Comparison

Workouts vs Intake

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

Head to head
About

Workouts

Visualize your fitness journey with detailed progress tracking. See your workouts by date, week, month, or year through intuitive visual displays. Seamlessly integrates with Apple Health and Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Track progress by date, week, month, year
  • Visual workout displays
  • Integrates with Apple Health
  • Supports Apple Watch workouts
  • Filter by workout type
  • Customizable unit types
Features
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Workouts enables you to track your workout progress by date or grouped by week/month/year to make it easier to see your progress over time. It also offers a more visual way of displaying your workouts to further simplify comparing your weekly/monthly/yearly progress. You can track workouts by using any of the health & fitness apps from the App Store or by using your Apple Watch Workout app. You can also filter workouts by workout type and pick your favourite unit type. The app shows all workouts from your Health/Activity app.

About

Intake

A minimalist calorie tracker focused on essential food logging without subscriptions or gamification. Quickly log meals, track daily calorie goals, and monitor water intake. Integrates with Apple Health for activity tracking.

Highlights
  • Effortless calorie logging
  • Daily calorie overview
  • Meal-based logging
  • Custom recipe creation
  • Barcode scanning
  • Intermittent fasting timer
  • Water consumption tracking
Features
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Intake is a minimalist calorie tracker for people who simply want to track their food — a fair one-time purchase, no gamification, and no unnecessary nutrition advice. What Intake can do: * Log calories quickly and easily to support healthy weight loss * Daily overview with your goal, consumed calories, and remaining calories * Track meals such as breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks * Intake AI: add food to your meals using a photo or text * Log an AI estimate as one meal or every detected ingredient separately — each with its own weight and calories * Correct estimates in place: adjust ingredients, calories, and portion size without rewriting * Widgets for even faster logging * Scan nutrition labels and let Intake AI fill in the values automatically * Create your own recipes for quickly logging homemade meals * Product search & barcode scanning * Intermittent fasting * Water tracking to help you drink enough * Food database based on Open Food Facts * Optional Apple Health integration for activity calories All without an account — your data stays on your device. Intake AI is an optional add-on for anyone who wants to log food even faster. Take a photo of your meal or describe it, and Intake AI tells you exactly which ingredients it contains and how many calories your food has. When creating your own meals, you can also scan a nutrition label — Intake AI fills in the values for you automatically. Alternatively, you can use your own API key from ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. This includes photo logging, the text chat, and the full ingredient breakdown; correcting an estimate in place stays exclusive to Intake AI. Intake AI is designed with generous fair use, so the feature remains reliable and affordable for everyone. Who Intake is for For anyone who wants a calm, beautiful app that feels like iOS — not like a fitness game. No b******t No subscription for the base app No login No streaks No points No “tips” you never asked for Intake. Track. Done. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Workouts4 screens
Intake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Workouts at Free against Intake's $9.99. Workouts also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (20 vs 2). Intake's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On rating, review sentiment, ads 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

Workouts is free to download; Intake costs $9.99 up front. Intake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Workouts asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Workouts against 5.0 for Intake. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workouts has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Workouts's written reviews are positive against 96% of Intake's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Workouts ships an update monthly, Intake weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Workouts versus Intake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorkoutsIntake
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (20 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better96.3% of reviews
Number of ratings20 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS11.2 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperakroinTobias Bechtold

Customer experience

Workouts

All ratings20 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Intake

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive96.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Workouts

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Intake

Subscriptions2
  • Intake AI Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Intake AI Yearly3 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Workouts free?
Workouts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Intake free?
Intake costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Workouts or Intake?
Workouts and Intake are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 20 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Workouts or Intake have ads?
Neither Workouts nor Intake shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Workouts or Intake?
Workouts ships an update monthly, and Intake weekly. Most recently, Workouts was updated on October 20, 2026 and Intake on October 22, 2026.

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