Comparison

GymPact vs HoopsProtocol

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

HoopsProtocol

This app helps basketball players improve their game by tracking shooting drills, providing landing and strength training, and offering recovery exercises. It focuses on injury prevention and skill development with structured practice routines.

Highlights
  • Form shooting tracker
  • Landing mechanics training
  • Strength and recovery exercises
  • Structured practice routines
  • Injury prevention drills
  • Session clip saving
Features
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Count your makes. HoopsProtocol keeps score of the one drill every player already does — form shooting, alone at a rim — and wraps it in the warm-up, landing and strength work that guards against basketball's worst injuries: the ACL, the rolled ankle, jumper's knee, gone on a rebound, a closeout, a cold first jump. Built with Cape Concierge PT, a Cape Cod physical-therapy practice. THE PRACTICE BOARD Home is a coach's half-court diagram: each section anchored to the spot where its work happens — Pregame at the center circle, Ball Work in the paint, The Weight Room, Bounce for landing, Postgame for recovery and The Scorer's Table for handouts. Over 60 drills across six sections, each with its cues written out — a structure a coach can run, not a video library to scroll. The shooting and ball-handling sections are filmed rep by rep. FORM SHOOTING THAT KEEPS SCORE Nine timed stations, Mikans to free throws, that run themselves — with two thumb-sized make and miss buttons, a shot chart drawn on the floor your session happened on, and a short history of past sessions. THE TAPE, COURTSIDE Start a session and its clips save to your phone, so a gym with dead Wi-Fi still plays every one; Settings can keep the full library. Sideline mode makes the buttons bigger and the screen brighter, and touch lock ignores a stray bump while the tape rolls. The practice clock runs by hand, on work-and-rest intervals, or by stations, and announces what's up next. Music plays under the drills, mirror flips a clip for the whole line, and AirPods, a clicker or Siri can run it. LANDING IS A SKILL The Bounce section teaches it directly — snap downs, drops to stick, single-leg landings — because the mechanics that keep a knee healthy are trainable, and almost nobody trains them. NO ACCOUNT, NO SIGN-UP SHEET No sign-in, no password, no roster. Install it and every section is already open, with free drills in each one — nothing to configure before a session that tipped off ten minutes ago. HOOPSPROTOCOL PRO Pro unlocks the rest of the library: the vertical plyometric block and the filmed shooting and ball-handling work. Choose a monthly or an annual plan, or buy it once and keep it — every way in opens the same drills. Both plans start with a week-long free trial for new subscribers, renew automatically at the price shown until canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed or canceled in your Apple Account settings or from the app's Settings; the one-time purchase never renews. Restore with the same Apple Account. What sits in the open tier is a coaching decision and may be adjusted as the program develops. Terms of Use: https://playprotocol.tatzel-labs.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://playprotocol.tatzel-labs.com/hoopsprotocol-privacy COURTSIDE CALCULATORS Sweat rate from a weigh-in and weigh-out, a single-leg hop screen with the left/right difference worked out, acute-to-chronic workload so a training spike shows before it costs you a player, and heat-index guidance for gyms with no AC. Screening tools for a coach, not a diagnosis; anything that hurts goes to a clinician. HANDOUTS FOR PARENTS AND PLAYERS Clean one-pagers you can text to a parent or print for the locker room. READABLE COURTSIDE, QUIET ABOUT YOU Type scales with your text size, VoiceOver reads every control, and it follows your light or dark setting. And there is nothing to track: no account, no advertising, no analytics, no tracking SDKs, no health records — the courtside calculators work out a number on your device and keep nothing. The one thing the app can send is the optional "ask CCPT to reach out" form in Settings — an email you type, sent only when you tap the button. Nothing is sold or shared with anyone else, ever. The program — the drills, the progression, the coaching — is built with Cape Concierge PT. The app is published and supported by Tatzel Labs LLC. Questions? Email support@tatzel-labs.com.

Screenshots

GymPact4 screens
HoopsProtocol4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: GymPact at free against HoopsProtocol's freemium. GymPact also leads on ratings volume (80 vs 1). HoopsProtocol's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, 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. GymPact sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and HoopsProtocol sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HoopsProtocol holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GymPact has 80 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GymPact ships an update weekly, HoopsProtocol every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
GymPact versus HoopsProtocol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGymPactHoopsProtocol
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (80 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews95.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings80 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGymPact LLCTatzel Labs LLC

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

HoopsProtocol

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

GymPact

Subscriptions2
  • All Access$9.991 Month
  • All Access7 Days trial$79.991 Year
3 purchases

HoopsProtocol

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • HoopsProtocol Pro$149.99

Questions

Is GymPact free?
GymPact is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HoopsProtocol free?
HoopsProtocol is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, GymPact or HoopsProtocol?
HoopsProtocol is rated higher. GymPact averages 4.7 out of 5 from 80 ratings, while HoopsProtocol averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do GymPact or HoopsProtocol have ads?
Neither GymPact nor HoopsProtocol shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GymPact or HoopsProtocol?
GymPact ships an update weekly, and HoopsProtocol every 11 days. Most recently, GymPact was updated on November 3, 2026 and HoopsProtocol on November 6, 2026.

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