GainBlocks vs Overload
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
GainBlocks
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You train, but you can't tell if it's enough. GainBlocks makes it countable. Every muscle gets a weekly target in hard sets. Every hard set you log fills one block. Fill your board before Monday, on whatever days you train. A READY SESSION EVERY TIME Open the app and start the next session. GainBlocks builds your week from the days you train: full body, upper and lower, or push, pull and legs. Same lifts in the same order, with sets, weight and reps, so you can beat last time. NO FIXED DAYS TO FALL BEHIND ON A session is never tied to a weekday and there are no missed workouts. Just blocks still open. Train Tuesday and Saturday or five days straight; the board keeps score either way. A TARGET FOR EVERY MUSCLE Tell it how often you train and which muscles you want to bring up. GainBlocks sets a weekly number for chest, back, shoulders, arms, legs and abs, with extra work where you asked for it. ONE SET CAN FILL MORE THAN ONE ROW A bench press fills a chest block and adds half a block to shoulders and triceps. You see where your week is ahead and where it is behind. IT REMEMBERS YOUR NUMBERS Open an exercise and you see what you did last time and what to take today. Beat it and the next target moves up. LOCK IN BEFORE EVERY SET Hold to lock in, then give the set everything. Log your reps, say how much you had left, and the block lands. OR DO YOUR OWN THING Tap any muscle on the board and train that instead. It all counts. Short on time? Say how long you have and GainBlocks lines up the exercises that close the biggest gaps. RECORDS GET THEIR MOMENT A new best gets a plate slam and your number in yellow. No ads. No social feed. Your training data stays in your account. SUBSCRIPTION GainBlocks offers an auto-renewable subscription with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID and renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://exekute-app.com/privacy
Overload
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Overload walks you to your fitness goal, one day at a time. Tell it where you want to end up. It builds the plan, guides every workout, every meal and every rest day, and adjusts when life happens. You just show up. Most fitness apps store your numbers. Overload is the coach who reads them. START WITH THE GOAL Build muscle, get stronger, lose fat, build endurance or just get fit. Say it in your own words, pick your pace and the days you can train. Coach Drona turns that into a program: phases with a purpose, week by week, split into the exact sessions you will do. Every phase has one job and one number it is judged on. Can't measure it in the app? Drona sets a number you log yourself. On a cut it sets a daily step goal, and on your hardest days it gives you more carbs to train on. FOLLOW IT, DAY BY DAY Open the app and today's session is waiting. Rest days come from your plan, not the calendar. Skip a day and the plan waits for you instead of jumping ahead. Change your mind in chat: "shorter sessions", "more chest", "swap squats", and Drona rebuilds it. LOG A SET IN ONE TAP Last time's weight and reps are already filled in, so you always know what to beat. Rest timer, supersets, warm-ups, drop sets, sets to failure, negatives, one side at a time, hundreds of exercises plus your own. Personal records are flagged the moment you hit them. SAY WHAT YOU ATE Type it in a sentence. "Two eggs and toast" becomes calories, protein, carbs and fat, with daily targets sized to your goal. No barcode hunting, no endless database search. Overload learns what you usually eat at each meal and offers it first, and it remembers your brands. Copy yesterday's meal in one tap, or log ahead for the days you have planned. If a number looks wrong, just say so and the card fixes itself. KNOW WHEN TO PUSH OR EASE OFF A readiness score from sleep, resting heart rate and HRV, read from Apple Health, Apple Watch, Oura, Whoop or Garmin. Each morning it says one of three things: Push today. Train as planned. Ease off today. ONE COACH WATCHING ALL THREE Training, food and recovery feed one coach, so nothing slips between apps. Drona notices a stalled lift, a missed week or a rough night and tells you what to change, the moment it happens. When your calories need to move, it shows you why and asks first. It remembers what you tell it, like an old injury or a food you skip. Ask it anything in plain English. Every answer uses your real numbers and cites the research behind it. Every week, the plan is rewritten around what you actually did. SEE THE GOAL GET CLOSER Bodyweight against your target line. Each phase's number on its own chart. Daily calories against your goal. Strength per lift. Volume by muscle on a body map. Calendar heatmap, streaks, XP and 50 levels from Beginner to Legend. FREE AND PRO Tracking is free forever: unlimited workouts, routines, history and analytics, plus three coach messages and three AI food logs every day. Overload Pro makes coach chat and AI food logging unlimited, and adds personalized plans, weekly plan rewrites, and refining any plan in chat. Overload Pro is available as: Annual, $29.99 per year, including a 7 day free trial Monthly, $7.99 per month Founding Lifetime, $99.00 one time Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Terms of Use: https://tryoverload.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://tryoverload.app/privacy.html NO ADS. NO DATA SELLING. Fast on cellular, works when the gym wifi does not. Sign in with Apple, Google or email and your data follows you. Delete your account from inside the app and we wipe it. Your goal. One coach. Every day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Overload at none against GainBlocks's shown. GainBlocks's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. GainBlocks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Overload sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GainBlocks ships an update every 9 days, Overload every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | GainBlocks | Overload |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days โ better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mike Hendriks | Sarthak Kumar |
In-app purchases
GainBlocks
- GainBlocks Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- GainBlocks Annual7 Days trial$44.991 Year
Overload
- Overload Premium Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Overload Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Founding Lifetime Access$99.00









