Dietly vs MacroFactor
MacroFactor is a nutrition app whose algorithm learns your actual energy expenditure from your logged intake and weight trend, then adjusts your macro targets weekly. It now ships a separate Workouts app with resistance-training programs, sold on its own or bundled.
Dietly scores one weekly photo out of 100, names the weak point holding the score back, and builds that week's training around it, with food logging attached.
The short answer
Pick MacroFactor if your bottleneck is nutrition accuracy — you are dieting, the scale has stalled, and you want targets that correct themselves.
Pick Dietly if your bottleneck is the training: you are eating roughly right and want the week decided by what your physique currently needs.
If you are deep in a cut and can afford both, MacroFactor for the calories and Dietly for the scan and the sessions is a genuinely strong pairing.
What each one costs
Dietly
Free to start. Pro unlocks unlimited scans, the full weekly plan, unlimited logging and the coach. The current price is on the App Store and Google Play listings — we do not restate it here, because a price copied into a second place is a price that goes stale in one of them.
MacroFactor
Either app on its own: $11.99/month, $47.99/half-year or $71.99/year. The Nutrition + Workouts bundle is $89.99/year, per MacroFactor's own help centre
No free tier. MacroFactor's help centre says there is a free trial but does not state its length, so we do not quote one.
Prices above were read from MacroFactor’s own pages on 18 September 2026 and are quoted in the currency those pages use. They change, and they vary by country, platform and promotion — check the vendor’s page before you subscribe rather than trusting this table.
Feature by feature
| Dietly | MacroFactor | |
|---|---|---|
| Photo physique score | Yes One photo a week, scored out of 100 with a body-fat estimate. | No Body data comes from the scale and your logs, not from an image. |
| How calorie targets are set | Partly From your goal and your stats, adjusted as the scan and the scale move. | Yes An expenditure model fitted to your own intake and weight trend, updated weekly. This is the best version of this that ships. |
| Food database and logging depth | Partly Enough to keep the plan honest. It is not a research-grade food database. | Yes A curated database and a logging experience built for people who log every day for years. |
| Training plan | Yes A full week of sessions from the scan, your goal and the equipment you have. | Partly A separate Workouts app with resistance-training programs — a second purchase unless you take the bundle. |
| Training that responds to your physique | Yes The scan names one area holding the score back, and the week is built around it. | No Programs are chosen, not generated from an assessment of how you currently look. |
| Free tier | Yes Free to start; Pro is priced on the store listings. | No Trial only; no free tier. |
Where MacroFactor is better
- MacroFactor's adaptive expenditure algorithm is the best-argued piece of maths in consumer nutrition software, and it is better than what we do with calories. It stops you guessing at a maintenance number and quietly corrects for the fact that almost everyone under-reports.
- Its food database and logging ergonomics are built for people who log every day for years. Ours are built to keep a training plan honest.
- It is run by people who publish their reasoning. If you want to read why a number moved, they will tell you.
Where Dietly is better
- MacroFactor answers "how much should I eat?" precisely. It does not answer "what does my physique need?" — nothing in it looks at you.
- Dietly's week is built from the weak point a scan named, and re-scanning is how you find out whether the last four weeks worked.
- One subscription covers the scan, the training and the food logging.
Questions
- What is the difference between Dietly and MacroFactor?
- MacroFactor is a nutrition app whose algorithm learns your actual energy expenditure from your logged intake and weight trend, then adjusts your macro targets weekly. It now ships a separate Workouts app with resistance-training programs, sold on its own or bundled. Dietly scores one weekly photo out of 100, names the weak point holding the score back, and builds that week's training around it, with food logging attached.
- How much does MacroFactor cost?
- Either app on its own: $11.99/month, $47.99/half-year or $71.99/year. The Nutrition + Workouts bundle is $89.99/year, per MacroFactor's own help centre. Checked on 18 September 2026 — verify on MacroFactor's own page before subscribing, because prices change.
- Should I use MacroFactor or Dietly?
- Pick MacroFactor if your bottleneck is nutrition accuracy — you are dieting, the scale has stalled, and you want targets that correct themselves. Pick Dietly if your bottleneck is the training: you are eating roughly right and want the week decided by what your physique currently needs.
Where these MacroFactor facts came from
MacroFactor is a product of its respective owner and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Dietly. Names and trademarks are used here to identify the product being compared. Everything on this page was taken from public pages published by MacroFactor on 18 September 2026; if something here is wrong or has changed, tell us and we will correct it.