Comparison

Gym Timer vs VibeLoop

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

Head to head
About

Gym Timer

This app helps fitness enthusiasts track their progress with detailed analytics and tagged workouts. Monitor your improvements over time with enhanced graphics and data visualization.

Highlights
  • Workout tracking
  • Progress monitoring
  • Enhanced analytics
  • Workout tagging
  • Improvement visualization
Features
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Gym Timer is the perfect tool for every sports, yoga or fitness lover. Keep track of your workouts to see your improvement over time with enhanced analytics, graphics and tagged workouts. Feel free to suggest new features in the comments!

About

VibeLoop

This AI-powered journal prompts you to log one meaningful emotion daily. Six unique AI companions offer diverse perspectives on your feelings, helping you uncover patterns and gain new insights into your emotional well-being.

Highlights
  • Daily meaningful emotion logging
  • AI companions with distinct personalities
  • Emotion calendar for pattern recognition
  • Themed AI Councils (spirit animals, philosophers, etc.)
  • Spark feature for continued reflection
  • Weekly mood-based story summaries
Features
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A quiet ritual for one real moment a day. VibeLoop is a magical emotional journal for the moment that stayed with you. Choose an emotion and write a few words about what happened. That's your vibe. Choose your Vibe Council: Magical Avatars, Hall of Voices, Garden of Sages or Arcane Circle. Ask the Council to reflect on your note, and six characters answer, each in a voice of their own. They may hear your words differently than you meant them. Echoes of up to five earlier vibes may find their way into a Council reply. When the past week holds at least three entries, your Council's historian may leave a Weekly Scroll - a quiet look back at those days. Your vibe and the Council's replies stay together in the calendar. Write a note when you want to hear from the Council; its voices come to life online. No accounts. No feeds. No pressure to explain your whole day. One moment is enough.

Screenshots

Gym Timer4 screens
VibeLoop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: VibeLoop at none against Gym Timer's 1. VibeLoop also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Gym Timer's advantage is ratings volume (39 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, review sentiment, 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. Gym Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. VibeLoop asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

VibeLoop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gym Timer has 39 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gym Timer ships an update every 5 days, VibeLoop every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Gym Timer versus VibeLoop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGym TimerVibeLoop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (39 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings39 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperValerii ChevtaevPavel Bochkov-Rastopchin

Customer experience

Gym Timer

All ratings39 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral5.1%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

VibeLoop

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Gym Timer

One-time1
  • Full version$1.99
None

VibeLoop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gym Timer free?
Gym Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VibeLoop free?
VibeLoop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gym Timer or VibeLoop?
VibeLoop is rated higher. Gym Timer averages 4.8 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while VibeLoop averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Gym Timer or VibeLoop have ads?
Neither Gym Timer nor VibeLoop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gym Timer or VibeLoop?
Gym Timer ships an update every 5 days, and VibeLoop every 9 days. Most recently, Gym Timer was updated on November 2, 2026 and VibeLoop on November 5, 2026.

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