Comparison

ATAC vs Arrow

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

Head to head
About

ATAC

This app offers elite-level training programs designed by top athletes to help you achieve your sport-specific goals. It includes personalized workouts, cardio, agility, flexibility, and mindset practices, alongside nutrition and recovery tools. Compete on leaderboards and track your progress to reach peak performance.

Highlights
  • Sport-specific training programs
  • Personalized weight, rep, and set programming
  • Cardio, agility, and flexibility workouts
  • Mindset and mental performance training
  • Custom meal plans and hydration tracking
  • Sleep and recovery tracking
  • Monthly and weekly challenge leaderboards
Features
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VIDEO GAME STATS, MEETS REAL LIFE TRAINING What's Your ATAC Rating? CHAMPIONS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE MADE. This is not your typical training app; this is built to help you reach your sport specific goals. PRO & TOP D1 LEVEL TRAINING This is the same training the best athletes in the world use to excel and reach peak performance. Follow training programs of top athletes like Jordan Burroughs, Reece Humphrey & Trent Hidlay. WORKOUTS Every weight, rep & set specifically programmed for each individual. Cardio workouts for different endurance systems. Agility & Flexibility Training. Demonstration videos for all movements. MINDSET All great champions share a winning mindset. Daily practices to help you compete at your best. ESSENTIALS Custom meal plans created for each user. Hydration tracking. Full recovery activities. Sleep tracking. COMPETE TO SEE WHO'S THE BEST Monthly & Weekly Challenge Leaderboards. Teammate Leaderboards. Team vs Team Leaderboards. YOUR COMPETITION IS TRAINING TO GET BETTER. DON'T GET LEFT BEHIND. ATAC requires a monthly or yearly subscription. All subscriptions come with a 7-day free trial. If you cancel before the end of the trial you will not be charged. Terms of Use: https://atac.app/terms-of-use/

About

Arrow

This app gamifies your fitness journey, transforming workouts into a fun, competitive experience with friends. Track progress with a detailed log, earn rewards, and connect with a global community for motivation and support.

Highlights
  • Gamified workout experience
  • Weightlifting routine planner
  • Progress tracking and logging
  • Social fitness network
  • Earn trophies and EXP
  • Workout social feed
Features
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Arrow is the #1 workout and nutrition tracker built for changing your body. Log your lifts, meals, and weight in one app, get calorie and macro targets that adapt to your real results, and see whether training and diet are actually adding up, whether you're cutting, bulking, or just looking to maintain. TRAINING AND NUTRITION IN ONE LOOP Changing your body is one problem, not two. Your lifts create the stimulus, your food decides what your body does with it, and your weight trend tells you whether the plan is working. Most apps track one piece. Arrow connects all three. • Adaptive TDEE: Arrow estimates your real daily energy expenditure from your weigh-ins and food log, not just a formula, and keeps your calorie and macro targets adjusted as your body responds • Scale Weight vs. Trend Weight: every weigh-in is plotted against a rolling trend, so you can tell a water swing from true gain or loss before you change your plan • Oil detection: if a scanned meal was likely cooked in oil, Arrow asks before you log, so hidden calories don't slip past your numbers • Arrow Score: one number built from Strength (PRs and volume), Nutrition (calories, macros, weigh-ins), and Consistency (workouts and meal logs), weighted for your goal. A cut and a bulk are scored differently. • Estimated daily deficit or surplus and a four-week projection • Arrow Coach flags when a sudden scale jump or drop is likely water, not fat NUTRITION TRACKING THAT'S FAST AND HONEST • Smart Scan: photograph your plate and get the foods, calories, and macros • Describe a meal in plain words or by voice, scan a barcode, or look it up in the database • Heads Up before you log a scanned meal, and a meal score when you do • Edit any target yourself. Arrow never locks you into its numbers. • Recent foods, saved meals, custom foods, and copy-a-previous-day for meals you eat on repeat • Optional meal and post-workout reminders WORKOUT TRACKER BUILT FOR THE GYM • Log sets, reps, and weight in a few taps, no clutter mid-set • Plan your own routines or generate one from your goal, equipment, days, and session length • Flip any exercise card to see your history and personal records • Rest timer, dropsets, cardio and activity tracking • Custom exercises, swap exercises mid-workout, reorder on the fly • Lock Screen Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep your workout in view • Close the app mid-session and resume where you left off ARROW COACH Coach reads training and nutrition together: a recap of your week after workouts and on your Stats screen, a Heads Up on meals before you log them, and a call-out when a weight swing is likely water. Every note ends with what to do next. PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE • Muscle diagram shows which muscles you hit this week and how hard • Volume, PR, and lift progress over time • Week Overview calendar for training and nutrition days • Apple Health steps on your Profile and in Performance • Arrow Wrapped: your year in review TRAIN WITH FRIENDS • See your friends' workouts (and their meals, if they share them) in your feed • Share workout cards to Instagram Stories OPTIONAL GAMIFICATION Want extra motivation? Turn on levels, streak multipliers, and trophies. SUBSCRIPTION Access to Arrow requires a subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Powered by fatsecret nutrition API (www.fatsecret.com) Barcode data also from Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), licensed under ODbL. Terms of Use: https://arrowfitnessapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://arrowfitnessapp.com/privacy Questions? support@arrowfitnessapp.com

