MacrosFirst - Macro Tracker 4+

Great, but Recent Update has Severely Impacted Performance

First off, I love the app. It’s so much easier to use than MyFitnessPal and even offers the barcode scanner as a built-in, non-premium feature, which is much, much appreciated. I can comfortably give the app 4 stars, despite the following issues that appeared recently.
However, with the most recent update, which seems to be 2.1.8, I’ve noticed that the barcode scanner severely hinders the app’s performance, leading to lag, “eaten” inputs (as in a swipe or tap doesn’t register), and my phone heating up. It seems that restarting my phone fixed the issue, until I opened the barcode scanner again and the issues began again.
Hopefully this can get fixed quickly, because the app itself is great and perfectly functional, but I would like to get the old, unhindered performance back.

Developer Response ,

Hi there, thanks for the review and letting us know about the performance issue. We just pushed an app update which fixes this. It will be available for download as soon Apple finishes their review, typically within the next 12-24 hours. Best, -JB

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.