What's changed

21 September 2026Fix

The Meal Matcher stops padding McDonald's meals with apple slices

The Matcher builds to your calorie and protein target, and a 31 kcal bag of Apple Slices was a very convenient way to land on it exactly. Convenient for the maths; nobody actually orders one to round out a Big Mac. It is out of the suggestions now, along with the McCafe toasties, which are counter food rather than part of a meal.

Both are still in the app in every other way — browse them, search them, put them on the order pad, see their numbers. They have just stopped turning up in meals you did not ask for.

21 September 2026Skins

Every skin checked for type you can actually read

Eleven skins, light and dark, and each one repaints the app in its own colours. That is the fun of them and also the risk: a pill that looks right on cream paper can end up pale type on a pale badge once the skin flips the palette underneath it.

So every piece of type in the app was measured against the colour it actually sits on, in every skin, and then checked again against the real pixels rather than the stylesheet — a colour mixed by a gradient is not something a stylesheet can tell you about.

Fixed: the One chain and Every chain badges on the licensing card were cream on a badge that turned white in all seven dark skins, so they were invisible; the chain initials on a restaurant tile picked white or black from a brightness rule, which put white on Boost Juice's green at 2.3:1 — it now picks whichever can be read, and the same fix carries into the cheat sheets; and a handful of counts, footnotes and headings that had been quietly faded past the point of being legible. Nothing below the readable line is left.

21 September 2026Fix

Licensing the data is readable on a computer now

Every panel in the app is sized for a phone, which is right for almost all of them. The licensing one carries three priced tiers side by side, and squeezing those into a phone-width panel gave each one about 125 pixels — the prices wrapped, “2 months free” broke over three lines, and the copy went two words to a line. On the one screen a business is most likely to be reading it.

That panel now takes the width it needs on a big screen while everything else stays as it was. The paragraphs and the form keep a readable line length; the extra room goes to the tiers, which are the only part that wanted it.

Everything outside the price boxes is centred now — the heading, the copy, the ticks, the labels and the fields — so it sits square over the three boxes instead of hugging one edge. The boxes themselves are still read down their left edge, and so is anything you type.

21 September 2026New

The vote has its own page, and a proper ballot

What’s new and the next-chain vote are two different rows in the app’s More sheet, but tapping either one used to land you on the same page with both stacked on it. They are two pages now. The vote is at macromenu.com.au/vote; this page is the changelog and nothing else.

The vote card was rebuilt while it was being moved. It wears a header band across the top the way a ballot paper does, the chains are big enough to read as choices rather than tags, and the standings underneath are set out as a leaderboard — ranked, with the leader given real weight.

“Something else” is no longer hiding. If the chain you want isn’t on the list, that option now runs the full width of the card with a dashed edge and says what it is for. Write-ins were always counted; they were just easy to miss.

21 September 2026New

The vote counts itself now

Until today the running count was typed in by hand, which meant it was only ever as current as the last time I sat down with the inbox. Votes now count themselves, the moment they are cast.

Nothing about voting changes: still no sign-up, still no email, still one vote per device, and the only thing kept is which chain you picked. The nine votes cast before today keep their place in the count.

21 September 2026New

You can see how the vote is going before you vote

The running count used to be the thing you got for voting — cast a vote, then see where every chain stands. The idea was that nobody new should be met by a vote that looked dead.

That was the wrong way round. A race you can see is a race worth joining, and hiding it meant the best argument for voting was only ever shown to people who had already voted. The standings are now on the page for everyone, under the ballot, whether you have voted or not.

And because they are already on screen when you vote, voting no longer redraws them. The ballot folds away, your count ticks up, the bar stretches, and if your pick has just overtaken something it slides past it. Nothing flashes.

21 September 2026New

Licensing the data now says what it costs

The Licence the dataset section — at the bottom of More, and on the licensing page — used to say there was no price list. Now there is one.

Three ways to use it. Free, exactly as before, if you credit Macro Menu wherever the figures appear. One chain kept current, from $129 a month. Or every chain kept current, from $429 a month — both with two months free if you pay for a year. Tap the one you want and the enquiry form fills itself in.

Nothing about the app changes. It stays free, with no ads and no sign-up, every number stays free to read, and none of it is locked behind any of this. What is being paid for is the upkeep — somebody re-reading the menus every month so the figures stay right — and the page now spells out exactly what that covers, including what it does not promise.

And the part worth saying out loud: if you ever stop paying, you keep the data you already have. The last file you were sent stays yours for good, on the same terms. All that stops is the refreshes.

20 September 2026Accounts

You can make an account now, and your progress comes with you

Everything you’ve unlocked in Macro Menu has, until today, lived in the one browser you unlocked it in. Clear your history, pick up a new phone, or open the app on your laptop instead, and it was gone. The founder link further down this page was a patch over that. This is the fix.

There’s a Your account row at the top of More. Sign in with Google once and your skins, Dot’s wardrobe and your founding supporter status stop belonging to a browser and start belonging to you. Sign in on your phone and on your computer and it’s the same progress in both, kept up to date on its own.

