Comparison

FuelCoach vs Pactive

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

Head to head
About

FuelCoach

Effortlessly track your daily nutrition with calorie and protein logging, food scanning, and AI-powered meal suggestions. Stay focused on your fitness goals with a clear dashboard and personalized insights.

Highlights
  • Track calories, protein, carbs, and fats
  • AI-powered meal ideas
  • Scan nutrition labels
  • AI food photo estimates
  • Daily progress dashboard
  • Save quick meals
Features
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FuelCoach helps you track your nutrition and know what to eat next. Stop guessing your way through the day. FuelCoach makes calorie and protein tracking easier with a clean daily dashboard, quick meal logging, food scanning, and AI-powered meal ideas built around your goals. Whether you are cutting, bulking, maintaining, or just building better habits, FuelCoach helps you stay focused on your daily progress. Log meals manually, save favorite quick meals, scan nutrition labels, and use AI-powered food photo estimates to help track meals with less friction. Review estimates before saving so you stay in control of your daily totals. FuelCoach can also help suggest meal ideas based on your goals, making it easier to decide what to eat next and stay on track throughout the day. Features: • Track daily calories, protein, carbs, and fats • View a clean daily progress dashboard • Log meals manually • Save and use quick meals • Get AI-powered meal ideas • Scan nutrition labels • Use AI-powered food photo estimates • Review estimates before saving • Set nutrition and profile goals • Optional Apple Health support • Home Screen widget support • Pro features with subscription options FuelCoach is built to make nutrition tracking simpler, faster, and easier to stick with. AI estimates may not always be accurate. Always review food estimates before saving. FuelCoach provides general nutrition tracking tools and is not medical advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://fuelcoach.netlify.app/#terms

About

Pactive

This app transforms gym workouts into a game with progress tracking, rewards, and social features. Log sets, build routines, earn trophies, and compete with friends to stay motivated and achieve your fitness goals.

Highlights
  • Log sets, reps, weight, and RPE
  • Customizable routines and exercise library
  • Streak tracking and trophy rewards
  • Train with friends in Pacts
  • AI-powered coach (Jim)
  • Advanced analytics and muscle breakdown
Features
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Pactive is a workout tracker built for people who actually go to the gym—and want progress to feel real, not buried in a spreadsheet. Log every set in a gym log built for progressive overload, with streaks, trophies, and a crew that keeps you showing up. WORKOUTS THAT FIT HOW YOU TRAIN • Log sets, reps, and RPE fast—no spreadsheet energy • Copy a friend's workout with one tap • Track personal records and muscle breakdowns • New: track calories burned per session STAY CONSISTENT • Hard and soft streaks that reward showing up • Trophies, coins, and rank up your baby ape • Trophy Road milestones keep the habit going TRAIN WITH YOUR CREW • Start a Pact with friends—shared goals and rankings • Social feed built around your circles, not vanity metrics • Check in after workouts so your crew sees you showed up MEET JIM • Ask Jim, your in-app AI coach—programming help in plain English • Jim reads your training history for personalized advice FREE VS PREMIUM Free includes logging, streaks, trophies, Pacts, and up to 6 custom routines. Pactive Pro adds Ask Jim, unlimited routines, advanced analytics, and custom Pacts. New subscribers get a 7-day free trial on monthly or annual plans. Trusted by lifters and their crews. 4.8 stars from early lifters. Make the gym a game—train together, rank up, and keep your streak alive. Terms of Use: https://pactive.com/terms/ Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pactive.com/privacy/ Privacy: Your workout log stays yours. We use training data to power logging, streaks, and Pact features—you choose what your crew sees.

Screenshots

FuelCoach4 screens
Pactive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Pactive at 27 against FuelCoach's 5. Pactive also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.2). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. FuelCoach sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Pactive sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $4.19 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FuelCoach against 4.9 for Pactive. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pactive has 27 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of FuelCoach's written reviews are positive against 94% of Pactive's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FuelCoach ships an update weekly, Pactive every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FuelCoach versus Pactive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFuelCoachPactive
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.9 (27 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better94.1% of reviews
Number of ratings527 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB64 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMatt EnglerPactive LLC

Customer experience

FuelCoach

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pactive

All ratings26 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.9%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

FuelCoach

Subscriptions2
  • FuelCoach Pro (Monthly)$5.991 Month
  • FuelCoach Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
15 purchases

Pactive

Subscriptions6
  • Pactive Pro Monthly$4.191 Month
  • Pactive Pro Monthly$5.391 Month
  • Pactive Pro Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
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  • Pactive Pro Annual$41.991 Year
  • Pactive Pro Annual$53.991 Year
  • Pactive Pro Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time9
  • 500 Coins$0.99
  • 1000 Coins$4.99
  • 2500 Coins$9.99
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  • 10,000 Coins$19.99
  • 20,000 Coins$39.99
  • 50,000 Coins$99.99
  • Pactive Pro Lifetime$181.99
  • Pactive Pro Lifetime$234.99
  • Pactive Pro Lifetime$259.99

Questions

Is FuelCoach free?
FuelCoach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pactive free?
Pactive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FuelCoach or Pactive?
FuelCoach is rated higher. FuelCoach averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Pactive averages 4.9 from 27 ratings.
Do FuelCoach or Pactive have ads?
Neither FuelCoach nor Pactive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FuelCoach or Pactive?
FuelCoach ships an update weekly, and Pactive every 2 weeks. Most recently, FuelCoach was updated on October 25, 2026 and Pactive on October 25, 2026.

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