Our verdictfitvee is the best macro tracking app if you train at home
Your target says 120 g of protein, and all you can swear to is eggs at breakfast. Open Calories in fitvee and three bars settle it: Protein, Carbs and Fat, each with the grams you’ve eaten against your target.
Our picks at a glance
- Best for macros with training
fitvee
A split you set, and a strength plan that climbs with you.
- Best for detailed tracking
MacroFactor
A logger built for exactly this, if you’re happy to pay for it.
- Best free macro targets
Cronometer
Custom targets on the free tier, with micronutrients beside them.
- Best for low carb and keto
Carb Manager
Net carbs sit at its centre.
Plenty of apps can add up grams, and a few do it in more depth than fitvee. It takes this list because the grams get a job to do. Protein earns its keep when you train, and here the training is in the same membership: a session of about 15 minutes on the strength plan, with moves that get harder as you do.
Every way of logging counts your macros.
A barcode scan carries them, and so do searched foods and meals typed in plain words.
The split is yours.
It starts at 30% protein, 40% carbs and 30% fat. Pick Balanced, More protein or Lower carb, or enter your own, and the gram targets follow.
The numbers are honest about themselves.
A line under the bars says how many of today’s foods carried macro data, so a gap in the log can’t pass for a low protein day.
Memberships are sold per movement plan: strength (about 15 minutes), tai chi walking (7) or chair yoga (10 to 20). You pick one as you sign up, and the macro tracker rides along.
How it scored
- Food tools
- 4/5
- Workouts
- 5/5
- Personalisation
- 5/5
- Coaching
- 4/5
- Progress and motivation
- 5/5
- Value
- 4/5
You pay $15.19 for the first 28 days, then $38.95 every 4 weeks. On the strength plan, 12 weeks is $36.99, then $94.85 every 12 weeks (fitvee pricing).
On this page
Our verdictOur picks at a glanceThe best apps to track macrosWhat fitvee is likeWhy you'll keep coming backThe other appsWhat fitvee costsOur recommendationQuestionsHow we compareSourcesThe best apps to track macros, compared feature by feature
Every score is out of 5, next to the features it stands on. How we mark.
Food tools: macros, protein and logging
If numbers are your hobby, the top of this table goes deeper than fitvee, and fairly.
| App | Score | What it rests on |
|---|---|---|
| fitvee | 4/5 | Protein, carbs and fat on scanned, searched and typed foods, preset or custom splits, and a line showing how many foods counted, beside usual foods and a goal from your quiz. Targets come from percentages, with no grams-per-kilo setting and no micronutrients |
| MacroFactor | 5/5 | A logger built for this: barcode and label scans, photo or described meals, and 1.36 million verified foods |
| Cronometer | 5/5 | Custom macro targets (Cronometer pricing) with micronutrient analysis beside them |
| MyNetDiary | 5/5 | Full nutrient detail and exercise tracking, plus Meal Scan and AI tools in paid tiers (MyNetDiary help) |
| MyFitnessPal Premium | 4/5 | Macros by gram and custom macro tracking (MyFitnessPal help), alongside a scanner and Meal Scan |
| Carb Manager | 4/5 | Made for low carb, with net carb tracking at its centre |
| Lose It | 4/5 | Macro tracking on a daily calorie budget |
Value: paying for grams, or for more
A tracker on its own is the smaller bill, and these scores allow for that. fitvee’s 4 rests on what its price covers beyond the bars.
