MacrosFirst - Macro Tracker

MacrosFirst is an outstanding app for anyone looking to track their macros with ease and accuracy. The interface is clean, intuitive, and incredibly user-friendly, making it perfect for beginners while still offering the depth that experienced users need. One of the standout features is the flexibility it provides—you can easily log individual ingredients, entire meals, or custom recipes, and the app quickly calculates your macros for you. The extensive food database is a huge plus, and the ability to save frequently used items and meals saves a ton of time. MacrosFirst also allows you to set personalized goals for proteins, carbs, and fats, making it simple to tailor your tracking to your specific dietary needs. Whether you’re counting macros for fitness, weight management, or just a healthier lifestyle, MacrosFirst is reliable and well-designed. It makes an often tedious process straightforward and even enjoyable. Highly recommended for anyone serious about their nutrition goals!

If you’re new to tracking your macros, go for this app. So many food tracking apps suffer from “we’re gonna put a whole bunch of useful functions behind a paywall, but we’re also going to add a whole bunch of bells and whistles you don’t need so paying feels justified.” This is not that, and I’m super grateful for it - all the most useful functions are available with the basic plan. It’s also super user-friendly and has a clean and tidy layout. The only other feature I would want is this — as someone who is working on building a healthy relationship with food, I always get a little spike of panic whenever I see the red “You’ve gone over” signal. I would love a feature that allows me to turn this off - just the red warning part of it — so even if I go over in one area of my macros that day, it’s just stays white like normal, so I can have the accurate numbers without the panic.

I checked out MacrosFirst after MFP’s retraction of the barcode scanner feature, and boy am I happy they made that mistake. Little did I know there was a far superior app out there as far as usability and customer service. I reached out to MFP following their change, receiving no response. However, my questions to the MacroFirst team were answered promptly and with great detail. If only MFP had checked out some of the MacrosFirst features and charged a premium subscription for similar, new innovations rather than gouging their loyal users for a feature they had come to rely on for free, maybe so many wouldn’t have come to the same realization. I find the database to be pretty darn extensive, but even when there is a food that doesn’t yet exist, the food label scanning feature makes it a breeze to enter for the future. And with so many seeming to have made the move from MFP, we can only expect the database to grow, and for this team to gain even more traction to deliver more impressive features. Hoping their new dashboard features, especially weekly averages, will come without a high cost as that is the sole feature I miss. Keep up the good work!!