Comparison

Purple Patch vs Fuelin

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

Head to head
About

Purple Patch

Book fitness classes, view schedules, and find performance center locations. This app offers a structured and fun group fitness experience focused on endurance, strength, nutrition, and recovery for busy individuals.

Highlights
  • Book fitness classes
  • View class schedules
  • Find performance center locations
  • Review existing reservations
  • Coached, structured, progressive workouts
Features
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The official App of Purple Patch Fitness. Download the App today to find and book your Purple Patch classes. From the App, you can view the performance center location, class schedules, and review existing reservations. Join us today at Purple Patch to bring a new level of performance in your time-starved life via our pillars of endurance training, functional strength, nutrition, and recovery. We don't do random classes at Purple Patch -- as that guarantees random results -- we promise a customized experience within a group fitness environment with every part of your experience, coached, structured, progressive and most importantly fun. Discover more at www.purplepatchfitness.com or @purplepatchfitness on Instagram or check out the Purple Patch Podcast on Apple Podcasts

About

Fuelin

This app provides personalized sports nutrition plans for athletes, adapting daily calorie and macro targets to workouts and goals. It offers smart meal recommendations, workout fueling guidance, and body composition management. Log food easily via voice, text, or barcode scanning.

Highlights
  • Personalized daily nutrition targets
  • Workout and race fueling guidance
  • Smart meal and portion recommendations
  • AI-powered food logging
  • Body composition management
  • Workout integration with popular platforms
  • Hydration and gut training tools
Features
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Fuelin is a personalized sports nutrition and fueling app for runners, cyclists, triathletes, hybrid athletes, and anyone who trains. It tells you what, when, and how much to eat: your daily calorie, carbohydrate, protein, and fat targets adapt to your workouts and goals, so you can fuel training, recover well, and manage body composition. Fully automated, no math required. Fuelin is trusted by 100K+ athletes. WHO IT'S FOR Whether your goal is everyday fitness, weight loss, muscle gain, HYROX, a marathon, or IRONMAN, Fuelin plans your nutrition. Supports 30+ sports and activities, from swimming to CrossFit. NUTRITION THAT ADAPTS TO YOUR TRAINING • Daily nutrition planning: calorie and macro targets adapt to planned and completed workouts, so hard days get more fuel and rest days less. • Smart Meals: personalized meal and portion recommendations based on your goals, training, and preferences. • Smart Adjustments: upcoming meal targets rebalance based on what you've already eaten. • Workout and race fueling: guidance on what to eat and drink before, during, and after runs, rides, and hard sessions, plus Race Week coach insights. • Body composition: lose weight or build muscle while still fueling your workouts. • Simple food logging: talk or type to the AI food logger, scan a barcode, save recipes and meals, and log in units like scoops or slices. PERSONALIZED TO YOU Fuelin builds your plan around your goal, body weight, gender, athlete experience level, and daily activity level. It estimates your resting metabolic rate (RMR), functional threshold power (FTP), and threshold pace, or you can enter your own. BUILT WITH SPORTS NUTRITION EXPERTS Created by sports dietitians, including co-founder Scott Tindal (20+ years in pro sport) and Dr. Alan McCubbin (researcher, 20 years with endurance athletes). IRONMAN World Champions Jan Frodeno and Daniela Ryf are on the team. WORKOUT INTEGRATIONS Connect Garmin, Strava, TrainingPeaks, V.O2, Pushing Limits, Final Surge, HumanGO, TriDot, or RunDot. You can also add workouts manually. HYDRATION, GUT TRAINING & MORE • Sweat Rate Tracker: measure sweat rate to guide hydration. • Carb Capacity Testing: gut training for endurance exercise. • In-app lessons on portions, supplements, and energy balance. • Community chat with Fuelin athletes. • Fuel Shop: member perks from Maurten, Momentous, and other partners. COMMON QUESTIONS How is Fuelin different from a calorie tracker? Calorie trackers count what you eat against a target. Fuelin sets that target from your workouts and goals, recommends meals and portions, and rebalances upcoming meal targets around what you've eaten. Do I need to be training for a race? No. Fuelin supports everyday training and rest days, whether your goal is more energy, weight loss, muscle gain, or an event. Can I use MyFitnessPal or Lose It!? Nutrition data from MyFitnessPal or Lose It! can sync to Fuelin through Apple Health. Does Fuelin include a human coach? Autopilot, Fuelin's core plan, is fully automated and doesn't include a coach. Copilot adds 1:1 messaging with a Fuelin nutrition coach and live group coaching every two weeks. WHAT ATHLETES SAY "Fuelin is the daily companion to take the guess work out of nutrition that I wish I had earlier in my career." - Jan Frodeno, 3x IRONMAN World Champion PLANS Fuelin requires a paid subscription. Autopilot: automated nutrition planning, Smart Meals, Smart Adjustments, food logging, workout syncing, hydration and gut-training tools, lessons, and community chat. Copilot: everything in Autopilot plus 1:1 coach messaging and live group coaching every two weeks. Medical Disclaimer: Seek a doctor's advice in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ U.S. Barcode Food Database Powered by FatSecret: https://fatsecret.com International Barcode Food Database Powered by Open Food Facts: https://openfoodfacts.org

Screenshots

Purple Patch4 screens
Fuelin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Purple Patch at 100% against Fuelin's 51%. Purple Patch also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 5). Fuelin's advantage is ratings volume (1.3K vs 16) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Fuelin sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $29.00 per month. Purple Patch asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Purple Patch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fuelin has 1.3K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Purple Patch's written reviews are positive against 51% of Fuelin's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Purple Patch ships an update every 3 weeks, Fuelin every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Purple Patch versus Fuelin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPurple PatchFuelin
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (16 ratings) — better4.5 (1.3K ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.5% of reviews
Number of ratings161.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB87 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPurple Patch Fitness IncThrive AI Labs

Customer experience

Purple Patch

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Fuelin

All ratings1,321 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative10.2%
Written reviews299 reviews
Positive50.5%
Neutral11.7%
Negative37.8%

In-app purchases

None

Purple Patch

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Fuelin

Subscriptions5
  • Autopilot Monthly Plan$29.001 Month
  • Copilot Monthly$99.001 Month
  • Autopilot Yearly Plan$139.001 Year
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  • Autopilot Yearly7 Days trial$139.001 Year
  • Copilot Yearly$399.001 Year

Questions

Is Purple Patch free?
Purple Patch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fuelin free?
Fuelin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Purple Patch or Fuelin?
Purple Patch is rated higher. Purple Patch averages 5.0 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Fuelin averages 4.5 from 1.3K ratings.
Do Purple Patch or Fuelin have ads?
Fuelin shows ads; Purple Patch does not.
Which is updated more often, Purple Patch or Fuelin?
Purple Patch ships an update every 3 weeks, and Fuelin every 10 days. Most recently, Purple Patch was updated on October 24, 2026 and Fuelin on October 31, 2026.

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