A MacroFactor alternative with your lifting in the same app.
MacroFactor adjusts your calories every week and keeps workouts in a separate app. Ferro adjusts your calories and your lifting in one app, and reads both when you ask how your week went.
Ferro and MacroFactor, side by side
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Training and food
Ferro
One app. Your training plan, your workouts and your food log live together.
MacroFactor
Two apps. MacroFactor’s site says MacroFactor Workouts and MacroFactor Nutrition “are designed as separate apps that work together.”
Source: MacroFactor Workouts page, as ofYour calorie target
Ferro
Ferro works out what you burn from your meals and weigh-ins, and adjusts your target to match.
MacroFactor
MacroFactor “finds your true caloric burn and auto-adjusts your macro plan every week.”
Source: MacroFactor app page, as ofWhen to add weight
Ferro
In the same app as your food: each lift shows last time and the next step, like “Try 152.5kg (+2.5)”.
MacroFactor
In the separate MacroFactor Workouts app. The Workouts page calls this “Data-driven progressive overload”.
Source: MacroFactor Workouts page, as ofAdvice that covers both
Ferro
Ask Ferro how your week went. Ferro answers from your workouts, meals and weigh-ins together.
MacroFactor
The Workouts page says that at launch there are “no shared coaching features or automatic program adjustments between nutrition and training”.
Source: MacroFactor Workouts page, as ofLogging a meal
Ferro
Snap a photo, scan a barcode or label, or type what you ate, then fix any line.
MacroFactor
Barcode, nutrition label, recipe link, photo or speech, with “more than 1.36 million verified food entries”.
Source: MacroFactor app page, as ofFerro is not affiliated with or endorsed by MacroFactor. Product names belong to their owners. What we say about MacroFactor comes from the public pages linked above.
Ask Ferro how your week went
Ferro reads the workouts and meals you logged and tells you what to change next.
When to add weight
Each lift shows what you did last time and the next step, like “Try 152.5kg (+2.5)”, or tells you to repeat the weight when your reps slipped.
Targets from what you actually burn
Ferro learns what you actually burn from your meals, movement and weigh-ins, and adjusts your calories to match. You can see your daily burn, the 12-week trend and how Ferro worked out the number.
Who should stay with MacroFactor
- You want nutrition coaching only, and already have a training app you like.
- You often add recipes by pasting a link from a website.
- You already use both MacroFactor apps and they work well for you together.
Questions people ask
- Does Ferro adjust calories the same way?
- The idea is the same: if your weight holds steady, you are burning about what you eat. Ferro works this out from your meals and weigh-ins, smooths out day-to-day swings, and shows how on the “Your daily burn” card.
- What do I get from having both in one app?
- One place to log, and one coach who reads both. When your lifts stall, Ferro can look at what you ate that week. When your weight moves, Ferro can see your training from the same weeks.
Train and eat with one coach.
Log your sessions and your meals in Ferro, and ask how your week went.
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