick access. Your food diary, meal logger, and macro tracker for eating out. Accurate on date nights, work lunches, and home cooking. Works offline. • Built for serious trackers Whether your goal is weight loss, fat loss, cutting, bulking, body recomposition, or building muscle. For athletes, bodybuilders, gym goers, and anyone tired of guessing macros at restaurants. A reliable restaurant calorie tracker, protein tracker, and macro counter for eating out. • How is the data verified? Sourced from official restaurant nutrition PDFs, websites, and allergen documents only. A human checks every entry. No user submissions. No AI estimates. No guesswork. No third-party sources. Accurate restaurant macros, finally. Start your one week free trial today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Stepa
This app focuses on tracking daily steps and competing with friends, rather than calorie counting or weight goals. It helps you find walking routes and maintain daily step streaks with encouraging nudges.
- Social step tracking
- Friend challenges and duels
- Customizable walking route planner
- Daily step streak maintenance
- Integration with Apple Health
- No calorie or weight tracking
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The step tracker that doesn't hide behind calories. Stepa is a step counter built around the people you walk with. No weight targets, no burn charts — just the number of steps you took today, and how you stack up against your mates. Walk with your people. Add friends, see each other's daily counts, and race them in step duels. 24 hours, 48 hours, or a full week — most steps takes it. Get a push when someone passes you. Get a push when you pass them back. Find loops from your front door. Tell Stepa how many steps you've got left in your day and we'll plot a walking loop that returns home. Real footpaths, real distances. Built on open map data — no third-party tracking. Keep your streak alive. Hit your daily goal and watch the streak build. Day 2. Day 10. Day 60. Stepa nudges you in the evening if you're close to breaking it — with a walk around the block, you're fine. What Stepa doesn't do. - No calorie tracking. - No weight targets. - No ads. - No selling your location data. - No grim "you failed today" messages. Built by three mates who wanted to actually walk together. Made for: - People who own an Apple Watch and want a smarter way to compete with friends - Couples, flatmates, and small groups who walk together (even apart) - Anyone who's bounced off step apps because they're miserable to use How it works: Stepa reads your step data straight from Apple Health — the same source as Apple Fitness, your Watch, and your iPhone. We don't track steps separately, so what Stepa shows matches what Apple shows. Privacy Policy: https://www.getstepa.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Macrotarian at none against Stepa's shown. Macrotarian also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (50 vs 4). Stepa's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). 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. Macrotarian sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Stepa sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Stepa holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Macrotarian has 50 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 95% of Macrotarian's written reviews are positive against 93% of Stepa's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Macrotarian ships an update every 2 months, Stepa every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Macrotarian | Stepa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (50 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.0% of reviews — better | 92.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Macrotarian Ltd. | SocialClimb Marketing LTD |
Customer experience
Macrotarian
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In-app purchases
Macrotarian
- Macrotarian+ Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Macrotarian+7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Stepa
- Stepa Pro · Weekly$3.997 Days
- Stepa Pro · Monthly$4.991 Month
- Stepa Pro · Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Stepa Pro · Lifetime$49.99