| App | Score | What it rests on | A month at renewal |
|---|---|---|---|
| fitvee | 4/5 | Macros, diary, daily plan, Library and coach under one price. Anything extra, Premium Workouts included, sits among the separate subscriptions named in the terms. A tracker on its own costs far less | $24.07 to $42.20, by plan |
| Cronometer | 4/5 | Basic is free with no time limit (Cronometer help) and keeps the scanner | $0; Gold $10.99, or $5.00 yearly |
| MyNetDiary | 4/5 | A scanner and no ads come with the free tier. Meal Scan and the AI tools are paid | $0; Premium $8.99, or $5.00 yearly |
| Carb Manager | 4/5 | Its paid tier is the lowest here | $0; Premium $8.49, or $3.33 yearly |
| MacroFactor | 4/5 | One tier with everything, in a paid-only app with a 7-day trial | $11.99; $6.00 yearly |
| MyFitnessPal Premium | 3/5 | The gram view you came for is the part that costs extra | $19.99; $6.67 yearly |
| Lose It | 3/5 | A free calorie budget, with the scanner moving to Premium (Lose It help) | $6.67 yearly |
The training behind the target
The trackers are marked on what they’re for: food and price. Cronometer and MyNetDiary do track exercise, MyFitnessPal Premium has workout routines, and MacroFactor runs a Workouts app on the same account. Here’s fitvee beyond the bars.
| Job | Score | What it rests on |
|---|---|---|
| Workouts | 5/5 | Strength, walking and chair plans to follow along with, the Library, and move ladders that climb from the wall to the floor |
| Personalisation | 5/5 | Your push-up and squat answers set your starting rung, and each check-in can move the next session |
| Progress and motivation | 5/5 | Before-and-after numbers from a can-do check, four badges, and a weekly streak built to survive a bad week |
| Coaching | 4/5 | Vee and Vin are in the price, can change today and can read your calories. Grams of protein aren’t in what they read, so the bars stay your check |
What fitvee is like: hitting a protein target
Setting the target
Macros are simple arithmetic: protein and carbs carry 4 calories a gram and fat carries 9 (USDA). fitvee does the arithmetic for you. On a 1,600 kcal goal the starting split reads 120 g of protein, 160 g of carbs and 53 g of fat.
Press Edit and you can pick Balanced, More protein or Lower carb, or type your own whole percents that add to 100. Move protein to 40% and the target climbs to 160 g. Only the targets change. What you’ve logged stays put.
The trade-off is plain. Your target is a share of calories, so a coach’s “1.6 g per kilo” needs converting into a split by hand.
Getting there in a day
Breakfast is what you always have, so it’s waiting under Usual at breakfast at your last portion. Lunch is a can of tuna: Scan food reads the barcode and the macros go in with it. You only ate half, so Change portion takes it down, in half steps or by grams and ounces.
Mid-afternoon is when the bars earn their place, because the Protein line tells you how far you’ve got while there’s still a dinner to fix it. Dinner is a home meal. Type “2 eggs and toast” and each food returns with its portion, and the day’s protein moves when you press Log 222 kcal.
What the numbers cover
Log a food with no macro data and a line appears under the bars: “From 7 of 10 foods.” The page tells you what the total covers instead of quietly short-changing your protein. Gaps happen because packaged foods in fitvee draw heavily on Open Food Facts, which volunteers build (Open Food Facts).
The grams themselves hold up better than you might fear. In a check of one popular tracker, 50 people’s 4-day records lined up closely with a Belgian reference database for calories and macros, and poorly for sodium and cholesterol. Five free apps, given 30 food records from lower-income adults, followed macros well, though every one read low on something. So watch the direction of your numbers more than any single day.
Know the edges, too. The bars count protein, carbs and fat and nothing else, and they live on Calories, under More: the row on Today shows calories alone.
What the protein is for
Protein is only half the deal. The gains people chase were measured with training: across 49 trials of 1,863 people doing resistance training, protein supplements added a modest amount of muscle and strength, with nothing more to gain past about 1.6 g per kg a day, and the effect shrank with age.
So fitvee hands you the training. Today’s card on the strength plan might be Squat, pull, push: you squat back to a chair, pull on a towel and push from your knees, about 15 minutes, with one more round if you want it. Push-ups start at the wall and end on the floor, and squats start at a chair and end in a split squat, on a plan of 28 days a round: 25 follow-along sessions and 3 rest-and-stretch days. Bodyweight is a fair way to do it, if the sets get hard: in 28 studies of 747 healthy adults taking sets to failure, muscle size grew about the same on light and heavy loads, and strength grew more on heavy ones.
