I Got Tired of Checking Hevy and MacroFactor Against Each Other. So I Built One App.

Here's my evening routine for a while: log the workout in Hevy on my phone at the gym. Get home, open MacroFactor, log dinner. Then sit there at night with both apps side by side trying to figure out if what I ate had anything to do with what I lifted.

If you've done this, you know exactly how dumb it feels.

The two apps everyone runs

Hevy is good. I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Logging is fast, the little calendar dots and PR ribbons are weirdly motivating, and it does exactly what it says.

MacroFactor is good too. The macro targets adjust to what your weight is actually doing, which is more than most food apps can say.

Neither one is the problem. The problem is the gap between them. Nobody built the part where training and food are supposed to be the same system. So I did that part myself. Every night. In my head.

Where it broke for me

A few things kept bugging me.

• My lifts stalled and my calories didn't notice. I was a few weeks into a harder block, recovery was getting expensive, and MacroFactor kept serving the same targets because it had no idea I'd just done legs. I was eating like it was an easy week while training like it wasn't.
• The two apps also just disagree. Hevy counts volume its way. MacroFactor's expenditure math lives in a completely different world. When progress stalls you can't tell which side broke. Training? Food? You're guessing across two apps that don't talk.
• And rest days felt the same as training days. Same targets whether I hit the gym or sat on the couch. If you've ever finished a heavy session and eaten the exact same macros as your day off, you know how that feels.

I assumed it was just me until I went looking. Search "Hevy MacroFactor" and there's thread after thread of people asking why no one has combined these. Someone built a tool just to move data between the two apps. People wanted it enough to upvote that. It's not just my problem.

What I wanted it to look like

Once you see the gap, the fix seems obvious:

1. The program drives the macros. Strength block? Targets should reflect that. Deload week? Back off. Automatically, not me doing math at night.
2. One signal when things stall. Look at the training and the food together instead of me playing detective.
3. One log. Finish the session, the food side already knows.

Nothing did this. So I built it.

So I built FitForge

Quick background: I'm a developer. I spent years in oil and gas, not fitness. I'm not a coach and I don't pretend to be. I started training later than most people do, wanted structure, and couldn't find one app that treated training and food as one thing. So I did the thing developers do when they get annoyed enough.

FitForge gives you a pre-built program and macro targets that match it. When you're in a strength phase, protein and calories are set for a strength phase. Deload? They adjust. Your /today screen shows your workout and your food targets together, because they were never supposed to be separate.

I stopped asking myself "did I eat enough for the block I'm running?" The app answers it.

Should you ditch the two-app setup?

Honest answer: not necessarily. If you track workouts sometimes and food rarely, keep doing whatever works. Two apps is fine when the stakes are low.

But if you're running real programs and your food is just existing next to your training instead of supporting it, the two-app thing is quietly costing you. It was costing me.

Try FitForge free — no credit card, no upsell maze. And if you think I got something wrong, email me. I answer everything myself.

If your reason for using Hevy is just that you want a different workout tracker (no nutrition), see our best Hevy alternative breakdown — it covers Strong, FitNotes, StrengthLog, Boostcamp, and FitForge side by side.