Comparison

YMCA LA vs Chronically

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

Head to head
About

YMCA LA

Easily manage your fitness journey with this app. Reserve equipment, classes, and swim lanes. Access health programs, event information, facility hours, and important alerts.

Highlights
  • Schedule health and wellness activities
  • Reserve equipment, classes, and courts
  • View facility hours
  • Digital membership barcode
  • Receive instant alerts and notifications
Features
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The YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles app makes getting and staying fit easier than ever! Reserve equipment, classes, swim lanes and get instant access to health & wellness programs, events, hours, alerts and all our programs. Features: SCHEDULE YOUR HEALTH & WELLNESS View, search and reserve equipment, classes, small group training, racquetball courts, personal training, and more. FACILITY HOURS Quickly find out opening and closing times. BARCODE SCAN - Enter our facilities with your digital membership key card. ALERTS - Stay up to date with what’s happening at the LA Y with instant notifications and in app alerts. Please send any feedback and questions to info@ymcaLA.org. We love hearing from you!

About

Chronically

This app provides a private space to track daily symptoms, mood, energy, and medications for those managing chronic illnesses. It offers insights into patterns, helps plan days using spoon theory, and generates doctor-ready reports.

Highlights
  • Daily symptom and mood logging
  • Medication tracking and reminders
  • Spoon theory energy planning
  • Pattern insights and trend analysis
  • Doctor-ready PDF reports
  • Optional weather tracking (barometric pressure)
Features
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Your chronic ally. Chronically is a calm, private place to track life with a chronic illness, one day at a time. Living with chronic illness means managing a hundred small things on the days you have the least to give. Chronically keeps it gentle: quick check-ins, honest tracking, and clear reports, with zero judgment and zero clutter. DAILY CHECK-INS Log your mood, energy, anxiety, appetite, sleep and pain in under a minute, note the symptoms that matter to you, and add a line about your day if you want to. Choose to focus on your body, your mind, or both: a Mood & Mind symptom set sits alongside the physical ones, and the pain question is optional for anyone it doesn't fit. On a low day, "Same as last time" gets you done in two taps. Gentle streaks celebrate showing up and never guilt you for resting. FLARES When a hard stretch starts, mark it at the end of a check-in or from Trends, and tell Chronicle when it eases. Flares appear on your charts and in your doctor report, so the hard stretches are easy to see and easy to explain. INSIGHTS Chronically looks for patterns in what you've logged and tells you about them plainly: which symptoms tend to land on your lower-energy days, how a rough night shows up the next morning, what overspending your energy costs you tomorrow. Every insight shows how many days it's based on, weak patterns stay quiet, and nothing is ever presented as a cause. SPOON CENTER Plan your day around the energy you actually have, using spoon theory. Set today's spoons, plan your activities, see your week at a glance, and reflect at the end of the day on how it really went. MEDICATIONS Keep every medication in one place, from pills and injections to patches, topicals, gummies and drops, with schedules that match how they're actually taken. Log doses, see your adherence, keep a history of dose changes, track your supply with a heads-up before you run low, and note whether an as-needed dose helped. Optional reminders, including one to remove a patch. APPOINTMENTS & DOCTOR REPORTS Save your doctors, get an optional reminder of your questions the evening before a visit, and jot down how it went afterwards. Export a doctor-ready PDF for the dates and sections you choose, including a summary of everything since your last visit with that doctor. TRENDS Watch your patterns come into focus over a week, a month or a year, with flares, medication changes and appointments marked right on the chart. WEATHER Add your city and Chronically will quietly note the weather on each day you check in, including barometric pressure. Your city only, never your exact location, and entirely optional. GETTING STARTED A short welcome and a few gentle tips from Chronicle, the app's little companion, which appear the first time each feature does. Skip them anytime, or bring them back from Profile. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Free, with no ads, no paywalls, and no locked features • No third-party analytics or trackers • Your data stays on our own servers, never sold, never shared • Delete your account and all of your data anytime, right from the app Chronically is built and cared for by one person, and kept free so it's there for everyone who needs it. Chronically is a personal wellness journal, not a medical device. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It isn't a monitoring service, and no one reads what you log. Always talk with your healthcare provider about decisions regarding your health. You're doing better than you think.

Screenshots

YMCA LA4 screens
Chronically4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chronically at 100% against YMCA LA's 5%. Chronically also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.8) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). YMCA LA's advantage is ratings volume (164 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chronically holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: YMCA LA has 164 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 5% of YMCA LA's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chronically's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

YMCA LA ships an update every 2 months, Chronically every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
YMCA LA versus Chronically: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYMCA LAChronically
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (164 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews4.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings164 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAttollo Technology LLCKEVIN PHILIP ERKELENZ

Customer experience

YMCA LA

All ratings156 ratings
Positive16.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative79.5%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive4.6%
Neutral3.1%
Negative92.3%

Chronically

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

Bugs and requests

YMCA LA

Reported bugs

38 issues
  • Cannot log in
  • Email with pin never arrives
  • App crashes
  • Feedback form doesn't work
  • Keyboard cannot be dismissed
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  • App is slow
  • App logs out randomly
  • App doesn't save preferred location
  • App doesn't show family members
  • App doesn't work at night
  • App doesn't auto-refresh
  • App doesn't show full swim lanes
  • App errors: unable to get class data
  • App errors: unable to get equipment data
  • Missed check-ins
  • App doesn't show classes
  • Cannot cancel classes
  • Cannot jump on waitlist
  • App times out
  • App doesn't find user account
  • App doesn't accept new password from website
  • App doesn't show available times unless day is selected
  • App says cannot retrieve family data
  • App doesn't work for childcare reservations
  • App doesn't work for court bookings
  • App doesn't work for open swim
  • App doesn't work for waitlisting
  • App doesn't sync name with account
  • App redirects to website
  • App doesn't remember login
  • App gives weird error messages
  • App doesn't let you reserve childcare
  • App doesn't let you reserve spots
  • App doesn't allow new account creation easily
  • App doesn't allow booking courts easily
  • App doesn't send pin
  • App shows incorrect date for reservation
  • App doesn't connect to YMCA system for email/password

Requested features

8 requests
  • History of check-ins
  • Overall number of check-ins by year/month
  • Number of streaks (days/weeks)
  • Allow selecting one date, time, and duration for multiple people
  • Develop a new app
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  • List available court times for booking
  • Offer website booking option
  • Provide scannable keycard option

Chronically

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

YMCA LA

No in-app purchases

None

Chronically

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is YMCA LA free?
YMCA LA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chronically free?
Chronically is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, YMCA LA or Chronically?
Chronically is rated higher. YMCA LA averages 1.8 out of 5 from 164 ratings, while Chronically averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do YMCA LA or Chronically have ads?
Neither YMCA LA nor Chronically shows ads.
Which is updated more often, YMCA LA or Chronically?
YMCA LA ships an update every 2 months, and Chronically every 10 days. Most recently, YMCA LA was updated on October 24, 2026 and Chronically on October 25, 2026.

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