Frontload vs MacroCalorie
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Frontload
Track peptide, TRT, and GLP-1 doses with detailed charts, reminders, and inventory management. Features include progress photos, lab tracking, and phased protocols. An AI coach analyzes your data for personalized insights.
- Blood-level PK charts
- Injection logging with site rotation
- Full inventory tracking
- Phased protocols and titration schedules
- Lab result tracking
- AI coach for personalized insights
- Cloud backup
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The blood-level charts, reminders, and full protocol tracking are free. No trial, no paywall, no catch. Most peptide and TRT apps charge for exactly this. I don't. Frontload is built for people running serious peptide and TRT/HRT protocols. Track every injection, watch your blood levels rise and fall between doses, keep every vial and dose organized, and never miss a shot. The AI coach reads your own labs, protocols, and injection history, and it's built to say "I don't know" instead of guessing. The coach and Cloud Backup are the paid part. WHAT'S FREE (and stays free) • Progress photos with a voice guide that lines up every shot the same way, then compare any two side by side. Your photos stay on your phone. • Blood-level PK chart: peak, trough, and steady-state, per compound • Injection logging with site rotation • Full inventory: every peptide, HRT compound, GLP-1 (semaglutide, tirzepatide), supplement, and med • Phased protocols with automatic on/off scheduling • Titration schedules: gradual dose adjustments over weeks, auto-stepping • Lab result tracking and trend charts • Macro logging • Sleep, fitness, weight, and food sync from Apple Health • Reminders and notifications • Light and dark mode • JSON export, anytime No account needed. Your health data lives on your phone unless you turn on Cloud Backup, and I never sell it. The app sends a few basic signals, like which version you're on and whether it was opened today, so I can find and fix bugs. Never what you log, and never what you ask the coach. THE AI COACH (Pro) Not a chatbot. Not a correlation engine. An actual coach with direct access to your full health context (labs, protocols, peptide stack, GLP-1 doses, nutrition, sleep, fitness, side effects), plus a curated knowledge base of peptide and HRT references. It reads a lab PDF, scans a supplement label, analyzes a side-effect cluster, and explains it in plain language. Grounded in your own data, not the internet's. Pro adds unlimited AI coach conversations with photo attachments, unlimited lab PDF parsing, unlimited nutrition and supplement-label scans, Cloud Backup, and Frontload on your computer at app.frontloadapp.com. Cloud Backup and the web app are for paid plans, not the free trial. The price for your region shows in the app before you subscribe. WHO BUILT THIS Frontload is a one-person project. I'm in the HRT and peptide community myself, and I wanted a tracker that didn't feel cold and clinical, so I built the one I wanted, with every feature I needed. I had my wife test it the whole way through, so it isn't built only for the guys. She told me what women actually need in a tool like this: cycle-aware tracking, the right hormone panels, and a tracker that doesn't assume everyone's a man on TRT. It's all in here. I gave it to one friend, hoping to help him. He gave it to another. That's how Frontload has gotten everywhere it's gotten so far. No ads. No growth team. The mission isn't to get rich. It's to cover the cost of running the app and build something genuinely useful to people on their HRT and peptide journeys. The AI Coach engages with compounds, doses, and protocols directly, but it's not a doctor. Always discuss any protocol change with your prescribing physician. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
MacroCalorie
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MacroCalorie is a privacy-first calorie tracker. You log what you eat, see your calories and macros, and your data stays yours. There's no account to create, no tracking, no ads, and no analytics. Your journal, profile, and the foods you add stay on your devices and sync across them through your own iCloud. You can log offline, and it syncs when you're back online. Your data, your devices • Syncs across your devices through your private iCloud • No account, no sign-up • No trackers, no ads, no analytics Simple, honest tracking • Log a portion and see your calories for the day • Macro breakdown for carbs, protein, and fat • A ring that fills toward your daily goal • Your last 7 days at a glance A goal based on you • Basal metabolism and maintenance from the Mifflin-St Jeor equation • Lose, maintain, or gain, and fine-tune the number by hand A reference food catalog, built in • Around 3,500 CIQUAL 2025 (ANSES) foods, searchable offline • Add your own foods too Available in English and French. Nutrition data: Ciqual 2025 table, ANSES (Open Licence / Etalab).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MacroCalorie at none against Frontload's 2. Frontload's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.5). On price, 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. Frontload sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. MacroCalorie asks for nothing beyond the download.
Frontload ships an update every 5 days, MacroCalorie every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Frontload | MacroCalorie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (61 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | STACKEDDD LLC | Sylvain Muller |
In-app purchases
Frontload
- Frontload Pro$14.991 Month
- Frontload Pro$89.991 Year
MacroCalorie
No in-app purchases









