Comparison

MacroTrack vs Gym Date

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

Head to head
About

MacroTrack

This app helps you track macronutrients and optimize your diet for health and fitness goals. Easily calculate targets, log meals, and monitor progress with detailed statistics. Share your journey and data with others to stay motivated.

Highlights
  • Macronutrient tracking
  • Diet optimization
  • Meal logging
  • Progress statistics
  • Data sharing
  • Target calculation
Features
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MacroTrack is a powerful yet simple app designed to help you track your macronutrients and optimize your diet to reach your health and fitness goals. Whether you're looking to lose weight, gain muscle, or maintain a balanced lifestyle, MacroTrack is the all-in-one tool to help you make informed decisions about your nutrition and stay on track. With MacroTrack, you can easily calculate your macronutrient targets, log your meals, and track your progress with detailed stats—without the complexity. Designed for simplicity, this app ensures you have all the essential tools you need to stay consistent with your nutrition goals, all in one place.  MacroTrack makes it easy to share your journey. You can export and share your log data with friends, family, or on your social media profiles. Whether you're showing off your progress or simply getting feedback, sharing your achievements and tracking data has never been easier. Stay motivated and connected with your community while keeping your nutrition goals front and center. NOTE: We do not provide medical advice. All recommendations are intended as suggestions. Please consult a healthcare professional and conduct your own research before adopting a new calorie or nutrient plan. NOTE: All features in the app require a subscription. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Gym Date

This app transforms workouts into scheduled calendar events, creating a commitment that's harder to break than a notification. It offers intelligent exercise alternatives and detailed progress tracking beyond just weight lifted.

Highlights
  • Workout scheduling as calendar events
  • Intelligent exercise alternatives
  • Per-movement progress tracking
  • Two-tap logging
  • Automatic progression guidance
  • Apple Watch integration
  • On-device data privacy
Features
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Most workout apps remind you. Gym Date commits you. People don't skip appointments. They skip notifications. A push alert is easy to swipe away. A calendar event is a commitment, skipping it means opening your calendar and deleting it. That tiny friction changes everything. Gym Date puts your workouts on your calendar as real events with reminders and direct links into the app. Actual appointments. When your workout is on your calendar, it's committed time - not something you're trying to work in. It's what others schedule around. It exists on the calendar the same way a meeting or your kid's soccer game does. Your workout becomes part of your day, not something bolted onto it. YOUR WORKOUT ADAPTS TO YOUR GYM Someone's on the cable machine. Now what? Most apps leave you standing there. Gym Date gives you ranked alternatives for every exercise and recalculates the weight for the substitute. One tap: different movement in the same focus area, correct load, zero momentum lost. You don't want to 'make do' or be that gym wanderer landing on the next open machine. Be intentional when you need a plan B...or C. EXERCISE SPLITS Runners have had split times for decades. Mile pace, segment trends, heart rate per interval. Lifters get a total session time and a prayer. Until now. Gym Date tracks every exercise across sessions the way a runner tracks miles: load, reps, duration, and heart rate per movement, over time. New to the gym? Your body changes before the weights go up. When your heart rate drops on the same exercise at the same weight, that's real progress - even if the dumbbells haven't changed. Gym Date shows you what the mirror can't yet. Been training for years? Your max hasn't budged but your heart rate at that weight dropped 8 bpm and your sets got faster. You're not plateaued, you're consolidating. Gym Date shows you the adaptation other apps miss. No other workout app does this. TWO-TAP LOGGING Weight and reps pre-filled from your history. Confirm or adjust, tap, next set. Your phone is in your hand for seconds, not minutes. PROGRESSION WITHOUT SPREADSHEETS Gym Date tracks what you lift and tells you when to add more. Not percentages. Not formulas. Clear guidance that meets you where you are. APPLE WATCH Log sets from your wrist. Heart rate data feeds directly into your Exercise Splits, that's how per-movement biometric tracking works. Everything syncs through Apple Health. PRIVACY BY DEFAULT Your data stays on your device. NO EXCUSES LEFT You don't need experience, we build your program (we built a remix in too - but still intentional). You don't need to plan, it's on your calendar. You don't need to think mid-session, alternatives are handled (and each exercise has one tap instructions too). You don't need to track anything, progression is automatic. You don't need to wonder if it's working, Exercise Splits show you. You don't need to give us your data, it never leaves your phone. Your gym date is waiting. Don't stand it up. Gym Date is free to download with a 7-day free trial. Full access requires a subscription: $4.99/month, $49.99/year, or $99.99 lifetime. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID settings. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MacroTrack4 screens
Gym Date4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Gym Date at freemium against MacroTrack's subscription. Gym Date also leads on device support (3 vs 1). MacroTrack's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.2). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. MacroTrack sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Gym Date sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MacroTrack against 5.0 for Gym Date. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MacroTrack ships an update every 4 days, Gym Date every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
MacroTrack versus Gym Date: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMacroTrackGym Date
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.4 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB17 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMichael VeitKenneth Howe

Customer experience

MacroTrack

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Gym Date

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MacroTrack

Subscriptions2
  • MacroTrack Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • MacroTrack Annual Subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Year
3 purchases

Gym Date

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Access to the Gym Date app7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Year Long Access to Gym Date app7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access for Gym Date$99.99

Questions

Is MacroTrack free?
MacroTrack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gym Date free?
Gym Date is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MacroTrack or Gym Date?
MacroTrack and Gym Date are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do MacroTrack or Gym Date have ads?
Neither MacroTrack nor Gym Date shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MacroTrack or Gym Date?
MacroTrack ships an update every 4 days, and Gym Date every 2 weeks. Most recently, MacroTrack was updated on November 4, 2026 and Gym Date on October 31, 2026.

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