My Macros+ | Diet & Calories Reviews

by MJR 1228

I have been using MyMacrosDietCalories for years for both my own food tracking and with my fitness clients. It has some very good things going for it so I have just dealt with/worked around all of its many shortcomings with the hope that the developers will eventually improve it. This has never happened and it’s becoming clear now that it never will.

The food search feature is beyond awful. It requires you to sift through hundreds of entries that may or may not even match the food you typed into the search box. Most recently I searched for “mushrooms” and MyMacrosDietCalories came up with 200+ items… only 2 of them were actual mushrooms. This is pretty much par for the course. In most cases it’s faster to just create a custom food on your own so you don’t have to spend 10 minutes playing detective. I do not understand how an app that’s built for logging food can work so incredibly poorly in this capacity.

I recently updated to the newest version of MyMacrosDietCalories and in doing so I lost every food item, favorite, and recipe I had saved in my profile. That is hours and hours of time that I’ve now lost. I will no longer be using MyMacrosDietCalories personally or recommending it to anyone… stay away!

by Thatxgirlyouknow

I started using MyMacrosDietCalories at the recommendation of my personal trainer. I have used myfitnesspal and the Fitbit food tracker in the past and wasn’t particularly pleased with either of them, but MyMacrosDietCalories is unbelievably, frustratingly worse - and it isn’t free! I thought the barcode scanner would be a nice touch, but even if it can find my food, it never accurately depicts what’s on the label, so I end up having to manually enter everything anyway. And the food database is painstakingly small, even when you create an account and pay for MyMacrosDietCalories . I also hate that unlike myfitnesspal and the Fitbit tracker, you can’t change the measuring unit, and nearly everything ends up in grams. Unless you have a food scale handy literally all the time, you can’t estimate how much you’re eating when you have to measure in grams. And the personalized macro goals MyMacrosDietCalories created for me - which are supposedly the reason why MyMacrosDietCalories is so heralded - were so unattainable, even at the least aggressive setting (e.g. 200 grams of protein per day - I’m not a bodybuilder!) that I ended up setting my own anyway. Do yourself a favor and don’t waste your money on this garbage app.

by Dave Millions

As most reviews will tell you; MyMacrosDietCalories is a general letdown. It is inflexible in portion selection, it requires you to pay a monthly fee for basic TDEE calculations, the scanner and label reader barely work, and BY GOD is the search awful. I mean, there is literally NO natural language parsing. Let’s say in MFP or MyNetDiary you want to search for some food from some brand. You’d type in “nuggets McDonald’s” and probably get Chicken McNugget as one of the top results. Assuming you had the foresight to type in the proper, exact name of what you want in MyMacrosDietCalories. You can only search the food, then use an antiquated list to navigate poorly to which brand you might want. Even the universal search is pathetic. Worst of all: the support is terrible. I had a log in issue that prevented me from using MyMacrosDietCalories again, which thankfully led me to MyNetDiary in the interim. It took 2 weeks and multiple check ins on my behalf just to get the log in issue resolved. This should have been a 2-3 business day issue at most. Look elsewhere. They keep the old reviews up because they’re from a time when this actually was one of the better macro apps.

by Shannondaly

MyMacrosDietCalories is so out of touch. I eat pretty much the same thing every day, and when I type in egg, I get something like “ famous dans hot dog” ( obviously just an example). I’ve been shocked at some of the suggestions it gives me when searching food. Like HOW! HOW a did you come up with THAT!? I hate the 60 dollar a year price tag for MFP. But, I have to go back for more accurate accounting of my food. This is way too much work to custom this, and scan that. And the scanner. OMG, the scanner. Come on, people. Make this work better. I want to live for MyMacrosDietCalories. I just can’t. It’s too time consuming to log, and half the time the calories are way off. The most recent thing I logged is 190 on the package. It shows in MyMacrosDietCalories being just over 150 with all of the same macro values, just not the calories values. And as a fat girl in recovery, this is vital for my own personal success. I’m not saying be like MFP, but I am saying sort yourselves out. There’s no reason I should search for one thing, and get a list of 7000 other things that are no where near what I’m looking for. The positives of MyMacrosDietCalories. Everything is clear, it’s easy to set your goals, the look of MyMacrosDietCalories is pretty amazing, it’s not cluttered or ugly. It’s a nice looking app, and even despite the search/logging issues. It is fast, and when it’s not a nightmare to try and look for something that you want to add to the list of things you just crammed in your pie hole, it’s a nice app.

