Comparison

FitNotes 2 vs Workout Notepad

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

Head to head
About

FitNotes 2

Log your gym workouts, track progress, and plan routines with this comprehensive fitness tracker. Features include personal record tracking, body measurements, and various timers. Analyze your performance with graphs and set personal exercise goals.

Highlights
  • Workout routine templates
  • Automatic personal record tracking
  • 1RM and percentage calculators
  • Body measurement tracking with Apple HealthKit integration
  • Progress analysis with graphs
  • Rest, EMOM, AMRAP, and Tabata timers
  • Customizable exercises and units
Features
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Keep track of your progress in the gym with a workout tracker and planner. • Based on the popular FitNotes app, the best workout planner app ever made on any platform • Routines: Save your workout routines as templates, log them to a workout • Personal Records are automatically tracked • 1RM, Percents Calculator • Plate Calculator with profiles per gym and multiple barbells • Body Tracker: Record your weight, body fat and any other measurement. Integrates with Apple HealthKit. • Goal Tracker: Set personal goals for exercises, such as a 1RM. • Graphs: Helps to analyze your progress and plan your programming • Rest Timer, EMOM, AMRAP and Tabata timers • Notifications: Be notified when the rest timer ends for your next set • Supports every kind of exercise: weight, reps, distance, time • Use built-in exercises or create your own • Mix pounds (lbs) and kilograms (kg) easily • Add notes to workouts, sets, templates and body measurements • Dark Mode • Apple Watch app • Apple Workout integration with or without Apple Watch • Share workouts as text or an image • Warmup sets • RPE, RIR • Attach images and videos • Import the original FitNotes database and FitNotes CSV files • Manual and automatic backups to iCloud • Export your workouts in a CSV • Export back to the original FitNotes. No lock-in. • No account required You can import CSVs from other fitness and workout log apps to bring your data over. The free version of FitNotes 2 can save up to 12 workouts. Delete older workouts to continue using for free. All features are available free, the number of workouts is the only restriction. To save more workouts, purchase FitNotes unlimited lifetime access or a subscription. Terms of Use: https://getfitnotes.com/termsofuse This app is not affiliated with other fitness apps. Purchase of FitNotes does not transfer to other platforms. FitNotes Changes: Version 14 - Batch import of templates - Option to show workout set completion times - Option to the % of Training Max that a workout set is - Option to show moving average on body measurement charts - Abbreviations recognized in exercise search - Improved workout CSV import/export for Hevy, FitBod and Strong, including RPE, RIR and warmup sets - Fixed swiping workouts on iOS 26 Version 13 - Option to show the Next Set on the lock screen timer - Up/down buttons to move selected workout exercises together Version 12 - Record training max history - Templates can program based on percentages of training max - Import workout text and JSON - Import HeavySet templates - Attach photos and videos to notes - Exercise video library - French translation Version 11 - Added a per-exercise option to exclude it from statistics and graphs - Mark favorite exercises and keep them at the top of the list - Can tap links in workout notes - Plate calculator follows the next set - Modify RPE and RIR from the watch - Fix template Share and Move options - Show newly created exercises even when 'Hide Unused Exercises' is on Version 10 - Ability to hide exercises Version 8 - Add option to skip the rest timer for the final set - Long press notes to show the menu - Update CSV format for the other FitNotes import Version 7 - Export and import templates - Added an option to copy previous sets when adding an exercise to a workout - Add 'Copy' to the long press menu on workout notes Version 5 - Add the rest timer to the lock screen. - Add 'By Year' to statistics time groupings - Add an option to double an exercise's weight when calculating volume. You can use this for unilateral or dumbbell exercises. - Add RPE and RIR to workout sets - Add custom rest times to a single workout set - Add an option to show the workout set notes without opening the notes screen - Flag sets as 'warmup'. Warmup sets are excluded from graphs, statistics and goals. - Fix the rest timer buttons not working after uses EMOM/AMRAP timers

About

Workout Notepad

This app helps modern lifters plan and track workouts with an elegant and intuitive interface. It offers advanced visualization features for detailed progress analysis and custom graph creation. The app provides a robust workout catalog and extensive customization options for all fitness levels.

