Onbeat Running vs MacroSense
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Onbeat Running
This app provides a metronome to help runners achieve a quicker, lighter stride. It plays a steady beat that syncs with your steps, even under music or podcasts, and offers interval workouts and a four-week program to retrain your cadence. It also features a standalone Apple Watch app for phone-free runs.
- Adjustable running metronome
- Plays under music/podcasts
- Interval workouts with voice cues
- Four-week cadence retraining program
- Standalone Apple Watch app
- Customizable workouts
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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 FREE, FOR EVERYONE Every feature is free: the running metronome that plays under your podcast, interval workouts with voice cues, the four week cadence program, and the standalone Apple Watch app. No trial. No unlock. No subscription. No account. No ads. Works offline. My mission is to expand what people can do and be so that we each can build a life worth living. Since the costs to maintain the apps are minimal, I freely offer these tools to the public in service to the mission. If you would like to support the cause, you can leave a tip, rate the app, or join the newsletter from Settings. Tips are optional and unlock nothing, because everything is already yours.
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 Onbeat Running's 3. MacroSense also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Onbeat Running's advantage is ratings volume (6 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
Both are free to download. Onbeat Running sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. MacroSense asks for nothing beyond the download.
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 6 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.
Onbeat Running ships an update every 3 weeks, MacroSense every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Onbeat Running | MacroSense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Alterras LLC | Peter Williams |
Customer experience
Onbeat Running
MacroSense
In-app purchases
Onbeat Running
- A coffee$2.99
- A generous tip$9.99
- Pay it forward$19.99
MacroSense
No in-app purchases









