Workout Buddy vs GAINS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Workout Buddy
This app helps you track your fitness progress with a simple interface. Easily add, save, and manage custom workouts, using checkboxes to monitor your progress throughout the week. Focus on your fitness journey with a clutter-free design.
- Add and save custom workouts
- Monitor progress with weekly checkboxes
- Reorder and delete workouts
- Clutter-free, user-friendly design
- Personalized workout list
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Your workout app should not become another workout. Workout Buddy is a fast weekly exercise checklist for the gym, a run, a walk or the yoga mat. Add each workout once, tap the days you did it, and get on with your day. NEW IN 2.0: SEE EVERY DAY YOU SHOWED UP Tap a workout’s name to open its Workout History, a month calendar with a blue dot under every day you checked it off. Swipe sideways or use the arrows to look back month by month. It fills in by itself, week by week, starting the week you first open Workout Buddy 2.0. YOUR WHOLE WEEK IN ONE LOOK Every workout gets its own row with seven boxes, Sunday to Saturday. Today’s box is tinted blue, so one glance tells you where your week stands. ONE TAP BETWEEN YOU AND DONE Did your squats today? Tap the box and feel a haptic tap back. Boxes stay checked until you tap them again, so a slip of the thumb is one tap to fix, and you decide when to clear the week and start fresh. JUST ENOUGH DETAIL Each workout has room for a short note right under its name. Keep your current weight, your sets or a form cue where you will see it at the gym. Tap the name to edit the note or rename the workout. YOUR ROUTINE, YOUR ORDER Put your workouts in the order you actually do them, and remove the ones you have moved on from. Workout Buddy always asks before it deletes anything. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account to create and nothing to sign in to. No ads, no subscriptions and no in app purchases. Your workouts, notes and history stay on your iPhone, which is why the App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected. SIMPLE ON PURPOSE Workout Buddy leaves out everything that turns a quick check into homework: • No set by set or rep logging • No timers to babysit • No charts to interpret • No streaks to guilt you • No social feed to keep up with • No prescribed plans or coaching What is left is fast, calm and yours. COMFORTABLE FOR EVERYONE Text grows with Dynamic Type, every control is labeled for VoiceOver, and it looks right in dark mode and in landscape. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY KNOW HOW THEY WANT TO MOVE Lifters with a simple split. Walkers, runners and yoga regulars. Anyone keeping up a stretching or rehab routine at home. Anyone who wants to know, at a glance, whether this week is on track. If you want a coach, a plan or a wall of stats, there are apps for that. If you want to tap a box and get on with your day, welcome.
GAINS
Track your fitness journey with this comprehensive app. Log workouts, monitor body measurements, and capture progress photos to visualize your transformation. It also includes a nutrition dashboard to help you stay aligned with your goals.
- Progress photo tracking
- Body measurement logging
- Strength and workout logging
- Progressive overload system
- Nutrition and calorie tracking
- Daily/weekly check-ins
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Track your fitness journey and see real progress with Gains. A powerful all in one transformation tracker, workout planner, and nutrition system designed to help you maximize muscle growth, stay consistent, and hit your training goals. Whether you train for hypertrophy, bulking, cutting, or weight loss, Gains keeps your progress, strength, and nutrition fully organized in one simple app. Progress Tracking Capture front, side, back, and pose progress photos to visually track your transformation over time. Store all your gym progress photos in one place and compare them easily. Track detailed body measurements including weight, body fat, muscle percent, chest, waist, arms, thighs, glutes, and calves so you can see real changes with precision. Stay consistent with daily or weekly check ins that keep you accountable. Strength and Workout Tracking Train with a system built around progressive overload so you increase weight or reps each week with confidence. Log all sets, reps, weights, and personal records through a fast and intuitive interface. Gains makes progressive overload simple, structured, and easy to follow so you build more muscle over time without overthinking your training. Nutrition and Calorie Tracking Stay aligned with your goals using the built in protein tracker and clean nutrition dashboard. Log your daily calories, protein, carbs, and fats in seconds. View your net calories to understand your true daily balance by seeing how much you ate minus how much you burned. Start with 4 free check ins to track your progress. Unlock full access with Gains Unlimited. Subscribe for 1.99 per month, 11.99 per year, or 29.99 for lifetime access. Prices may vary by location. For support email hey@mitness.com Terms: https://getgainsapp.com/terms.html Privacy: https://getgainsapp.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: GAINS at Free against Workout Buddy's $0.99. GAINS also leads on ratings volume (21 vs 3) and iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 26.5). Workout Buddy's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On rating, 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
GAINS is free to download; Workout Buddy costs $0.99 up front. GAINS sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Workout Buddy asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Workout Buddy against 4.9 for GAINS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GAINS has 21 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Workout Buddy's written reviews are positive against 80% of GAINS's.
Workout Buddy ships an update every 2 days, GAINS every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Workout Buddy | GAINS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.9 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 14.0.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Staab | Mitness Limited |
Customer experience
Workout Buddy
GAINS
In-app purchases
Workout Buddy
No in-app purchases
GAINS
- Gains Unlimited - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Gains Unlimited - Yearly$14.991 Year
- Gains Unlimited - Forever$59.99
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