Short answer: no. MacroFactor has a seven-day free trial and no free tier. After the trial it is $11.99 a month, $47.99 for six months, or $71.99 a year, and a bundle with its separate workout app is $89.99 a year. Those are the prices on macrofactor.com and on its App Store listing as of September 2026.
How much does MacroFactor cost?
| Plan | Price | Works out to |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $11.99 a month | $143.88 a year |
| Half year | $47.99 every six months | $95.98 a year |
| Yearly | $71.99 a year | $6.00 a month |
| Nutrition + Workouts bundle | $89.99 a year | $7.50 a month |
Prices are in US dollars and can differ slightly by country. Everything in the nutrition app is included at every tier; there is no cheaper plan with fewer features, and there are no ads.
Does MacroFactor have a free trial?
Yes, seven days with full access. It is set up as an App Store subscription with the first week free, so it needs a payment method on your Apple ID and it charges when the week ends unless you cancel first. To cancel, open Settings on your iPhone, tap your name, then Subscriptions, and cancel MacroFactor before the trial date shown there. You keep access until the end of the seven days.
Does MacroFactor track workouts?
Not in the nutrition app. Since January 2026 workouts live in a separate app, MacroFactor Workouts, which is priced on its own or in the $89.99 bundle. The nutrition app works out how much you burn from your weigh-ins and what you log, rather than from exercise calories, so a workout does not change your calorie target for the day. That is a design choice, and a defensible one: wrist-estimated exercise calories are noisy, and a trend built from real weight and real intake is not.
What you are paying for
MacroFactor is a good app. The thing people pay for is the adaptive expenditure: it watches your weight trend against your logged intake, works out what you actually burn, and adjusts your targets every week. Logging is quick, the database is large, it tracks micronutrients as well as macros, and there are no ads anywhere. If you want all of that and $71.99 a year is fine, it is a sound choice.
Is there a free alternative to MacroFactor?
FreeCal is a free calorie and macro tracker for iPhone built around the same idea. It draws a trend through your daily weigh-ins, works out what you burn from that trend and what you ate, and adjusts your calorie target every two weeks. If you would rather set your own numbers, you can, and it never changes them.
Every feature is in the free version. Food search, barcode scanning, photo scanning, weight trend, adaptive targets, Apple Health and export are all included from the first launch, with no trial and no locked tier. FreeCal is paid for by ads: a banner at the top of each tab, at most one full-screen ad a day, and a short video before a photo scan once you have used your first three. If you would rather not see them, No Ads is $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year, or $99.99 once. The monthly and yearly prices are less than half of MacroFactor’s, and it removes the ads and nothing else.
What you give up: FreeCal tracks calories, protein, carbs and fat, not micronutrients, and it has no workout app. It is also new, so there are not many reviews yet.
Download FreeCal on the App Store. iPhone, US, free.