Comparison

GRVT Workout vs TabSet

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

Head to head
About

GRVT Workout

Features
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Built for people who plan to still be lifting at 45 โ€” and who are tired of fitness apps that punish them when life happens. You got sick. You took a week off. You had a brutal stretch at work. Most workout apps zero the streak and paint the ring red. GRVT does the opposite. The Activity Path is a corridor: a rest line and a push line. Heavy days and light days both keep you on it. Sick days, travel days, recovery days โ€” part of the path. One quiet grace day a week. The app never tells you that you missed or failed. iOS-only, so it can use every Apple surface the cross-platform apps skip. EVERY APPLE SURFACE โ€ข iPhone โ€” weight, reps, RPE, rest timer, supersets, PRs, volume. Offline-first via SwiftData. โ€ข Apple Watch โ€” a real Watch app. Log sets from the wrist. Train without the phone. โ€ข Dynamic Island โ€” the rest timer lives there during a session. โ€ข Live Activity โ€” current set, exercise, elapsed time on the Lock Screen. โ€ข Home Screen widget โ€” today's plan, one tap in. โ€ข HealthKit โ€” two-way. Reads heart rate, calories, steps, body weight. Writes HKWorkout sessions back. THE ACTIVITY PATH โ€ข No toxic streaks. Days on the path survive sick days, travel, and one silent grace day a week. โ€ข Rest modes โ€” Sick, Travel, Recovery, Life Happens, Just Resting. Each keeps the path intact and changes the voice. โ€ข Corridor, not a finish line. Hit the push line to go hard, the rest line to maintain. Both count. WHAT'S INSIDE โ€ข 4,000+ exercises with animated GIFs, difficulty, and form. Filter by muscle or equipment. โ€ข AI plan generator โ€” goal, days per week, equipment, experience. A program in seconds. โ€ข AI food scanner โ€” point the camera at a meal for calories, protein, carbs, fat. โ€ข Macro rings and personal records. โ€ข Coach dashboard for indie trainers who need client plans without an enterprise stack. PRICING โ€ข Free: 20 exercises per muscle group, 5 custom plans, 1 week of history, Watch sync, HealthKit. No signup to try. โ€ข Monthly: $4.99 โ€ข Annual: $51.96/year โ€ข Lifetime: $99.90 once. Every future update included. No paywall in the first session. No dark patterns. GRVT Premium is billed monthly ($4.99) or yearly ($51.96). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase and does not renew. Privacy Policy: https://grvt.work/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://grvt.work/terms.html

About

TabSet

This app logs your gym sets and rest times directly from your Apple Watch, keeping your phone in your bag. It tracks weight, duration, and intervals, and calculates barbell loads. Build custom routines and sync data with Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Log sets and rest times on Apple Watch
  • Plate calculator for barbell lifts
  • Track duration and interval workouts
  • Build and customize workout routines
  • Syncs with Apple Health
  • Export/import workout data
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A gym tracker that runs on your Apple Watch. Tap the ring to log a set and the rest timer starts by itself, so your phone stays in your bag for the whole session. TabSet does not plan your workouts. You already know what you are doing. It counts your sets, times your rest, remembers what you lifted, and tells you what to load on the bar. Free for 14 days. Then one purchase, and that is the end of it. No subscription, ever. THE WORKOUT RUNS ON YOUR WRIST Most trackers put the watch app second. TabSet puts it first. Your routine is on the watch, so the phone stays in your bag for the whole session. - Tap once to bank a set. The rest timer starts on its own. - Two rings you never have to decode: the outer one is always the clock, the inner one is always the count. - Live heart rate, calories, and a heart-rate zone bar along the bottom. - Swipe up to switch exercise mid-set when someone is on the machine you wanted. - Swipe down to undo a set you logged by mistake. - A complication on your watch face, so training starts in one tap. MORE THAN SETS AND REPS A strength session is rarely all barbell work, so warm-ups and conditioning are first-class here, not an afterthought. - Sets: sets by reps, with weight, the way you already train. - Duration: one timed block for a warm-up, a stretch, or steady cardio. It counts down and finishes itself. - Intervals: HIIT work and recovery rounds that say "speed up" and "slow down" out loud, with haptics, so you never look down to catch the switch. KNOW WHAT TO LOAD - Plate calculator: for barbell lifts, TabSet shows exactly what to load per side. Set the bar weight once and the breakdown appears on the watch. - Your working weight carries forward. What you lifted last session is already filled in next time, so progressive overload takes no data entry. - Rest is set per exercise, so heavy squats can rest three minutes while curls rest sixty seconds inside the same routine. BUILD ROUTINES ON IPHONE OR IPAD - More than 80 built-in exercises covering barbell, dumbbell, cable, machine and bodyweight work, plus any you add yourself. - Six built-in training days to start from, or build your own from scratch. - Order a training day however you like, then start it from the watch in one tap. - Import and export whole multi-week programs as JSON, so a plan can be shared or backed up. YOUR DATA IS YOURS - No account. No sign-up, no password, no server, because there is nothing to sign in to. - History with per-exercise weight charts, time in your heart-rate zones, and logged sets you can still edit afterwards. - Export your training log as CSV or as a JSON backup, and import it back. - Finished workouts save to Apple Health, so they close your Move and Exercise rings and show up in Fitness. PAY ONCE Free for 14 days with nothing held back and nothing to cancel. If you keep it, you buy it once. There is no higher tier, no pro version, and no feature waiting behind a monthly fee. Every future update is included. WHAT TABSET IS NOT Some of this will rule it out for you, and it is better to know now. - Not a workout planner. It will not write your program or tell you what to train today. - Not a coach. No form tips, no nudges, no motivational notifications. - Not a social network. No feed, no followers, no leaderboards. - Not a nutrition app. No macros, no meal plans, no barcode scanner. - Not a cloud service. Your training lives on your devices, not on a server. If you want an app to decide your training for you, there are good ones. TabSet assumes the deciding is already done.

Screenshots

GRVT Workout4 screens
TabSet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: GRVT Workout at weekly against TabSet's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. GRVT Workout sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and TabSet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GRVT Workout ships an update weekly, TabSet every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
GRVT Workout versus TabSet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGRVT WorkoutTabSet
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyWeekly โ€” betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetizationโ€”Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size82 MB4 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperGRVT, Inc.dotOrange

In-app purchases

3 purchases

GRVT Workout

Subscriptions2
  • GRVT Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • GRVT Pro Yearly7 Days trial$51.901 Year
One-time1
  • GRVT Pro Lifetime$99.99
1 purchases

TabSet

One-time1
  • Unlock TabSet$8.99

Questions

Is GRVT Workout free?
GRVT Workout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TabSet free?
TabSet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GRVT Workout or TabSet have ads?
Neither GRVT Workout nor TabSet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GRVT Workout or TabSet?
GRVT Workout ships an update weekly, and TabSet every 3 weeks. Most recently, GRVT Workout was updated on October 12, 2026 and TabSet on October 19, 2026.

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