The strength quiz asks how many push-ups and squats you can do and shifts each ladder to match. Pick “gain muscle” and four days a round become strength days. After that the check-in steers: call a session too easy and every move in the next one goes up a step, call it too hard and it comes down.
The coach reads your day in calories, meal by meal, not in grams. Ask Vin about dinner and it totals what’s logged so far, and whether that covers your protein is still the bar’s job. Tell it your legs are done and today drops a level.
Why you’ll keep coming back
If you track macros you probably like numbers, and fitvee has good ones for you. All of them come from your sessions, not your food.
The ladder keeps going.
On day 28 you take a step on or stay level, and your check-ins suggest which. Round 2 on strength brings new moves such as the decline push-up and one-arm doorframe row, with longer sessions. Each step on after that repeats the round a level harder.
Reps to set beside your grams.
The strength plan’s day 1 can-do check counts push-ups in a row, squats in 30 seconds and a plank hold. Day 28 runs it again and puts “Up from” beside each gain. Across 138 studies of goals of all kinds, people who monitored their progress were more likely to get there, especially when they recorded it.
The other apps, one by one
MacroFactor
- Suits
- Detailed tracking comes first, and you’ll pay for it.
- Main strength
- The top rating here: 23,836 US App Store ratings average 4.84.
- Drawback
- Food and training sit in separate apps, and only a yearly plan covers both.
Cronometer
- Suits
- You track micronutrients as well as macros.
- Main strength
- 100,343 US App Store ratings at 4.77 stars, and a web version beside the apps.
- Drawback
- Basic carries ads until you pay for Gold.
MyNetDiary
- Suits
- You want a free tracker with no ads on your phone or iPad.
- Main strength
- A 4.81 on the US App Store, from 171,507 ratings.
Carb Manager
- Suits
- You eat low carb or keto.
- Main strength
- It’s made for you, and 736,702 US App Store ratings give it 4.82 stars.
MyFitnessPal Premium
- Suits
- Your foods and history are already there.
- Main strength
- Scale: 2,389,253 US App Store ratings at 4.71 stars.
- Drawback
- Its meal plans need Premium+, at $99.99 a year (archived page).
Is it worth it: MyFitnessPal Premium. Head to head: fitvee vs MyFitnessPal.
Lose It
- Suits
- You think in a daily calorie budget and want macros listed beside it.
- Main strength
- A free Basic tier with 50M+ foods, rated 4.77 on the US App Store.
What fitvee costs, and which tier sets macro goals
| Plan | First payment | Then | A month at renewal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 weeks, strength or chair | $36.99 for 84 days | $94.85 every 12 weeks | $34.25 |
The pricing page lists the rest. This one renews until you cancel online, and there are no refunds, except where the law requires (cancel, refunds).
Which tier lets you set macro goals? At Cronometer, the free one. At MyFitnessPal, Premium. In fitvee, every membership.
| App | Where macros sit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| fitvee | Presets or your own split, in every membership | The plan above |
| Cronometer | Custom targets on free Basic | $0; Gold is $59.99 a year |
| MyFitnessPal | The free tier shows macros. Macros by gram and custom macro tracking are Premium | Premium is $79.99 a year (App Store) |
| MacroFactor | One paid tier, so nothing to unlock | $71.99 a year (App Store), or $89.99 with Workouts (MacroFactor help) |
| MyNetDiary | Full nutrient detail on the free tier | $0; Premium is $59.99 a year (MyNetDiary help) |
| Carb Manager | Net carb tracking is always free | $0; Premium is $39.99 a year (App Store) |
| Lose It | Macro tracking is on its feature list | Premium is $79.99 a year (Lose It tiers) |
You’re paying fitvee for a training plan as much as a tracker, so judge it against that.
