WeightsBook vs Marathon training
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WeightsBook
This app offers a digital alternative to traditional paper weightlifting journals. It tracks advanced training metrics and provides tools for both beginners and experienced lifters, including client management for trainers.
- Digital weightlifting journal
- Advanced exercise tracking (RIR, RPE, partial reps)
- Superset and drop set support
- Multiple client diaries
- Workout and rest timer
- Workout calendar
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I’ve been lifting for more than 20 years, and I built WeightsBook because I was tired of workout-logging apps that made a simple job feel complicated. With every app I tried, I came away with the same impression: its designers did not understand how lifters actually use a training journal. As a programmer, I decided to build the app I wanted. I returned to what had always worked—pen and paper—and built from there. While training a friend one day, I realized the same journal idea could help personal trainers: a separate weightsbook for every client, all in one app. That led me to add support for multiple weightsbooks, allowing trainers to record each client’s workouts separately and export or share each one. The result is WeightsBook: a modern lifting log that retains the look, feel, and simplicity of a traditional training journal. Its distinctive handwritten style is intentional. Logging a set should feel like writing it down, not operating a dashboard. Within that familiar design, experienced lifters will find detailed tracking for RPE, RIR, supersets, drop sets, and partial reps. If you have ever abandoned a workout app and gone back to a notebook, WeightsBook was made for you.
Marathon training
This AI-powered running coach offers personalized and adaptive workout suggestions for any distance. It learns your abilities to predict your pace and endurance, syncing directly to your Apple Watch.
- AI-powered personalized training plans
- Adaptive workout suggestions
- Predicts pace and endurance
- One-tap Apple Watch syncing
- Supports various running distances
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Discover the future of training with RunRight, your AI Running Coach. Our advanced AI technology gets to know your abilities and predicts for any distance how fast you can run and how far you can go. RunRight creates personalized and adaptive workout suggestions that you can schedule to your Apple Watch in one tap. Join RunRight and experience smarter, tailored training that evolves as you do. Running has never felt so right. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Marathon training at Free against WeightsBook's $4.99. Marathon training also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). WeightsBook's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (80% vs 67%). On update cadence, ads 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
Marathon training is free to download; WeightsBook costs $4.99 up front. Marathon training sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. WeightsBook asks for nothing beyond the download.
Marathon training holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Marathon training has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of WeightsBook's written reviews are positive against 67% of Marathon training's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
WeightsBook ships an update every 2 weeks, Marathon training fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WeightsBook | Marathon training |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mike Hurwitz | Jean-David Morgenstern-Peirolo |
Customer experience
WeightsBook
Marathon training
In-app purchases
WeightsBook
No in-app purchases
Marathon training
- RunRight+ Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- RunRight+ Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
Questions
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