Two things worth saying plainly. Signing in is optional and always will be — every menu, every number and every game is identical whether you do it or not, and nothing is locked behind it. And a sync can never take anything away: if one device knows about a skin and the other doesn’t, you keep it, and a counter always takes whichever number is higher. There is no version of this where signing in costs you something you had already earned.

The only thing kept on the account is your email address.

20 September 2026New

Table felts — unlocked by turning up, not by winning

Twenty-One Hundred now has a second thing to unlock: the felt on the table. Card backs are earned by beating the dealer; felts are earned by coming back. Green Baize arrives on your third day, Five in a Row for five days running, Daybreak at ten days, Fifty Up for fifty hands won, Night Owl for three tables after midnight and The Regular once you’ve used Macro Menu on thirty days. There’s a founders’ one too.

A felt is the colour of the table and nothing else — same cards, same dealer, same rule about stopping at 1,700. And it’s a separate track, so none of it changes the wins you need for the decks.

20 September 2026New

For supporters: a receipt, a link that survives a new phone, and two more games

If you’ve chipped in, three things are new. There’s a founder’s receipt — printed on the same paper as your meal receipts — that you can reopen any time from More, and a “Founding supporter since” line with the date.

Most usefully, there’s now a founder link you can copy and keep. Everything you unlocked lives in this browser alone, so a new phone, a cleared cache, or adding the app to your Home Screen after chipping in would otherwise lose it. Copy the link, email it to yourself, and opening it anywhere puts it all back.

Supporters also get a brass dial in Calorie Guessr and brass card frames in Which Has More?. As ever: the items, the answers, the clock and the scoring are identical for everybody.

20 September 2026New

A founders’ deck for Twenty-One Hundred

There’s a ninth card back in Twenty-One Hundred, and it’s the only one you can’t win: Founders’ Table — green leather, a brass rim and a linen weave, matching the app skin of the same name. It arrives with the medal and the Gold cheat sheet if you chip in for the next menu.

The other eight are untouched. It sits outside the ladder, so it never becomes your “next deck”, never shows a progress bar, and doesn’t change a single win count. And it does exactly nothing at the table — the cards, the dealer and the odds are identical whichever back you play with.

19 September 2026New

Founders’ Table — a ninth skin, for supporters

There are now nine skins. The ninth is the only one you can’t earn by using the app: Founders’ Table arrives as a thank-you if you chip in for the next menu. It’s a dining room rather than a card — deep green leather, a brass rail along the bottom of the screen, cream linen, and brass edges on every card. Three details hide in it, including one that turns your order pad into a table number.

It comes with the Founder’s Medal for Dot and the Gold cheat sheet. All three are cosmetic, and that is the point: nothing in Macro Menu is behind a payment — every number, every menu, every tool and every game stays free for everybody, and always will. Supporting it buys a colour scheme and a medal for a cartoon, nothing more. The other eight skins are still earned by using the app, and Founders’ Table doesn’t count towards them.

19 September 2026New

Cheat sheets, redrawn — and four skins to pick from

The shareable cheat sheet has been rebuilt to be read at the size people actually see it: in a feed, on a phone, in about a second. Each pick now sits on its own card, the restaurant's name has moved out of the small print and into a coloured strip under the headline, and protein is the big number at the end of every row, with calories, fat and carbs stepping back behind it. Long item names shrink to fit instead of being cut off.

There are also four skins to choose from above the picture, and whichever one you pick is used for the TikTok video too. Cream is the one you know. Ink is black paper with the chain's colour glowing behind the logo, which reads better on a dark feed at night. Chain hands the whole sheet over to the restaurant's own colour. Gold is black lacquer and gold foil, and it is the one thing on this site you can't earn by using it — it comes with the Founder's Medal if you chip in for the next menu. Everything else in Macro Menu is exactly the same either way: every number, every menu and every tool stays free for everybody, and always will.

19 September 2026Changed

Licensing: a free tier, and no photos

If you want the dataset behind this app, you can now just have it. Use it however you like, commercial work included, as long as there's a visible “Nutrition data from Macro Menu” credit linking back here wherever the figures appear. Paying is for keeping it current — refreshed as the chains change their menus, with stable ids and the change log — and for not needing the credit. Product photography has been taken out of the offer entirely: those pictures are the chains' own, they were never mine to pass on, and saying so is more useful than pretending otherwise.

18 September 2026Fixed

A sweep through the whole app

A long list of small things, found by going over every screen on iPhone and desktop. In Calorie Guessr the clock's ring wasn't running down (the number was right, the ring stayed full), a daily that was left after the fifth guess wouldn't show its score, and a round played in calories now reads correctly if you switch to kJ. In Twenty-One Hundred you can no longer leave mid-hand to get a second look at the dealer's cards, and a kJ table is now judged by exactly the same rules as a calorie one. Which Has More? answers the back gesture and never deals an item that's already on screen. In the app, a Build Your Own that came back with Undo no longer vanishes on the next open, a fast double-tap on an item can't freeze the page, the Add to Home Screen sheet closes from its × button, and the lit tab, compare badges and some skin headers are readable on the gold and pink chains and skins. The quiet game sounds (the tocks, taps and card flips) are louder, and the first sound of a game no longer gets swallowed on iPhone. The code box at the bottom of More is gone.

