Comparison

MCI vs Sets

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

Head to head
About

MCI

This app offers personalized fitness plans that adapt to your progress, incorporating strength training, cardio, nutrition, and mobility. It features a large exercise library, progress gamification, and community support from sports scientists.

Highlights
  • Personalized adaptive training plans
  • Strength training with 3D animations
  • Cardio tracking for over 40 sports
  • Nutrition planning with barcode scanner
  • Mobility routines for injury prevention
  • Active community and expert support
Features
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Achieve your fitness goals with the best results with MCI! The MCI fitness app is suitable for every fitness level: Beginners, advanced or professionals. Choose a goal and follow your personalized training plan that regularly adapts to your needs and progress. The key benefits of MCI: - Comprehensive approach to creating your personalized training plan. - Gamification of your progress. - Customizable training plan for every problem area. - Active community with over 2,500 discord-members. - Personal support from qualified sports scientists. The MCI app's comprehensive approach to creating your training plan includes 4 key elements: strength training, cardio training, healthy eating and mobility. Only together will all these areas of fitness help you achieve your goals with the best results. STRENGTH TRAINING - Over 500 exercises with descriptions and 3D animations. - Personal goals and recommendations on how to proceed based on your actual performance. - Your individual recovery (muscle soreness, sleep, etc.) is taken into account. - Periodization and regular adaptation of the plan. CARDIOTRAINING - More than 60 different activities from over 40 sports. - Cardio training as a supplement to strength training for optimal muscle mass building and regeneration. HEALTHY NUTRITION - Over 2.3 million products. - Personalized calorie calculation to help you reach your goal. - Integrated barcode scanner. - Create meals and control your diet. MOBILITY ROUTINE - More than 300 exercises. - Regular exercise to complement strength training. - Preventive measures to avoid injuries. - Adapts to your posture in daily life. COMMUNITY Get expert guidance and support from sports scientists on the Discord server: - Check that exercises are being performed correctly. - Assessment of your form and individual advice. - Answers to all questions about training, nutrition and much more. - Weekly discussions with sports scientists and/or the team. - Become part of our community with more than 2500 members. An active, paid subscription is required to use MCI, which can be taken out via the free app. Terms of use: https://mcisolutions.de/agbs Data protection: https://mcisolutions.de/app-datenschutz

About

Sets

Features
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With it’s simple and intuitive design you can save time between your sets and focus on the one thing that is most important - Your workout. Templates: Track your workout according to your personal preferences and create custom templates to reuse. Whatever type you are – Sets has the answers. Exercise Library: Sets offers a predefined list of 200+ exercises with descriptions and instructions that you can add to your workouts. You can filter the exercises so you can easily search for and get inspired by new exercises. And if you don't find the exercise you need, just create your own one. Workout Tracking: When you’re giving it your best you don’t want to spend all your time in between sets writing complicated lists or using several apps tracking all your stats. With its fast and lightweight approach, Sets enables you to track your exercises, sets and reps all in one place so you can focus your entire energy on your workout. Stay flexible and add exercises and sets as you go. Don’t remember your workout values from last time? No problem, Sets has got you covered and will show and even prefill the values from the previous workout. Timer and Stopwatch: Don’t loose track of time – instead use the custom timer to as an example track the pause in between sets and get notified when it’s time to start the next one. Pause/resume and stop the timer directly from the lock screen with the new live activity. Furthermore you can use the stopwatch that enables you to track a run or exercises like the Wall Sit and directly save that value to your current workout if you like. Records: View, filter and compare all your previous workouts to take a look at your progress. Tap an item in the list to view detailed information about the specific workout and find out what you have tracked. Use the new calendar view to oversee what your workout schedule looks like for the month and how you’ve progressed throughout the year. Statistics: If you want to go even deeper, compare all your weight, reps, etc. throughout all your tracked workouts to progressively overload and visualize exactly what you’ve accomplished. You choose how you want to display the progress – over the current week, month, year or all time. Sets provides you with everything you need to achieve new personal records. Personalization: Customise the appearance of the app by changing the accent color, adding a profile picture and adjusting the theme (dark/light) to match your personal style. If you like, add your personal information such as age, weight and height so your tracking of workout values (e.g. calories) can be even more precise – all without giving anyone your data, because the app values your privacy. Reminders and Notifications: Create custom times and weekdays to be reminded to start a workout or let the app tell you when you should be active again – all defined by you to support your personal goals. Cloud Backup: Sets uses the Apple iCloud to backup all your data in a personal container, so you can access it everywhere without giving anyone your data. Widgets: Use one of the three Home Screen Widgets to quick track a Workout, visualize your progress or view the last workout stats.

Screenshots

MCI4 screens
Sets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sets at none against MCI's 9. MCI's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5.0 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. MCI sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. Sets asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MCI ships an update every 2 weeks, Sets fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MCI versus Sets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMCISets
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMCI Solutions GmbHSoeren Seidel

In-app purchases

8 purchases

MCI

Subscriptions8
  • 1 Month7 Days trial$29.991 Month
  • 3 Months7 Days trial$39.993 Months
  • 3 Months7 Days trial$49.993 Months
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  • 12 Months7 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • 12 Months7 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • 12 Months7 Days trial2 variants$99.991 Year
  • 6 Months7 Days trial$109.996 Months
  • 12 Months7 Days trial$129.991 Year
None

Sets

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MCI free?
MCI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sets free?
Sets is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MCI or Sets have ads?
Neither MCI nor Sets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MCI or Sets?
MCI ships an update every 2 weeks, and Sets fortnightly. Most recently, MCI was updated on October 30, 2026 and Sets on October 28, 2026.

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