Dropset vs InstaCal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dropset
This app provides a clean and minimal interface for tracking gym workouts. It focuses on essential features for setting up routines and exercises, offering flexibility for various exercise types beyond just sets and reps. The goal is to provide a non-distracting and serious tracking experience for dedicated gym-goers.
- Superset tracking
- Dropset tracking
- Custom workouts and exercises
- Workout notes
- Community chat
- Flexible scheduling
- Flexible tracking options
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Dropset is a clean and minimal tool for tracking your gym workouts, designed to be as non distracting as possible. You won’t find annoying upsells, or unnecessary options. There's simply what you need to set up your workout routine and your exercises and then track them at the gym. Also, it's super flexible. Not just designed for sets and reps but most other common exercises. So you can do things like interval timers, duration timers, distances, or, simply check exercises off of a list. Flexibility, focus and simplicity is what Dropset is all about. A few key features · Superset · Dropsets · Custom workouts and exercises · Workout notes · Community with a live group chat · Flexible scheduling options · Flexible tracking options In short, it's serious tracking for serious gym workouts.
InstaCal
This AI-powered nutrition tracker uses photo scanning to instantly analyze your meals and provide macro breakdowns. Connect with friends through a social feed, discover local food options on a map, and gain insights from a virtual dietitian.
- AI photo meal analysis
- Social food feed
- Food discovery map
- Multiple logging options
- AI dietitian chat
- Health and fitness app sync
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InstaCal: The Social App for Food & Fitness Food is social. Your nutrition app should be too. InstaCal is where you see what your friends are actually eating, find your next meal from real plates near you, and log your own food in seconds with AI. Not a tracker with social bolted on, a social app where the content is what people eat. A FEED BUILT AROUND FOOD Follow friends and see every meal they log, with full macro breakdowns. Like, comment, and bookmark the ones that inspire you. Share yours on cards designed to post anywhere. You choose who sees each meal: your feed, your profile only, or only you. YOUR OWN COACH, IN YOUR DMS InstaCal Coach is an AI dietitian that reads every meal and workout you log and leaves a short note: what worked, what to fix, what to eat next. It recaps your day, week and month. Ask it anything. 6 WAYS TO LOG • Photo Scan - snap your plate, AI breaks down every ingredient • Barcode Scanner - scan packaged food in seconds • Nutrition Label Scanner - point and done • Food Search - describe it in plain English, adjust the portion, log it • Build a Meal - combine ingredients your way • Saved Meals - one tap to relog your go-to's Fix with AI: "the chicken is 8oz, add ranch." See exactly what changes before it's applied. TRACKING THAT READS AT A GLANCE Your day in boxes: calories, macros, streak, burned, distance, goals and body weight. Swipe through your week Monday to Sunday. Tap any box for full charts and the Coach's read. FOOD AND FITNESS, FINALLY TOGETHER Connect Apple Health or Strava, or type "ran 5k in 28 min" and it's logged. See calories burned next to calories eaten, with splits, pace, heart rate zones and elevation on every run. Set weekly training goals and watch them fill. EVERY ROUTE ON ONE MAP Your runs and rides draw themselves in as you scroll, and one map shows every route you've ever recorded. DISCOVER MEALS NEAR YOU Open the Map to see real meals logged around your city. Find your next lunch spot based on what people actually ordered, photographed and loved. Explore shows you plates that fit the macros you have left today. CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS Set a target like "run 50 miles this month" and race your friends, or go head-to-head on points where everyone is scored against their own goals. Join public seasons with the whole community. MESSAGE YOUR PEOPLE DM friends one-on-one or in groups. Reply to stories, react, share meals and workouts straight into a chat. EARN YOUR BADGES 88 achievements to unlock as you log, cook, compete and keep your streak alive. Then get your month, wrapped: a story of your meals, miles and streaks, ready to share. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Widgets for today's calories, your streak, a one-tap Log a meal, friends' latest plates and your last workout. Lock Screen too. YOUR PROFILE, YOUR RULES Public or private, you choose who sees what. Add your Instagram and website. Follow friends, creators, athletes and dietitians, or keep it to your close circle. FREE FOREVER Unlimited logging by photo, search or Build a Meal. The full social feed, Explore, stories, challenges, achievements, DMs, widgets, Wrapped and saving meals. Coach notes on every meal and workout, and Fix with AI, included. INSTACAL PRO UNLOCKS • Barcode and nutrition label scanning • One-tap relog, duplicate and edit your saved meals • Unlimited Coach chat, plus weekly and monthly recaps • Full insight pages: calories, macros, streaks, distance, training, trends and progress • Meal scores, pace zones and your last six runs • Nearby slides and your personal meal map Free to start. One subscription unlocks everything. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: InstaCal at 5.0 against Dropset's 4.4. InstaCal also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Dropset's advantage is ratings volume (96 vs 27). 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
Both are free to download. Dropset sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and InstaCal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
InstaCal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 96 and 27 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Dropset's written reviews are positive against 100% of InstaCal's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dropset | InstaCal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (96 ratings) | 5.0 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Fortyfour AB | Digital Delight LLC |
Customer experience
Dropset
InstaCal
Bugs and requests
Dropset
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes when changing equipment type
- App crashes when modifying weight amounts
- Account deletion removes all workout logs
- Social/messaging features non-functional
- Data import functionality not working
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- Inconsistent crash frequency during sessions
Requested features
16 requests- Apple Watch app/integration
- Exercise demonstration videos
- Kilogram (KG) unit support
- Resistance bands equipment option
- Multiple instances of same equipment in workout
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- Apple Health body composition/weight sync
- Weekly routine organization view
- Consolidated progress tracking on single screen
- Ability to log past workouts
- Lifetime purchase option
- Nutrition tracking with barcode scanner
- Social sharing features
- Weekly routine builder
- Martial arts workout tracking
- Goal countdown tracker
- Better exercise descriptions and images
InstaCal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dropset
- Monthly plan2 variants$4.991 Month
- Yearly plan2 variants$39.991 Year
- Lifetime$99.00
InstaCal
- InstaCal$7.991 Month
- InstaCal3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Streak Restore$0.99