17 September 2026Changed

Calorie Guessr: a clock you can't miss

The 15-second clock is bigger now, it turns amber at 10 seconds, and the Lock it in button counts down with it, so the time is right where your thumb is. And if time runs out after you've moved the slider, whatever number it's on is locked in as your guess. It only counts as zero if you never touched it.

17 September 2026New

Dress up Dot

Dot has a wardrobe. There are six things to earn: Specs for building your first meal, a Party Hat at 3 meals, a Bow Tie for saving 5 favourites, a Chef's Hat at 5 meals and a Crown for landing on your daily target on 3 days. A meal counts when you log it or save it. The sixth is a secret. Pick one in More, under Dot's wardrobe, and Dot wears it all over the app, in the games too.

17 September 2026New · 8 to unlock

Skins: new looks for the whole app

DocketNight ShiftMenu BoardArcadeMilk Bar????SummerBlack Card

You can now unlock skins, and each one changes the look of the whole app while keeping it Macro Menu. There are eight to find. Docket (receipt paper) is yours when you add Macro Menu to your Home Screen. Night Shift takes 7 different days in the app, Menu Board means opening an item at every chain, Arcade takes 25 daily games, and Milk Bar comes from sharing Macro Menu 3 times. Summer can only be earned from December to February, Black Card takes 100 days, and one of them is a secret. Days start counting from this update. See how close you are at the top of More, and tap it to see all eight and switch between the ones you have. Each skin also hides one small detail of its own.

17 September 2026New mascot

Meet Dot

Our logo got a face.

Macro Menu has a mascot. Dot is our logo with a face, and it reacts to what you're doing. In the order pad's Today card Dot reads your day: hungry when there's plenty left, happy on the way, starry-eyed when you land on your target and a bit sweaty when you go over. Dot also turns up when a search comes back empty, over an empty favourites tab and order pad, when you go offline, on the result screens of all three games, and on the calorie calculator's answer.

17 September 2026New game

New game: Twenty-One Hundred

Blackjack, but every card is a real menu item and its value is the calories. You get two cards face up and can read their macros. The dealer's two stay face down until you stand. Hit or stand to get as close to 2,100 Cal as you can without going over, then the dealer draws to 1,700 and the closest wins. Land between 2,050 and 2,100 for a perfect day. Play the daily table (five hands, the same for everyone, with a score to share) or free play as much as you like. Every hand you win counts towards 7 card backs, from Ketchup to the Mythic Holo deck. There's also an eighth. We're not saying how you get that one. It's in More, under Games, or at macromenu.com.au/twenty-one-hundred.

17 September 2026Changed

Setting a daily target is easier

The Daily target sheet has two sliders now, one for calories and one for protein. Drag them, or tap either number to type your own. A card at the top shows the day you're aiming for and how much of it comes from protein, and it moves as you slide. Not sure what to aim for? There's a link straight to the new calorie calculator.

17 September 2026New

A calorie calculator, and a Tools section in More

Work out your maintenance calories, the amount you burn in a day. Slide in your age, height and weight (height in cm or feet and inches, up to 7 ft) and the little person on screen gets older, taller and bigger as you go. Pick how active you are, tap Calculate, and switch the answer to kJ with one tap. Happy with the number? Send it straight to your daily target in the app. It's at macromenu.com.au/calorie-calculator. More now has a Tools section under Games, with the calculator and the kJ converter in it.

17 September 2026New

A kJ to calories converter

Australian menu boards and labels show kilojoules, and almost everyone thinks in calories. Tap the number to type your own, or drag the slider, and the calories come up straight away. Tap the swap button to go from calories to kJ, and tap the answer to copy it. Underneath, it shows a real menu item that's about the same size, so a number like 2,600 kJ means something. Slide to a new number and the closest item loads in when you let go. It's at macromenu.com.au/kj-to-calories, and in More under Tools.

17 September 2026New game

New game: Calorie Guessr

Five real items off the menus, one at a time. Drag the slider to guess the calories, lock it in and watch it slide to the real number. Your score is the total you were off by, so lower is better, and you don't see it until the end. The first item is always an easy one and the last is a curveball (KFC's Pickle Sauce is 759 calories). You get 15 seconds an item, and if the clock runs out that one counts as a guess of zero. Every drag of the slider plays a little tune as you go. There's a protein mode too, a new round every day that's the same for everyone, and as many random rounds as you like. Share your score and your mates get the exact same five items to try and beat you. It's in More, under Games, or at macromenu.com.au/guess.

17 September 2026New

More has a Games section, and a dot when something's new

Both games now sit at the top of More in their own card, with a Play button each, so they don't get lost among the settings. The Calorie Guessr card tells you whether today's round is waiting or how you went, and Which Has More? shows your best streak. And when something new goes up on this page, a small red dot appears on More, with a note at the top of the sheet saying what changed. Open this page and the dot goes away.

