Comparison

Pursuit Performance vs Gainly

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

Head to head
About

Pursuit Performance

This app offers personalized workout and meal plans to help you achieve your fitness goals. Track your progress with daily logs, check-ins, and by connecting your fitness devices. Get real-time updates and support through an in-app chat feature.

Highlights
  • Personalized workout and meal plans
  • Progress tracking with daily logs
  • In-built camera for progress pictures
  • Wearable integration (fitness bands, Health Kit)
  • Real-time analytics and updates
  • 1-on-1 in-app chat support
Features
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With Pursuit, you can begin your fitness journey in no time. Get a fully personalized workout and meal plan tailored to your fitness goals. Progress tracking gets easier when you log your daily workout, record meals, update your check-ins and connect your fitness band & health kit, and get real-time updates via advanced analytical tools. Everything that contributes to your fitness goals gets captured in one place. To top it all, use the inbuilt 1-1 chat feature to have all your queries addressed on the go. You deserve to be the best. That’s why Pursuit has packed so many features in a single app to help you achieve your fitness goals. There’s more. Start your journey today! Features that will help you achieve your fitness goals include: 1. Personalized Plan - Get a fully personalized fitness plan tailored to your goals, whether it is to gain weight, lose weight, gain muscles, or simply wish to work on your general fitness. 2. In-built camera - Click consistent progress pictures with guidelines, and track your progress with more accuracy 3. Check-ins - Gain complete insight into your overall performance with easy check-ins and real-time updates. 4. Progress-Stay on top of your progress with powerful analytics. 5. Wearable integration - Get the bigger picture of your progress by connecting your fitness band & Google Fit thereby enabling real-time updates. Everyone's fitness goal is different, so should be their fitness plan. At Pursuit, personalization is the key to unlock all your fitness goals. Check out my website for more information – www.jeremysry.com Note regarding Apple Health: The app integrates with Apple Health to show your daily activity - distance, steps, active energy, and flights to help you better achieve your goals. App also uses Apple Health to track energy burned and heart rate during a workout session, if an Apple Watch is used. Workout metrics are shared with the coach to better design your workout schedule. DISCLAIMER: Users should seek a doctor’s advice before using this app and making any medical decisions.

About

Gainly

This app helps you achieve your fitness goals with customizable workouts, detailed progress tracking, and a user-friendly interface. Plan your week, set goals, and connect with friends for motivation.

Highlights
  • Customizable workout templates
  • Quick workout creation
  • Detailed progress insights
  • Weekly training plan
  • Goal setting and level system
  • Progress graphs and charts
  • Community sharing and motivation
Features
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Gainly - Workout Planner & Calorie Tracker Train hard and eat with intention. Gainly brings your workouts and your nutrition into a single app, so you see the whole picture of your progress instead of half of it. Whether you are lifting for the first time or chasing a new personal record, Gainly gives you the tools to plan, log and improve. NEW - LOG A MEAL IN SECONDS Snap a photo of your plate and Gainly reads it for you, estimating calories, protein, carbs and fat. No barcodes to hunt down, no endless food database to search. Photo or words: Take a picture of your meal, pick one from your library, or simply describe what you ate in your own words. Item by item: See every component of the meal with its own weight and macros, not just one lump total. Refine the estimate: Answer a couple of quick questions about portion size and preparation, and the numbers update to match. You have the final say: Edit any value by hand before it is logged. Daily calorie target: Set your own daily calorie limit and see what is left as you log. Gainly can suggest a starting number from your height, weight, target weight and activity level, and you can change it to anything you like. Meal history: Every meal you log is saved with its photo, so you can look back at exactly what a good week looked like. KEY FEATURES Customizable Workouts: Create personalized workout templates or use templates shared by friends via share code. Choose from hundreds of predefined exercises to tailor your routine. Quick Workouts: Start a workout on the go. Add exercises and sets, adjust reps and weight values, and complete or skip sets as needed. Training Plan: Plan your week with ease. Assign default or custom templates to specific days, set rest days, and see your training and your calories together on the main screen calendar. Detailed Insights: Track your progress with detailed insights on weight, measurements and exercise performance. Gainly records your reps, weight and other metrics to provide comprehensive analytics. Goals and Levels: Set and achieve your fitness goals with Gainly's level system. Define your current level and set goals for each exercise. Track your progress and strive to reach the next level. Progress Tracking: Monitor your performance with graphs and charts. Gain insights into your progress for specific exercises, such as bench press, and see how far you have come. Community and Sharing: Connect with friends, share your workout templates, and motivate each other to stay on track. User-Friendly Interface: Gainly's intuitive design ensures that you can easily navigate through the app and access all its powerful features. WHY CHOOSE GAINLY? Gainly is a tracker, not a coach. It does not tell you what to eat and it does not promise you a result. What it gives you is an honest record of what you lifted and what you ate, in one place, so your decisions are based on real numbers instead of guesswork. Cutting, bulking or maintaining, the picture is yours to read. GAINLY PRO Gainly is free to use, with 3 AI meal scans a day, 3 workout templates and 1 active goal. Gainly PRO lifts the limits: unlimited meal scans and logs, unlimited templates, unlimited goals, and advanced statistics and insights. Download Gainly and start keeping track. Terms of Use: https://gainly.net/terms.html

Screenshots

Pursuit Performance4 screens
Gainly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pursuit Performance at none against Gainly's 3. Pursuit Performance also leads on ratings volume (30 vs 1). Gainly's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gainly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Pursuit Performance asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Pursuit Performance against 5.0 for Gainly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pursuit Performance has 30 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Pursuit Performance's written reviews are positive against 100% of Gainly's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pursuit Performance ships an update every 2 months, Gainly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pursuit Performance versus Gainly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPursuit PerformanceGainly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (30 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings30 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB73 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJeremy SrySimonas Kralikas

Customer experience

Pursuit Performance

All ratings30 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative0.0%

Gainly

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

In-app purchases

None

Pursuit Performance

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Gainly

Subscriptions2
  • Gainly monthly subscription$4.991 Month
  • Gainly yearly subscription$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime premium access$69.99

Questions

Is Pursuit Performance free?
Pursuit Performance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gainly free?
Gainly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pursuit Performance or Gainly?
Gainly is rated higher. Pursuit Performance averages 4.9 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Gainly averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pursuit Performance or Gainly have ads?
Neither Pursuit Performance nor Gainly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pursuit Performance or Gainly?
Pursuit Performance ships an update every 2 months, and Gainly every 3 weeks. Most recently, Pursuit Performance was updated on November 3, 2026 and Gainly on November 4, 2026.

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