GymHunter vs Instead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GymHunter
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Use Gym Hunter to track your fitness progress. The app will keep you hooked to the gym by calculating what animal you can lift and by gaining xp for doing exercises, this allows you to compare your progress to your friends' more easily which adds to the competitive edge and makes the process more fun!
Instead
This app helps you manage urges and cravings by encouraging you to walk. As you walk, a "fog" on your map clears, revealing a personalized path. Track your progress and see how far you've come in reclaiming your space.
- Walk to clear fog on map
- Color-code and track different urges
- Rate urge strength before and after walks
- View walk history with routes and stats
- Visualize progress as map grows
- Create distance between urge and action
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Whether the urge is loud or quiet, Instead helps you walk through it, create space before you act, and see how much ground you’ve taken back—one street at a time. • Fog that clears when you walk Your map starts covered. Walk instead of acting on an urge, and the fog lifts behind you, leaving a trail in that urge’s color. Over time, you build a map only you could make. • Walk through what you’re fighting Lust, doomscrolling, texting your ex, anxiety, or anything you add. Every walk has a reason, so your map becomes a record of what you’ve walked through, not just where you’ve been. • Your map, your colors Give each urge a color and watch it spread across the streets you reclaim. Every trail means something because every trail started with a choice. • See the urge shift Rate how strong it feels before you walk and again when you finish. See what changed while distance, time, and steps add up. • History with a place Every walk keeps its route, stats, and location, letting you look back and see where certain urges show up and how you responded. • Progress you can see Watch your revealed map grow over time. A few blocks become streets. Streets become neighborhoods. Every walk becomes part of something bigger. Why Instead An urge is a moment. Instead gives you somewhere to go with it. Walk long enough to create some distance between the feeling and what you do next, then leave something behind you can actually see: a cleared street, a colored path, another piece of your map reclaimed. Download Instead and start revealing your map. The next urge is a walk away. OUR FOG FEATURES REQUIRE A SUBSCRIPTION. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Instead at none against GymHunter's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. GymHunter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Instead sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | GymHunter | Instead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hugo AIbert Rouwenhorst | VisionFuture |
In-app purchases
GymHunter
- Remove Ad$1.99
Instead
- Unlock Instead2 variants$9.997 Days
- Unlock Instead$14.991 Month
- Unlock Instead$29.991 Year
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- Unlock Instead3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Unlock Instead$39.991 Year
- Unlock Instead3 Days trial$39.991 Year









