Comparison

Pet Growth Notes vs Gym Cards

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

Head to head
About

Pet Growth Notes

This app helps you meticulously record and manage all aspects of your pet's life. From daily activities and health logs to appointments and vaccinations, keep a comprehensive diary for each animal. It's an invaluable tool for veterinarians, pet sitters, and preserving precious memories.

Highlights
  • Pet diaries and milestone tracking
  • Weight and height logs
  • Photo albums and sharing
  • Veterinary and appointment management
  • Medication and vaccination reminders
  • Allergy tracking
  • Passcode protection and data export
Features
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Use this app to track your pets’ personal and daily info separately. You can write diaries for them to record their daily interesting life, record the milestones with time, track their height and weight logs, create albums, manage veterinaries and check the appointment by calendar, create pill taken reminders and keep the logs, set the vaccinations schedule and add alerts for each one, track allergies and other things. This will be very usefully when veterinarian asks, or when your pets need to be cared by others, also this will be a precious file for you and your pets. Key Features: ⁃ Write diaries for each pet. ⁃ Record milestones with age, date and content. ⁃ Track weight and height. ⁃ Create albums and share pictures by Facebook, Twitter and email. ⁃ Manage veterinaries info. ⁃ Create and check appointment by calendar and set alert. ⁃ Create medications taken reminders and keep the taken logs. ⁃ Set schedule for vaccinations and set reminder for each one. ⁃ Track allergies and the reaction. ⁃ Track other things you want. ⁃ Passcode protection. ⁃ Export data by email. ⁃ Print data directly from this app. ⁃ Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Track unlimited pets info separately. Please contact us by email for any feedback or suggestion: linklinksapp@tom.com.

About

Gym Cards

Features
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Gym Cards is a workout diary that stays on your phone. One exercise or one photo is already a workout. Log a set in ten seconds, or write nothing at all and keep just the photo. Either way the month fills up. EVERY MONTH IS A CARD Your year is a shelf of month cards. Give a month a cover photo or a colour, flip a card to see the calendar, and tap any day to see what you did. LOG IN SECONDS Exercises, sets, weight, reps, warm-up sets, personal records. Repeating last session takes three taps. Nothing is required: not a note, not even an exercise. One photo is a workout. RUNS, STRETCHING AND YOGA A run, a walk, a stretch or a yoga session is a workout too. Time, distance and pace sit next to your sets, and your tonnage stays a lifting number. Record a route by GPS, or import your runs from Apple Health. PHOTOS AND VIDEO Attach progress photos and technique videos to any workout, and keep a gallery on each exercise in your library. Mark photos as progress and compare any two with a slider. YOUR OWN EXERCISE LIBRARY No catalogue of 200 exercises you will never do. Add the ones you actually train, with your own notes. Each one keeps its own records, totals and progress chart. BODY, GOALS AND PROGRESS Track body weight, body fat and measurements. Set a goal for a lift, a weekly rhythm or your weight and watch the ring fill. Streaks, records, volume charts and achievements. APPLE HEALTH Turn it on in Settings and every workout you time is saved to Apple Health as strength training. Gym Cards reads nothing from Health. GYM CARDS PRO One payment, no subscription. Pro adds: • Month and year recaps you can share • Progress photo overlay, timelapse and sharing • As many goals as you like, each with a forecast • Six themes, including a monochrome one, with matching app icons • Analytics: estimated max charts, rep-range bests, a year heatmap • Home screen widgets for your week and your month • Automatic backup to your own iCloud Logging, photos, the slider comparison and your first goal stay free. IT IS YOURS No account. No ads. No tracking. Your workouts live on your phone, not on our servers, because we do not have any. Backups go only to your own iCloud, and only if you turn them on. Export your sets to CSV, everything to JSON, print a month to PDF, and import a backup back in. Light and dark themes. Six languages: English, Ukrainian, Polish, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Reminders on the days you train.

Screenshots

Pet Growth Notes4 screens
Gym Cards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Gym Cards at none against Pet Growth Notes's shown. Gym Cards also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Pet Growth Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 6 months and Gym Cards sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pet Growth Notes ships an update every 8 months, Gym Cards every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pet Growth Notes versus Gym Cards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPet Growth NotesGym Cards
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (109 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings109 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLINKLINKS LTDMaksym Tytechko

Bugs and requests

Pet Growth Notes

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Cursor not visible in some input fields
  • App crashes when switching to other apps
  • Data loss after entering pet information
  • Diary entries appear blank until clicked back into
  • Dropbox sync crashes on iPhone
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  • Misleading ad/purchase button (charged $39.99 unexpectedly)
  • Cannot input historical weight data from past years
  • Reminders only work for currently active pet
  • Cannot edit original pet description without deleting entry
  • Growth graph doesn't display full curve on mobile
  • Dates and weight fields cannot be typed in (picker only)

Requested features

15 requests
  • Cloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices
  • Monthly recurring reminders for medications (not just daily/weekly)
  • Date-specific reminders instead of 'every X days' format
  • Video upload support in addition to photos
  • Dark mode theme option
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  • Web/desktop version for data entry on computer
  • Auto-fill for previously used entries
  • Ability to edit pet profile information
  • Share access with family members or pet sitters
  • WhatsApp or push notification reminders
  • Metric units support (grams, centimeters) for small animals
  • Ability to input historical/past medical records
  • Custom tracking categories
  • PDF editing capability for vet documents
  • One-time purchase option instead of subscription

Gym Cards

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pet Growth Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Premium - 6 months14 Days trial$4.996 Months
One-time1
  • Pro Version$49.99
1 purchases

Gym Cards

One-time1
  • Gym Cards Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Pet Growth Notes free?
Pet Growth Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gym Cards free?
Gym Cards is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pet Growth Notes or Gym Cards have ads?
Pet Growth Notes shows ads; Gym Cards does not.
Which is updated more often, Pet Growth Notes or Gym Cards?
Pet Growth Notes ships an update every 8 months, and Gym Cards every 2 days. Most recently, Pet Growth Notes was updated on October 22, 2026 and Gym Cards on October 26, 2026.

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