Comparison

Nourish vs Macro Notes

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

Head to head
About

Nourish

Effortlessly track your food intake with AI-powered logging, including text, photo, and barcode scanning. Get personalized meal ideas, build shopping lists, and set flexible daily goals for calories, workouts, and hydration. Your health data remains private and stored locally.

Highlights
  • AI-powered food logging via text, photo, or barcode
  • Personalized meal and recipe suggestions
  • Integrated shopping list builder
  • Customizable daily calorie and hydration goals
  • Track calories eaten, burned, water intake, and weight
  • Local data storage for enhanced privacy
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Meet Nourish AI — the calorie tracker that works the way you do. Log food your way. Type it, snap a photo, or scan a barcode. Nourish AI handles the rest. --- THREE WAYS TO LOG --- Every meal is different — so is every person. Nourish AI gives you three ways to log what you eat: * Type it in plain English — "chicken wrap with avocado and a side salad" and Nourish AI figures out the calories instantly. No searching, no scrolling. * Take a photo — point your camera at your meal and let AI identify what's on your plate. * Scan a barcode — instant nutritional info for any packaged food, right from the wrapper. --- MEAL IDEAS WHEN YOU'RE STUCK --- Not sure what to eat? Ask Nourish AI for meal ideas that fit your remaining calories for the day. Get recipe suggestions with step-by-step cooking instructions, all tailored to your goals. Eating well has never been easier to plan. --- SHOPPING LIST BUILT IN --- Add ingredients directly from meal ideas to your shopping list. Organize items by category, check things off as you shop, and save your favorite meals to recreate them anytime. Nourish AI connects what you want to eat with what you need to buy. --- PERSONALIZED DAILY GOALS --- Your goals, your way. Nourish AI calculates recommended calorie, burn, and hydration targets based on your body stats and health goal — then lets you customize everything. Day Type Goals flex with your schedule — set different calorie targets for rest days, normal days, and active days so your nutrition matches your actual lifestyle instead of a fixed daily number. --- TRACK EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS --- * Calories eaten — with your daily progress ring * Calories burned — log workouts in plain English * Water intake — quick-log from the home screen * Weight — track progress toward your goal * Full history — review any past day --- YOUR DATA STAYS PRIVATE --- All your health data is stored locally on your device. Nothing is shared or sold. Your journey is yours alone. --- NOURISH PREMIUM --- Unlock unlimited AI logging, photo recognition, barcode scanning, meal ideas, and all features with a Nourish Premium subscription. * 7-day free trial — no charge until the trial ends * Monthly and annual plans available * Cancel anytime in your iPhone Settings Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscription in Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use: https://codyholman.github.io/nourish-privacy/terms Privacy Policy: https://codyholman.github.io/nourish-privacy

About

Macro Notes

Features
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It's just a note. Type what you ate, one food per line, and the calories appear beside each line. Worked out from lab-measured data, with protein, carbs and fat a tap away. We never guess. No forms, no dropdowns, no wading through a database. If you've used Notes, you already know how to use Macro Notes. THE NOTE • Type "sausage roll" and a calorie count appears beside it • Add an amount if you like — "greek yoghurt 150g" — or leave it out and a sensible portion is used, written back into the line so you can always see exactly what was counted • Keyboard suggestions complete food names as you type • If a line can't be matched, it shows a dash — never an invented number. Every figure on screen comes from a measured food, reached by name. REAL DATA • Over 230,000 foods: CoFID (the UK's laboratory-measured food composition data), USDA FoodData Central, and Open Food Facts for branded products • Generic, lab-measured foods always rank above crowdsourced branded entries, so "chicken thigh" means chicken — not one brand's packet • A full nutrition card for every food — fibre, sugars, salt and more — showing only what was actually measured, never a made-up zero SCAN THE PACKET • Scan a barcode to look a product up instantly • Or point the camera at the nutrition label and capture the figures straight off the packet MEALS • Save the things you actually eat — your porridge, your Tuesday curry — and log them in one line • A meal's total is the sum of its real ingredients, not a guess about a phrase MAKE IT STICK • A streak for the days you logged, a dashboard of your week, and a home-screen widget with today's numbers • Sign in with Apple and your diary syncs privately through iCloud THE ASSISTANT (subscription) Everything above is free. The optional AI assistant plans the rest of your day around what you've already eaten: tell it what you fancy and it suggests real foods from the catalogue, in real amounts, that actually fit the macros you have left — and writes them into your note when you say yes. The assistant is a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Sign in with Apple — we don't ask for your name or your email address • No ads, no tracking, and you can delete your account and every trace of your data from Settings Privacy policy: https://macronotes.app/privacy/ Terms of use: https://macronotes.app/terms/ Support: https://macronotes.app/support/

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

Nourish and Macro Notes are too close to call on the numbers: across 3 compared parameters — price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Nourish sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Macro Notes sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Nourish versus Macro Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNourishMacro Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 3 days
Ads—No
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
Devices—iPhone — better
Requires iOS26.426.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB22 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCODY LYNN HOLMANWARREN JAMES DAY

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Nourish

Subscriptions2
  • Nourish Premium Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Nourish Premium Annual7 Days trial$69.991 Year
4 purchases

Macro Notes

Subscriptions4
  • Unlimited access$9.991 Month
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Unlimited access$29.991 Year
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  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Nourish free?
Nourish is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Macro Notes free?
Macro Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

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