Comparison

Training Note 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

Training Note

Easily log your training volume with customizable categories and exercises. Track progress with monthly reports and charts. Premium features offer extended reporting, daily summaries, and an interval timer.

Highlights
  • Log training volume
  • Customizable categories/exercises
  • Weight x reps, reps, distance, duration logging
  • Monthly reports with charts
  • Interval timer (Premium)
  • Export CSV/JSON (Premium)
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Log the training volume quickly. - No ads - Customizable training categories and exercises (weight x reps, reps, distance, duration) - Easy-to-use keyboard - Monthly reports with charts - More date range options for reports (Premium) - Daily summary (Premium) - Colorful date cell borders (Premium) - Interval timer (Premium) - Export CSV / JSON (Premium) Premium Subscription USD 0.49 / month One-month Free Premium Trial. Terms of Use: https://training.huebear.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://training.huebear.com/privacy

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

Training Note4 screens
Gym log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Gym log at free against Training Note's freemium. Gym log also leads on ratings volume (868 vs 6) and review sentiment (99% vs 87%). Training Note's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.2). 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. Training Note sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.49 per month 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 Training Note against 4.9 for Gym log. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gym log has 868 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Training Note's written reviews are positive against 99% of Gym log's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Training Note ships an update every 9 days, Gym log every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Training Note versus Gym log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTraining NoteGym log
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better4.9 (868 ratings)
Positive reviews86.8% of reviews98.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6868 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB241 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJhesyong JiangArtur Fijal

Customer experience

Training Note

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive86.8%
Neutral5.3%
Negative7.9%

Gym log

All ratings868 ratings
Positive99.0%
Neutral0.7%
Negative0.3%
Written reviews384 reviews
Positive98.7%
Neutral1.0%
Negative0.3%

Bugs and requests

Training Note

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

Training Note

Subscriptions1
  • Premium (Monthly)1 Month trial$0.491 Month
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 Training Note free?
Training Note 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, Training Note or Gym log?
Training Note is rated higher. Training Note averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Gym log averages 4.9 from 868 ratings.
Do Training Note or Gym log have ads?
Neither Training Note nor Gym log shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Training Note or Gym log?
Training Note ships an update every 9 days, and Gym log every 4 days. Most recently, Training Note was updated on October 15, 2026 and Gym log on October 16, 2026.

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