Comparison

AptusFIT vs CAL5

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

Head to head
About

AptusFIT

This app creates personalized workout plans and training sessions that adapt to your goals, schedule, and equipment. It offers an AI coach for guidance, workout tracking, and intelligent exercise swaps to ensure consistent progress.

Highlights
  • AI Coach for guidance and adjustments
  • Personalized workouts and training plans
  • Adaptive training based on real data
  • Guided workout builder
  • Intelligent exercise swaps
  • Extensive exercise library
  • Workout tracking and progress insights
Features
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AptusFIT - AI Workout Builder, Coach & Training Tracker Training that adapts to you. AptusFIT is a training system designed to evolve with you over time. Using your real workout data, goals, schedule, equipment, and training history, AptusFIT helps you build smarter workouts, follow structured plans, and keep progressing — without constantly second-guessing what to do next. Whether you’re brand new to fitness, getting back into a routine, or training consistently for years, AptusFIT helps make fitness feel clear, flexible, and sustainable. No noise. No hype. No endless guesswork. Just steady, long-term progress. Unlike many fitness apps that feel random or overly rigid, AptusFIT is built around structured training logic that adapts as your fitness journey evolves. Build workouts in seconds. Build long-term training plans. Adjust when life happens. Stay consistent without overcomplicating things. FEATURES: • AI Coach available anytime for workouts, plans, swaps, guidance, and training questions • Personalized workouts and structured training plans based on your goals, experience, equipment, schedule, and workout history • Training that adapts over time using your real workout data and feedback • Guided workout builder with smart chips + optional free-text requests • “Recommended by Coach” mode to reduce decision fatigue • Review-before-you-train flow so you always stay in control before starting a workout • Day Swap & Push logic to help adjust training around real life while maintaining recovery balance • Intelligent exercise swaps based on available equipment, muscle focus, and workout intent • Strength training, cardio, mobility, recovery, and hybrid workout support • Standalone cardio workouts or cardio integrated directly into strength sessions • Workout tracking with set-by-set execution flows, timers, and rest management • AI-powered workout adjustments based on performance and training feedback • Multiple Gym Profiles supporting commercial gyms, home gyms, hotel setups, travel training, and Bodyweight-only workouts • Extensive exercise library with 600+ exercises and variations across strength, conditioning, cardio, mobility, recovery, and bodyweight training • Beginner-friendly onboarding designed like a conversation — simple, fast, and low-pressure • Injury-aware exercise filtering and Rehab-Safe alternatives • Workout history, streaks, milestones, progress tracking, and training insights • Import off-plan activity to keep your training history complete and connected. • Save workouts, revisit previous sessions, and quickly repeat favorites • Wearables and health data integration through Apple Health and Health Connect • Flexible by design — whether you want full structure or simply a great workout today BUILT FOR LONG-TERM PROGRESS AptusFIT isn’t designed around random workouts, short-term hype, or constantly changing trends. It’s built to help you train consistently over time through structured progression, intelligent adjustments, and workouts that evolve alongside your goals. The result is training that feels sustainable, adaptable, and easier to stick with long term. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE Missed a workout? Traveling? Short on time? Training with different equipment today? AptusFIT is designed to adapt without making fitness feel stressful or rigid. Your Coach can help modify workouts, adjust plans, suggest swaps, and keep your training moving forward — while helping maintain consistency over time. Whether you prefer more structure or more flexibility, AptusFIT adapts to the way you like to train. FREE TRIAL & SUBSCRIPTION Start with a 30-day free trial. After the trial, AptusFIT offers a single premium subscription tier. Pricing may vary by region and App Store account settings. Train consistently. Adapt intelligently. Keep progressing. Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use: https://www.aptusfit.ai/terms/

About

CAL5

Features
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Point your camera at your food. CAL5 tells you the calories, protein, carbs and fat — in seconds, without weighing anything or searching a database. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most photo calorie trackers get the food right and the portion wrong. They log everything as "1 serving" and quietly understate your day. CAL5 is built around fixing that. • Every ingredient gets an estimated weight in grams — and you can edit it. Change 60 g of chicken to 200 g and the calories rescale instantly. • Ate half the plate? Log half. Quarter-serving portions, not whole ones. • Got it wrong? Say so in your own words and it re-estimates, keeping the weights you set by hand. • Every estimate carries a confidence rating, so a clearly framed single plate and a guess at a shared table don't look identical. • The same photo always gives the same answer. No re-scanning until you get a number you like. BUILT FOR MALAYSIAN FOOD Nasi lemak, char kuey teow, roti canai, teh tarik. Local dishes that aren't in any Western food database work here, because CAL5 describes what it sees rather than searching a list. The app is fully translated into English, Malay and Chinese. YOU DON'T NEED A PHOTO • Type what you ate — "two roti canai and a teh tarik" — and it works it out • Re-log anything from your food library in one tap • Add a food by hand, once, and keep it • Scan a packaged product's barcode, or photograph the nutrition label TRACK WHAT MATTERS • Daily calories and macros with clear progress rings • Fibre, sugar and sodium, when the food supports a real estimate • Targets calculated from your body and your goal, not a generic 2,000 • Weight chart with trend over 90 days, 6 months, a year • Before/after progress photos, side by side • Water intake and a logging streak • Badges for the milestones that actually took effort EXERCISE, WITHOUT THE GUESSWORK Log a run or a lifting session and it's estimated on your phone. Or describe a workout in words and let the app work it out. Crediting that burn back to your daily budget is off by default and yours to switch on — burn estimates are the least certain number in the app, and we'd rather say so than quietly hand you another 400 calories. BUILDING MUSCLE, NOT JUST LOSING WEIGHT Set a gaining goal and the app stops treating a surplus as a failure. Going over your target turns green, not red. YOUR DIARY STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account needed to track. Your food diary, exercise log, weight history and progress photos live on your device and nowhere else, and none of it is ever uploaded. Photos and typed descriptions are sent for analysis and are not stored. Barcode lookups and food searches go directly to Open Food Facts. There are no ads, no analytics and no trackers. GROUPS, IF YOU WANT THEM Topic groups for people tracking the same thing. Joining one is the only part of CAL5 that needs an account, and the only thing that leaves your phone is what you choose to post. Report and block are on every post, and you can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app. HONEST ABOUT ACCURACY Calorie and burn figures are AI estimates, not laboratory measurements. They're a consistent yardstick, not exact truth. CAL5 is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent any condition, and nothing in it is medical advice. If you have a medical condition, are pregnant, or are managing your weight under supervision, talk to a qualified health professional before changing what you eat. CAL5 is not intended for anyone under 18.

Screenshots

AptusFIT4 screens
CAL54 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CAL5 at none against AptusFIT's 2. AptusFIT's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. AptusFIT sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. CAL5 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AptusFIT ships an update weekly, CAL5 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
AptusFIT versus CAL5: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAptusFITCAL5
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size284 MB58 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAptusFITJason Soh

In-app purchases

2 purchases

AptusFIT

Subscriptions2
  • AptusFIT Premium$6.991 Month
  • AptusFIT Premium$66.991 Year
None

CAL5

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AptusFIT free?
AptusFIT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CAL5 free?
CAL5 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AptusFIT or CAL5 have ads?
Neither AptusFIT nor CAL5 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AptusFIT or CAL5?
AptusFIT ships an update weekly, and CAL5 fortnightly. Most recently, AptusFIT was updated on October 31, 2026 and CAL5 on November 6, 2026.

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