16 September 2026Changed

The order pad's buttons sit in one row

The bottom of the order pad had three rows of buttons that didn't line up, and on a computer the share and clear buttons sat on their own under everything else. Share link and Clear meal are now small square buttons right beside How to order this, along with the daily target on your phone, all the same height in one row. That gives the food in your meal about 60 pixels more room. Copying the link still turns the button dark with a tick, and now a note pops up to say it's copied too.

16 September 2026Fix

Three places were still saying 15 menus

Subway went in as the sixth menu on 11 September and three corners of the site never got the memo. The install prompt still described the app as 15 Australian fast food menus, the 404 page's jump list said 15 menus and was missing Subway from the list entirely, and the game's menu picker had 15 hardcoded behind the number it works out for itself. All three now say 16, and Subway is in the 404 list where it belongs. Nothing about the data changed, only the places that count it.

15 September 2026New

Customise KFC, Hungry Jack's and Red Rooster the way you'd actually order

The McDonald's customise treatment has spread to the other three burger chains. Every burger, wrap, roll and slider now has the same Remove and Add headings, and the options are the ones each chain's own ordering app offers, item by item. At KFC that means taking off or adding any of its sauces, cheese, bacon, slaw, corn chips or avocado, and a hashbrown or a fried egg on the breakfast range. At Hungry Jack's the cheese comes off slice by slice (a Whopper with Cheese has two, a Double has four), and an extra patty is the right patty: a Whopper patty is 264 calories, an Angus one 350. At Red Rooster you can Make it Triple, using Red Rooster's own figures for the extra tender, and take off or add any of its sauces, from Herb Mayo to Hot Honey. None of the three publish a sauce or a cheese slice on its own, so those numbers are worked out from their own menus, and every item says so under Customise. They add up: take everything off a KFC Zinger Burger and you're left with KFC's own Zinger fillet, to the calorie. And at McDonald's you can now ask for a steamed bun on any burger. It's the same bun, so the numbers don't move, but the order script will ask for it.

15 September 2026New menu items

Every McDonald's soft drink in all three sizes

Coke, Coke Zero, Vanilla Coke, Sprite, Fanta, Raspberry Fanta, Kirks Lemon Lime & Bitters, sparkling water, both juices, Frozen Coke and all four Frozen Fantas only came in a medium here. They now come in Small, Medium and Large on the one card, and every size has McDonald's own figures rather than the medium scaled up or down. A small Coke is 95 calories and a large is 207. Lining them up also turned up five mediums that were a calorie out, so Vanilla Coke is now 144, Lemon Lime & Bitters 106, and Frozen Fanta Orange, Lemon and Blueberry 87.

15 September 2026Data

Some old customise numbers were guesses, and a few were a long way out

Rebuilding customise for KFC, Hungry Jack's and Red Rooster showed how rough the old options were. One "No Mayo/Sauce" button stood in for every sauce, whatever was actually on the burger. Red Rooster's Herb Mayo is 212 calories on a Reds Burger, not the 90 it used to take off. An extra patty on a Whopper added 100 calories when a Whopper patty is 264. No bun on a Big Jack took off 260, which is a Whopper bun; the Big Jack's is 173. On Red Rooster's burgers and rolls, the old "+1 chicken fillet" was a guess, and the real Triple replaces it. And the "+1 chicken fillet" on Hungry Jack's chicken burgers was KFC's fillet, not Hungry Jack's, so it has gone until Hungry Jack's gives me a figure for its own. If you have a meal saved or a shared link with one of the old options on it, it now uses the option that matches what's really on your burger, and its total will have moved.

15 September 2026New

The vote counts itself now

Until today the votes for the next chain were counted by hand out of an inbox, so the numbers on this page sat still for days at a time. They're live now. Cast your vote and you'll see where every chain stands the second it lands, yours included, and it keeps moving every time you come back. The tally only appears once you've voted, which is the way round it should be. Every vote counted by hand before today is still in there, added to the new ones. It's still one vote per device, and it still takes no name, no email and no account.

14 September 2026New menu items

KFC breakfast is in, before KFC has finished rolling it out

KFC started serving breakfast on 7 September in 16 Gold Coast restaurants and 13 in Melbourne's CBD. It's on none of KFC's nutrition pages, so the figures here come from the menu KFC's own app orders from: all 13 items, from the Original Crispy Brekkie Tower (718 calories, 39.7g protein) down to a hashbrown (138), plus the barista coffee in all three cups, each with its own figures. Every one of them carries calories, protein, fat, saturated fat, carbs, sugars and sodium, and KFC's own photo. Because most of us can't buy any of it yet, each one says Select stores on the card and names the stores on the item, and the breakfast menu drops off at 10:30am the way McDonald's and Hungry Jack's do. When KFC takes it national, the note comes off and nothing else changes.

