Understanding the Interface
To create macros, press the Create Macro button. Here you can choose your preferred macro type, name, and thumbnail. Not sure what to pick? Read .
For the thumbnail, Choose icon lets you search the icons of your installed apps, and Pick an image on this device uses your own picture. You can remove the icon later.
The button opens your account page: your email and plan (Free Plan, Pro Active, Premium Active or a trial state), your Inbox, the Creator console (or Become a developer), Manage Devices, and Log Out. A badge on the button counts unread inbox messages.
The Inbox holds announcements, creator updates and account activity. Manage Devices shows how many of your allowed devices are signed in, marks the one you are holding as Current device, and lets you sign the others out.
Under Account Security & Data you can Delete Account and Data. It asks for your password and is permanent; this page describes what it removes.
The button opens settings. Here you can customize things like code autocomplete for advanced macros, upload templates, change the app theme, and find links to useful resources.
The button opens Plans. Here you can see the perks included with each tier and purchase a rank.
The Help menu opens the Guide (these docs), your Dashboard on the website, and our Discord.
The Discover tab opens the macro store, where you can browse macros published by other creators, open a listing to see what it does, and install it straight into your macro list. Once you are a third tab, Creator, appears alongside it and opens the . It carries a badge when something is waiting for you in your creator inbox.
You do not have to be signed in to build macros. Signed out, the top bar shows Guest mode instead of your username; everything that needs an account, the store, sharing and anything Pro, prompts you to sign in when you reach it.
Organizing your macro list
Macros are added to your main macro list. Tap a macro to expand it. Press and hold to select a macro, then move, copy, paste, or delete it. You can also select multiple macros at the same time. Copy and Paste duplicate a macro.
", "On the free plan, only the first 3 macros in your list can be run and edited. The rest stay in the list, locked, until you or delete some; move a macro up to choose which three stay usable.
Two tools keep a long list usable:
- Search. The box at the top of the list filters by name as you type.
- Tags. Give a macro any labels you like from Edit Tags on its menu, then use the filter row above the list to show only one tag at a time. All clears the filter. Tags are yours and local to your list; they are not part of a macro you share or publish.
Share Center
The button opens Share Center, where you send macros to other users, receive theirs, and back up your own. It shows a badge when a macro is waiting for you. It is covered in full under .
Your dashboard on the web
Signing in at macroforge.net/dashboard shows every device on your account, whether it is online, and what it is running. You can start, stop and resume macros from there. See .