Deficite vs GainCurve
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deficite
This app provides a visual overview of your calorie balance, weight trends, meals, and workouts. It helps you understand your daily progress towards your fitness goals by integrating BMR, logged activities, and food intake. Offers guided workouts and recipe suggestions with premium features.
- Visual Home dashboard
- Weight and body fat charts
- Meal logging with macros
- Guided bodyweight workouts
- Apple Health integration
- Estimated target date
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Track your calorie deficit, meals, macros, weight and workouts in one visual app. Deficite connects what you eat, your BMR-based energy baseline, logged activity and your weight trend. Instead of burying progress in raw numbers, it gives you a clear picture of where you are today and how your habits are changing over time. SEE YOUR PROGRESS AT A GLANCE - Visual calorie balance based on BMR, logged food and workouts - Seven-day summaries for weight, intake and daily balance - Dynamic weight and body-fat charts focused on recent progress - Estimated target date based on daily balance and weight evolution - Banister Model insights for fitness, fatigue and performance LOG NUTRITION FASTER - Organize food by breakfast, snacks, lunch and dinner - Track calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat and key micronutrients - Search saved foods, choose gram presets and export nutrition summaries - Create healthy recipes from ingredients you already have - Follow simple preparation steps with estimated calories and macros TRAIN WITH GUIDANCE - Progressive bodyweight programs from beginner to expert - Guided exercise videos, timers, rest periods and sound cues - HIIT, Tabata, Time Interval and Rounds sessions - Estimated workout calories and optional Apple Health export - Completion tracking across routines and levels BUILT AROUND YOUR DATA - Optional Apple Health support for weight, body fat, activity and workouts - iCloud sync across supported Apple devices - Metric and imperial units - No separate Deficite account required DEFICITE PREMIUM Premium unlocks the complete guided workout library and Healthy Recipes. Core calorie, nutrition, weight and workout tracking remains available without Premium. Deficite provides wellness and fitness estimates and does not replace medical, nutritional or professional advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://aiglobalventures.es/deficite/privacy
GainCurve
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GainCurve turns training and nutrition into a role-playing game. Log your workouts and meals, hit your targets, and level up all the way to Legend. TRAIN SMARTER • Workout logger built for the gym floor: big steppers, tap to type any weight, per-exercise weight steps • Progressive-overload targets for every exercise, based on what you lifted last time • Warm-up ramps, supersets, rest timer with a ping, and personal-record alerts • 11 training plans or your own routines — start any plan day in any order • Log sets from the lock screen and Dynamic Island with Live Activities • 195 exercises with how-tos, including bodyweight and weight-vest work CARDIO THAT COUNTS • Steady and interval timers (Norwegian 4×4, HIIT, assault bike and more) • Weekly zone 2 and zone 5 minutes from your Apple Watch heart rate EAT FOR YOUR GOAL • 15,000+ foods offline, plus online USDA and Open Food Facts search • Barcode scanner, your own foods, recipes and favourites • Log a meal by its numbers alone, or bring in food logged in other apps from Apple Health • Calories, protein, carbs, fat, fibre, sugar, salt — and potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc and vitamin D • Adaptive calorie target that learns from your weight trend • Your week as one calorie budget: a big day is evened out gently, and you can plan a big meal ahead and save up for it • Calorie, level and quick-log widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen • An app icon that shows your rank and changes with every new title • Rewards as you level: accent colours, ring frames, a share card, a Classic look and Dark mode RUNS FROM APPLE HEALTH • Runs, rides, hikes and walks come in automatically with their route map, heart-rate zones and XP YOUR JOURNEY • A mountain you climb with XP: every workout, logged day and check-in moves you up, and each summit is a new title • Your body goal sits beside it, measured on your smoothed trend, with milestones and a pace estimate. One heavy morning never sets you back • Training for a 10 km, half, marathon or Hyrox? See the calendar against your readiness WORKS WITH DayCurve (optional) • With our caffeine and body-clock app DayCurve installed, GainCurve shows your caffeine level, peak and cut-off next to your workout — shared on your iPhone only APPLE WATCH • Train from your wrist, or let your Watch record heart rate while you log on iPhone • Outdoor runs, walks and rides record their GPS route GainCurve PRO (optional) • Progress photos pinned to your level on the map, with a ghost of your last photo to line up, compare any two days, and a timelapse video of your progress — stored only on your iPhone • Run analytics: pace-coloured routes, kilometre splits and best efforts • Strength analytics: estimated one-rep-max trends for every lift, weekly hard sets per muscle and whether each muscle is building, maintaining or overreaching • Sleep readiness, with our DayCurve app installed: how last night's sleep reads for today's training • Everything else in GainCurve is free GainCurve Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription (the yearly plan includes a 1-week free trial) or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://n-elnouby.github.io/GainCurve/privacy.html PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Your data stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch. GainCurve provides general fitness and nutrition estimates and is not a medical device or medical advice. Food data: USDA FoodData Central, Ciqual © ANSES, CoFID © Crown copyright, Open Food Facts (ODbL).
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Verdict
Deficite and GainCurve are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Deficite sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and GainCurve sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Deficite ships an update every 5 days, GainCurve every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deficite | GainCurve |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 192 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alejandro Ahijado Ibarra | Nabil El Nouby |
In-app purchases
Deficite
- Deficite Premium7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Deficite Premium7 Days trial$59.991 Year
GainCurve
- GainCurve Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- GainCurve Pro Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- GainCurve Pro Lifetime$34.99









