Comparison

Shift Adapt vs Stacking Gains

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

Head to head
About

Shift Adapt

Log your workouts and track your performance from anywhere. Access daily breath practices to enhance your training experience. Expand your fitness journey with this comprehensive tool.

Highlights
  • Workout logging
  • Performance tracking
  • Daily breath practices
  • Access training from anywhere
  • Expand fitness experience
Features
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Log into your SH//FT training from anywhere with the Shift Adapt app! Log your workouts, track your performance, and enjoy daily breath practices inside the app. Expand your experience! If you enjoy the Shift Adapt app we'd really appreciate your taking a second to leave a nice review to help us improve and get the word out. Thank you!

About

Stacking Gains

Effortlessly track your daily calorie, protein, carb, and fat intake. Log meals quickly, save presets, and set nutrition targets. Enhance your tracking with AI-powered meal descriptions, photo estimates, and barcode scanning with a premium subscription.

Highlights
  • Manual food logging and editing
  • Save meals as presets
  • Track daily nutrition totals
  • Set daily nutrition targets
  • AI meal description estimates
  • AI photo food estimates
  • Barcode scanning
Features
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Macro tracking, For busy people. Stacking Gains helps you keep track of calories, protein, carbs and fat without making food logging another project. Log a meal, save your usual foods, and see how your day adds up. START WITH THE BASICS — FREE • Log food manually and edit entries when you need to. • Save meals as presets and reuse recent foods. • Track your daily totals and look back through your food history. • Set your daily nutrition targets. DO MORE WITH SG PRO • Describe a meal and review an AI estimate before adding it. • Take or choose a food photo for an AI estimate. • Get 100 AI requests per calendar month, shared between text estimates, photos and nutrition reviews. Your allowance resets on the first of the month (UTC). • Scan supported food barcodes and check the serving size. • Save multiple nutrition modes and switch targets for different days. • Connect a compatible AI assistant to your food log, with permissions you choose and access you can revoke. BRING YOUR OWN ASSISTANT Use the setup guide to connect a supported assistant through a custom connection. Availability depends on the assistant and your plan with that provider. SG Pro does not include a separate AI assistant subscription. Public connector-directory availability may vary. CHECK THE ESTIMATE AI estimates are a starting point, not a measurement. Review ingredients, portions and macros before saving. Stacking Gains is for general nutrition tracking and is not medical advice. FOUNDING PRICING SG Pro is available monthly or annually. Eligible new subscribers can start with a 7-day free trial. If you choose the annual plan, the trial automatically becomes a paid annual subscription unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends. If you choose monthly, it becomes a paid monthly subscription. The app and Apple purchase sheet show your price, billing period and trial eligibility before you confirm. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple account subscription settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable. Canceling stops renewal; access continues through the current paid or trial period, subject to Apple's terms. Existing early users retain their original barcode and mode features, plus their included monthly AI allowance. SG Pro adds the expanded allowance and assistant connections. Privacy: https://stackinggains.com/privacy/ Terms: https://stackinggains.com/terms/ Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://stackinggains.com/help/

Screenshots

Shift Adapt4 screens
Stacking Gains4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shift Adapt at none against Stacking Gains's 4. Shift Adapt also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). Stacking Gains's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Stacking Gains sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Shift Adapt asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Shift Adapt against 5.0 for Stacking Gains. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shift Adapt ships an update every 3 months, Stacking Gains every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Shift Adapt versus Stacking Gains: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift AdaptStacking Gains
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUnscared IncJoshua Adams

Customer experience

Shift Adapt

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stacking Gains

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Shift Adapt

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Stacking Gains

Subscriptions4
  • SG Pro Monthly14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • SG Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • SG Pro Annual14 Days trial$40.001 Year
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  • SG Pro Annual7 Days trial$40.001 Year

Questions

Is Shift Adapt free?
Shift Adapt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stacking Gains free?
Stacking Gains is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shift Adapt or Stacking Gains?
Shift Adapt and Stacking Gains are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Shift Adapt or Stacking Gains have ads?
Neither Shift Adapt nor Stacking Gains shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shift Adapt or Stacking Gains?
Shift Adapt ships an update every 3 months, and Stacking Gains every 4 weeks. Most recently, Shift Adapt was updated on November 3, 2026 and Stacking Gains on November 6, 2026.

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