Comparison

Arrow vs Vscale

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

Head to head
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

About

Vscale

This app uses AI to analyze your physique, providing detailed muscle group scores and body composition breakdowns. It also offers comprehensive tracking for weight, measurements, progress photos, goals, and nutrition, all visualized in one place to monitor your body transformation.

Highlights
  • AI physique analysis
  • Muscle group scoring
  • Body composition breakdown
  • Weight and measurement tracking
  • Progress photo logging
  • Goal setting and motivation
Features
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Vscale is the physique tracker built for people who want to understand their body, improve it and prove their progress. Get a detailed body scan, physique score, muscle ratings, body composition estimates, weight tracking, measurements, progress photos, goals and more in one app. Stop guessing what is changing. Vscale turns your physique into numbers you can track. YOUR PHYSIQUE, SCORED See your physique broken down into an overall score and individual ratings across eight muscle groups. Find your strongest areas, spot the muscles holding you back and see how balanced your physique really is. Explore insights into muscle development, symmetry, V taper, physique potential and more through a clear visual report. SET GOALS AND PLAN YOUR PROGRESS Whether you are cutting, bulking, maintaining or starting from scratch, Vscale helps you build your tracking around your goal. Set a target weight, follow your projected timeline and get a personalised daily calorie estimate based on your body, activity and goal. As your numbers change, your progress updates with you. BODY FAT, LEAN MASS AND MORE Body weight only tells you how heavy you are. Vscale helps you understand what that weight is made of. See estimates for body fat percentage, lean mass, fat mass, BMI, FFMI and other useful body composition metrics. Follow these numbers over time to see whether your progress is coming from fat loss, muscle growth or changes elsewhere in your physique. TRACK WEIGHT, MEASUREMENTS AND PHOTOS Keep your full transformation in one place. Log your weight, record body measurements and save progress photos as your body changes. View your history on clear charts and spot progress that may be difficult to notice in the mirror. Your scans, photos, measurements and goals stay connected, giving you a fuller picture than any single number can. COMPARE SCANS OVER TIME Every scan adds to your physique history. Compare reports and progress photos to see changes in your muscle scores, body composition, weight, measurements and more. See what improved, what stayed the same and where you should focus next. Even small changes become easier to notice when you can compare the numbers directly. A DEXA SCAN IN YOUR POCKET Get detailed body composition insights whenever you want, directly from your phone. Vscale brings body fat, lean mass, fat mass, FFMI and more into one clear report you can revisit and compare over time. No clinic appointment every time you want an update. Your physique data stays ready whenever you want to check your progress. STREAKS, MILESTONES AND PERSONAL RECORDS Real transformations come from staying consistent. Build streaks, unlock milestones and record personal bests as you move towards your goal. Vscale keeps a history of the work you have put in, helping you see how far you have come. The longer you track, the clearer your transformation becomes. YOUR PHOTOS AND DATA STAY YOURS Your physique photos and reports belong to your account. You can delete your account and associated data at any time from the app settings. Your body is always changing. Vscale helps you see it. Vscale provides estimates for fitness and progress tracking and is not a medical device. Questions or feedback? contact@vscaleapp.com Terms: https://vscaleapp.com/terms/ Privacy: https://vscaleapp.com/privacy/

Screenshots

Arrow4 screens
Vscale4 screens

Verdict

The call

Arrow and Vscale both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 78% of Arrow's written reviews are positive against 16% of Vscale's. Arrow also leads on ratings volume (9.1K vs 987) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Arrow sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $4.39 per month and Vscale sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Arrow against 4.8 for Vscale. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Arrow has 9.1K ratings behind it against 987, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Arrow's written reviews are positive against 16% of Vscale's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Arrow ships an update every 2 weeks, Vscale fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Arrow versus Vscale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArrowVscale
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9.1K ratings)4.8 (987 ratings)
Positive reviews78.0% of reviews — better15.7% of reviews
Number of ratings9.1K — better987
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLevelUp App Studios LLCDAWNSCAPE LTD

Customer experience

Arrow

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

Vscale

All ratings987 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral1.6%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive15.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative84.3%

User reviews

Arrow

From 9.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Helpful for tracking workouts
  • 🏆 Motivating with trophies and leveling system
  • 🙌 Great for competing with friends
  • 💪 Tracks muscle groups and progress
  • 📊 Provides detailed workout data and statistics

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes when switching between tabs or accessing friends tab
  • 🔍 Missing some common exercises
  • 🔧 Can't edit previous workouts or change exercise order
  • 🕰️ Rest timer is a premium feature
  • 🤔 Trophies/achievements may be unrealistic for women

Vscale

From 987 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Helpful for tracking body measurements
  • 👍 Great app for fitness enthusiasts

Room to improve

  • 💰 Paywall to access results
  • 🤔 Questionable accuracy of measurements
  • 🤨 Concerns about privacy with photo uploads

Bugs and 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

Vscale

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Long wait times for analysis
  • Unreliable or inconsistent results

Requested features

2 requests
  • Free access to body analysis results
  • Clearer pricing information upfront

In-app purchases

17 purchases

Arrow

Subscriptions16
  • Gold Access7 Days trial$4.391 Month
  • Gold Access1 Month trial$4.391 Month
  • Gold Access$5.991 Month
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  • 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
4 purchases

Vscale

Subscriptions2
  • Vscale Pro$7.997 Days
  • Vscale Pro (1 Year)1 Year trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Vscale Unlock$3.99
  • Vscale Unlock2 variants$4.99

Questions

Is Arrow free?
Arrow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vscale free?
Vscale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Arrow or Vscale?
Arrow and Vscale are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9.1K and 987 ratings respectively.
Do Arrow or Vscale have ads?
Neither Arrow nor Vscale shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Arrow or Vscale?
Arrow ships an update every 2 weeks, and Vscale fortnightly. Most recently, Arrow was updated on October 22, 2026 and Vscale on October 19, 2026.

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