Gainz Now vs Kangaroo Workout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gainz Now
This app provides exercise instructions and workout tools to help users achieve their fitness goals. It offers guidance for gym or home workouts, with or without equipment, and helps users track progress and routines.
- Exercise instructions
- Workout logging
- Customizable workout routines
- Progress tracking
- Body stats tracking
- Exercise timer
- Weight plate calculator
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Our app provides both exercise instructions and workout tools to help users meet their fitness goals. With GAINZ: - Never again feel confused or intimidated at the gym. - Never again feel like you are doing the same workouts over and over again. - Never again use a notebook or expensive app to record your workout history. - Never again lose track of your workout routines. - Never again take a step back in your fitness journey! The GAINZ app was created for both those who are new to working out and those that have been at it for years. GAINZ is designed to be effective whether working out at the gym or at home, with or without equipment. We are driven by our mission of "Removing obstacles from people working out and living a healthier life"! GAINZ believes that fitness should be a core part of everyone's daily life, and no one should have to pay high prices to achieve their fitness goals. That is why GAINZ is completely free. Every feature is available to every user — no subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no premium tiers. We believe that possessing knowledge of workouts and equipment types is a key step towards a long and fulfilling fitness journey. GAINZ works to demystify fitness and make it accessible for everyone! Our mobile app is a collection of both exercise instructions and tools to amplify your workout experience. The exercise instructions help you understand how to properly perform different types of exercises and use different types of equipment. These instructions are relevant for workouts both at the gym and at home. Every GAINZ user gets full access to: - Exercise Video Library: Explore over 600+ workouts. Sort by body part and equipment type. - Exercise Logger: Track activity and progress of individual exercises using our easy to use, top of the line exercise logger. - Workout Routines: Build, save, and run workouts. Curate custom workouts yourself or let GAINZ generate some for you. Generated workouts are tailored to available equipment, body parts, and difficulty level of your choice. - Workout Sharing: Seamlessly share saved workout routines with friends/family with a single tap. - Goals: Set and accomplish goals for different exercises. Visualize your progress towards your goals using helpful charts. - Body Stats: Track stats such as Weight, BMI, Steps, Calories, etc. Set and track stat goals. - Exercise Timer: Multi purpose timer that is excellent for any time based exercises. - Weight Plate Calculator: Quickly figure out how many and which plates you need for a set. - GAINZ Badges: Earn fun badges as you use the app and see if you can earn and maintain the elusive GAINZ Beast Mode badge. Download and get GAINZ in the palm of your hands. --- Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://app.termly.io/document/privacy-policy/20f65d59-f24c-4c9f-bb27-c2cbdfb8f4ea
Kangaroo Workout
This app offers five distinct, illustrated workouts including HIIT, strength splits, and balanced routines. It provides a clean timer and automatic logging to Apple Health, with no accounts or paywalls required.
- Five distinct workout types
- Illustrated exercise guides
- Countdown timer
- Apple Watch companion
- Automatic HealthKit logging
- No accounts or paywalls
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Five workouts. Press play. Move. Kangaroo Workout is what happens when you stop hunting for the right routine and just commit to one. Five workouts, illustrated and timed, ready the second you open the app: HIIT, Day A, Day B, Standard, and Ultra. No accounts to create. No settings to configure. No "premium" tier paywall. Tap a workout. Start. Built by one person, for the workouts that actually work. What's inside: • HIIT, 16 exercises, 20 seconds each, big countdown timer on every screen • Day A, weighted strength split across hinge, squat, push, pull, plyo, and cooldown • Day B, the companion lift day for full-week coverage • Standard, a balanced routine for non-lifting days • Ultra, superset-based for when you want to go hard • Apple Watch companion with HealthKit, your workout is logged automatically • Hand-painted illustrations for every exercise so you never wonder what the next move looks like • Dual-track view: Focus mode for the current exercise, Overview track for the whole session at a glance • Confetti when you finish a HIIT session, because finishing should feel good What's not inside: • No accounts. No log-in. • No social feed. • No streak shame, skip a day and the app is still here. • No leaderboards. The only person you're competing with is yesterday's you. • No advertisements. • No in-app purchases. The whole app is the app. Built for: • People who already know what workouts work for them and want to stop browsing • Anyone who wants a clean, fast timer that just runs the session • Apple Watch users who want their HIIT and strength sessions in Health automatically Open it. Tap a workout. Move.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kangaroo Workout at none against Gainz Now's 1. Gainz Now's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Gainz Now sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.49 per month. Kangaroo Workout asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Gainz Now against 5.0 for Kangaroo Workout. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gainz Now has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Gainz Now ships an update every 3 weeks, Kangaroo Workout every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gainz Now | Kangaroo Workout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chimney Hill Ventures LLC | Urban Algorithm LLC |
Customer experience
Gainz Now
Kangaroo Workout
In-app purchases
Gainz Now
- GAINZ Premium7 Days trial$2.491 Month
Kangaroo Workout
No in-app purchases
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