Workout Planner vs MacroFactor Workouts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Workout Planner
This app offers AI-driven workout plans personalized to your fitness goals, schedule, and progress. It adapts in real-time to maximize strength, muscle growth, or weight loss with a vast exercise library and advanced tracking.
- AI-tailored workouts
- Progressive overload calculation
- Extensive exercise library with tutorials
- Real-time workout adaptation
- Advanced analytics and tracking
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Elevate your fitness journey with Heavy. – the ultimate app for mastering the gym, building muscle, and achieving peak performance. Whether you're a beginner chasing your next lift or a seasoned athlete optimizing for hypertrophy, our AI-driven platform delivers deep algorithmic personalization tailored to your goals, schedule, and progress. Say goodbye to generic routines and hello to research-backed plans that adapt in real-time for maximum gains in strength, muscle growth, or weight loss. Why Choose Our App? AI-Tailored Workouts: Experience fitness online like never before with dynamic programs that evolve based on your feedback, ensuring every session pushes you toward becoming a fit pro. Progressive Overload Mastery: Calculate your optimal sets per week with cutting-edge science, focusing on hypertrophy training, bodybuilding, calisthenics, powerlifting, and more for ultimate muscle growth. Extensive Exercise Library: Access a vast collection of superior moves per muscle group, complete with clear, simple tutorials and videos for flawless form – no more guesswork on your next lift. Real-Time Adaptation: Our app adjusts to your preferences, energy levels, and results, making it the go-to for personalized fitness online that fits your life. Advanced Analytics & Tracking: Monitor progress with insightful metrics, charts, and data-driven insights to refine your path and celebrate every milestone. Join thousands transforming their bodies, where willpower meets intelligent design. Download now for your personalized muscle-building adventure and unlock the fitness pro within. Your next lift to greatness starts here! Terms and Conditions: https://www.hypertrophyai.com/terms-privacy-policy Privacy Policy: https://www.hypertrophyai.com/terms-privacy-policy
MacroFactor Workouts
This app offers science-based, personalized workout routines and an intuitive tracker for strength training. It automatically adjusts your plan based on progress and allows for custom routines, home gym setups, and detailed progress monitoring.
- Personalized workout routines
- Intuitive workout tracker
- Automatic progression adjustments
- Home gym equipment customization
- Progress charts and data insights
- Exercise technique videos
- Plate and PR calculators
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MacroFactor Workouts combines innovative coaching algorithms with science-based workout routines customized to your goals, fitness level, and gym equipment. Effortlessly track your strength training routines with an intuitive workout planner, and easily monitor your PRs and progress with charts and data insights. MacroFactor Workouts uses progressive overload to automatically adjust your strength training workouts based on your progress, helping you break through plateaus and reach your fitness goals. No gym? No problem. Create routines based on the equipment you have available in your home gym. Download to start your 7-day trial of this premium, ad-free workout tracker app. WORKOUT TRACKER & PLANNER FEATURES - Effortlessly track your workouts with an intuitive interface - Hundreds of strength training exercises with helpful tips and cues, and technique videos by Jeff Nippard - Customizable rest timers - Plate calculator based on available plates and bars - Tracker for supersets, partial reps, and myoreps - RIR tracker - Smart warm-up planner - Track different weights and reps on your right and left sides - Easily swap exercises with smart suggestions - Create new exercises - Notes sections for exercise and workout details - Create gym profiles for each of the places you workout CUSTOMIZED WORKOUT PLANS - Get a personalized workout routine based on your goals, fitness level, the gym equipment you have access to, and more - Built by fitness experts and based on science - Easily import and track popular Jeff Nippard routines - Customize your workouts with smart exercise swaps, custom exercises, and more - Prefer to create your own workouts? Use the workout planner for manual tracking, building, and saving custom routines and workouts SMART AUTO-PROGRESSION FOR STRENGTH TRAINING - Your plan automatically adjusts day-to-day based on your progress - Simply track your strength workouts, and the app will tell you what to do to keep making progress – just like a coach would - Reach your fitness goals efficiently – no wasted time, no guesswork, no pseudoscience REACH YOUR FITNESS GOALS - See your progress over time with beautiful and functional charts, visuals, and graphs - Easily access your workout history - PR tracker - Volume tracker - Progress photos and body metrics tracker - Design your dashboard to feature the insights you value most SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS MacroFactor Workouts is a premium strength training and planner app that offers three auto-renewing subscription options: $11.99 / month $47.99 / half year $71.99 / year (equal to $5.99 a month) MacroFactor Workouts has a free trial, but does not offer a free subscription tier. These prices are for US customers. Pricing in other countries may vary. Payment will be charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription to MacroFactor Workouts will automatically renew, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can cancel or manage your subscription from your Apple account settings. Terms & Conditions: https://terms.macrofactorapp.com/ Privacy Policy: https://privacy.macrofactorapp.com/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MacroFactor Workouts at 74% against Workout Planner's 22%. MacroFactor Workouts also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ads (none vs shown). Workout Planner's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On price, in-app purchases 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. Workout Planner sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per 7 days and MacroFactor Workouts sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MacroFactor Workouts holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.1K and 4.6K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Workout Planner's written reviews are positive against 74% of MacroFactor Workouts's.
Workout Planner ships an update every 4 days, MacroFactor Workouts every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout Planner | MacroFactor Workouts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (1.1K ratings) | 4.8 (4.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.1% of reviews | 74.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K | 4.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | — | #105 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 575 MB | 299 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | PixelArmour LLC | Stronger By Science Technologies LLC |
Customer experience
Workout Planner
MacroFactor Workouts
Bugs and requests
Workout Planner
Reported bugs
5 issues- Workouts not recording properly
- Unable to edit or remove exercises
- Inconsistent exercise recommendations
- Syncing and login issues
- Unreliable app performance
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to backdate workouts
- More exercise options and customization
- Sync across devices
- Free trial before purchase
- Better workout tracking and progress logging
MacroFactor Workouts
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Workout Planner
- Heavy Elite1 Month trial$3.497 Days
- Heavy Elite7 Days trial$3.497 Days
- Fit Social+$5.991 Month
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- Heavy Pro Access7 Days trial$11.991 Month
- Macro Workouts+ (Referral Code)14 Days trial$11.991 Month
- Hypertrophy+ (Referral Code)14 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Hypertrophy+3 Days trial$14.991 Month
- RPE Hypertrophy+$14.991 Month
- Unlock RP Hypertrophy Ai$14.991 Month
- Heavy Elite7 Days trial$29.991 Month
- Yearly Hypertrophy+ (Referral Code)14 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Hypertrophy+3 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Heavy Pro Access7 Days trial$74.991 Year
- Heavy Elite7 Days trial$74.991 Year
- Yearly Macro Workout+ (Referral)14 Days trial$74.991 Year
MacroFactor Workouts
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$11.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$11.991 Month
- Semiannual Subscription7 Days trial$47.996 Months
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- Semiannual Subscription14 Days trial$47.996 Months
- Annual Subscription14 Days trial$71.991 Year
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$71.991 Year
- Annual Subscription Bundle2 variants$89.991 Year
Questions
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