Comparison

Workout Planner vs Gym log

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

Head to head
About

Workout Planner

Organize your fitness routine with a digital diary for workouts, plans, and exercises. Track distance, weight, sets, reps, and laps for various activities. Syncs across devices and offers a pro version for advanced features.

Highlights
  • Workout tracking
  • Customizable workout plans
  • Exercise logging (distance, weight, reps, sets, laps)
  • Notes for exercises
  • Metric/Imperial unit switching
  • Cross-device sync
Features
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Workout Planner - Exercises is here to help you keep track of just that - your workouts, your workout plans and your exercises. Workout Planner is here to help your organise your healthy and active lifestyle, whilst doing so as beautifully and easily as possible. In your workout planner you can view upcoming or previous workouts. Create a new Workout Plan for each day, or use an existing workout plan from another day as a template to quickly create a new workout plan. Each Workout Plan keeps track of your distance and weight based exercises. You can also keep track of laps for distance exercises and add in sets and reps for your weighted workout routines. Exercises is the core to your workout plan. Add in distance and weighted based exercises and keep track of reps, sets, laps and distance. Have some notes provided by a personal trainer? Simply add these notes into your exercise plan to easily view these when you need to come back to them. On your profile you can switch between metric and imperial measurements for both distance and weight. You can also view Workout Planner Pro to unlock features such as an unlimited amount of exercises, workout plan duplication and a longer workout plan history. Workout Planner - Exercise syncs your plans across all of your iOS devices. There's no need to sign-in, login and no ads. With Workout Planner - Exercise you can keep track of your runs, walks, swimming, weight lifting and anything between.

About

Gym log

This free workout tracker helps you build strength and muscle with unlimited routines, progressive overload tracking, and advanced analytics. It offers offline functionality, personalized dashboards, and seamless data input for a friction-free training experience.

Highlights
  • Unlimited workout routines
  • Progressive overload tracking
  • Advanced analytics and charts
  • Offline functionality
  • Personalizable dashboard
  • Frictionless data input
Features
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My mission is to deliver a workout training log app that will help you make progress, build strength, and ensure hypertrophy, all that for free. I will never change the free feature to a paid one, spam the paywall, limit routines or workout logs, etc. (all the bad stuff other workout trackers do). What stands Strive apart: - Create unlimited workout routines, most trackers paywall this - Crate workout plans, assign workouts to days or in an order - Share your workouts with your friends or followers - train together without paying - Set weight or reps for the next workount and ensure progressive overload, go get those gains - RIR/RPE tracking with effective reps metric - Sync cardio and bodyweight with Health so you don't have to input the data manually - Mark workouts as deloads to better understand and analyze the data - Advanced charts without paywall, analyze routine, bodypart or exercise progress - Fully offline - I know some gyms have poor reception - Rest timer personalizeable per exercise - Personalizable dashboard - Choose from many widgets in various sizes to compose your dashboard, just like your phone's homescreen. Have all the data visible at a glance! - Placeholder exercise, select exercise category and bodypart or a group of exercises and then select the actual exercise when working out, based on the feelings or what's free at the gym - Custom keyboard to input workout data frictionlessly, allows to copy value from previous set, set value to all sets, and increment and decrement value - Wrapped, see your year in review at the end of the year - Themes & theme creator - Privacy first - no data tracking - No ads Rest of the features that you would expect: - Measurements and weight ins - Notes - Backup - never loos your data - Prs - Use all the set types, warmup, dropset, myo reps etc - Workout finish reminder - never again open an app to see that you have not saved the previous training - Dark mode - Exercise database I hope my app will help you achieve your goals, in general, just progress and get better. I promise to develop this app until it is your favorite gym log and workout tracker app. Remember, we all are gonna make it! Your gym bro, Artur. _________________________________________ Terms of Use: https://strive-workout.com/terms-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://strive-workout.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Workout Planner4 screens
Gym log4 screens

Verdict

The call

Workout Planner and Gym log both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 99% of Gym log's written reviews are positive against 0% of Workout Planner's. Gym log also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 23 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Workout Planner's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. Workout Planner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Gym log sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 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 — 5.0 for Workout Planner against 4.9 for Gym log. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gym log has 838 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Workout Planner's written reviews are positive against 99% of Gym log's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Workout Planner ships an update every 23 months, Gym log every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Workout Planner versus Gym log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorkout PlannerGym log
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (838 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews98.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1838 — better
Update frequencyEvery 23 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB219 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuke PearceArtur Fijal

Customer experience

Workout Planner

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%

Gym log

All ratings838 ratings
Positive98.8%
Neutral0.8%
Negative0.4%
Written reviews384 reviews
Positive98.7%
Neutral1.0%
Negative0.3%

Bugs and requests

Workout Planner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Gym log

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional issues with saving workouts
  • Timer not always functioning properly when other apps are running

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to sync data across devices
  • Addition of body measurements tracking (waist, legs, etc.)
  • Inclusion of a plate calculator
  • Option to log one-arm exercises separately
  • Ability to delete or reorder exercises in a workout

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Workout Planner

One-time1
  • Workout Planner Pro$8.99
7 purchases

Gym log

Subscriptions2
  • Unlimited access$6.991 Month
  • Unlimited access$39.991 Year
One-time5
  • Theme cotton candy$3.79
  • Theme cotton candy dark$3.79
  • Theme Cherry Blossom$3.79
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  • Theme beige$3.99
  • Unlimited access$139.99

Questions

Is Workout Planner free?
Workout Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gym log free?
Gym log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Workout Planner or Gym log?
Workout Planner is rated higher. Workout Planner averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Gym log averages 4.9 from 838 ratings.
Do Workout Planner or Gym log have ads?
Neither Workout Planner nor Gym log shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Workout Planner or Gym log?
Workout Planner ships an update every 23 months, and Gym log every 4 days. Most recently, Workout Planner was updated on September 27, 2026 and Gym log on October 2, 2026.

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