Comparison

Smart Exercise Tracker vs Beast

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

Head to head
About

Smart Exercise Tracker

Log all your workouts with this personal exercise notebook. Receive suggestions for your next activity to simplify your fitness routine.

Highlights
  • Track all exercise types
  • Personal workout notebook
  • Exercise suggestions
  • Simplify fitness routine
Features
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Keep track of every exercise with the Smart Exercise Tracker, your personal notebook for all types of workouts. Get exercise suggestions to avoid the hassle of deciding what to do next.

About

Beast

Log your gym sessions quickly and efficiently with this workout tracker. It allows for easy data import from other apps, offers a rest timer, and provides detailed progress charts for each exercise and muscle group. You can also edit past workouts and add custom exercises.

Highlights
  • Import training data from other apps
  • Log sets with one-tap repeat
  • Automatic rest timer with notifications
  • Extensive exercise library with custom options
  • Muscle heat maps for volume tracking
  • Progress charts for individual exercises
  • Editable workout logs
Features
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Beast is a workout tracker with no account and no subscription. Import years of training from another app, then log your next session in about ten seconds. SWITCH WITHOUT STARTING OVER Most workout trackers make you start at zero. Export your data from the app you use today and Beast reads it. Years of training, thousands of sets. Your PRs, your volume, your charts and your muscle map are all there on day one. LOG A SET IN ONE TAP Beast shows what you lifted last time next to every set. Repeating it? One tap on the checkmark logs it. Going heavier? Type the number and tap. Warm-up, working, drop and failure sets each get their own badge, and warm-ups never disturb your set numbering or steal a personal record. A REST TIMER THAT KEEPS RUNNING Rest starts itself the moment you log a set. Adjust it by 15 seconds, skip it, or leave the app entirely. A notification tells you when rest is up, even with your phone locked. 500+ EXERCISES, PLUS YOUR OWN Browse a library of hundreds of movements with instructions, filtered by muscle and equipment. Anything missing, you add yourself. A custom exercise fills in the muscle map and earns records exactly like a built-in one. SEE EVERY MUSCLE YOU TRAINED Every workout gets a muscle heat map: front and back body maps shaded by how much volume each muscle actually took, with a ranked breakdown underneath. Your profile shows the same map across your entire training history, so a neglected muscle group is impossible to miss. WATCH YOUR LIFTS GO UP Every exercise has its own progress chart: heaviest set, estimated 1RM or total volume, plotted session by session. Personal records are stamped onto the workout that earned them, so you can see the day you hit them. YOUR WHOLE TRAINING LOG, ADDED UP The profile tab is your lifetime numbers: total volume lifted, workouts completed, week-by-week training streaks, an activity grid of every day you trained, and your best set on every lift you have ever done. Tap any day to open that workout. FIX A WORKOUT LATER Logged 225 when you meant 245? Every finished workout is fully editable: title, date, duration, units, notes and every set of every exercise. Correct a weight and the personal record hands itself back to the workout that really earned it. BUILT FOR LIFTERS Barbell, dumbbell, machine, cable or bodyweight. Push-pull-legs, upper-lower, full body, 5x5, or whatever you wrote on the back of an envelope. Beast does not tell you what to train. It keeps an honest record of the work you did.

Screenshots

Smart Exercise Tracker4 screens
Beast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Smart Exercise Tracker at none against Beast's shown. Smart Exercise Tracker also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Beast's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Smart Exercise Tracker against 5.0 for Beast. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smart Exercise Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Beast weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Smart Exercise Tracker versus Beast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart Exercise TrackerBeast
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.517.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn VeaRishi Masand

Customer experience

Smart Exercise Tracker

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Beast

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

In-app purchases

None

Smart Exercise Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

Beast

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smart Exercise Tracker free?
Smart Exercise Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beast free?
Beast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Smart Exercise Tracker or Beast?
Smart Exercise Tracker and Beast are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Smart Exercise Tracker or Beast have ads?
Beast shows ads; Smart Exercise Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Smart Exercise Tracker or Beast?
Smart Exercise Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Beast weekly. Most recently, Smart Exercise Tracker was updated on November 5, 2026 and Beast on October 31, 2026.

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