Comparison

Arrow vs Betterself

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

Betterself

This app consolidates multiple self-improvement disciplines into one platform. It offers personalized AI-driven workouts, quick nutrition logging, an AI coach for guidance, and features to track daily habits and reflections. Connect with friends for challenges and motivation.

Highlights
  • AI-powered personalized workouts
  • Photo-based nutrition logging
  • AI coach for guidance
  • Friend challenges and leaderboards
  • Daily habit tracking
  • Breathwork exercises
  • Daily reflection journaling
Features
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Become who you said you'd be. Betterself is the self-improvement app for people done talking about it. One app. Five disciplines. Zero excuses. Train. Fuel. Lock in. Think. Reflect. ———————————————————— • Personalized workouts — AI plans built around your level, your week, and the gear you actually have. Pull day, push day, calisthenics, sport-specific — adaptive every session. • Photo macros — snap your plate, get every gram. Or text your coach what you ate. Nutrition logged in seconds, not spreadsheets. • Your AI corner — a coach trained on you. Ask anything: protein targets, sleep debt, what to eat before the gym, why you're tired. Answers that know your week. • Friend challenges — lock in with your people. Compete on streaks, see weekly leaderboards, push each other through the hard weeks. • Daily non-negotiables — the small list that builds the bigger you. Track meditation, deep work, sleep, prayer, whatever you decide matters. • Breathwork on tap — three minutes to reset the day. Sleep, stress, pre-game. The coach picks the right pattern. • Daily reflection — end-of-day capture. What happened, what you learned, what you'd do again. The receipts of who you're becoming. ———————————————————— WHO IT'S FOR If you're tired of stitching together a workout app, a nutrition app, a meditation app, a habits app, and a journal — and tired of none of them knowing who you actually are — Betterself is the consolidation. One system. One voice. One outcome. ———————————————————— SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED Betterself requires an active subscription to access workouts, nutrition, coaching, friend challenges, and the AI coach. Pricing shown in-app: • Monthly — $9.99 • Yearly — $59.99 (50% off, billed annually) with a 7-day free trial Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage and cancel in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. ———————————————————— The AI coach provides general fitness and nutrition guidance only. It is not a substitute for medical advice. If you have a health condition, talk to a doctor. Built by the @betterselfreal community. Two million strong. One promise: become who you said you'd be. Terms of Use: https://betterselfreal.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://betterselfreal.com/privacy

Screenshots

Arrow4 screens
Betterself4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Arrow at free with in-app purchases against Betterself's subscription. Arrow also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (9.2K vs 10). Betterself's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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 Betterself sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. 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 Betterself. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Arrow has 9.2K ratings behind it against 10, 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 80% of Betterself's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Arrow ships an update every 2 weeks, Betterself every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Arrow versus Betterself: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArrowBetterself
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9.2K ratings)4.8 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.9% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9.2K — better10
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLevelUp App Studios LLCBodhi

Customer experience

Arrow

All ratings9,116 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews750 reviews
Positive77.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative15.1%

Betterself

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Betterself

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
2 purchases

Betterself

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Arrow free?
Arrow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Betterself free?
Betterself is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Arrow or Betterself?
Betterself is rated higher. Arrow averages 4.8 out of 5 from 9.2K ratings, while Betterself averages 4.8 from 10 ratings.
Do Arrow or Betterself have ads?
Betterself shows ads; Arrow does not.
Which is updated more often, Arrow or Betterself?
Arrow ships an update every 2 weeks, and Betterself every 5 days. Most recently, Arrow was updated on November 1, 2026 and Betterself on October 22, 2026.

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