Liner Notes vs MacroSense
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Liner Notes
This AI-powered journal transforms your daily reflections into unique visual art, personalized music recommendations, and weekly letters. It helps you capture feelings, track your mood, and see your days in context without pressure or guilt.
- AI visual art generation
- Personalized music recommendations
- Weekly summary letters
- Drafts from photos and events
- Voice and text entry
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Privacy-focused design
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Your day, journaled for you. Liner Notes is an auto diary and voice journal that drafts your day from your photos, sleep, steps, heart rate and conversations, and keeps the time you spend with the people who matter as memories. No account. Your records stay on your iPhone. PHOTOS, SLEEP, STEPS WRITE YOUR DAY Your places, photos, plans, sleep, steps and workouts are already a draft of the day. Read it, change only what you want, and keep it. On days you'd rather talk, one line into the mic is plenty. YOUR HEART RATE, TENSE OR RELAXED With Apple Watch, your heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) are compared with your usual self at that time of day, so a timeline shows when your body was tense and when it was relaxed. Plans, places, workouts and sleep sit alongside. After a workout, see how your heart rate came back down. This feature is for keeping and reflecting on your days. It is not intended for diagnosis or medical use. TIME WITH PEOPLE, IN THEIR WORDS Keep a conversation from a spoken note, and it's transcribed on your iPhone and split by speaker; summaries are made with Apple's Private Cloud Compute. The recording is deleted once it's text. Whether to tell people in the room is up to you. Conversations with people you name become part of your memories of them. FROM APPLE WATCH, TOO One press on your wrist starts recording. Your iPhone takes it from there. HEART RATE AND VOICE AS YOU TALK Your heart rate, the pitch of your voice, how much each of you talked, and laughter line up over a conversation, so you can see where it came alive. SEE HOW YOUR RELATIONSHIPS SHIFT Who you spent time with, and on what. People become glass particles and topics become capsules that shift as time plays. Liner Notes also tells you in plain words who appeared for the first time and who you haven't seen in a while. A PICTURE AND A SONG FOR EVERY DAY Each day's entry gets a picture and a song that fits. Each morning, a short note picks up from the day before, and at the end of the week, a letter to you arrives from seven days of records. YOUR RECORDS STAY ON YOUR IPHONE - There is no account - Your diary and conversations are stored on your iPhone - You choose where text is created in Settings: on your iPhone, Apple's private cloud, or OpenAI. OpenAI is used only with your consent, while you subscribe or during the preview - Export every record anytime as Markdown or as a full copy NO STREAKS, NO GUILT No streak counters, no "you missed a day" messages. While you're away, the automatic record keeps going, and it's waiting when you come back. FEATURES - A diary draft from places, photos, plans, sleep and steps - A day timeline from heart rate and HRV (tense and relaxed) - Conversation records with speakers and summaries, and recording from Apple Watch - Heart rate, voice pitch and laughter over a conversation - Workout heart rate and how it came back down afterward - Atlas: how people and topics shift over time, with highlights - The day's picture and tonight's song - A morning note and a weekly letter - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Siri and the Action Button - Records calendar and "One year ago today" - Export as Markdown or a full copy, and a daily copy to iCloud Drive PRICING The daily diary, automatic records, drafting and polishing, and export are free forever, plus a morning note once a week. Your first 3 mornings (up to 7 days) let you try the subscription with no card and no automatic charge. The subscription adds a morning note every day, weekly letters, conversation records, the day's picture and tonight's song. Family Sharing supported. Full playback of tonight's song requires an Apple Music subscription. Keep the days that slip away. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://linernotes.aves.ltd/en/privacy.html
MacroSense
This app offers a straightforward way to log meals, monitor calorie and macronutrient intake, and manage pantry items. It allows users to create custom recipes and track weight progress with clear nutritional targets.
- Daily food diary
- Macro and calorie targets
- Pantry list
- Barcode scanning
- Recipe creation
- Weight tracking
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MacroSense is a simple macro tracker for people who want practical food logging without the fuss. Log meals, track calories and macros, save pantry foods, and build reusable recipes for the foods you actually eat. MacroSense helps you keep daily nutrition visible with clear targets for calories, protein, carbs, and fat. Features: • Daily food diary • Macro and calorie targets • Pantry list for foods you keep in stock • Barcode scanning and food search • Manual nutrition label entry • Recipe creation and logging • Recipe and pantry QR sharing • Weight tracking and progress trends • Optional cloud backup with MacroSense Pro MacroSense uses manual-first targets: you can accept a suggested starting point, choose a preset, or set your own calorie and macro goals. MacroSense Pro unlocks storage, so your diary, pantry, recipes, weigh-ins, and targets can move with you to a new phone. No account is required to use the core tracker. Privacy Policy: https://frevanto.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MacroSense at none against Liner Notes's 2. MacroSense also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Liner Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. MacroSense asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Liner Notes against 5.0 for MacroSense. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Liner Notes ships an update weekly, MacroSense every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Liner Notes | MacroSense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Aves Inc. | Peter Williams |
Customer experience
Liner Notes
MacroSense
In-app purchases
Liner Notes
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
MacroSense
No in-app purchases








