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Month6 vs MacroFactor: which app fits your goal?

Short answer

MacroFactor is a paid food and macro tracker whose algorithm adjusts your calorie and macro targets every week; workouts live in a separate app. Month6 puts training, nutrition targets and a six-month body projection in one app, with the log free.

Facts about MacroFactor as of , from its own site, help center and store listings, linked in the table. MacroFactor is a trademark of its owner; this page is not affiliated with it.

The short version

MacroFactor and Month6 overlap on nutrition but start from different places. MacroFactor is a food tracker first: fast logging by search, barcode, label scanner, photo or text, and targets that its algorithm recalculates each week from what you ate and how your weight moved. Its workouts are a second app, MacroFactor Workouts, sold separately or in a bundle. Month6 starts from a training goal, builds the plan and the daily targets for it, and shows a projected figure of your body at Month 6.

This page compares them as they stood on the date at the top. Facts about MacroFactor come from its help center and its App Store and Google Play listings, linked in the table. Prices are US figures and can vary by region. The point is fit, not a ranking: they solve overlapping problems in different ways.

Side by side, as of 20 October 2026

Free version
Month6Yes: the full workout log, every chart, the generated plan, your projection and the weekly check-in with photo analysisMacroFactorNo: a free trial, but no free subscription tier source
Paid plan
Month6Pro is $8.99 a month or $59.99 a yearMacroFactor$11.99 a month, $47.99 for six months or $71.99 a year per app; a Nutrition and Workouts bundle is $89.99 a year source
Free trial
Month67 days, on the monthly planMacroFactorSeven days source
Platforms
Month6iPhone and AndroidMacroFactoriPhone, iPad, Android and Apple Watch source
Workout logging
Month6Yes, any exercise, with warm-ups, reps in reserve and notesMacroFactorIn the separate MacroFactor Workouts app, not the nutrition app source
Builds your training plan
Month6Yes, from your goal, experience and the days you can trainMacroFactorIn MacroFactor Workouts: a routine from your goals, level and equipment source
Suggests the next load
Month6Yes: adds load when every set reaches the top of the rep rangeMacroFactorIn MacroFactor Workouts: Smart Progression adjusts weights and reps from performance and targets source
Food logging
Month6Yes, from a built-in food and recipe library and your own foodsMacroFactorYes, the core of the app: search, barcode, label scanner, photo and text logging, custom foods and recipes source
Calorie and macro targets
Month6Yes: calories, protein, carbs and fat from your goalMacroFactorYes, recalculated by its algorithm in weekly check-ins source
Barcode scanner
Month6NoMacroFactorYes, plus a nutrition-label scanner source
Progress photos
Month6Yes, in the weekly check-inMacroFactorYes: front, side and back photos with before-and-after views source
Projects your body six months out
Month6Yes: a figure of your body at Month 6 from fixed, cited formulas, labelled as an estimateMacroFactorA target weight and weekly rate of change; no physique projection listed source
AI coach you can talk to
Month6Yes, with Pro: it reads your whole log and can rewrite your splitMacroFactorNo chat listed; its nutrition coach is an algorithm that adjusts targets weekly source
Export your data
Month6Yes, in Settings → PrivacyMacroFactorYes, granular or quick spreadsheet exports source

“Not listed” means the feature appears nowhere on the official pages we read, not that MacroFactor said it doesn't exist. Prices are in US dollars and can differ by store and region.

Where they differ

Food first, or training first

MacroFactor's center of gravity is the food log and its weekly target updates, and it offers many ways to log a meal. Month6's center is the training plan and the goal it serves; its food log draws on a built-in library of common foods and recipes and your own foods, without a barcode scanner. If detailed food logging is the habit you want to build, MacroFactor is designed around it.

How the targets move

MacroFactor's algorithm recalculates your calorie and macro targets each week from your intake and weight trend. Month6 sets targets from your goal mode, body weight and training, inside fixed guardrails such as a deficit floor, and keeps them steady unless your inputs change.

One app or two

With MacroFactor, workouts are a separate app with its own subscription, or both together in a yearly bundle. Month6 is one app for training, nutrition targets, the daily loop and the projection.

What the projection shows

MacroFactor's goal flow sets a target weight and a weekly rate. Month6 projects lean mass and body fat over six months from fixed, cited formulas and draws the result as a figure, labelled as an estimate that assumes you follow the plan most days.

Paying

MacroFactor has a seven-day trial and no free tier. Month6's log, plan, charts and projection are free; Pro adds the AI coach, and the monthly plan starts with a free trial.

Choose MacroFactor if

  • Detailed, fast food logging with a barcode and label scanner is what you want most.
  • You want calorie targets that an algorithm recalculates every week from your weight trend.
  • You log from an iPad or an Apple Watch.

Choose Month6 if

  • Training is the center of your goal and you want the plan and the targets in one app.
  • You want to start free and pay only if you want an AI coach.
  • You want a projected figure of your body at Month 6, not only a target weight.

Questions

See your six-month body. Then go earn it.

The log, the plan, every chart and your six-month projection are free. Pro adds a coach that reads all of it.

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