Comparison

Workout Planner vs Gym Tracker & 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 Tracker & Log

This app helps you track your weightlifting workouts and build strength. It offers unlimited routines, full workout history, and advanced analytics. It also includes pre-made workout plans, automatic progression, and progress photos.

Highlights
  • Unlimited workout routines
  • Full workout history
  • Pre-made and custom workout plans
  • Automatic progression
  • Advanced charts and analytics
  • Progress photos and measurements
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Gym tracker and workout log built by a lifter, for lifters. Unlimited routines and workouts, your full history forever, no ads, no paywall spam. My mission is to deliver a workout log app that will help you make progress, build strength, and ensure hypertrophy, all that for free. I will never change a free feature to a paid one, spam the paywall, limit routines or workout logs, etc. (all the bad stuff other workout trackers do). What sets Strive apart: - Create unlimited workout routines, most trackers paywall this - Your full history, forever - every workout, set and chart since day one, no history limit. During a workout tap any exercise to see its history and your previous numbers - Your data stays yours - stored on your phone, backed up to iCloud, and you can create a manual backup anytime - Workout plans: 33 ready-made programs (nSuns, PHUL, Reddit PPL, 5x5, Arnold Split and more), a plan creator that builds a plan for you from a short survey, or your own plan with workouts assigned to days or in order - Plan summary - when a plan ends you get a progress analysis and recommendations - Automatic progression - turn it on in a routine and the app raises the weight or reps for the next workout, advanced rules are still there for the nerds - Automatic warmup sets, per exercise - RIR/RPE tracking with effective reps metric - Advanced charts, analyze routine, body part or exercise progress - Personal records and estimated 1RM for every exercise - Progress photos, compare them side by side - Measurements and body proportions, see how you compare to ideal ranges - Rest timer per exercise or per routine, visible on the lock screen - Home screen widgets and a personalizable dashboard, choose from many widgets in various sizes and have all the data at a glance - Plate calculator with your own plates and bars - Gear - assign straps, belts or sleeves to routines and never forget them again - Placeholder exercise - pick a category or body part and choose the actual exercise during the workout, based on how you feel or what's free at the gym - Custom keyboard to input workout data frictionlessly, copy values from the previous set, set a value for all sets, increment and decrement - Apple Health sync - import cardio and bodyweight, send your workouts to Health - Share workouts and routines with friends or followers, cardio share cards with your GPS route - PT report - send your coach a clean summary of your training - Mark workouts as deloads to better understand and analyze the data - Fully offline - I know some gyms have poor reception - Wrapped, see your year in review at the end of the year - Themes & theme creator - No ads, no selling your data, no tracking across apps Rest of the features that you would expect: - Exercise database with 335 exercises, animations and technique tips - Notes - All set types: warmup, dropset, myo reps etc. - Workout finish reminder - never again open the app to see that you have not saved the previous workout - Plan workout reminders - Dark mode 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 Tracker & Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

Workout Planner and Gym Tracker & Log both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 99% of Gym Tracker & Log's written reviews are positive against 0% of Workout Planner's. Gym Tracker & Log also leads on update cadence (every 6 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 Tracker & Log sells 8 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 Tracker & Log. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gym Tracker & Log has 898 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 Tracker & Log's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Workout Planner ships an update every 23 months, Gym Tracker & Log every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Workout Planner versus Gym Tracker & Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorkout PlannerGym Tracker & Log
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (898 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews98.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1898 — better
Update frequencyEvery 23 monthsEvery 6 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 MB246 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 Tracker & Log

All ratings896 ratings
Positive99.0%
Neutral0.7%
Negative0.3%
Written reviews386 reviews
Positive98.7%
Neutral1.0%
Negative0.3%

Bugs and requests

Workout Planner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Gym Tracker & 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
8 purchases

Gym Tracker & Log

Subscriptions2
  • Strive PRO Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Strive PRO Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time6
  • Theme cotton candy$3.79
  • Theme cotton candy dark$3.79
  • Theme Cherry Blossom$3.79
Show 3 more
  • Theme beige$3.99
  • Unlimited access$79.99
  • Unlimited access$139.99

Questions

Is Workout Planner free?
Workout Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gym Tracker & Log free?
Gym Tracker & Log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Workout Planner or Gym Tracker & Log?
Workout Planner is rated higher. Workout Planner averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Gym Tracker & Log averages 4.9 from 898 ratings.
Do Workout Planner or Gym Tracker & Log have ads?
Neither Workout Planner nor Gym Tracker & Log shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Workout Planner or Gym Tracker & Log?
Workout Planner ships an update every 23 months, and Gym Tracker & Log every 6 days. Most recently, Workout Planner was updated on November 3, 2026 and Gym Tracker & Log on November 12, 2026.

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