GymPact vs Symptom FOCUS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GymPact
This app provides AI-powered athletic training programs tailored to your specific sport and goals. It focuses on explosiveness, durability, and speed, adapting plans to your season and progress. Get personalized workouts, warm-ups, and cooldowns, and even find training partners.
- Personalized fitness programs every four weeks
- Sport-specific training for athletes
- AI-driven adaptation to season and progress
- Includes warm-up and cooldown routines
- Find training partners via push notifications
- Video demonstrations for exercises
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You're training hard. Now, the question is whether you're training the right things. Most teen athletes either neglect or guess in the off-season. Maybe they show up to lift, copy what they see on TikTok, follow programs built for bodybuilders, and hope it transfers when the season starts. Spoiler alert: it doesn't. Or you already have a program, and the program is wrong. Five-day bro-split. Chest-back-legs. Lifts might be going up but your 40-yard, your vertical, your first step stay flat. The discipline is real, but the programming isn't built for your sport and goals. The off-season and preseason, these months when the sport isn’t even played, are when games are won. And it’s when most athletes are flying blind. GymPact is an off-season training platform built for competitive teen athletes. One sport, one position, one season at a time. It’s built entirely around you: your sport, position, competition calendar, etc. And it’s trained on college exercise-science coursework and interviews with strength/conditioning coaches. What you will receive: ▶ Explosive strength built for your sport's demands, not a bodybuilder's ▶ Sprint mechanics, jumps, change-of-direction, position drills ▶ Mobility and recovery programmed in, not added on ▶ Warmups and cooldowns you can take into team practice ▶ Periodized across off-season, pre-season, in-season, and post-season — so that you’re training right year-round ACCESS TO GYMPACT’S FEATURE-SET REQUIRES A SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: https://www.gympact.app/terms WANT A PARENT ON BOARD?: https://www.gympact.app/parents
Symptom FOCUS
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Finding Our Center Under Stress (FOCUS) is a 6-week mobileHealth-telehealth intervention integrating cognitive-behavioral and acceptance and commitment therapy for advanced cancer patients. The primary goal of the intervention is to improve symptoms for people living with advanced cancer so that people with cancer can continue to live meaningfully despite these symptoms. The app consists of a welcome section which provides an overview of the app followed by four modules – each focused on a different symptom – sleep, worry-anxiety, fatigue, and mood. Each module contains interactive exercises and evidence-based practices shown to improve these symptoms and enhance quality of life. For instance, the fatigue module recommends three types of exercise (i.e., stretch and relax, resistance training, aerobic activity) designed specifically for people with advanced cancer with additional tips on coping with fatigue. The app wraps up with a summary of the most essential tips provided in the app and goal-setting to ensure long-term success in coping with cancer. The app is only available to individuals who are participating in the FOCUS research study.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Symptom FOCUS at none against GymPact's 3. Symptom FOCUS also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 16.0). GymPact's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price 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
Both are free to download. GymPact sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Symptom FOCUS asks for nothing beyond the download.
GymPact ships an update weekly, Symptom FOCUS every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GymPact | Symptom FOCUS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (68 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 95.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | GymPact LLC | Ohio State University |
Bugs and requests
GymPact
Reported bugs
3 issues- App shuts down during account creation
- Cannot go back on days
- Account changes limited to once every two weeks
Requested features
12 requests- Open response or multiple choice for injury history
- Better exercise descriptions with visual GIFs/photos
- Ability to track sets done
- Option for a 'complete' or 'done' button for exercises
- Allow input of maxes for percentage-based weight suggestions
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- Include normal workouts outside of sports
- Allow input of maxes for weight suggestions
- Rehab exercises for athletes in recovery
- Make app usable for non-athletes
- Ability to track multiple events/positions simultaneously
- Option to choose focus area for workouts
- More technique training
Symptom FOCUS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GymPact
- All Access$9.991 Month
- All Access7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Founder's Pack$9.99
Symptom FOCUS
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is GymPact free?
Is Symptom FOCUS free?
Do GymPact or Symptom FOCUS have ads?
Which is updated more often, GymPact or Symptom FOCUS?
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