Screenshots

ATAC4 screens
Arrow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Arrow at free with in-app purchases against ATAC's subscription. Arrow also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.4). ATAC's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. ATAC sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Arrow sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $4.39 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Arrow holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Arrow has 9.1K ratings behind it against 174, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of ATAC's written reviews are positive against 78% of Arrow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ATAC ships an update every 3 weeks, Arrow every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ATAC versus Arrow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterATACArrow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (174 ratings)4.8 (9.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.7% of reviews78.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1749.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB127 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdvanced Training Athletic ClubLevelUp App Studios LLC

Customer experience

ATAC

All ratings174 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral4.0%
Negative12.6%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive76.7%
Neutral11.6%
Negative11.6%

Arrow

All ratings9,054 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews744 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.9%

User reviews

ATAC

From 174 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💪 Great for athletes
  • 📈 Tracks progress effectively
  • 💡 Innovative concept with stats
  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 🌟 Highly recommended

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Nutrition feature needs improvement
  • 🐛 Limited custom food catalog
  • 🐛 Bugs and difficult to understand
  • 🐛 Setting reverts to default
  • 🐛 Macro tracking isn't the best

Arrow

From 9.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Helpful for tracking workouts
  • 🏆 Motivating with trophies and leveling system
  • 🙌 Great for competing with friends
  • 💪 Tracks muscle groups and progress
  • 📊 Provides detailed workout data and statistics

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes when switching between tabs or accessing friends tab
  • 🔍 Missing some common exercises
  • 🔧 Can't edit previous workouts or change exercise order
  • 🕰️ Rest timer is a premium feature
  • 🤔 Trophies/achievements may be unrealistic for women

Bugs and requests

ATAC

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • Nutrition feature needs improvement
  • Custom food catalog is limited
  • Setting reverts to default state
  • Workout bugs, difficult to understand
  • Difficulty entering custom weights/reps
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  • Workout bugs, can't start baseline tests
  • App consistently freezes after turning phone off then opening
  • Very difficult to use and not intuitive
  • Food logging has limited options
  • App asks for stats again after initial entry
  • App freezes if phone is turned off and reopened
  • No available goals for certain sports
  • Videos won't load
  • Some bugs exist

Requested features

12 requests
  • Add custom foods and adjust macros
  • Add custom foods as catalog
  • Add more stats in rating
  • Add Fencing
  • More flexibility for multi-sport athletes
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  • Allow custom weight/rep schemes
  • Provide specific workouts
  • Improve nutrition tracking
  • Add sliced Turkey, ham, and creatine
  • Make app free as advertised
  • Add dark mode
  • Allow creating own goals for sports

Arrow

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Assisted pull-ups incorrectly adding weight instead of subtracting
  • Muscle distribution not accurately tracking
  • Workout data not always logging correctly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to edit previous workouts
  • Allow reordering of exercises in a workout
  • Implement a rest timer
  • Add more workout options, especially for cardio
  • Provide different tiers/achievements for men and women

In-app purchases

7 purchases

ATAC

Subscriptions7
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription$6.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$14.991 Month
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  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription$49.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$99.991 Year
17 purchases

Arrow

Subscriptions16
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$4.391 Month
  • Gold Access1 Month trial$4.391 Month
  • Gold Access$5.991 Month
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  • Gold Access7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Diamond Access$12.991 Month
  • Secret Discount (Gold Access)$17.491 Year
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Gold Access1 Month trial$29.991 Year
  • Diamond Access7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Gold Access1 Month trial$34.991 Year
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Gold Access1 Month trial$44.991 Year
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$44.991 Year
  • Diamond Access7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Diamond Access1 Month trial$79.991 Year
  • Diamond Access7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Gold Access$74.99

Questions

Is ATAC free?
ATAC is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arrow free?
Arrow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ATAC or Arrow?
Arrow is rated higher. ATAC averages 4.4 out of 5 from 174 ratings, while Arrow averages 4.8 from 9.1K ratings.
Do ATAC or Arrow have ads?
ATAC shows ads; Arrow does not.
Which is updated more often, ATAC or Arrow?
ATAC ships an update every 3 weeks, and Arrow every 2 weeks. Most recently, ATAC was updated on October 15, 2026 and Arrow on October 19, 2026.

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