14 September 2026New

Customise a McDonald's burger the way you'd actually order it

Customise used to only take things off. Now it adds them too, and it swaps. Put a cheese slice, a rasher of bacon, an egg, extra Big Mac sauce, mayo, ketchup, mustard or salad onto anything that comes with them. And you can change the meat: a Cheeseburger with a Quarter Pounder patty, or a Quarter Pounder on regular patties if that is the size you want. It knows how many patties your burger has, so swapping a Big Mac swaps both and a Double Big Mac swaps all four. You can change the bun the same way, between the regular, Quarter Pounder and Big Mac buns. It all adds up properly: build a Cheeseburger up to a Quarter Pounder patty on a Quarter Pounder bun and you land within twelve calories of the real Quarter Pounder. The options are now sorted into Remove, Add and Swap, each one a heading you tap to open, so a burger with twenty options is three lines until you want more. The order script reads the whole lot back to you, swaps included.

14 September 2026Data

The McDonald's customise numbers now come from McDonald's

Every figure behind a customise option used to be my own estimate, worked backwards out of the difference between two burgers, because McDonald's didn't publish what a bun or a patty weighed on its own. They do, and I'd missed it: their nutrition service breaks every burger into its parts. So all of it has been rebuilt on their numbers instead of mine, and some moved. Taking the cheese off saves 49 calories, not 55. No bun saves 141 on a Cheeseburger (was 146), 174 on a Quarter Pounder (was 180) and 209 on a Big Mac (was 214), and the Big Arch finally has its own bun figure of 237 rather than borrowing the Big Mac's. An extra beef patty is 118 calories, not 100. An extra chicken fillet is 183, not 220, which was the biggest error of the lot. For the record: a regular McDonald's patty is 118 calories and 8.9g of protein, a Quarter Pounder patty is 300 and 23.7g. If you have a meal saved or a link someone shared with you, its numbers will have shifted by a few calories. They're closer to the truth than they were.

14 September 2026Changed

More room for your food in the order pad

The pad is a list of what you're ordering, and two things were crowding it out. The totals at the bottom took five rows for protein, fat, carbs, sugars and sodium: total calories stays where it was, and the rest now folds behind one line that still shows your protein, fat and carbs at a glance. Open it if you want the decimals, and it remembers. On a phone, the daily target was a card printed across the top of the pad before you'd even set one: it's now a small square button next to "How to order this", and pressing it opens the same page that explains what a target does and lets you set it. Set one and the square fills in, and the card with what's left in your day comes back as it always did. On a computer there's room for both, so the pad keeps the card it always had.

13 September 2026New

A button back to the top

Some of these menus run to hundreds of items, and the only way back to the search box was to keep flicking. Scroll down a little on your phone and a small button appears in the bottom right; tap it and you're back at the top. It stays out of the way until you've scrolled far enough to want it, and it gets out of the way as soon as you head back up.

12 September 2026Changed

A new restaurant now looks like one

A whole new chain is the biggest thing that happens on this page, and it used to read like any other line in the list. Those entries now sit in their own card, in the app's colours, with a slow shine across them, so a new restaurant is impossible to miss.

11 September 2026New chain

Subway added

The whole Subway menu, drinks included. Every sub comes as a 6-Inch or a Footlong on any of Subway's four breads, White, Wheat, Malted Rye or Italian Herbs & Cheese: you pick the size and the bread right on the card, the way you pick a size and a crust at Domino's. Wraps come Regular or Large on a plain, multigrain or gluten free wrap, and there are the salads and new rice bowls in both sizes, breakfast, nachos, cookies and 21 drinks. 110 items, every one with Subway's own photo. The food is Subway's own published figures, sat fat, sugars and sodium included. Subway publishes nothing for its drinks, so each drink carries its maker's own label and says so. At the top there's a Build Your Own card: pick your bread and size, then meat, cheese, salad and sauce, and every ingredient counts with Subway's own number for it. Pick a salad and it tells you what's already in the bowl. It steps aside once you sort or filter the menu, and Zambrero's does the same now.

11 September 2026Fixed

The page no longer jumps while the menu loads

On a computer, the links and buttons that sit under the menu used to flash up for a moment before the food arrived, then get shoved off the screen when it did. They now wait for the menu, and the page holds its final shape from the very first frame, so nothing moves under your cursor. Phones had a smaller version of the same thing with the category row, and that's fixed too.

11 September 2026Fixed

Nando's Seriously Large chips are in the chips card

Nando's PERi-PERi Chips come in Regular, Large and Seriously Large, but the app only knew "Large" as a size word, so the Seriously Large sat on its own card next to the one holding the other two. It's now the third option in that card's size dropdown, in the right order, and the order script reads it back as "Seriously Large PERi-PERi Chips" instead of the other way round. Nothing else on any menu changed its grouping.

