MacrosFirst: Macro Tracker 4+

Happy to have made the switch from MFP

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!!

All the basics for free

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.

A Better App

I have used My Fit Pal for 6-7 years but they have recently remove the scanning bar unless you are a member. It was given to us for free, you can’t take it away and make ppl play for it now! Switch to MacroFirst and loving this app so much more! You can see the macro by section, per food and over all. I have to say thank you to the creator of this app!

I think if we can enter the nutrition facts for the food we scan but doesn’t have the information would be better because sometimes it entered the wrong numbers. Hope this app learns to pickup and save all the barcodes from everyone that use this app so no one has to enter it manually.

MFP provided us tracking water for fee but this app doesn’t… it’s ok, I rather have the ability to scan my food faster. But the search engine isn’t the best… it needs to be able to find more meals that everyone in this app has made…

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much! We're constantly adding to and improving our food database to provide greater coverage. Best, -JB