Comparison

FitPlanner vs Chronically

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

Head to head
About

FitPlanner

Create personalized workout routines with this straightforward fitness planner. It offers a minimalist interface for easy custom plan creation.

Highlights
  • Custom workout plan creation
  • Minimalistic interface
  • Easy to use
  • Fitness planning
Features
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FitPlanner is a minimalistic, easy-to-use fitness planner that lets you create a custom workout plan.

About

Chronically

This app provides a private space to track daily symptoms, mood, energy, and medications for those managing chronic illnesses. It offers insights into patterns, helps plan days using spoon theory, and generates doctor-ready reports.

Highlights
  • Daily symptom and mood logging
  • Medication tracking and reminders
  • Spoon theory energy planning
  • Pattern insights and trend analysis
  • Doctor-ready PDF reports
  • Optional weather tracking (barometric pressure)
Features
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Your chronic ally. Chronically is a calm, private place to track life with a chronic illness, one day at a time. Living with chronic illness means managing a hundred small things on the days you have the least to give. Chronically keeps it gentle: quick check-ins, honest tracking, and clear reports, with zero judgment and zero clutter. DAILY CHECK-INS Log your mood, energy, anxiety, appetite, sleep and pain in under a minute, note the symptoms that matter to you, and add a line about your day if you want to. Choose to focus on your body, your mind, or both: a Mood & Mind symptom set sits alongside the physical ones, and the pain question is optional for anyone it doesn't fit. On a low day, "Same as last time" gets you done in two taps. Gentle streaks celebrate showing up and never guilt you for resting. FLARES When a hard stretch starts, mark it at the end of a check-in or from Trends, and tell Chronicle when it eases. Flares appear on your charts and in your doctor report, so the hard stretches are easy to see and easy to explain. INSIGHTS Chronically looks for patterns in what you've logged and tells you about them plainly: which symptoms tend to land on your lower-energy days, how a rough night shows up the next morning, what overspending your energy costs you tomorrow. Every insight shows how many days it's based on, weak patterns stay quiet, and nothing is ever presented as a cause. SPOON CENTER Plan your day around the energy you actually have, using spoon theory. Set today's spoons, plan your activities, see your week at a glance, and reflect at the end of the day on how it really went. MEDICATIONS Keep every medication in one place, from pills and injections to patches, topicals, gummies and drops, with schedules that match how they're actually taken. Log doses, see your adherence, keep a history of dose changes, track your supply with a heads-up before you run low, and note whether an as-needed dose helped. Optional reminders, including one to remove a patch. APPOINTMENTS & DOCTOR REPORTS Save your doctors, get an optional reminder of your questions the evening before a visit, and jot down how it went afterwards. Export a doctor-ready PDF for the dates and sections you choose, including a summary of everything since your last visit with that doctor. TRENDS Watch your patterns come into focus over a week, a month or a year, with flares, medication changes and appointments marked right on the chart. WEATHER Add your city and Chronically will quietly note the weather on each day you check in, including barometric pressure. Your city only, never your exact location, and entirely optional. GETTING STARTED A short welcome and a few gentle tips from Chronicle, the app's little companion, which appear the first time each feature does. Skip them anytime, or bring them back from Profile. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Free, with no ads, no paywalls, and no locked features • No third-party analytics or trackers • Your data stays on our own servers, never sold, never shared • Delete your account and all of your data anytime, right from the app Chronically is built and cared for by one person, and kept free so it's there for everyone who needs it. Chronically is a personal wellness journal, not a medical device. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It isn't a monitoring service, and no one reads what you log. Always talk with your healthcare provider about decisions regarding your health. You're doing better than you think.

Screenshots

FitPlanner3 screens
Chronically4 screens

Verdict

The call

FitPlanner and Chronically are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FitPlanner against 5.0 for Chronically. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
FitPlanner versus Chronically: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFitPlannerChronically
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequency—Every 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlberto DominguezKEVIN PHILIP ERKELENZ

Customer experience

FitPlanner

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Chronically

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

FitPlanner

No in-app purchases

None

Chronically

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FitPlanner free?
FitPlanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chronically free?
Chronically is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, FitPlanner or Chronically?
FitPlanner and Chronically are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do FitPlanner or Chronically have ads?
Neither FitPlanner nor Chronically shows ads.

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