11 September 2026Data

Grill'd: every burger on every bun, all from Grill'd's own tables

Until today the Grill'd burgers were the one part of that menu still running on third-party estimates - Grill'd's own feed only publishes a table for fixed items like chips, dips and shakes. It turns out the feed does publish a full table for every burger, one per bun, once you ask for the item itself rather than the menu. So the whole Grill'd menu has been rebuilt from those tables: 99 items (274 rows) with calories, protein, fat, saturated fat, carbs, sugars and sodium for every one of them, nothing estimated. Every burger card now has a Bun dropdown - Panini (the default), Traditional, SuperBun, Gluten Free or No Bun - and each option is Grill'd's own figure, which matters because the swap isn't a fixed delta: taking the bun off a HotBird saves 177 calories, and a SuperBun adds anywhere from 40 to 215 depending on the burger. The old bun-swap toggles are gone for the same reason. 32 items changed, some a long way: the HotBird is 402 calories, not 502; the Garden Goodness 497, not 612; the HFC BLAT 574, not 660; the Baa Baa 571, not 638; the Simply Grill'd 605, not 550. Added: the Protein Pro and Cluck Norris (81 and 79.9 grams of protein), Super Nourished, Sweet Holy Cluck, Zorba The Sheep, the five sliders on their own so you can pair or trio them yourself, the state Mighty burgers for NSW, QLD and NT, four breakfast builds, and the kids packs with juice. Off the menu: The Mighty and the HFC Classic, which no store sells any more. The four wraps moved too. And every Grill'd photo is new - Grill'd's own product shots, cut out and centred, a different one for each bun. Checked against fourteen stores across every state on 11 September.

11 September 2026

Swipe the macro filters away on your phone

The macro filter panel on phones drew a grabber but didn't answer it - dragging it down scrolled the menu behind it instead. Fixed: drag down to dismiss, same as every other sheet, and dragging up no longer scrolls the page underneath when the panel has nothing of its own to scroll. Build Your Own got the same swipe, and both now close with the back gesture. Reported from an iPhone.

11 September 2026New

Guides: what to actually order, chain by chain

Twenty written guides at /guides, each one answering a question people actually type into Google - what to order at KFC on a diet, Big Mac vs Whopper, is Grill'd healthier than Maccas, how much sugar is in a Boost Juice, a meal under 500 calories at every chain. Every figure in them is pulled from the same menu files the app runs on when the site is built, so a guide can't quote a number the menu doesn't say, and if an item it mentions is retired the build stops rather than publishing a stale page. Written by Joe, with the reasoning, not just the list.

11 September 2026Data

Sugars, sodium and saturated fat, where the chain publishes them

Every item's Details tab now lists saturated fat, sugars and sodium alongside the four macros, in the order a nutrition panel prints them - 1,901 of the 2,520 items on the site carry them, all read from each chain's own published table. The order pad and the receipt add them up (and say 2 of 3 items when something on the pad doesn't publish a figure), Compare shows them when every item in the showdown has them - and lets you decide the winner on them - and there are two new sorts: Lowest sugar and Lowest sodium. The search box understands them too - try low sugar, low salt or under 800mg sodium. Sushi Hub, Chatime and Oporto don't publish these figures at all, and the sheet says so rather than showing a zero; the remaining gaps are drinks, shakes and secret-menu rows the chain's own document leaves out. Customisations don't change these figures - only the plain item's are known - and the sheet says that too.

11 September 2026New

Set a daily target, and the pad tells you what's left

Open the order pad and tap Set a daily target (it's also under More). Give it the calories and protein you're aiming for in a day and the pad starts with what's left - calories to spend, protein still to go - with whatever's on the pad already counted. When you've eaten, tap Log this meal: the pad clears and the day remembers, so the next meal starts from what remains. The Meal Matcher now builds to what's left of the day instead of a fresh number, and every item's page says what adding it would leave. It all stays on your phone, resets itself at midnight, and there's an Undo on everything.

11 September 2026Fixed

The photo travels, and back no longer leaves the site

Tap a card and its photo now travels up into the item sheet, then back down to its card when you close it - on Safari 18 and Chrome; older browsers get the sheet as before. And a real bug: picking a restaurant from More, or opening the cheat sheet from More, could leave the app thinking it had one more page of history than it did, so the next time you swiped back or tapped the back button it took you off Macro Menu entirely, back to Google or wherever you'd come from. That's been there since the back gesture was added on 10 September. Fixed.

11 September 2026New

A three-tap tour, the first time only

Open Macro Menu for the first time and three things light up in turn: the restaurant name at the top (there are fifteen menus behind it), a letter stamp on a card (it's protein per calorie, S best to F - not a health score), and a + button (that's how a meal starts). Skip is always there, it never comes back once you've seen it, and it stays out of the way if you arrived through a link to a particular item or a shared meal. Want to see it again? Add ?tour=1 to the address.

11 September 2026Data

Nine McDonald's items that aren't sold any more are off the list

The September check against McDonald's own nutrition service found nine items that have left the menu - the BBQ Bacon Angus, the Classic Angus, the four McGriddles, the Birthday Cake ice cream slice, honey, and Red Bull Zero - and the app had kept showing them, with the BBQ Bacon Angus sitting first on the menu. They're gone from the cards, search, the Meal Matcher, Compare and the cheat sheet, and their pages are gone too. If one is in a meal you saved or a link you shared, it still opens and still adds up - it just says no longer on the menu. McDonald's shows 166 items now, not 175. Two smaller things in the same update: after a restaurant stops serving breakfast, the breakfast items now sit at the bottom of a search or a sort instead of leading it (typing high protein under 500 at half past two used to give you seven McMuffins you couldn't order), and a few corners of the site still said 13 chains from before Zambrero and Sushi Hub arrived - they say 15.