Our recommendation
If your macros are there to serve your training, go with fitvee. You get protein, carbs and fat on every way of logging, a split you control, and a plan that climbs with you, in one place.
Against MacroFactor, the macro tracker to beat, your session and your calories share a screen, your training answers back after every session, and there’s a coach to change today.
If the numbers are the whole point, take MacroFactor for depth, Cronometer for micronutrients and free custom targets, or Carb Manager for net carbs. More on our pick: fitvee review. New to all this? Start with the best calorie counter for beginners.
See the macro tracker in fitveeJust want the calorie counter? See it here
“My afternoons were low on protein. Seeing the macros on my diary, I added eggs at lunch and the afternoons felt better.”
Questions
What is the best macro tracking app?
With training built in, fitvee. For depth, MacroFactor. For free custom targets, Cronometer.
What’s the easiest macro tracker for beginners?
Pick a simple macro tracking app that sets the targets for you. fitvee starts you on a split from your calorie goal, and you never have to touch it.
How do I track macros for free?
Cronometer Basic and MyNetDiary’s free tier both do it, scanner included.
How do you track macros?
Set a calorie goal, choose a split, log what you eat, and watch the grams against your targets. An app does the sums.
Can I use fitvee as a protein tracker app?
Yes: the Protein bar shows grams eaten against your target, and a higher protein split raises that target.
How many grams of protein per day?
The current US guidelines state a target of 1.2 to 1.6 g per kg of body weight a day (US guidelines), which is 84 to 112 g at 70 kg (154 lb). For healthy people who exercise, a sports nutrition position stand says 1.4 to 2.0 g per kg is enough for most. In 74 trials of healthy adults, those who trained saw small muscle gains from more protein, and those 65 and over saw them at a lower intake. People over 65 who exercise are advised at least 1.2 g per kg, and anyone with kidney disease should ask a doctor first.
Do I need to count macros to lose weight?
No. Weight follows energy in and out over time, and it moves slowly (Hall et al., 201160812-X)). Macros help with protein, preference or a plan someone set you.
Macros or calories: which matter more?
Calories set the size of the day, and macros set its shape. fitvee shows both on one page.
Does fitvee track micronutrients?
No, only protein, carbs and fat.
Do I need a workout plan to use it?
Each membership comes with one, and all three are open to any adult. fitvee sells only in the United States (terms). If your health gives you any doubt, check with your doctor first.
How we compare
For this page we used the pricing, help and store pages each app publishes, as read on 6 November 2026. All fitvee images are of a preview, with a test member and sample history. The longer version: How we compare.
What the scores mean. Every app faces the same scale across six jobs. Scoring 5 takes the complete job and a standout on top. Scoring 4 means the essentials are there. Scoring 3 means a genuine catch, and a key part priced as an extra is the usual one. Scoring 2 means only some of the job, and 1 means hardly any. Each mark names its reasons in the table. When an app’s own pages leave a job unclear, it stays out of that table. There’s no grand total, because a lifter and a dieter want different things.
Who wrote and checked this page:
Priya Raman
Nutrition writer
Writes about food logging, macros and barcode scanning. Cooks most nights and counts protein, not points.
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- fitveepricing, how it works, about, strength plan, terms, refunds. Help: cancel.
- What we useda test member on a preview of fitvee, 6 November 2026.
- MacroFactorApp Store listing, product pages and help on subscriptions.
- CronometerGold page, product page, App Store listing and help on tiers.
- MyNetDiaryproduct page, App Store listing and help on tiers and cost.
- Carb ManagerApp Store listing.
- MyFitnessPalApp Store listing, Premium page (features only) and help on tiers. Archived Premium page: November 2025.
- Lose Ithome page, tiers page, App Store listing and scanner help.
- Food dataUSDA, Food and Nutrition Information Center; Open Food Facts, who we are.
- Protein and training research: Morton et al., 2018; Nunes et al., 2022; Bauer et al., 2013; Jäger et al., 2017; Lopez et al., 2021; US Dietary Guidelines, 2025 to 2030.
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