Comparison

Onbeat Running vs MacroSense

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

Head to head
About

Onbeat Running

Improve your running form with a metronome that plays under your music. Features interval workouts, voice cues, and a four-week cadence retraining program. Works on iPhone and Apple Watch, even offline.

Highlights
  • Running metronome plays under music
  • Interval workouts with voice cues
  • Four-week cadence retraining program
  • Standalone Apple Watch app
  • Works offline
  • Customizable workouts
Features
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Sore knees? Overstriding? Quicker, lighter steps are the fix. Onbeat gives you a steady beat in your ears. Your feet lock onto it. The beat plays under your music or podcast. You can still hear it on a loud road, with your phone in your pocket or just your watch on your wrist. Run to the beat and your cadence goes up. The training layer makes it stick: interval workouts with voice cues, and a program that retrains your cadence in four weeks. THE BEAT • Exact timing at any steps per minute. No drift, no stutter • Plays under whatever you listen to. Loud enough for the road • Change tempo without breaking stride. Controls on the Lock Screen THE TRAINING LAYER • Interval workouts. A voice tells you when to push and when to recover. You never look at the screen • Cadence Builder: four weeks of small steps that raise your cadence for good • Build your own workouts and keep them APPLE WATCH • Works on its own. Leave the phone at home and the real beat plays from your wrist • Intervals and voice cues on the watch too. Every run saves to Apple Health A METRONOME YOU BUY ONCE Here's what you get: the running metronome that plays under your podcast, interval workouts with voice cues, the four week cadence program, and the standalone Apple Watch app. Try everything free for 7 days. It's a real trial and there's nothing to cancel. Then $9.99, once. It's yours for life. No subscription. No account. No ads. You can browse the app forever either way. Starting a run is what needs the unlock. Works offline.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Daily food diary
  • Macro and calorie targets
  • Pantry list
  • Barcode scanning
  • Recipe creation
  • Weight tracking
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Onbeat Running4 screens
MacroSense4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MacroSense at none against Onbeat Running's 1. MacroSense also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Onbeat Running's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Onbeat Running sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MacroSense asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Onbeat Running against 5.0 for MacroSense. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Onbeat Running has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Onbeat Running ships an update every 3 weeks, MacroSense every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Onbeat Running versus MacroSense: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOnbeat RunningMacroSense
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB51 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAlterras LLCPeter Williams

Customer experience

Onbeat Running

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MacroSense

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Onbeat Running

One-time1
  • Onbeat Lifetime$9.99
None

MacroSense

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Onbeat Running free?
Onbeat Running is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MacroSense free?
MacroSense is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Onbeat Running or MacroSense?
Onbeat Running and MacroSense are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Onbeat Running or MacroSense have ads?
Neither Onbeat Running nor MacroSense shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Onbeat Running or MacroSense?
Onbeat Running ships an update every 3 weeks, and MacroSense every 4 days. Most recently, Onbeat Running was updated on October 14, 2026 and MacroSense on October 12, 2026.

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