Highlights
  • Immersive workout launch view
  • Track weight, reps, and time
  • Super-set support
  • Dynamic workout composition
  • Advanced logging visualization
  • Custom graph creation tool
Features
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The app for the modern lifter. Remove all barriers to planning and tracking your workouts in an elegant and sleek UI. Workout Notepad was built from the ground up by experienced athletes and bodybuilders to be the best quality product for people who ACTUALLY go to the gym. Focusing on elegance, intuitivity, and ease of use, Period. A natural extension of the traditional workout journal log, Workout Notepad has everything you need to track your progress over time, and excludes anything else you do NOT need. New and existing users can take advantage of the new advanced visualization features inside of Workout Notepad. Enjoy fresh new dashboards tracking your most critical metrics grouped by category, tag, exercise, workout, and more. In addition, create your own dashboard pages with our new powerful graph builder. Explore your exercise data like never before with Workout Notepad. -- Main Features: - Immersive workout launch view. - Track your weight, reps, and time. - Tag sets as you complete them (working set, to failure, warmup, etc.). - Comprehensive super-set support to support advanced athletes. - Dynamic workout composition tool. Your workouts are playlists, and your exercises are the songs. - Robust initial catalogue of workouts and exercises to get you started. - Customization at every level. Icons, colors, layouts, categories, tags, and more. We want to be flexible whether you are a beginner or someone with 10 years under their belt. - Advanced logging visualization features. - View all completed workout and exercise logs data - Post workout summaries for you and to share - Advanced graphs per-exercise showing reps, weight, and time* - Breakdown of exercise bias by category* - Comprehensive visualizations by category, exercise, tag, and type* - Powerful custom data visualization with our custom graph creation tool* - Much, much more for you to explore (*) indicated paid content. Do note, we strive to make the app useful and enriching in it's FREE form. The pay layer is to support the independent US-based development team (of 2). Standard Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

FitNotes 24 screens
Workout Notepad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: FitNotes 2 at 559 against Workout Notepad's 7. Workout Notepad's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 55%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. FitNotes 2 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Workout Notepad sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for FitNotes 2 against 4.6 for Workout Notepad. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FitNotes 2 has 559 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of FitNotes 2's written reviews are positive against 67% of Workout Notepad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FitNotes 2 ships an update every 2 months, Workout Notepad every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FitNotes 2 versus Workout Notepad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFitNotes 2Workout Notepad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (559 ratings) — better4.6 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews54.7% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings559 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGinger Technologies Pte LtdLandersWeb

Customer experience

FitNotes 2

All ratings559 ratings
Positive89.4%
Neutral2.7%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews148 reviews
Positive54.7%
Neutral6.8%
Negative38.5%

Workout Notepad

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

FitNotes 2

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Copy/paste of workouts not working as expected
  • Timer issues (e.g., defaulting to 2 mins)
  • Crashes when trying to add custom body tracker units
  • Inconsistent behavior when navigating between screens

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to create and use workout templates
  • More customization options (e.g., rest time, RPE/RIR tracking)
  • Apple Health/Fitness integration
  • Supersets/circuit training support
  • Improved data export/backup functionality

Workout Notepad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

FitNotes 2

Subscriptions2
  • Unlimited Use$1.991 Month
  • Unlimited Use$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Forever$44.99
4 purchases

Workout Notepad

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time2
  • Workout Notepad Unlocked Promo$6.99
  • Workout Notepad Unlocked$9.99

Questions

Is FitNotes 2 free?
FitNotes 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Workout Notepad free?
Workout Notepad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FitNotes 2 or Workout Notepad?
FitNotes 2 is rated higher. FitNotes 2 averages 4.6 out of 5 from 559 ratings, while Workout Notepad averages 4.6 from 7 ratings.
Do FitNotes 2 or Workout Notepad have ads?
Neither FitNotes 2 nor Workout Notepad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FitNotes 2 or Workout Notepad?
FitNotes 2 ships an update every 2 months, and Workout Notepad every 5 weeks. Most recently, FitNotes 2 was updated on October 3, 2026 and Workout Notepad on September 15, 2026.

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