FitNotes vs Ponos Gym
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Ponos Gym
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Ponos is a training log for people who actually train. Log your sets, your meals and your body, and get back a history you can read not a wall of numbers you never open again. WHILE YOU TRAIN Your routine for today opens on the home screen. Every exercise shows what you did last time, right there, because the only number that matters mid-set is the one you have to beat. Log weight, reps and RPE, start the rest timer, and move on. Leave the app between exercises and come back it picks up the same session, not a new one. ROUTINES THAT MATCH YOUR WEEK Assign routines to days of the week and Ponos knows what today is. Set target sets and rep ranges per exercise, see the prescribed volume per muscle group, and catch the day you are training shoulders three times and legs never. NUTRITION WITHOUT THE CEREMONY Meals, foods and portions, with your own foods for whatever the catalog is missing. Copy yesterday's diet in one tap because most weeks, most days look the same. YOUR BODY, OVER TIME Body weight and measurements, plotted so you can see a trend instead of guessing from the mirror. Steps come from Apple Health, and the water you log goes back into it, so the rest of your ecosystem sees it. IT WORKS IN THE BASEMENT Everything is written to your phone before anywhere else. No spinner between sets. No session lost because the gym has no bars. When you come back up, it catches up on its own. FRIENDS, IF YOU WANT THEM Add friends and see their training in a feed. Your nutrition, your weight, your measurements and your health data are never shared with anyone, whatever your profile says. TWO LANGUAGES, ALL THE WAY DOWN English and Spanish, including the food catalog and the most common exercises. Switch from inside the app. PRIVACY No ads. No analytics. No tracking. Nothing sold or shared with anyone for marketing, and health data used for nothing but making the app work. Delete your account and everything in it from inside the app no email, no waiting. SUBSCRIPTION Ponos is free for 7 days. After that, USD 0.99 per month keeps you logging; if you stop, nothing is deleted the app becomes read-only and you keep seeing everything. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and renewal is charged within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings > your name > Subscriptions. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://lukibenitez.github.io/ponos/privacidad/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Ponos Gym at 14.0 against FitNotes's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. FitNotes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Ponos Gym sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FitNotes ships an update weekly, Ponos Gym every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FitNotes | Ponos Gym |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 59.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evgeny Uralsky | LUCAS BENITEZ LEV |
In-app purchases
FitNotes
- FitNotes PRO (1 Month)$0.991 Month
- FitNotes PRO (1 Year)$4.991 Year
- FitNotes PRO$9.99
Ponos Gym
- Ponos Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month