11 September 2026New

A privacy policy

Macro Menu now has a privacy policy, linked at the bottom of the app and every menu page. The short version: no accounts, no ads, no cookies, and your favourites and meals never leave your phone. It spells out the little that does reach us - what the report, vote and licensing forms send, the visitor counts, and tips through Stripe - and how to ask about any of it.

10 September 2026Data

Whole chickens and family chips are out of the rankings

The league table on the ranked page was averaging every item over 250 calories with at least 10g of protein - and that quietly included things nobody orders for themselves. KFC's 21 Pieces of Chicken at 4,936 calories. Three whole chickens. Two family chips. Six sizes of ten-pack wings. They're protein-dense, so they were nudging up the chains that sell them. Eighteen of those are now held out, and the page says which kinds and why. A ten-pack of nuggets at 382 calories stays in, because that's somebody's lunch. What changed: Nando's 7.0 to 6.8, Red Rooster 5.2 to 5.0, and two pairs that were tied to one decimal swapped places. Nando's is still first, McDonald's is still thirteenth of fourteen, Donut King is still last. Nothing in the app itself moved - this is only how the ranking is worked out.

10 September 2026New

Every chain, ranked by protein per calorie

There's a new page at macromenu.com.au/ranked that does something the app can't: it reads all fifteen menus at once and works out which chains actually give you the most protein for the calories. Nando's comes first. McDonald's comes thirteenth of fourteen, despite having the biggest menu here. There's also a like-for-like look at vegetable options versus meat ones - and the more interesting half of that, which is that a meat-substitute patty trades much more fairly than a vegetable one at the same counter. Every figure on it is generated from the same data files the app serves, so the article and the app can never quietly disagree, and it names the three menus that are part-estimated rather than glossing over them.

10 September 2026Fixed

It picks up where you left off

Scroll a fair way into a menu with a sort on it, go and do something else, come back an hour later. An iPhone closes background tabs after a while, so coming back meant a reload - and the reload reset the category and the sort but kept your scroll depth, which dropped you twenty rows into a list you'd never chosen. It now remembers the menu, the category, the sort and the actual item you were looking at, and puts you back on it. It forgets after a day, and a shared meal or a link to a particular item still wins - those are taking you somewhere on purpose. Separately: holding your finger on a photo or an item name used to raise Safari's own Copy and Save to Photos menu, the way it does on any web page. It doesn't any more, except where copying is the whole point - the figures inside an item, and the cheat sheet picture you're meant to be able to save.

10 September 2026Fixed

Swiping back closes what's open, instead of closing the app

On an iPhone, swiping in from the left edge of the screen means back - and until now it took you off Macro Menu entirely, even from the middle of the order pad or the More panel. It closes whatever's open and leaves you where you were. Two other things while we were in there. The menu cards used to fade and slide up as you scrolled past them; they're simply there now, the way a list should be, and the scroll feels like it's yours. And after you tap a category, the last card lands about a third of a second sooner, so changing the menu reads as an answer rather than a load.

10 September 2026Fixed

A lot more menu on the screen, on phones

There were six rows of controls stacked above the first item, and on a smaller iPhone that left you unable to see one whole card without scrolling. The title bar is one line now, with the restaurant name sitting in it, which puts close to twice as much of the menu in front of you. The macro filters open as a panel from the bottom instead of shoving the food off the screen, so the item count moves as you drag the sliders. Favourites is a screen of its own rather than the browse page with a filter on it - no categories or tools that don't apply to it. The order pad fills the screen instead of leaving a strip of the menu lit down the side. And the search box no longer cuts the restaurant name in half on a narrow phone.

9 September 2026Fixed

The tip card now swipes away, like it always looked like it should

On a phone, Chip in for the next menu had the little grab handle at the top that every other sheet in the app has - but it was the one sheet never wired up to actually swipe, so dragging it did nothing. It works now, and so does the Add to Home Screen card, which turned out to have exactly the same problem. The close button is gone from the tip card on phones, since you can just flick it away. The dollar amounts also had square corners, because they pointed at a rounding value that didn't exist - they're rounded now like everything else.

9 September 2026New

The dataset behind the app can now be licensed

There's a new For business section at the bottom of More, and a page at macromenu.com.au/licensing, for anyone who wants to use these menus in their own app, research project or health program. Nothing about the app changes - it stays free, with no ads and no sign-up. Worth being clear about what that covers: the nutrition figures are each chain's own published information and nobody owns those. What's on offer is the compiled, maintained dataset - the schema, the sources and checked dates, the change log, and someone actually re-reading the menus - plus the photography.

