Arrow vs Mendr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Gamified workout experience
- Weightlifting routine planner
- Progress tracking and logging
- Social fitness network
- Earn trophies and EXP
- Workout social feed
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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
Mendr
This wellness journal helps adults reflect on their nights and manage their mornings. Log sleep, food, movement, and feelings, and connect wearables for comprehensive insights. It offers a guided care plan and pattern analysis to support your wellness journey.
- Nightly wellness logging
- Morning routine planning
- Wearable device integration
- Four-step care plan
- Pattern and trend analysis
- Optional social features
- Data export and privacy controls
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Better mornings, together. Mendr helps you find out what makes your mornings good, and lets your friends check in with you every day. It's a journal for sleep, energy and daily routines, and it works without a wearable or an account. The app interface is currently available in English. CHECK IN EACH MORNING Answer one question at a time: sleep, food, water, movement, how you feel and a goal for today. It takes about a minute. Add an optional private note about your day; it's never scored and never shared. You can say your answers instead of typing: speech is turned into text on your iPhone, never recorded, and Mendr only suggests answers for you to confirm. Apple Health can fill in sleep, water and movement, and WHOOP or Oura can fill in sleep and workouts, for you to review first. SEE WHAT HELPS Your Morning Snapshot sums up your check-in from 0 to 100, with its method and limits explained. Say how each morning feels, from Great to Very low; that answer is yours and never scored. Explore your calendar, trends, insights, a weekly report and small experiments from your own records. Sample sizes and limits are always shown: patterns are not proof of cause and effect. SLEEP AROUND TOMORROW Turn on your calendar and Mendr suggests a bedtime based on when tomorrow morning starts. It reads event start times on your iPhone, never titles, places or guests, and never changes your calendar. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME Follow a four-step care plan, record your choices and add reflections. Plan Progress tracks what you do; it never changes your Morning Snapshot. WAKE UP TOGETHER Start an invite-only crew of up to eight friends. On a crew day, once you've checked in yourself, see who else has and how many care steps each person did. Crews also have messages and photos. Optional accounts add private backup, friends and two-week seasons where points come only from taking part. Report content and block people from social screens. COACH The optional AI Coach answers questions about sleep, energy and your routines. It stays off until you turn on AI processing, and your notes are never sent to it on their own. KEEP YOUR CHOICES YOURS Use the core journal and plan without an account. Lock the app with Face ID, and export or erase your data at any time. Apple Health connections are optional; Mendr reads from Apple Health and never writes new data to it. WHOOP and Oura need a Mendr account and a provider account with recorded data. NOT MEDICAL ADVICE Mendr provides general wellness information, not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. The Morning Snapshot describes your answers; it is not a health assessment. Mendr is not an emergency service. A minimum age applies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mendr at none against Arrow's 17. Mendr also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). Arrow's advantage is ratings volume (9.1K vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Arrow sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $4.39 per month. Mendr asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mendr holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Arrow has 9.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Arrow ships an update every 2 weeks, Mendr weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Arrow | Mendr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9.1K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9.1K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | LevelUp App Studios LLC | ALBERT ZORZOLAN |
Customer experience
Arrow
Mendr
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
Mendr
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Arrow
- 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
- Gold Access$74.99
Mendr
No in-app purchases









