Gymcircle vs Kronos Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gymcircle
This app helps you track your workouts and connect with a fitness community. It offers personalized insights, a routine builder, and social features like leaderboards and group chats to keep you motivated and achieve your fitness goals.
- Effortless workout tracking
- Personalized fitness insights
- AI-powered coaching
- Community leaderboards
- Routine builder
- Social workout sharing
- Apple HealthKit integration
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The social workout tracker Stay motivated with real connection, our free app makes it easy to log workouts while your fitness community inspires you to hit the gym and reach your goals! Effortless tracking, tailored insights, and automatic progression meet the power of social connection. Experience the future of fitness with gymcircle, where every rep is more than just exercise, it's a shared experience. What Our Users Say: - "My circle's leaderboard keep me motivated. It's a community spirit that lifts us all." - Matt B. - "I met new gym buddies in real life through gymcircle. It's not just an app, it's a supportive fitness family.” - Chris K. - "Tracking my workouts is effortless with gymcircle. The personalised insights are like having a trainer in my pocket!" - Emma C. Our Features: Tracking - Instant Start - Access pre-planned workouts or replicate success from friends. - Routine Builder - No fitness knowledge required with our science-based workout plan tool. - Intuitive Tracking - Log lifts effortlessly with a simple, user-friendly interface. - Exercise Library - Choose from a wide range of exercises or add custom exercises. - Rest Timers - Customisable rest timers for effective workout pacing. - 1RM Calculator - Gauge your strength training effectively with our one rep max calculator. - Workout Management - Manage your workouts flexibly: save, edit, repeat, or turn them into a routine. - Apple HealthKit - Integrate with other apps and devices for a holistic view of your health and fitness. - AI Coach - Experience personalised fitness guidance with our AI coach. Social - Personal Profile - Build a public or private profile, showcasing your achievements, interests & goals, and recent workouts. - Search Gym-buddies - Search and find new people to workout wherever you are. - Competitive Leaderboards - Challenge friends on leaderboards for strength and activity. - Group Chat - Create or join a tribe of like-minded people engaging in a group chat. - Marketplace - Upload or download your favourite workouts and training programs to or from our community marketplace.
Kronos Studio
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Real strength workouts, written for the gear you've got and the 30 minutes you have. Open Kronos and today's session is ready: exercises, sets and the weights filled in, built for the equipment in front of you and the minutes you named. Different every time, shaped to your gear, your time, and how you actually feel today. You don't need more motivation. You need fewer decisions. IT ALREADY KNOWS • It already knows what's at your gym. • It already knows you only have 20 minutes. • It already knows you skipped Tuesday. • It already knows you hated lunges last time. • It already knows you've done legs twice this week. So you don't have to. HOW ONE TAP WORKS BUILT AROUND YOUR ACTUAL GEAR. A pair of dumbbells, a full gym, or nothing at all: tell Kronos what you have and it never writes a workout that needs a cable machine someone else is on. It fills in the weight, too, instead of leaving you a blank. HOTEL ROOM? HOTEL WORKOUT. Save your spots: gym, home, hotel, the park. Switch in one tap and the workout reshapes itself. Flag an injury once and it plans around that too. SWIPE EXERCISES, NOT EX'S. Love it, like it, meh, never again. Every swipe trains the next workout. PROGRAMS THAT BEND. Seventeen programs, 2 to 8 weeks each, written for your gear and shaped to your week instead of the other way round. The first session of every one is free. Any day you'd rather not be on one, build a single session instead. TRAIN WITH YOUR CREW Start a challenge, drop the code in the group chat, and every finished day puts your name on the Wall beside theirs. Pick a shape: a daily target, a ladder, a weekly max test, or just show up. Wildcards cover a missed day, streaks carry, and nobody gets a notification about your rest day. It's the part that makes people keep going, and it isn't a leaderboard for strangers. It's five people you already know. A BIG CALM TIMER We tell you what's next; you just lift. No tapping mid-set. Then swipe: right to keep, left for never again. Benchmarks are in there too. Cindy, Murph, and 42 more, each one scaled to the kit you actually own instead of the kit the workout assumed. LOGGING, WHEN YOU WANT IT Log a set if you want the number. Skip it if you don't. Your week, your lifts, and your history are there when you go looking, and never the price of getting a workout. PLUS A FREE INTERVAL TIMER. ACTUALLY FREE. HIIT, Tabata, EMOM, AMRAP, plus full custom intervals. Save unlimited presets. The screen stays awake, the cues mix over your music, and there are no ads. No account needed, no "Pro timer" upsell. Not now, not ever. WHAT WE BELIEVE Variety beats optimization. Constraints are features. Decisions are willpower taxes. Today's mood matters. Adherence beats intensity. Fun is a strategy. A B+ workout four days a week beats an A+ workout once. Every time. KRONOS PRO Free is the interval timer, forever, plus five workouts written for your gear and the first session of every program. Pro is the rest: a new workout every day you open the app, every session of all 17 programs, your whole history scored, up to 10 challenges at once, and crew insights. Prices are shown in the app and may vary by region. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://getkronos.app/terms Privacy: https://getkronos.app/privacy Most fitness apps make you a workout plan. Kronos makes you a person who works out. The best workout is the one you'll actually do.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gymcircle at none against Kronos Studio's 2. Gymcircle also leads on iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 16.4). Kronos Studio's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). 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. Kronos Studio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Gymcircle asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gymcircle ships an update monthly, Kronos Studio every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gymcircle | Kronos Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 190 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Francois Van Der Heijden | Muller Labs LLC |
In-app purchases
Gymcircle
No in-app purchases
Kronos Studio
- Kronos Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
- Kronos Pro Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year









