Comparison

Gym Log vs Routine Reps

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

Head to head
About

Gym Log

Plan, track, and analyze your strength training progress. This app helps you build custom workout programs, log sets and reps, and visualize your performance over time. It syncs with Apple Health and allows easy import from other fitness apps.

Highlights
  • Workout program planning
  • Set-by-set logging
  • Automatic rest timers
  • Progress visualization
  • Body measurement tracking
  • Apple Health sync
  • Import from other apps
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Plan it. Lift it. Log it. Gym Log keeps your program, your sets and your progress in one place, free. Getting your program in takes minutes. Build it set by set in the app, import one a friend exported from Gym Log, or convert one you already have: Gym Log gives you a prompt to paste into the AI assistant you use, and you paste the result back in. Then just train. Start a workout and your plan is ready, next to what you lifted last time. Tap to finish each set and the rest timer starts on its own. As the weeks go by, you'll see which lifts are moving and which have stalled, along with your records, estimated maxes and weekly volume per muscle group. When it's time to change something, update the template and your next workout follows the new plan. BUILT FOR HOW YOU TRAIN Program with RPE, rep ranges, percentages of your training max, supersets and custom warm-ups. Track sets by reps and weight, time, or distance. BODY MEASUREMENTS Log body weight, body fat and other measurements alongside your training. Workouts and measurements sync to Apple Health. BRING YOUR HISTORY Switching from Hevy or Strong? Import your past workouts and pick up where you left off. Your data is backed up to iCloud and you can export it anytime. ACTUALLY FREE Every feature is included. No subscriptions, paid tiers or unlocks. Gym Log is a focused tool for people who know how they want to train. It doesn't come with built-in programs, coaching, exercise videos or a social feed. It helps you plan, log and understand your own training.

About

Routine Reps

Track progress in any activity with customizable routines and intelligent progression rules. This app offers a flexible design studio to set goals, manage exercises, and adapt to your performance, moving beyond spreadsheets for a more intuitive experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable routine design
  • Intelligent progression rules
  • Flexible exercise and activity tracking
  • Set starting values and increment rules
  • Deload rules for plateaus
  • Percentage-based goal tracking
  • Growing library of pre-built routines
Features
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Routine Reps is a progressive routine tracker and design studio built for anyone who wants to make consistent, measurable progress — at anything. Most people who take their training seriously end up with a spreadsheet. It works, but it's fragile — easy to forget to update, hard to read mid-workout, and impossible to carry the momentum of your history with you. Routine Reps aims to bring everything a spreadsheet can do to life in an intuitive interface that works with you, not against you. The flexibility and power are still there. The manual upkeep isn't. The obvious use case is weightlifting. Build your push/pull/legs split, your 5/3/1 variation, your custom hypertrophy block. Set your starting weights, your rep targets, your increment and deload rules — and let Routine Reps handle the rest. When you hit your targets, it moves you up. When you miss, it backs you off. You just train. But Routine Reps isn't just for the weight room. Whether you are working on your golf putting game, tracking vocabulary, training for obstacle course racing, or learning an instrument, Routine Reps can help. Set a make percentage threshold and let the distance push back when you hit it. Track your long run mileage and step it up when you're ready. Define a tempo goal for a piece you're learning and build in a rule for when to move on. If you're trying to move a number in a direction over time, this is the tool for it. Setting up a routine in Routine Reps is as close to a blank canvas as you'll find in an app like this. Start from scratch or pick from a growing library of routines built by the Routine Reps team. From there, every parameter is yours to configure: - Variations — structure your week with multiple day types (A/B splits, push/pull/legs, upper/lower, or anything else) - Exercises and activities — add whatever you're tracking, name it whatever you want - Starting values — set your baseline for each exercise independently - Sets and reps — configure the rep scheme that matches your goal, including per-set percentage loading for pyramid or top-down sets - Increment rules — choose how much to add and after how many successful sessions - Deload rules — set a miss threshold and a fallback percentage so plateaus don't derail you - Success thresholds — for percentage-based goals (like putting or free throw practice), set the make rate that counts as a win Every parameter lives in one place. Change it anytime. The history stays intact. PRICING AND SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS: * Monthly: $2.99 / month * Yearly: $19.99 / year TERMS OF SERVICE / PRIVACY: https://www.routinereps.com/terms https://www.routinereps.com/privacy

Screenshots

Gym Log4 screens
Routine Reps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gym Log at none against Routine Reps's 2. Routine Reps's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Routine Reps sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Gym Log 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 Gym Log against 5.0 for Routine Reps. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gym Log ships an update weekly, Routine Reps every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Gym Log versus Routine Reps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGym LogRoutine Reps
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.116.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKamil MikolajRoutine Labs LLC

Customer experience

Gym Log

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

Routine Reps

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Gym Log

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Routine Reps

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Gym Log free?
Gym Log is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Routine Reps free?
Routine Reps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gym Log or Routine Reps?
Gym Log and Routine Reps are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Gym Log or Routine Reps have ads?
Neither Gym Log nor Routine Reps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gym Log or Routine Reps?
Gym Log ships an update weekly, and Routine Reps every 2 weeks. Most recently, Gym Log was updated on November 4, 2026 and Routine Reps on October 31, 2026.

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