by Amg_10

As some of the previous reviewers have mentioned, the barcode scanner is hit or miss. I have contacted customer service about this several times but have never gotten the issue resolved. When creating a recipe, and using the barcode scanner, you are unable to filter your results by serving size or brand. The same is also true when creating a recipe and searching for a single ingredient. I have also contacted customer support about this issue, but it has not been resolved and the response was simply that they are working on it. The food database is not comprehensive. I often have to manually enter ingredients or create items which is frustrating and takes a lot of time. As others have also mentioned I, too, feel like I should just switch back to myfitnesspal, but the things that I do you like about MyMacrosDietCalories are that you can adjust your macros by the gram, have different macro goals for different days, or that it also includes more meal options and simply breakfast lunch or dinner. However now that I have gone back to consistently tracking my food after taking six months off and realizing that these issues have not been fixed I am definitely frustrated by the clunky features and the inability of the barcode to work consistently.

by Tp2017tp

I purchased MyMacrosDietCalories about a year and a half ago, previously being a MyFitnessPal user. MyMacrosDietCalories had a lot of promise seeing as you could use as many meals as you want and set customizable goals. But with the promise of updating a larger consumer database the developers have seriously neglected their customers. I’ve been waiting for months on end for the database to become better and nothing while myfitnesspal has moved past the three strict meals. I strongly regret my purchase and would switch back over to myfitnesspal if I didn’t already log my weights for the past year in this program. It’s been a huge pain to manually enter all my food. An app is suppose to make your life easier, logging food on myfitnesspal with their database takes less then two minutes. While having to manually enter and create a new food item on macros+ can take 5-10 minutes. I find myself using myfitnesspal’s database to create foods on MyMacrosDietCalories, I’ll probably switch back over soon and just bite my ego and take the loss on the purchase and just relog my info when I have the time. If your stuck between the two apps stick with myfitnesspal, MyMacrosDietCalories has been a headache and a half as regular tracker.

by Like!!!!!!!

I have been using MyFitnessPal for years, but wanted something with more customization. I love that MyMacrosDietCalories allows me to set different macro goals for different days, and has more than just the typical three meal set up.
However, the food database is seriously lacking. It’s incredibly difficult to find simple foods, and I’ve ended up adding almost everything so far as a custom food. Lucky for me I eat essentially the same thing every day, so after adding a food I can easily add it from the recent list. But it’s still a hassle initially.
Also, the barcode feature is hit or miss. There have been several times that the product couldn’t be found, had info completely different from the box, or brought up something similar but not exactly what I was looking for. Which, again, leads to me going through the process of adding a custom food.

I will continue to use MyMacrosDietCalories for the simple reason that I paid money for it, but I’m really tempted to just switch back to MyFitnessPal. I wish there was a free trial because I absolutely would not have wasted my money had I known about these issues. At this point I would not recommend it to anyone.

by MamaSaucy

I bought MyMacrosDietCalories because it works with Heads Up but it’s not worth the $2.99 they charge. You have to pay a subscription to use this on any other platform. The macro calculator is garbage. And searching for food items is a pain. I wanted to add “green salad” or even simply a salad but I couldn’t get anything that looked normal to appear. I typed “Roma Tomato” and instead of taking me straight there MyMacrosDietCalories pulled up 100s of results for me to scroll through. Too time consuming. I understand a lot of high reviews are coming from ex-MyFitnessPal and I would agree this is an improvement when it comes to food tracking from that app. But that is where the positives end. Before I tried this I was using Carb Manager and I went back to carb it after this failed my expectations. I’m keto and I pretty much know my own macros but for an app titled as such there’s isn’t much help in figuring out your macros here. You can input a ratio but that’s it. For new people how would they know what their ideal macros should average too?

by Josarlo84

I tried MyMacrosDietCalories after trying MyPlate. I like that there is a lot of customization. I also love that I can enter any amount of servings and not be restricted to quarter amounts only. I love the recipe feature that allows me to create any recipe and reused it.

There is a lot to love about MyMacrosDietCalories, then why the 2 stars? Simple, time. It takes too long to enter in what I eat. Other apps can scan practically any product and report accurate macronutrients (I've seen discrepancies on MyMacrosDietCalories that don't coincide with what I scanned). Navigation is also confusing and I find myself tapping having to tap quite a bit before getting anywhere. MyMacrosDietCalories is also buggy. Sometimes scanned food appears and other times it doesn't. Searching is all but useful, I can't find generic items like Bananas and watermelon. I end up googling nutritional information for these items and creating custom items in MyMacrosDietCalories . All these things add up to too much time. I'll use MyPlate, it doesn't offer as much customizations, but it is quick to enter my information.

