Comparison

LIBRARY vs Workout Notebook

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

Head to head
About

LIBRARY

Easily log your daily workouts and connect with a large community of fitness enthusiasts. Discover new training partners and share your progress on social media. Hundreds of exercises are pre-registered, with options to add your own.

Highlights
  • Easy workout logging
  • Connect with workout friends
  • Extensive exercise library
  • Add custom exercises
  • Share progress on SNS
  • Community for trainees
Features
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■ Largest workout community for every trainee! ■ Very easy workout log app! ■ Record daily workout and share on SNS! -------------- LIBRARY is workout community for who loves workout and enjoy training life. Of course, training beginners welcome. Let's all be strong together! -------------- Want to log workout more easily, want to log workout with smartphones instead of handwritten notes, want to increase your training friends, want to have specialized app for training, etc.. The long-awaited workout recording application that answered to the voice that we want to!! ■■ Features of LIBRARY ■■ # 1 Easy log with a simple UI LIBRARY is very simple! You can record your workout more more easily!! # 2 Make new workout friend Many trainees join on LIBRARY. You can find new workout friend! # 3 Lots of exercises are initially registered There are hundreds of exercises registered initially. If you do not have the usual exercises, you can also add the original exercises. In addition, registered exercises in app is updated every day. ■■ Other uses such as... ■ ■ · Maniac muscle talking that can not be posted in usual SNS. · To find a new trainee community. · When you want to brag about your muscles. · When watching everyone's training and want to receive stimulation from others. · When you want to do something different from usual workout. · When another training recording application was too difficult. · always training by yourself, but you really want a buddy. LIBRARY is the most easy-to-use workout recording app that can be used in various usage scenes. Let's spread training community and let's make daily workout more enjoyable and become stronger with everyone!

About

Workout Notebook

Record your workouts and track progress with personalized training menus and detailed body metrics. Visualize your fitness journey with customizable graphs and add notes for comprehensive health tracking.

Highlights
  • Personalized training menu design
  • Save and reuse menu templates
  • Workout calendar and history
  • Body record tracking (weight, fat %, calories)
  • Dual graph visualization of progress
  • Memos for detailed training and lifestyle notes
Features
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This app can record your training and turn its analyses into graphs, making it easier for you to get in the shape you want to be in. 

 【What this app can do】 

- Designing your training menu Get a personalized training menu from the app based on your preferences. In addition, you can adjust the menu however you like, whenever you want afterwards. - Saving templates from previous menu designs 
The app saves previous menus as templates, so you can always go back to them later and make new menus with them. 

- Calendar The app’s calendar shows you exactly when you have done training.

- Body records The app records your weight, body fat percentage, and calorie intake. You may also add to the app anything else you might want to keep track of. - Graphs The app turns your training records into graphs. The app allows you two view two graphs at once. With the graphs, you may, for instance, compare how your body has changed against the kinds of training you have done. 

- Memos You can write your own memos to record your training, the kind of food you eat, sleep patterns, physical conditions, etc.

Screenshots

LIBRARY3 screens
Workout Notebook3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: LIBRARY at 71% against Workout Notebook's 0%. LIBRARY also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). Workout Notebook's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.4). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and device support 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. Workout Notebook sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. LIBRARY asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Workout Notebook holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of LIBRARY's written reviews are positive against 0% of Workout Notebook's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LIBRARY ships an update every 9 days, Workout Notebook every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
LIBRARY versus Workout Notebook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLIBRARYWorkout Notebook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (8 ratings)4.8 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB114 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKoyo MatsumotoTetsuma Yaguchi

Customer experience

LIBRARY

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral11.8%
Negative17.6%

Workout Notebook

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

LIBRARY

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Workout Notebook

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Services (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Premium Service (Half-year)$5.996 Months
  • Premium Service (1-year)$9.991 Year

Questions

Is LIBRARY free?
LIBRARY is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Workout Notebook free?
Workout Notebook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, LIBRARY or Workout Notebook?
Workout Notebook is rated higher. LIBRARY averages 4.4 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Workout Notebook averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do LIBRARY or Workout Notebook have ads?
Workout Notebook shows ads; LIBRARY does not.
Which is updated more often, LIBRARY or Workout Notebook?
LIBRARY ships an update every 9 days, and Workout Notebook every 2 weeks. Most recently, LIBRARY was updated on October 24, 2026 and Workout Notebook on October 24, 2026.

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