Comparison

Macro Tracker vs GainBook

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

Head to head
About

Macro Tracker

This app acts as an intelligent personal trainer, offering AI-powered workout plans, meal suggestions, and fitness advice. It features comprehensive tracking for workouts, nutrition, and weight, with personalized goals and insights.

Highlights
  • AI-powered personalized workout plans
  • Smart workout and progress tracking
  • Comprehensive nutrition logging
  • Personalized macro and calorie goals
  • Weight and progress visualization
  • AI-driven dietary and exercise recommendations
Features
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You log food in one app and train in another. The meal never meets the workout. Photograph your meal and check today's calories. Then start the workout in the same app. PerfectTrAIner is a macro tracker, a calorie counter, and a workout log for people who already do both. HOW IT WORKS 1. Photograph your meal. Search, describe, or scan the barcode when a photo is the wrong tool. 2. Log that food against today's calories, protein, carbs, and fat targets. 3. Start the workout in that same app, with the meal already counted. 4. Need assistance? Ask the trainer for suggestions. WHAT CHANGES - Your meals shows up against the targets you set, in the same app as your workouts - Photos, descriptions, search, and barcodes all land in one meal log - A gym log for sets, reps, and weight, with information from your last sessions - Meal and workout ideas that follow those targets, including injuries and foods you skip "This app has been a great help in keeping track of my meals and workouts." Download PerfectTrAIner and start the free trial. Disclaimer: PerfectTrAIner provides general fitness and nutrition information for educational purposes. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Seek a doctor’s advice in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions, including before starting an exercise program or changing your diet. Then reply in App Store Connect with some Terms of Use: https://perfecttrainer.app/terms-and-conditions/

About

GainBook

This workout tracker allows you to plan, log, and review your strength training progress. It offers detailed exercise tracking, customizable workout plans, and an extensive exercise library. All your data is stored locally, ensuring privacy and offline access.

Highlights
  • Workout planning and templating
  • Detailed set logging with rest timers
  • Extensive exercise library with custom options
  • Progress review with volume heatmaps
  • Local data storage and iCloud backups
  • Offline functionality
Features
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GainBook is a workout tracker built for people who take strength training seriously. Plan your workouts, log every set in the gym, and review your progress over time. There are no ads and no account required. Everything stays on your device. Start in a minute • Answer a few questions and GainBook builds a starting plan for you • Or build your own from scratch, exercise by exercise Plan your workouts • Organize routines into multiple workout plans • Build workout templates with target reps, weight, rest time, and set types (warm-up, working, drop set, failure) • Group exercises into supersets with synchronized sets • See your previous performance while editing or starting a workout • Duplicate templates or update them from completed workouts • Share your plans and history with any AI chat app you choose, then import the improved plan it suggests • Export any plan as JSON, or import one Track every workout • Log reps and weight quickly • Add or remove sets at any time • Automatic rest timer with sounds and notifications • Live workout bar so you can jump back to an active workout from anywhere in the app • Replace or skip exercises if equipment isn't available, and see what you used instead last time • Changed your mind? Undo a skipped exercise • Timed sets with countdown alerts • A reminder if you leave a workout running • Training volume is calculated correctly for dumbbells and single-leg or single-arm exercises Check in with your body • A quick check-in before each workout: pain, soreness, sleep, fatigue, illness and more • Pick from suggestions or add your own, rated 1–5 or yes/no • Dictate your before and after notes instead of typing • Spot patterns: how often each symptom shows up and how its severity trends Exercise library • Hundreds of built-in exercises with instructions, muscle groups, equipment, and images • Search by exercise name, muscle group, or equipment • Create your own custom exercises • View exercise history and see what you did last time Review your progress • Browse completed workouts with duration, volume, and set summaries • Calendar view of your training history • Muscle volume heatmap to see what you've trained • Progress analytics: see which lifts are improving, how hard your sessions feel, and how your effort trends over time • Muscle recovery map: see which muscles are ready to train again, with an optional notification when you're fully recovered • Complete workout breakdown with every set and rest period Your data stays yours • Everything is stored locally • No account or internet connection required • Export and import your complete database for backups • Optional iCloud Drive backups you can restore anytime from Settings Customize the app • Light and dark themes • Supports kg and lb • Choose whether changing an exercise's unit converts your logged weights or just changes the label • Configurable default and maximum rest times Made by someone who actually uses it I built GainBook for myself. I've spent years in the gym and years cycling through tracking apps, and every one of them was missing something I needed: the set types I actually use, supersets that behave, training volume counted correctly for dumbbells and single-side work, a rest timer that stays out of the way. GainBook is all of it in one app: fast, detailed and fully offline, with no cloud account. I train with it every week, and that is why it keeps moving. Whatever I find missing gets built, so expect new features regularly. If you prefer owning your data instead of storing it on someone else's server, that's exactly what GainBook is built for.

Screenshots

Macro Tracker4 screens
GainBook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GainBook at none against Macro Tracker's 2. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Macro Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. GainBook asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Macro Tracker against 5.0 for GainBook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Macro Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, GainBook every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Macro Tracker versus GainBook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMacro TrackerGainBook
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander BudnevichAnatolii Vedmid

Customer experience

Macro Tracker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

GainBook

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Macro Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$59.991 Year
None

GainBook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Macro Tracker free?
Macro Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GainBook free?
GainBook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Macro Tracker or GainBook?
Macro Tracker and GainBook are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Macro Tracker or GainBook have ads?
Neither Macro Tracker nor GainBook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Macro Tracker or GainBook?
Macro Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and GainBook every 5 weeks. Most recently, Macro Tracker was updated on November 5, 2026 and GainBook on October 31, 2026.

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