by Mike Donahue

I think that app is good for athletes who weigh all their food, but if you don’t do that there are no default serving sizes for a lot of common foods. Great database with lots of foods and a decent interface but it usually defaults to a single measure like 1 gram. If you meal prep this shouldn’t be too much of an issue. But it can be cumbersome. I’m not even sure how you would weigh some items like we had corn on the cob the other night. The option was to record grams or ozs. I didn’t eat the whole cob - just the corn. How do you weight that? Having an option for serving sizes would be nice. A few items have serving size options but not enough. It’s frustrating enough that I’ve moved on to try a new macro tracker. I work with a trainer but he doesn’t use MyMacrosDietCalories to track his clients. I tried almost all the food tracking apps. My favorite stopped being supported a while ago. Great for the athlete but this is not MyMacrosDietCalories I’m looking for.

by SJT1224

Fairly new to trying to “really” count my macros and MyMacrosDietCalories does the job, but I find myself spending far too much time navigating through MyMacrosDietCalories instead of just adding foods & moving on.
You have to search/enter your food by clicking the “plus” sign in the top left corner, but that icon is halfway hidden off the screen (iPhone 12 pro). Once in the food adding section, you search for your foods and it’s super easy to forget to click the drop down for breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack. I always have to edit my meal after adding to my daily macro counter.
Not a huge deal, but why not have preset boxes in the middle of the day/page that say “breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack” and click each box to enter my foods? That part of MyMacrosDietCalories needs a lot of improvement.
I do like the barcode scanner, it worked perfectly the one time I used it.
Overall MyMacrosDietCalories works, just needs a lot of UX improvements to make it great.

by SSGDaax

I’ve checked out a couple different macro tracking apps and I find myself returning to this one. Easy to use once you understand the different functions, and I get into a nice rhythm of tracking my food as I am preparing it. The “recent” and “frequent” tabs make for even faster food tracking, especially if you are like me and most of your diet consists of a few staple foods. I highly recommend having a digital kitchen scale, as it takes the guesswork out of weighing/measuring your food.

But there is room for improvement. Be careful using the barcode scanning option. I have found many of the results that come up are wildly different from the actual nutrition facts on the package. Be sure to double check when you use it. More often than not I am creating my own custom foods using the nutrition facts on the label. Not a huge deal for me, but some may find it annoying.

And secondly, it would be nice if the developers added a way to track sugar alcohols and other non-sugar sweeteners. As someone who follows a ketogenic diet, a lot of the foods I eat and prepare use these ingredients, and this affects my net carb count at the end of the day. If I could track these types of sweeteners, just another option under “carbs,” then I would be able to more easily calculate my net carbs at the end of the day. As it now stands, I have no way to differentiate between sugar and sugar alcolhol or erythritol/monk fruit/stevia and other such sweeteners.

Thanks!

by Rockisnourishment

MyMacrosDietCalories is well worth the price if you’re serious about tracking your nutrition. The level of detail and customization available is vastly superior to MFP, and the fact that it tracks net carbs for you automatically is fantastic especially if you’re following a keto diet. The food database is quite sparse, but honestly entering your own food is the best way to be accurate anyway. In reality even though MFP has an enormous database, it doesn’t have access to the usda nutrition database so most of what you find in there is inaccurate. The only problem I’ve found with MM+ is that sometimes the search function in your own favorite foods just stops working, and you have to close MyMacrosDietCalories and reopen it to get it to work again. It’s a quick and simple fix but it’s annoying nonetheless. Also, many times scanning barcodes does NOT yield accurate food information seen on the food label itself. This can at times be painful to modify the food manually to match what the food label shows. Especially if you’re hungry or pressed for time. Hopefully the devs will solve the two little issues, which would make MM+ even better than it already is.

by Krn2103

It’s a great app for those who know that calories don’t matter as much as macros. It’s simple and easy to use. Food data base is not as large as MyFitnessPal however the more people use it and I use it the database is expanded and a lot more accurate than MyFitnessPal.

The new feature that was added a few weeks ago called Macro Coach is absolutely incredible! The feature consists on setting a goal, adding your current info and every week do a “check in” which will cause adjustments to be automatically done to keep moving forward to your goal. The more I use it, the more effectively it works.

