Max vs rep.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Max
This app creates personalized workout and nutrition plans tailored to your goals and equipment. It provides daily exercise guidance, tracks your progress with clear charts, and simplifies nutrition logging by estimating calories and macros from meal photos.
- Personalized workout plans
- AI-driven nutrition guidance
- Progress tracking and charting
- Simple exercise checklist
- Meal photo logging
- Apple Health integration
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Max builds your personalized workout and nutrition plan, shows you what to lift each day, and helps you track your progress over time. YOUR WORKOUT, MADE SIMPLE See today's exercises, sets, and reps as a simple checklist. Max remembers what you lifted last time so you always know what to aim for today. PROGRESS, MADE CLEAR Your weight, body fat, and lean mass trends are charted with a goal range so you can see if you're on track. A plain English summary explains what's happening and what to focus on. NUTRITION TRACKING IN SECONDS Snap a photo of your meal, enter it manually, or pull from history. Max estimates your calories and macros so you can stay on track without slowing down. BUILT AROUND YOU - Personalized training and nutrition plans based on your goals, equipment, and experience - Apple Health integration for weight, body fat, lean mass, and step tracking - Daily greeting with coaching guidance Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
rep.
This app provides a streamlined way to log gym workouts, focusing solely on tracking sets, reps, and weight. It offers pre-built and custom templates, automatic rest timers, and progress visualization to help users monitor their strength gains.
- One-tap workout logging
- Pre-built and custom workout templates
- Per-set weight and reps tracking
- Automatic rest timer with notifications
- Progress charts and PR tracking
- Progress photo comparison
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Rep is a workout tracker built for people who actually lift. No meal plans, no meditation, no AI coach — just a clean, fast way to log your sets and watch yourself get stronger. Start a workout in one tap. Log sets with weight and reps. Rest timer counts down automatically. Move to the next exercise. Done. FEATURES • One-tap workout logging — pick a template, start lifting • Pre-built templates for Push/Pull/Legs, Upper/Lower, and Full Body splits • Build your own custom templates from 70+ exercises • Per-set weight and reps tracking with inline editing • Automatic rest timer with audio notification • Progress charts for any lift you want to track • PR tracking so you never forget your best • Progress photos with side-by-side comparison • Workout history with detailed stats • Clean, minimal design that stays out of your way Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Max at every 3 days against rep.'s every 2 weeks. rep.'s advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). 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
Both are free to download. Max sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and rep. sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Max against 5.0 for rep.. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Max ships an update every 3 days, rep. every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 31, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Max | rep. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scott Barrow | Roger You |
Customer experience
Max
rep.
In-app purchases
Max
- Max Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Max Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Max Lifetime$49.99
rep.
- monthly$9.991 Month
- Rep Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year





