Comparison

FitCal vs Arrow

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

Head to head
About

FitCal

Effortlessly track your nutrition using AI. Describe meals or upload photos for instant calorie and nutrient estimates. Access healthy recipes and monitor your progress with a personal profile.

Highlights
  • AI-powered meal logging
  • Calorie and nutrient estimation
  • Photo-based food analysis
  • Healthy recipe collection
  • Personal profile and progress tracking
  • Secure data storage
Features
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Take control of your nutrition with the power of AI. Welcome to FitCal. Track your meals effortlessly by describing them or snapping a photo — FitCal's intelligent system estimates calories and nutrients instantly. No more scrolling through endless food lists: just tell FitCal what you ate and let the AI handle the rest. KEY FEATURES AI-Powered Meal Logging — Describe your meal or upload a photo and get an instant calorie and macro estimate. Healthy Recipes — Explore a curated selection of nutritious, easy meals. Progress Tracking — Follow your weight, streaks and daily targets from one personal dashboard. Notifications — Messages from your dietitian, reminders and updates all in one place. Friends — Add friends and follow their profiles and streaks. FOR DIETITIANS FitCal is also a working tool for nutrition professionals. Client Management — Keep every client in one list and follow their progress. Meal Plans — Build weekly or daily plans and assign them to the clients you choose. AI Plan Import — Already have your plans in a photo or PDF? FitCal reads the document and turns it into a structured plan you can edit before sending. Progress Reports — See how each client is doing at a glance. Write to Us — Send a message from inside the app. Our reply arrives in your notifications. FitCal Premium and FitCal Pro are optional monthly subscriptions. The free version is always available. Whether you are just getting started or guiding others, FitCal makes healthy living easier — one meal at a time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.littlebreake.com/fitcal/privacy-en.html

About

Arrow

This app gamifies your fitness journey, transforming workouts into a fun, competitive experience with friends. Track progress with a detailed log, earn rewards, and connect with a global community for motivation and support.

Highlights
  • Gamified workout experience
  • Weightlifting routine planner
  • Progress tracking and logging
  • Social fitness network
  • Earn trophies and EXP
  • Workout social feed
Features
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Arrow is the #1 workout and nutrition tracker built for changing your body. Log your lifts, meals, and weight in one app, get calorie and macro targets that adapt to your real results, and see whether training and diet are actually adding up, whether you're cutting, bulking, or just looking to maintain. TRAINING AND NUTRITION IN ONE LOOP Changing your body is one problem, not two. Your lifts create the stimulus, your food decides what your body does with it, and your weight trend tells you whether the plan is working. Most apps track one piece. Arrow connects all three. • Adaptive TDEE: Arrow estimates your real daily energy expenditure from your weigh-ins and food log, not just a formula, and keeps your calorie and macro targets adjusted as your body responds • Scale Weight vs. Trend Weight: every weigh-in is plotted against a rolling trend, so you can tell a water swing from true gain or loss before you change your plan • Oil detection: if a scanned meal was likely cooked in oil, Arrow asks before you log, so hidden calories don't slip past your numbers • Arrow Score: one number built from Strength (PRs and volume), Nutrition (calories, macros, weigh-ins), and Consistency (workouts and meal logs), weighted for your goal. A cut and a bulk are scored differently. • Estimated daily deficit or surplus and a four-week projection • Arrow Coach flags when a sudden scale jump or drop is likely water, not fat NUTRITION TRACKING THAT'S FAST AND HONEST • Smart Scan: photograph your plate and get the foods, calories, and macros • Describe a meal in plain words or by voice, scan a barcode, or look it up in the database • Heads Up before you log a scanned meal, and a meal score when you do • Edit any target yourself. Arrow never locks you into its numbers. • Recent foods, saved meals, custom foods, and copy-a-previous-day for meals you eat on repeat • Optional meal and post-workout reminders WORKOUT TRACKER BUILT FOR THE GYM • Log sets, reps, and weight in a few taps, no clutter mid-set • Plan your own routines or generate one from your goal, equipment, days, and session length • Flip any exercise card to see your history and personal records • Rest timer, dropsets, cardio and activity tracking • Custom exercises, swap exercises mid-workout, reorder on the fly • Lock Screen Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep your workout in view • Close the app mid-session and resume where you left off ARROW COACH Coach reads training and nutrition together: a recap of your week after workouts and on your Stats screen, a Heads Up on meals before you log them, and a call-out when a weight swing is likely water. Every note ends with what to do next. PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE • Muscle diagram shows which muscles you hit this week and how hard • Volume, PR, and lift progress over time • Week Overview calendar for training and nutrition days • Apple Health steps on your Profile and in Performance • Arrow Wrapped: your year in review TRAIN WITH FRIENDS • See your friends' workouts (and their meals, if they share them) in your feed • Share workout cards to Instagram Stories OPTIONAL GAMIFICATION Want extra motivation? Turn on levels, streak multipliers, and trophies. SUBSCRIPTION Access to Arrow requires a subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Powered by fatsecret nutrition API (www.fatsecret.com) Barcode data also from Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), licensed under ODbL. Terms of Use: https://arrowfitnessapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://arrowfitnessapp.com/privacy Questions? support@arrowfitnessapp.com

Screenshots

FitCal4 screens
Arrow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Arrow at 78% against FitCal's 0%. Arrow also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (9.1K vs 1). FitCal's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. FitCal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and Arrow sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $4.39 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Arrow holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Arrow has 9.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of FitCal's written reviews are positive against 78% of Arrow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FitCal ships an update every 3 days, Arrow every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
FitCal versus Arrow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFitCalArrow
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.8 (9.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews78.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB127 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFurkan KarababaLevelUp App Studios LLC

Customer experience

FitCal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Arrow

All ratings9,080 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews744 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.9%

Bugs and requests

FitCal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Arrow

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Assisted pull-ups incorrectly adding weight instead of subtracting
  • Muscle distribution not accurately tracking
  • Workout data not always logging correctly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to edit previous workouts
  • Allow reordering of exercises in a workout
  • Implement a rest timer
  • Add more workout options, especially for cardio
  • Provide different tiers/achievements for men and women

In-app purchases

1 purchases

FitCal

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Access (1 Month)$0.991 Month
17 purchases

Arrow

Subscriptions16
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$4.391 Month
  • Gold Access1 Month trial$4.391 Month
  • Gold Access$5.991 Month
Show 13 more
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Diamond Access$12.991 Month
  • Secret Discount (Gold Access)$17.491 Year
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Gold Access1 Month trial$29.991 Year
  • Diamond Access7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Gold Access1 Month trial$34.991 Year
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Gold Access1 Month trial$44.991 Year
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$44.991 Year
  • Diamond Access7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Diamond Access1 Month trial$79.991 Year
  • Diamond Access7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Gold Access$74.99

Questions

Is FitCal free?
FitCal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arrow free?
Arrow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FitCal or Arrow?
Arrow is rated higher. FitCal averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Arrow averages 4.8 from 9.1K ratings.
Do FitCal or Arrow have ads?
Neither FitCal nor Arrow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FitCal or Arrow?
FitCal ships an update every 3 days, and Arrow every 2 weeks. Most recently, FitCal was updated on October 20, 2026 and Arrow on October 23, 2026.

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