Gym Timer vs VibeLoop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Workout tracking
- Progress monitoring
- Enhanced analytics
- Workout tagging
- Improvement visualization
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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!
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Gym Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. VibeLoop asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Gym Timer | VibeLoop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (39 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Valerii Chevtaev | Pavel Bochkov-Rastopchin |
Customer experience
Gym Timer
VibeLoop
In-app purchases
Gym Timer
- Full version$1.99
VibeLoop
No in-app purchases
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