9 September 2026Data

Chatime's numbers were wrong, and now they're not

Chatime publishes a kilojoule figure on every drink's own page, and all 133 of them were read against what the app was showing. 80 drinks had the wrong calories. The worst were the plain teas - Jasmine Green and Roasted Oolong were listed at 2 calories, the figure for an unsweetened tea, when the drink Chatime actually serves you is around 125. Milk teas were all over the place because the milk hadn't been held constant: Roasted, Assam and Earl Grey were right while Premium, Jasmine and Oolong were roughly 100 calories light, even though Chatime publishes the same figure for all six. Mix-ins were out too - pearls are 181 calories, not 110, and herbal jelly is more than double what the app said. Caramel, Banana and Signature Black Tea are gone; Chatime doesn't sell them any more. Chatime still doesn't publish protein, fat or carbs anywhere, so those stay marked as estimates on the item sheet - but the calories are now Chatime's own, drink by drink.

9 September 2026Data

Red Rooster's big serve of peas is real

A large peas at Red Rooster is 23.3g of protein for 220 calories, which looked too good to be true, so it got checked against Red Rooster's own nutrition service. It's right - their large is a 360g serve, and peas are a legume. It's one of the best protein-per-calorie sides on any menu in the app.

9 September 2026Changed

Easier to tap

The All chip in the search bar was the smallest thing in the app to hit. It's bigger now, without the search bar itself changing size. The grid/list button got a slightly larger touch area too.

9 September 2026Data

Every number now says where it came from

Open any item and there's a line under it naming the document or menu feed its figures were read from, and the date someone last checked that against the live menu. Five chains publish nothing you can open - their numbers come from the same feed their own app orders through, and that's now named too. There's a full list at Where the numbers come from.

9 September 2026Data

Three menus that aren't fully official now say so

The app used to say every figure was the chain's own official number. For twelve of the fifteen menus that's true. It isn't for Chatime (they publish kilojoules only, so most protein, fat and carb figures are estimates), Oporto (their site is location-gated, so some rows were confirmed from live store listings) or Donut King (their guide doesn't cover every product). Those three now carry a warning on every item, and they're on the list to be re-sourced properly.

9 September 2026Changed

Clearer badges in the restaurant picker

Seven chains were down to a single letter on their badge - M, Z, G, O, N, D, C - sitting next to KFC and GYG. They're all two or three characters now: MCD, ZAM, NAN, DOM, CHA and the rest.

9 September 2026Fixed

The address at the bottom of More now shares it

That row was a link to macromenu.com.au - which is where you already were, so tapping it just opened a second copy of the app. It hands the address to someone else now: your phone's share sheet, or the clipboard if there isn't one.

9 September 2026New

Compare, as a picture you can post

Any showdown will now draw itself as an image with the numbers, the winner and the address on it - two items or four, whichever figure you're deciding on. Look for Make a picture to share under the comparison.

9 September 2026New

This page, and a vote on what's next

Everything that changes in Macro Menu now gets written down here, corrections included. And the chain that goes in next is up to you - the vote is at the top of this page.

9 September 2026New

Saved presets tuck away

The order pad's saved presets now sit behind a Saved presets dropdown with a count on it, so a long list stops pushing the pad down the screen. Saving a new one opens it for you.

9 September 2026Fixed

KFC's 1.25L drinks joined the family

The 1.25L bottles were sitting as six separate cards beside the cans and the 600ml. Same drink, different size - they're one card with a size picker now.

9 September 2026New

A tip jar

Macro Menu is free, has no ads and no sign-up, and that isn't changing. If it has saved you a guess at the counter there's now a way to chip in for the next menu update. Nothing is gated, and it never interrupts you.

8 September 2026Data

Nando's chicken corrected, two salads removed

Checked against Nando's own live menu figures. The Quarter and Half PERi-PERi Chicken were both about 4% high - 358 → 345 kcal and 715 → 690 kcal. Two rows, the Mediterranean Salad and the PERi-Harvest Bowl "with Chicken", were for products Nando's has stopped selling, and it publishes no figures for what replaced them. They were cut rather than estimated.

8 September 2026New

A real Sort button on phones

The sort options were a strip of chips you had to drag sideways to reach. They're a proper sheet now, and the tools - compare, cheat sheets, the game - are linked from the bottom of every page.

8 September 2026Data

Donut King rechecked, 33 rows removed

Every live product re-verified against the menu. Rows without a real photo were cut rather than shown behind a placeholder, which took the chain from 175 items to 142 that are all real.

7 September 2026New

Cheat sheets on your own limits

The top-five picture now takes your calorie cap and your protein floor instead of a fixed 500 kcal, and it can render itself as a vertical clip for TikTok or Reels.

6 September 2026New

How to order this

Your tray, written out as the words to say at the counter - the swaps and removals in the order the person taking it needs to hear them.

6 September 2026New

Which Has More?

Two things off the menu with the numbers hidden. Tap the bigger one and keep the streak alive. Built on the same data as the app.

August – September 2026Chains

Fifteen chains

McDonald's, KFC, Hungry Jack's, Guzman y Gomez, Zambrero, Red Rooster, Grill'd, Oporto, Nando's, Carl's Jr., Domino's, Sushi Hub, Boost Juice, Donut King and Chatime - around 2,500 items, each with its own photo and its own official figures.