Comparison

FitNotes vs Gym Tracker & Log

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FitNotes

Easily log strength training and cardio, organize routines, and track progress over time. Create custom workouts, supersets, and set progression rules. View summaries of personal records and training volume to inform future sessions.

Highlights
  • Log strength and cardio workouts
  • Organize routines and supersets
  • Set progression rules
  • Track personal records and volume
  • Workout calendar and history
  • Customizable exercises and categories
  • Export/import workout logs
Features
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Track your workouts. See your progress. Know what to do next. FitNotes makes it easy to log strength training and cardio, organize your routines, and follow your progress over time. Whether you're starting your first routine or refining an established training plan, keep your workouts and results together in one place. TRAIN YOUR WAY Create routines that span multiple days, organize exercises into supersets, and build workouts of the day for CrossFit-style training. Set progression rules to adjust your targets for future workouts as you progress. LOG THE DETAILS THAT MATTER Record sets, reps, weight, time, and distance. Track warm-up sets, add notes, and use rest timers to stay focused between sets. Review previous sessions when planning your next workout. SEE WHAT YOU ACHIEVED Finish each workout with a summary of new personal records, goal progress, and training volume compared with your previous session. Get suggestions for next time that take your progression rules into account. FOLLOW YOUR PROGRESS Explore your training history with charts and a workout calendar. Set exercise goals and track body measurements over time, without needing to enter a measurement every session. KEEP YOUR TRAINING ORGANIZED Customize exercises, equipment, and categories to match the way you train. Export workout logs as CSV, import compatible CSV files, and create backups of your FitNotes data. From your first set to your next personal best, FitNotes helps you keep track of the work you put in. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Gym Tracker & Log

This free workout tracker helps you build strength and muscle with unlimited routines, progressive overload tracking, and advanced analytics. It offers offline functionality, personalized dashboards, and seamless data input for a friction-free training experience.

Highlights
  • Unlimited workout routines
  • Progressive overload tracking
  • Advanced analytics and charts
  • Offline functionality
  • Personalizable dashboard
  • Frictionless data input
Features
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Gym tracker and workout log built by a lifter, for lifters. Unlimited routines and workouts, your full history forever, no ads, no paywall spam. My mission is to deliver a workout log app that will help you make progress, build strength, and ensure hypertrophy, all that for free. I will never change a free feature to a paid one, spam the paywall, limit routines or workout logs, etc. (all the bad stuff other workout trackers do). What sets Strive apart: - Create unlimited workout routines, most trackers paywall this - Your full history, forever - every workout, set and chart since day one, no history limit. During a workout tap any exercise to see its history and your previous numbers - Your data stays yours - stored on your phone, backed up to iCloud, and you can create a manual backup anytime - Workout plans: 33 ready-made programs (nSuns, PHUL, Reddit PPL, 5x5, Arnold Split and more), a plan creator that builds a plan for you from a short survey, or your own plan with workouts assigned to days or in order - Plan summary - when a plan ends you get a progress analysis and recommendations - Automatic progression - turn it on in a routine and the app raises the weight or reps for the next workout, advanced rules are still there for the nerds - Automatic warmup sets, per exercise - RIR/RPE tracking with effective reps metric - Advanced charts, analyze routine, body part or exercise progress - Personal records and estimated 1RM for every exercise - Progress photos, compare them side by side - Measurements and body proportions, see how you compare to ideal ranges - Rest timer per exercise or per routine, visible on the lock screen - Home screen widgets and a personalizable dashboard, choose from many widgets in various sizes and have all the data at a glance - Plate calculator with your own plates and bars - Gear - assign straps, belts or sleeves to routines and never forget them again - Placeholder exercise - pick a category or body part and choose the actual exercise during the workout, based on how you feel or what's free at the gym - Custom keyboard to input workout data frictionlessly, copy values from the previous set, set a value for all sets, increment and decrement - Apple Health sync - import cardio and bodyweight, send your workouts to Health - Share workouts and routines with friends or followers, cardio share cards with your GPS route - PT report - send your coach a clean summary of your training - Mark workouts as deloads to better understand and analyze the data - Fully offline - I know some gyms have poor reception - Wrapped, see your year in review at the end of the year - Themes & theme creator - No ads, no selling your data, no tracking across apps Rest of the features that you would expect: - Exercise database with 335 exercises, animations and technique tips - Notes - All set types: warmup, dropset, myo reps etc. - Workout finish reminder - never again open the app to see that you have not saved the previous workout - Plan workout reminders - Dark mode I hope my app will help you achieve your goals, in general, just progress and get better. I promise to develop this app until it is your favorite gym log and workout tracker app. Remember, we all are gonna make it! Your gym bro, Artur. _________________________________________ Terms of Use: https://strive-workout.com/terms-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://strive-workout.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

FitNotes4 screens
Gym Tracker & Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gym Tracker & Log at 99% against FitNotes's 59%. Gym Tracker & Log also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and monetization model (free vs freemium). FitNotes's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. FitNotes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Gym Tracker & Log sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gym Tracker & Log holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.5K and 889 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of FitNotes's written reviews are positive against 99% of Gym Tracker & Log's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FitNotes ships an update weekly, Gym Tracker & Log every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
FitNotes versus Gym Tracker & Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFitNotesGym Tracker & Log
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.5K ratings)4.9 (889 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.3% of reviews98.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.5K — better889
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB244 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEvgeny UralskyArtur Fijal

Customer experience

FitNotes

All ratings1,482 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral4.3%
Negative8.9%
Written reviews376 reviews
Positive59.3%
Neutral10.1%
Negative30.6%

Gym Tracker & Log

All ratings889 ratings
Positive99.0%
Neutral0.7%
Negative0.3%
Written reviews386 reviews
Positive98.7%
Neutral1.0%
Negative0.3%

Bugs and requests

FitNotes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Gym Tracker & Log

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional issues with saving workouts
  • Timer not always functioning properly when other apps are running

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to sync data across devices
  • Addition of body measurements tracking (waist, legs, etc.)
  • Inclusion of a plate calculator
  • Option to log one-arm exercises separately
  • Ability to delete or reorder exercises in a workout

In-app purchases

3 purchases

FitNotes

Subscriptions2
  • FitNotes PRO (1 Month)$0.991 Month
  • FitNotes PRO (1 Year)$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • FitNotes PRO$9.99
7 purchases

Gym Tracker & Log

Subscriptions2
  • Unlimited access$6.991 Month
  • Unlimited access$39.991 Year
One-time5
  • Theme cotton candy$3.79
  • Theme cotton candy dark$3.79
  • Theme Cherry Blossom$3.79
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  • Theme beige$3.99
  • Unlimited access$139.99

Questions

Is FitNotes free?
FitNotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gym Tracker & Log free?
Gym Tracker & Log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FitNotes or Gym Tracker & Log?
Gym Tracker & Log is rated higher. FitNotes averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while Gym Tracker & Log averages 4.9 from 889 ratings.
Do FitNotes or Gym Tracker & Log have ads?
Neither FitNotes nor Gym Tracker & Log shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FitNotes or Gym Tracker & Log?
FitNotes ships an update weekly, and Gym Tracker & Log every 6 days. Most recently, FitNotes was updated on November 2, 2026 and Gym Tracker & Log on November 3, 2026.

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