New and Noteworthy
New in MacroFactor
This month, we released updates to our recipe creation workflow. It’s now easier than ever to make a recipe in MacroFactor.
You can snap a photo of a written recipe in a cookbook, and MacroFactor will scan the ingredients and text and pre-fill the recipe details for you. You can then review the results and make any changes or corrections.
Check out our step-by-step instructions for this new workflow here.
As a reminder, you can also import recipes from links!
Whether you’re following a recipe from your favorite food blog, cooking an old favorite from a family cookbook, or creating your own recipe on the spot, MacroFactor’s recipe creation tools have you covered.
New in Workouts
We also shipped several new updates in MacroFactor Workouts this month.
More analytics in Levels
First up, you can now see contributing lifts for Levels. In the app, go to Levels, then click on a muscle group to see what lifts are contributing to the average weekly set count.
Warm-up improvements
Warm-ups are also easier to manage now, with a new option to add warm-ups from a custom scheme and an option to show or hide completed warm-up sets during your workout.
Skip exercises
Does your program call for an exercise to be done on one week but not the other? You can now skip an exercise for any day in the cycle.
Import more Jeff Nippard programs
With this update, you can now upload all of the Jeff Nippard programs that are still offered for sale on his website.
And more!
- Program generation improvements
- New program create/edit customization options
- Search improvements
- Exercise database updates
- Added daily and weekly program editor muscle group set counts
- Improved exercise description layout and added linked article content
- New setting that lets you choose reps-first instead of weight-first for set-to-set adjustments
- Various settings UI intuition fixes
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
New App Insight
MacroFactor vs Cal AI: Which App Wins in 2026?
We compared MacroFactor to Cal AI, a newer app focused on AI-driven food logging. While the approach emphasizes simplicity, how well does it hold up for tracking Calories and macros?
This article provides a fair and clear side-by-side comparison of MacroFactor and Cal AI, so you can decide which app makes the most sense for you right now.
MacroFactor vs Cal AI: Which App Wins in 2026?
New Article
How to Use Reps in Reserve for Lifting
Effective training programs rely on systems and a shared language of measurement. Without clear standards, you’re essentially guessing at your progress.
Reps in Reserve (RIR) is a vital part of that vocabulary. It’s a system designed to help you better understand the intensity of your training by measuring how close a set was to failure. By mastering this tool, you can move past guesswork and start regulating your training with more precision.
In this article, we cover the origin of Reps in Reserve (RIR) and how the system could help you gauge effort, rather than choosing weights at random.
How to Use Reps in Reserve for Lifting
In Case You Missed It
We share a lot of informative content on our Instagram and in our groups on Facebook and Reddit throughout the month.
Here are some of our favorites from the past few weeks, in case you missed them.
What We’re Working On
The “live activities” feature in MacroFactor Workouts is now in beta testing! Our team is also working on big updates to the strength estimation and fatigue logic in the app, which will smooth out a lot of the irregularities in assigned weight and reps in your workouts.
We’re also making good progress on program updates (i.e., adding a Push Pull Legs split option in program generation), and the Apple Watch experience for MacroFactor Workouts.
To learn more about what we’re working on, check our public roadmap to see our plans for new features and improvements. You can also submit features for consideration and vote on the upcoming features that are the highest priority to you.