Jakd vs GymMatrix AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jakd
This app gamifies your fitness journey by awarding experience points for every workout. Track your progress, rank up, and engage with a community to stay motivated. It offers AI-powered guidance and integrates with health data.
- Log sets and earn experience points (Gains)
- Rank up based on consistent progress
- Build and manage custom workout templates
- Ghost mode for progressive overload guidance
- Social feed and leaderboards
- AI Spotter for program and exercise advice
- Apple Health integration
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Jakd: Level Up Your Fitness Your notes app is not a workout tracker. We get it — you've been logging sets in a spreadsheet, a notes app, or that crumpled paper in your gym bag. It worked. Sort of. But did it ever give you XP for hitting a PR? Did it rank you up for staying consistent? Did it make leg day feel like a boss fight? Jakd did. Jakd does. Jakd will. EVERY REP HAS A SCORE Log your sets — weight, reps, bodyweight, duration, distance, and more — and earn Gains (that's XP, but cooler). Hit a personal record? Bonus Gains. Stay consistent for a week? Your multiplier goes up because you're an athlete now. RANK UP OR STAY RAW Climb the ranks from Raw to Jakd. Your Daily Gains Ring tracks your progress in real-time. Think of it as your gym rep score that actually means something. ROUTINE PROGRESSION & DECAY Build custom templates and watch your routines rank up the more you use them. But be warned: skip too many sessions and your routines will decay. Your routine is judging you (lovingly). GHOST MODE (PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD) No guesswork. Your last session's numbers show up as ghost values so you always know exactly what to beat. SOCIAL FEED & LEADERBOARDS Follow your squad, share your workouts, and fight for the top of the weekly leaderboard. Nothing motivates like seeing your friend out-lift you on a Tuesday. AI SPOTTER — YOUR POCKET COACH Need a program? Stuck on an exercise? Ask the AI Spotter. Powered by advanced models, it’s your coach, programmer, and motivator rolled into one. APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION Jakd seamlessly syncs with Apple Health. Import your steps, active energy, and historical workouts to get a complete picture of your fitness journey and earn XP for all your activity. FREE TO START Log unlimited workouts and save up to 3 templates for free. Eligible Free users aged 18 or older may see banner ads while browsing Home and workout templates. Ads never interrupt an active workout. Paid subscriptions and active paid trials include ad-free browsing. Upgrade to Jakd Pro for: • Ad-free browsing • Unlimited Templates • Full Social Features & Leaderboards • Detailed Progress Charts • AI Spotter Access • Full XP Economy & Multipliers Your muscles are doing the work. Jakd makes sure they get the credit. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
GymMatrix AI
This AI-powered fitness app allows voice-controlled logging of workout sets, generating personalized training programs, and tracking progress. It offers smart exercise substitutions, set tracking, and weekly insights to help users achieve their fitness goals.
- Voice-first workout logging
- AI workout generator
- Smart exercise swap
- Set tracking with progress visualization
- Progressive overload coaching
- Weekly AI insights and reports
- Calorie burn estimates
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GymMatrix AI is a voice-first workout tracker that lets you log sets without touching your phone. Just hold the mic and say "bench 225 8" — the AI handles the rest. Built for real gym sessions where your hands are chalked up and your phone is sitting on a bench. Tap or talk, your choice. VOICE LOGGING Hold the button, say your exercise, weight, and reps in natural speech. The AI understands casual gym talk — "two plates for five" becomes Back Squat, 225 lbs, 5 reps. Works even better with AirPods in loud gyms. AI WORKOUT GENERATOR Answer 5 quick questions about your experience, schedule, and equipment. The AI builds a complete weekly program tailored to your goals. Don't like it? Regenerate or edit before saving. SMART EXERCISE SWAP Missing a piece of equipment? Tap swap on any exercise and get 3 AI-suggested alternatives that hit the same muscles. SET TRACKING Visual progress dots show exactly where you are. Three sets of bench? Watch the dots fill as you go. Progress bar tracks your entire session. PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD COACHING When you've been hitting the same weight consistently, the app nudges you to add 5 lbs or an extra rep. Simple, data-driven progression. WEEKLY AI INSIGHTS Every week, the AI analyzes your training and generates a report: what went well, what to improve, muscle group balance, and a specific tip for next week. CALORIE BURN ESTIMATES Real-time calorie tracking that factors in your body weight, the load lifted, and exercise type. Heavy squats burn more than light curls — the math reflects that. BODY WEIGHT TRACKING Log your weight daily with a trend chart that shows your progress over weeks and months. Goal tracking tells you if you're on pace. 150+ EXERCISES Comprehensive library covering chest, back, legs, shoulders, arms, core, and conditioning. Every exercise has voice aliases so the AI recognizes however you say it. WORKOUT SUMMARY End your session and see the full recap: total volume, calories burned, personal records, and difficulty breakdown. CUSTOM ROUTINES Build your own split or choose from 5 preset programs including Upper/Lower, Push/Pull/Legs, Full Body, Body Part Split, and Glute & Tone. SHARING Brag and share your lifts with friends. Hold each other accountable and share your goal achieving lifts directly from the app. All your data stays on your device. No account required. No ads. Just you and the iron. Development in progress heavily, submit feedback and see your feature requests come to life! Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/gymmatrix-terms Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/gymtracerprivacypolicy/home
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: GymMatrix AI at none against Jakd's shown. 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
Both are free to download. Jakd sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and GymMatrix AI sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Jakd against 5.0 for GymMatrix AI. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Jakd ships an update every 4 days, GymMatrix AI every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jakd | GymMatrix AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jakd LLC | Alex Tudor |
Customer experience
Jakd
GymMatrix AI
In-app purchases
Jakd
- Jakd Pro Monthly1 Month trial$3.991 Month
- Jakd Pro Yearly1 Month trial$24.991 Year
GymMatrix AI
- GymTracer Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- GymTracer Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year








