Gym Tracker & Log vs Workout Notepad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gym Tracker & 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.
- Unlimited workout routines
- Progressive overload tracking
- Advanced analytics and charts
- Offline functionality
- Personalizable dashboard
- Frictionless data input
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Gym tracker and workout log built by a lifter, for lifters. Unlimited routines and workouts, your full history forever, no ads, no paywall spam. My mission is to deliver a workout log app that will help you make progress, build strength, and ensure hypertrophy, all that for free. I will never change a free feature to a paid one, spam the paywall, limit routines or workout logs, etc. (all the bad stuff other workout trackers do). What sets Strive apart: - Create unlimited workout routines, most trackers paywall this - Your full history, forever - every workout, set and chart since day one, no history limit. During a workout tap any exercise to see its history and your previous numbers - Your data stays yours - stored on your phone, backed up to iCloud, and you can create a manual backup anytime - Workout plans: 33 ready-made programs (nSuns, PHUL, Reddit PPL, 5x5, Arnold Split and more), a plan creator that builds a plan for you from a short survey, or your own plan with workouts assigned to days or in order - Plan summary - when a plan ends you get a progress analysis and recommendations - Automatic progression - turn it on in a routine and the app raises the weight or reps for the next workout, advanced rules are still there for the nerds - Automatic warmup sets, per exercise - RIR/RPE tracking with effective reps metric - Advanced charts, analyze routine, body part or exercise progress - Personal records and estimated 1RM for every exercise - Progress photos, compare them side by side - Measurements and body proportions, see how you compare to ideal ranges - Rest timer per exercise or per routine, visible on the lock screen - Home screen widgets and a personalizable dashboard, choose from many widgets in various sizes and have all the data at a glance - Plate calculator with your own plates and bars - Gear - assign straps, belts or sleeves to routines and never forget them again - Placeholder exercise - pick a category or body part and choose the actual exercise during the workout, based on how you feel or what's free at the gym - Custom keyboard to input workout data frictionlessly, copy values from the previous set, set a value for all sets, increment and decrement - Apple Health sync - import cardio and bodyweight, send your workouts to Health - Share workouts and routines with friends or followers, cardio share cards with your GPS route - PT report - send your coach a clean summary of your training - Mark workouts as deloads to better understand and analyze the data - Fully offline - I know some gyms have poor reception - Wrapped, see your year in review at the end of the year - Themes & theme creator - No ads, no selling your data, no tracking across apps Rest of the features that you would expect: - Exercise database with 335 exercises, animations and technique tips - Notes - All set types: warmup, dropset, myo reps etc. - Workout finish reminder - never again open the app to see that you have not saved the previous workout - Plan workout reminders - Dark mode 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/
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.
- Immersive workout launch view
- Track weight, reps, and time
- Super-set support
- Dynamic workout composition
- Advanced logging visualization
- Custom graph creation tool
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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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gym Tracker & Log at 99% against Workout Notepad's 67%. Gym Tracker & Log also leads on update cadence (every 6 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
Both are free to download. Gym Tracker & 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.
Gym Tracker & Log holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gym Tracker & Log has 889 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 99% of Gym Tracker & Log's written reviews are positive against 67% of Workout Notepad's.
Gym Tracker & Log ships an update every 6 days, Workout Notepad every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Gym Tracker & Log | Workout Notepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (889 ratings) — better | 4.6 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 98.7% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 889 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 244 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Artur Fijal | LandersWeb |
Customer experience
Gym Tracker & Log
Workout Notepad
Bugs and requests
Gym Tracker & 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
Gym Tracker & Log
- Unlimited access$6.991 Month
- Unlimited access$39.991 Year
- 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
Workout Notepad
- Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Yearly$39.991 Year
- Workout Notepad Unlocked Promo$6.99
- Workout Notepad Unlocked$9.99
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