Cal Plus vs RepLab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cal Plus
This app simplifies health and fitness tracking with AI-powered insights and community support. Easily log meals by scanning barcodes or photos, track workouts in real-time, and receive personalized guidance from an AI coach. Connect with others to share progress and stay motivated on your journey.
- Instant food recognition via scanning
- Live workout tracking with 800+ exercises
- Personalized AI coach and insights
- Community groups for accountability
- Restaurant menu and recipe scanning
- Smart meal planning and grocery lists
- Progress visualization and daily reports
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Cal Plus – FREE AI Smart Nutrition & Workout Tracking Made Simple Transform your health with Cal Plus, an intelligent nutrition and fitness tracking app with your own personal AI Coach and community groups that make staying consistent effortless. What makes Cal Plus special: Instant Food Recognition Scan barcodes or snap photos to instantly log calories and nutrients. Live Workout Tracking Log workouts in real time from 800+ exercises. Track sets, reps, and calories burned, automatically adjusted to your daily goals. AI Coach & Smart Insights Get personalized tips, meal recommendations, workout guidance, and healthier alternatives that adapt to your goals, habits, and lifestyle. Groups & Accountability Join or create groups to share meals, react, comment, and view daily progress together, helping friends stay consistent and motivated. Menu Scan Scan restaurant menus to analyze calories and nutrients instantly. Get personalized suggestions that fit your daily goals when eating out. Recipe Finder Take a photo of ingredients from your pantry or fridge and generate smart recipe ideas with full nutrition breakdowns. Smart Meal Planning Plan meals and create grocery lists with ease. Progress Tracking Visualize your nutrition and training journey with clear analytics and daily summaries. Habit Tracker Build streaks for habits like water, steps, veggies, or cutting back on alcohol. Most of them fill themselves in from what you already log. Daily Insights & Reports Stay motivated with guidance that grows smarter as your AI Coach learns from you. Whether you are counting calories, building muscle, losing fat, or building better habits, Cal Plus keeps everything simple. With AI guidance, live workouts, recipe discovery, menu scanning, and group accountability in one place, making better decisions becomes easier every day. EULA - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy - https://calplus.app/privacy-policy.html
RepLab
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Built by a scientist. Backed by the research. Not by guesswork. RepLab is a gym log created by a PhD scientist who reads the primary literature — and every recommendation cites the study behind it. Most trackers just store your numbers. RepLab turns them into coaching grounded in published exercise-science research, with the reasoning shown on screen. Tap "Why this number?" on any insight and read the citation yourself — Schoenfeld on volume, Zourdos on RPE, and more. No black-box AI. No influencer bro-science. A BODY MAP THAT GOES DEEPER THAN ANY OTHER APP Most apps colour a whole muscle group. RepLab maps your training down to the individual heads: • Upper vs. mid vs. lower chest • Side vs. rear delts · the three triceps heads · biceps + brachialis • The quad heads, both hamstring heads, glutes, adductors — even calves (gastrocnemius vs. soleus) and forearms A precise anatomical diagram — front and back — colours each region by how close it is to its research-based weekly volume target. PER-MUSCLE ANALYSIS — THE PART OTHER APPS MISS Your chest volume can look perfect on paper while your upper chest gets almost nothing. RepLab breaks every group down head by head, scores how evenly your volume is spread, and gives you the fix — including which exercise to swap for which, so you correct an imbalance without adding a single set of extra fatigue. Star a head you want to bring up and it's pushed toward the top of its range instead of just meeting the minimum. It catches the classics: pressing-heavy shoulders with nothing for the rear delts, pushdown-only triceps with a starved long head, leg-curl hamstrings with no hip hinge. LOG IN SECONDS — WITH TARGETS THAT MATCH YOUR GOAL • Weight and reps pre-filled; the next set's suggested load and rep target adapt to your goal — strength, hypertrophy, or fat loss • Full exercise history and estimated-1RM trend right where you log — no digging • Quick mode: a whole session on one screen • Supersets and full circuits, walked station to station • Warm-ups, drop sets, bodyweight + added weight • Rest timer in the Dynamic Island · plate calculator · form cues · Apple Watch logging • kg or lb · English & Spanish A FULL WEEKLY PLAN FROM 6 QUESTIONS Answer goal, experience, days, time, equipment, and priority muscles — RepLab builds a complete weekly routine balanced to research-based volume targets. Prefer a proven split? Start from Push/Pull/Legs, Upper/Lower, Full Body, or 5×5. As your data comes in, a weekly review fine-tunes your routines with one-tap Apply. TRAINING BLOCKS, PERIODIZED FOR YOU Plan a mesocycle and your weekly set targets ramp from the bottom of each muscle's range up to the top across the block, then drop for a deload. Your targets move with the block instead of sitting at the same number all year. NUTRITION TARGETS FROM YOUR ACTUAL TRAINING Daily protein, carb and fat ranges scaled to your bodyweight, your goal, and the hard sets you really logged this week — carbs rise with training volume, protein rises in a deficit. Targets only: RepLab will never ask you to log a meal. COACHING FROM YOUR OWN DATA (PRO) • Per-muscle balance analysis with exercise swaps and additions • Plateau detection — flags a stalling lift and suggests what to change • Daily readiness score and next-session targets from double progression • Push/pull & quad/hamstring balance, strength standards, rep-max table • Heart-rate insights via Apple Health (Apple Watch) Logging, history, charts, and the weekly planner are free forever. Pro unlocks the coaching layer — one subscription (7-day free trial) or a one-time lifetime purchase. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No analytics. No tracking. Your training data lives on your phone and syncs through your own private iCloud — we never see it. RepLab provides general training guidance, not medical advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://joselorte.github.io/replab/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cal Plus at every 4 days against RepLab's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, 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. Cal Plus sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year and RepLab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Cal Plus ships an update every 4 days, RepLab every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cal Plus | RepLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.6K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 63.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dilsahib Singh Bhatia | Jose Ortega-Roldan |
In-app purchases
Cal Plus
- Cal Plus 12 months Ad Free$19.991 Year
- Cal Plus - Family Annual Ad free$49.991 Year
- Streak Restore$0.99
- Call your Coach - 10 minutes pack$1.99
- Cal Plus Life Time Ad Free$39.99
RepLab
- RepLab Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
- RepLab Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
- Lifetime subscription$79.99









