A free MacroFactor alternative with training in the same app

Side by side

Checked on 6 October 2026 on MacroFactor’s own pages: macrofactor.com, how the two apps integrate, subscriptions and bundles, Nutrition features, how to log a workout, Nutrition on the App Store, Workouts on the App Store, Apple Watch, annual report, September 2026 update, Smart Generation and import. “Not found” means we found nothing about it on the app’s own pages, not that the app can never do it. Prices are left out on purpose: they differ by country and change. All trademarks belong to their owners.

Why people look for an alternative to MacroFactor

MacroFactor’s food side is excellent, and that is not the problem. The two reasons people look elsewhere are on its own pages. First, there is no free version: both MacroFactor Nutrition and MacroFactor Workouts start with a free trial and then need a subscription (Nutrition, Workouts). Second, training and food are two apps. In MacroFactor’s own words they “operate as separate apps” and “do not automatically adjust training based on nutrition data, or nutrition targets based on training data”; what they share is body weight, measurements and period data (help centre). You subscribe to each on its own or to both as a bundle (subscriptions).

Flawless keeps both logs in one app, free, without ads and without a trial clock. The food diary and the set-by-set workout log stay free for as long as you use them; PRO is optional.

What is free in Flawless

Flawless is a food diary and a workout log in one app for Android, iPhone and iPad, with apps for Apple Watch and Wear OS and a web app.

Food, free

• Barcode scanning without limits and without AI: your own foods first, then foods other members added, then Open Food Facts.
• Search across USDA, FatSecret, Open Food Facts and the community database, which includes 143,873 products from stores in 21 countries (24,984 of them from Czech, Slovak and Polish stores) and 1,136 basic Czech foods from NutriDatabáze. Results in the app’s language come first.
• AI photo logging of a plate or a nutrition label: 3 a day, 10 a day in your first week. Describing a meal in words or by voice uses the same daily allowance.
• Calories, protein, carbs, fat and fibre against your targets, and detailed vitamins and minerals for free.
• 941 recipes with macros, plus recipes members share, logged by the portion or by the gram.

Training, free

• A set-by-set log with 469 exercises, your own exercises and templates, and what you lifted last time next to every set.
• Rest timer (60, 90 or 120 seconds; shorter after warm-up sets, longer after a set close to failure), reps in reserve (RIR 0–4), supersets and a plate calculator.
• A next-weight suggestion on every exercise: add reps up to 12, then add weight and go back to 8.
• A strength rank on every exercise, from Bronze to Antimatter, adjusted for age and sex, plus a rank for each of nine muscle groups. You can compare ranks with the people you follow.
• A recovery map that shows how loaded each muscle group still is, and a step-by-step guide with the muscles worked for every exercise (see the exercise library).

What PRO adds

• An AI coach that reads the last 14 days of your food and workouts together, and can log a meal or start the planned workout for you. Health data only with a separate consent.
• AI workout plans and meal plans, 8 weekly training programmes, a weekly analysis, progress and nutrition reports.
• An adaptive calorie target, weekly sets per muscle, heart-rate zones for workouts, and a next-weight suggestion lowered on days you are not recovered.

The yearly PRO plan starts with a 14-day free trial. Every formula behind the numbers is published on How we count.

The adaptive calorie target, compared

MacroFactor is built around an adaptive target: its Nutrition app “finds your true caloric burn and auto-adjusts your macro plan every week” (features). If that is why you chose MacroFactor, here is exactly what Flawless does and does not do.

In the free version, Flawless sets your calorie and macro targets from your profile (weight, height, age, activity and goal) with published formulas, Mifflin–St Jeor among them, and the targets move when you update your weight or your goal. The adaptive target is in PRO: the app estimates your real energy expenditure from the food you logged and your weight trend (a linear fit over at least four weigh-ins, counting only fully logged days), shows it only once the estimate is precise enough, and applies it as your new calorie and macro target with one tap. The method is on How we count.

MacroFactor adjusts every week whether you ask or not; Flawless waits for enough data and for your tap. If a weekly adjustment is the whole point for you, MacroFactor does that better.

What MacroFactor does that Flawless does not

• An adaptive target in every plan. In Flawless it is a PRO feature; the free version uses targets from published formulas.
• Pounds. Flawless logs weights in kilograms only for now.
• Drop sets and myo sets as set types in the Workouts app (how to log). Flawless tags warm-up sets, supersets and reps in reserve.
• Programmes from a spreadsheet. MacroFactor Workouts imports workouts and programmes from .xlsx files (import). Flawless imports a plan from text or a photo (free, 3 a month) and workouts from Hevy, Strong and MyFitnessPal.
• A long track record. MacroFactor has years of users and a large team behind it. Flawless is a young app with a small community.

Moving from MacroFactor

• Flawless does not import MacroFactor data yet. The imports it has are for Hevy, Strong and MyFitnessPal.
• Your targets take a minute: enter your weight, height, age, activity and goal once and Flawless sets calories and macros from published formulas.
• Your history stays in MacroFactor. Nothing is deleted there, so you can keep logging in both for a week and decide.

When MacroFactor is the better choice

If the weekly adaptive target is the one thing you want and you are happy to pay for it, MacroFactor Nutrition is built around exactly that, and MacroFactor Workouts gives you a detailed log from the same company. The same goes if you lift in pounds or tag drop and myo sets.

If you want food and training in one place, free, with a watch app on both Apple Watch and Wear OS, try Flawless next to it for a week.

More comparisons

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• A MyFitnessPal alternative with a real workout log
• A Strong alternative with food logging
• A free Fitbod alternative
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Questions

Is there a free alternative to MacroFactor?

Yes. Flawless logs food by barcode, search, photo and voice and workouts set by set in one app, both free, without ads and without a trial clock. The adaptive calorie target is in PRO.

Does MacroFactor have a free version?

No. Both MacroFactor Nutrition and MacroFactor Workouts start with a free trial and then need a subscription, according to their App Store listings (checked October 2026).

Does MacroFactor track workouts?

Yes, in a separate app called MacroFactor Workouts. MacroFactor’s help centre says the Workouts and Nutrition apps operate separately and share body weight, measurements and period data, and do not adjust each other.

Does Flawless have an adaptive calorie target like MacroFactor?

Yes, in PRO. Flawless estimates your real energy expenditure from the food you logged and your weight trend, shows it once the estimate is precise enough, and applies it as your new target with one tap. The free version sets targets from published formulas.

Can I import my MacroFactor data into Flawless?

Not yet. Flawless imports workouts from Hevy and Strong and meal totals from MyFitnessPal; there is no MacroFactor import.

Does Flawless work on Wear OS?

Yes. The Wear OS app is free: log sets with weight and reps, use the rest timer, see your heart rate and today’s calories. MacroFactor said in September 2026 that its Wear OS app is planned.