Comparison

GymTrakr vs TrainPilot

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

Head to head
About

GymTrakr

This app wirelessly connects to fitness equipment to track your workouts in real-time. It saves your performance data in universal FIT files and allows you to share it with other fitness apps and services. Never lose your workout data, even when exercising at the gym.

Highlights
  • Wirelessly detect smart fitness equipment
  • Displays live workout stats
  • Customizable live workout stats
  • Share data with Strava
  • Export workouts as .FIT file
  • Integrates with Health App
Features
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Inclement weather or time constraints mean that you sometimes must get your workout done at the gym. With GymTrakr and compatible fitness equipment, you never lose the data from an earned workout. GymTrakr is a utility application that wirelessly connects to Bluetooth enabled fitness equipment to record your workout results. GymTrakr captures your workout performance in real-time and saves the results in universal FIT files. With GymTrackr, you can share your results with the fitness apps that you already use and communicate your accomplishments to the communities that you already belong. Features: - Wirelessly detect smart fitness equipment - Displays live workout stats during workout - Customizable live workout stats displayed during workout - Easily share data with Strava, or Share/Export individual workouts as a .FIT file to other 3rd party fitness Apps and services

About

TrainPilot

Features
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TrainPilot is a running coach and a gym logbook in one app. FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME. Every feature below is unlocked, with no subscription and no ads. RUNNING A training plan built around your goal race, your current times and the days you can actually train. Live GPS tracking with pace, distance, splits and heart rate. Spoken cues tell you when you are drifting off target pace, so your phone can stay in your pocket. Structured interval sessions time each block for you. Treadmill mode for when you are indoors. GYM Build a session from a library of more than 700 exercises, or follow a plan. Log sets, reps and weight as you lift, with a rest timer that starts itself. Weight progression that reads what you actually lifted. TrainPilot works forward through your logged sessions and tells you what to load today, and why: "+2.5 kg, you hit 3x5 last time". Miss your reps and it will not add weight. Stall and it deloads. Warm-up ramps, supersets, dropsets and per-side rep tracking. Straight sets, circuits, HIIT, HYROX, AMRAP and EMOM, and you can change the format mid-session without losing a set. Repeat any past workout in one tap. Personal records, a muscle map of what you have worked, and progress over time. APPLE WATCH Start, pause and finish a run from your wrist. Live heart rate, running power and running-form metrics. Log gym sets from the watch between rounds. APPLE HEALTH Import runs recorded by Garmin, Strava, Nike or anything else that writes to Apple Health, with their GPS routes. Your TrainPilot runs are written back to Health. TRAIN TOGETHER Invite a friend to the same session and follow each other live, or train the same workout independently and compare afterwards. ALSO Strava upload. intervals.icu sync. Bluetooth heart-rate strap support. Kilometres or miles, kilograms or pounds, throughout. Available in English and Spanish.

Screenshots

GymTrakr4 screens
TrainPilot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TrainPilot at every 5 days against GymTrakr's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GymTrakr ships an update every 3 months, TrainPilot every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
GymTrakr versus TrainPilot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGymTrakrTrainPilot
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (27 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews10.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings27 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNPE IncPablo Garces

In-app purchases

None

GymTrakr

No in-app purchases

None

TrainPilot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GymTrakr free?
GymTrakr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TrainPilot free?
TrainPilot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GymTrakr or TrainPilot have ads?
Neither GymTrakr nor TrainPilot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GymTrakr or TrainPilot?
GymTrakr ships an update every 3 months, and TrainPilot every 5 days. Most recently, GymTrakr was updated on October 24, 2026 and TrainPilot on October 8, 2026.

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