The only thing I wish is that the pace calculated by Macro Coach was according to fat mass instead of body weight. The reason is that the last few weeks I have been losing fat mass at an impressive pace BUT haven’t lost weight. If the pace is calculated just by body weight then MyMacrosDietCalories will keep reducing my macros and calories regardless of making a lot of process in fat loss.

by Carochong

I've been using MyMacrosDietCalories for over a year and with each update it gets improved. I love the barcode scanner though sometimes it doesn't recognize the barcode (hello just enter in macros from the nutrition label and it's saved!) the only critical feedback I have for MyMacrosDietCalories is I wish it would calculate changes in nutritional value if you change something from grams/cup/oz/etc to another variable. It would just save time. And for carb cyclers if you could be able to enter different macro goals for the day and it would automatically change your goals for you. Sometimes I forget when my carb load day is (carb depleted brain anyone?) but if I was able to set a schedule for my macro goals it would make my life simple. However that is a stretch for any critical feedback, MyMacrosDietCalories is awesome.

by Stabbby

I’ve had MyMacrosDietCalories for a couple years and tracked macros on/off for ... 1.4 years according to MyMacrosDietCalories itself. People have mentioned my fitnesspal (mfp) as a competitor. I’m familiar with mfp and its big database of foods. Does MFP have a larger database? Yes. Is it legit all the time? No. Can you put in exact macros? Not on the free version. Can you change macros per day as in carb cycling? Nope. Is it easy to just GOOGLE the food to find and easily add it instead of complaining? YEP.

I chose My Macros+ over other apps because of the following:
1. tracking is simple with Fast Track where you can instantly add carbs, protein, or fats when you don’t have time to add or when it’s not in the database.

2. Adding foods makes it easier to find later, also makes it easier for others with the same food to log. Increases database options.

3. Add recipes and copy meals to other dates. Very convenient as sometimes I don’t eat a meal I planned and add it for the next day

4. Noteworthy!!! the ability to change macros each day AND getting specific with macros (rather than rounding them according to the free MyFitnessPal)

An added plus is the weekly emails on how the % of the goal I’m trying to hit.

I recommend it to all serious trackers as well as my training clients.

by HawaiianKong

If all you want to do is have a paid-for app that tracks your macros easily, MyMacrosDietCalories is all you need. The database is fine, and the barcode and label scanner work for everything I’ve tried it on. You can set macro goals, and you can see how many grams or what ratios of each you’ve consumed. MyMacrosDietCalories is not bloated with “extra features”. It’s quick, easy, and efficient.

The companion workout app is a no-nonsense, paid-for app that tracks your workouts like you would with a notepad. No fluff or gimmicks. I recommend that too.

If you prefer to pay a monthly fee for virtual coaching, web support, pretty graphics, and access to articles and recipes (that you can get anywhere), then you might prefer MyFitnessPal. But it’s hard for me to justify paying $10-20 month to track how much protein and carbs I eat.

by Esoria_91

My Macros+ is hands down the best macro app out there and 100% worth every penny. I used to use MyFitnessPal but when I got into fitness and macro tracking, I needed something more. I’ve had MyMacrosDietCalories for years and they keep making it better. Not only that, but their customer service is the best. I switched phones and thought my years worth of data was lost but they were able to restore it over a holiday weekend!

In the beginning there is a learning curve to using it (especially if you are getting used to tracking macros for the first time). Now it’s a simple process and I use MyMacrosDietCalories daily without thinking about it. Yes, sometimes there are some glitches like with any app/technology- but it’s rare and I’ve always been able to fix it easily on my own.

Highly recommend.

by Bagirathi

I find MyMacrosDietCalories so useful-its extremely flexible in terms of customization, and tracks everything I need. Water intake, net carbs, daily weight-it’s all there. Love the ability to create recipes and favorites as well as switch between grams and ounces. I used it some years ago then let it go dormant and for some reason lost all the data, but won’t let that happen again.

The only thing I would say is to be a bit cautious both with validated nutritional content and the barcode scanner. It’s wrong much more often than used to be the case. For some reason the search function has become much weaker as well. Used to be able to find almost anything. But it’s no problem-easiest is just to enter or double check regular foods then save them as favorites. For me, MyMacrosDietCalories is far superior and more flexible than any of the others I’ve tried. So we’ll thought out-love it.

by Doublenickel_55

I’m not much of a review guy.... BUT, I must say I am very happy with MyMacrosDietCalories. I never liked its competitor(s) interface, however I found “my macros” to be very easy and perfect for me. The best part though, is that it has a small business vibe. There has been two occasions were my data has been lost, I’m not concerned with the why. However I’m very impressed with the how, and by how I mean how they resolved the problem. Mind you, I left the account dormant for a couple years, so it’s no surprise that updates happened or whatever else takes place in MyMacrosDietCalories world. All I know, is both times I emailed, and both time Jason himself responded and found a way to correct and reload all of my saved data, much of which was manually input. SO... why?? I don’t know and I don’t care. All I know, is MyMacrosDietCalories is good and nothing’s perfect, but IF there’s a problem I can count on them fixing it. And that’s all I can ask for from any professional. So thank you and yes I love and recommend MyMacrosDietCalories over others.