Comparison

Gym log vs Workout Notepad

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

Head to head
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/

About

Workout Notepad

This app helps modern lifters plan and track workouts with an elegant and intuitive interface. It offers advanced visualization features for detailed progress analysis and custom graph creation. The app provides a robust workout catalog and extensive customization options for all fitness levels.

Highlights
  • Immersive workout launch view
  • Track weight, reps, and time
  • Super-set support
  • Dynamic workout composition
  • Advanced logging visualization
  • Custom graph creation tool
Features
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The app for the modern lifter. Remove all barriers to planning and tracking your workouts in an elegant and sleek UI. Workout Notepad was built from the ground up by experienced athletes and bodybuilders to be the best quality product for people who ACTUALLY go to the gym. Focusing on elegance, intuitivity, and ease of use, Period. A natural extension of the traditional workout journal log, Workout Notepad has everything you need to track your progress over time, and excludes anything else you do NOT need. New and existing users can take advantage of the new advanced visualization features inside of Workout Notepad. Enjoy fresh new dashboards tracking your most critical metrics grouped by category, tag, exercise, workout, and more. In addition, create your own dashboard pages with our new powerful graph builder. Explore your exercise data like never before with Workout Notepad. -- Main Features: - Immersive workout launch view. - Track your weight, reps, and time. - Tag sets as you complete them (working set, to failure, warmup, etc.). - Comprehensive super-set support to support advanced athletes. - Dynamic workout composition tool. Your workouts are playlists, and your exercises are the songs. - Robust initial catalogue of workouts and exercises to get you started. - Customization at every level. Icons, colors, layouts, categories, tags, and more. We want to be flexible whether you are a beginner or someone with 10 years under their belt. - Advanced logging visualization features. - View all completed workout and exercise logs data - Post workout summaries for you and to share - Advanced graphs per-exercise showing reps, weight, and time* - Breakdown of exercise bias by category* - Comprehensive visualizations by category, exercise, tag, and type* - Powerful custom data visualization with our custom graph creation tool* - Much, much more for you to explore (*) indicated paid content. Do note, we strive to make the app useful and enriching in it's FREE form. The pay layer is to support the independent US-based development team (of 2). Standard Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Gym log4 screens
Workout Notepad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gym log at 99% against Workout Notepad's 67%. Gym log also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Workout Notepad's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gym log sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Workout Notepad sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gym log holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gym log has 868 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 99% of Gym log's written reviews are positive against 67% of Workout Notepad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gym log ships an update every 4 days, Workout Notepad every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Gym log versus Workout Notepad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGym logWorkout Notepad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (868 ratings) — better4.6 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews98.7% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings868 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.213.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size241 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArtur FijalLandersWeb

Customer experience

Gym log

All ratings868 ratings
Positive99.0%
Neutral0.7%
Negative0.3%
Written reviews384 reviews
Positive98.7%
Neutral1.0%
Negative0.3%

Workout Notepad

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and 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

Workout Notepad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

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
4 purchases

Workout Notepad

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time2
  • Workout Notepad Unlocked Promo$6.99
  • Workout Notepad Unlocked$9.99

Questions

Is Gym log free?
Gym log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Workout Notepad free?
Workout Notepad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gym log or Workout Notepad?
Gym log is rated higher. Gym log averages 4.9 out of 5 from 868 ratings, while Workout Notepad averages 4.6 from 7 ratings.
Do Gym log or Workout Notepad have ads?
Neither Gym log nor Workout Notepad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gym log or Workout Notepad?
Gym log ships an update every 4 days, and Workout Notepad every 5 weeks. Most recently, Gym log was updated on October 14, 2026 and Workout Notepad on October 3, 2026.

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