Comparison

Personal Training Diary vs My Gym Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Personal Training Diary

Features
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A simple app for planning and tracking workouts. Create exercises and plan workouts using the exercises you've created. Track your workouts in the app. Statistics help you optimize your training progress. The free version allows to test the app but has some limitations. The Pro version, available via in-app purchase (one-time charge, no subscription), provides full functionality.  The app is available in English and German.

About

My Gym Tracker

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My Gym Tracker is a fast, no-nonsense training log for the gym and the road. Log every set in a tap, track your runs with GPS, and see exactly which muscles you're actually hitting. NEW IN 2.2 • Stronger workout sync reliability across devices and offline sessions • Better account isolation when signing out, switching accounts, and deleting data • More durable delete persistence for workouts and queued changes • Reminder, export/import, barcode, run map, and ad overlay refinements • Release hardening and cleanup for a smoother training log experience NEW IN 2.1 • Food logging — log meals with calories and protein, set daily targets, and see where you are without opening a second app • Barcode scanner — point the camera at a package and the nutrition facts fill themselves in • Food search — look up foods by name against the USDA database • Body weight trend — a chart that separates the real trend from day-to-day water weight • Training reminders — pick your days, and a different time for each one • Swap an exercise mid-workout — the machine is taken, pick an alternative that trains the same thing • Better starter programs, now with direct core work • Export everything — food logs and measurements now travel with your JSON backup, plus their own CSVs NEW IN 2.0 • GPS run tracking — live distance, pace, and per-mile splits, with your route drawn on a map and saved to your history • Muscle coverage — a heatmap of the muscles each session hits, plus reps by body part over the week or month • 143 exercises, now including cardio — treadmill, cycling, rowing — with smarter search • Share your runs — post a clean map card with distance, pace, and route • Women's mode — women-first programs and optional cycle-aware guidance TRAIN • Workout templates — build the routines you actually follow (Push/Pull/Legs, Upper/Lower) or start from a built-in program, and launch one in a tap • Fast set logging — weight, reps, and notes without breaking your rest • Rest timer with a default you choose • Plate calculator — what to load on the bar, no math mid-set • Automatic PR detection — the app tells you when you beat your best • Exercise library with anatomy and demo videos for every movement • Custom exercises for anything that isn't in the library RUN • Foreground GPS tracking with live distance, pace, and splits • Runs land in the same history as your lifts, so one log covers everything SEE PROGRESS • Muscle coverage heatmap by week or month • Training history, streaks, and a weekly goal you set • Body measurements over time YOURS, EVERYWHERE • Sign in with email, Google, or Apple • Cross-device cloud sync — your training follows you between phone and tablet • Export to CSV or JSON, and import a backup any time • Light and dark themes, kg or lb • Log without signal — everything syncs when you're back online FREE, SUPPORTED BY ADS This version is free and ad-supported: a banner on some screens, and one full-screen ad after you finish a workout. Never during an active workout, and no ads at all in women's mode. PERMISSIONS • Location — read only while the run-tracking screen is open, to measure distance and pace and draw your route. Never in the background, and never for advertising. The rest of the app works without it. • Camera — used only while the barcode scanner is open, to read the barcode on a food package. No photo or video is stored or sent. Only the barcode number leaves your device. Adding food by hand needs no camera access. • Internet — required for cloud sync, food lookups and ads. Your training data is yours. Export it or delete your account at any time from Settings.

Screenshots

Personal Training Diary4 screens
My Gym Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My Gym Tracker at none against Personal Training Diary's 1. My Gym Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). Personal Training Diary's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence 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. Personal Training Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. My Gym Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Personal Training Diary ships an update every 10 days, My Gym Tracker weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Personal Training Diary versus My Gym Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPersonal Training DiaryMy Gym Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDieter SchmidtDen Digital LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Personal Training Diary

One-time1
  • Personal Training Diary Pro$4.99
None

My Gym Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Personal Training Diary free?
Personal Training Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Gym Tracker free?
My Gym Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Personal Training Diary or My Gym Tracker have ads?
My Gym Tracker shows ads; Personal Training Diary does not.
Which is updated more often, Personal Training Diary or My Gym Tracker?
Personal Training Diary ships an update every 10 days, and My Gym Tracker weekly. Most recently, Personal Training Diary was updated on November 5, 2026 and My Gym Tracker on November 5, 2026.

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