Comparison

Gym Buddy Tracker 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

Gym Buddy Tracker

This app helps you personalize your fitness journey by creating and tracking custom workouts. Monitor your progress, manage weights, and optimize rest periods. Explore a library of routines or build your own for any fitness level.

Highlights
  • Create custom workouts
  • Track workout progress
  • Manage weights and reps
  • Optimize rest periods
  • Library of workout routines
  • Build custom routines
Features
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Introducing Gym Buddy Tracker: your ultimate fitness companion! This app empowers you to personalize your fitness journey by adding and tracking your own workouts. With Gym Buddy Tracker, you can easily monitor your progress, manage weights, and optimize your rest periods between sets. Dive into our extensive library of workout routines tailored for various fitness goals. Whether you're interested in adhering to a structured plan or prefer to mix and match components to create a custom routine, Gym Buddy Tracker offers versatile solutions for every fitness level. Start your journey towards better health and fitness today! Gym Buddy Pro subscription: Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your iTunes account will automatically be charged at the renewal price within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period unless you change your subscription preferences in your App Store account settings. You can manage your subscriptions at any time through your App Store account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when making a purchase of an auto-renewing subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gymbuddytracker.web.app/privacy-policy/

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

Gym Buddy Tracker4 screens
Gym log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Gym log at free against Gym Buddy Tracker's freemium. Gym log also leads on ratings volume (888 vs 2) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Gym Buddy Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 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 Gym Buddy Tracker against 4.9 for Gym log. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gym log has 888 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Gym Buddy Tracker's written reviews are positive against 99% of Gym log's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gym Buddy Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Gym log every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Gym Buddy Tracker versus Gym log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGym Buddy TrackerGym log
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.9 (888 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better98.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2888 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB244 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMattia BiondaniArtur Fijal

Customer experience

Gym Buddy Tracker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Gym log

All ratings881 ratings
Positive99.0%
Neutral0.7%
Negative0.3%
Written reviews384 reviews
Positive98.7%
Neutral1.0%
Negative0.3%

Bugs and requests

Gym Buddy Tracker

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

2 purchases

Gym Buddy Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Gym Buddy PRO Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month
  • Gym Buddy PRO Yearly1 Month trial$9.991 Year
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 Gym Buddy Tracker free?
Gym Buddy Tracker 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, Gym Buddy Tracker or Gym log?
Gym Buddy Tracker is rated higher. Gym Buddy Tracker averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Gym log averages 4.9 from 888 ratings.
Do Gym Buddy Tracker or Gym log have ads?
Neither Gym Buddy Tracker nor Gym log shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gym Buddy Tracker or Gym log?
Gym Buddy Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Gym log every 6 days. Most recently, Gym Buddy Tracker was updated on October 19, 2026 and Gym log on October 30, 2026.

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