Comparison

GymTracker Pro vs PL8

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

Head to head
About

GymTracker Pro

This app helps serious lifters track workouts quickly and efficiently. Log sets, reps, and weights with ease, and automatically track personal records. It intelligently remembers machine-specific weights and offers smart calculators for bar loading.

Highlights
  • Log sets in one tap
  • Machine variant weight tracking
  • Smart plate calculator
  • Customizable workout cycles
  • Exercise alternative swaps
  • Superset and warm-up tracking
  • Automatic PR celebration
Features
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GymTracker Pro is a workout tracker for people who lift. Plan your week, log every set in one tap, rest on a timer that starts itself, and watch your strength climb, on iPhone and Apple Watch. LOG FAST • Log a set in one tap, with last time's weight and reps right beside it • Warm-up and working sets, rep ranges and rest for every exercise • Supersets in rounds, with rest after each round • Bodyweight moves: reps only, added weight or assisted • Swap an exercise mid-workout without losing your sets • Notes where you need them, like "seat 4, pin 3" TRAIN ANYWHERE • Works fully offline: start, log and finish workouts with no signal, and they sync later with the right times • A sync icon on Home shows anything waiting to send STRETCH AND MOBILITY • 70+ stretches, logged as a timed hold (each side if you like), as reps or with one tap • Make any exercise a stretch, and log one-sided moves left, then right • Time any exercise, like a plank or a dead hang REST RIGHT • The rest timer starts after every set • Follow it on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, in your accent color, and on your Apple Watch • 12 timer sounds, from a classic double beep to 8-bit fun • Focus mode shows one set at a time, full screen PLATES, SORTED • See exactly which plates go on each side of the bar • Set up your own plates and bars, with plate math for plate-loaded machines too • Leg press and other plate-loaded machines show the weight on each side PLANS THAT FIT • Build your own plan with any number of days • Start from nearly 50 ready-made programs • Or let the AI Plan Builder write one from a few answers • Ask the AI coach to adjust your plan or add a day, ask for changes, and see every change before it's saved • After 10 workouts, check in with the AI coach once a week: a look at your last 8 weeks, a few quick questions, a report on what's going well and what to work on, and changes you can apply or skip • Days run in order, so a missed day waits for your next workout SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Records for every lift, celebrated the moment you set them • Estimated 1RM and volume charts for every exercise • Weekly volume, volume per muscle and your full history • Share a card of your workout, with your own photo if you like • Each machine keeps its own records, so switching leg press machines never spoils your bests APPLE WATCH • Start a workout on your iPhone, then log sets and follow your rest from your wrist MADE FOR YOU • 300+ exercises to search and filter, plus your own, and every label is yours to change • Dark and light themes, and your choice of accent colour • English and Arabic, with the whole app right to left in Arabic • Try it as a guest, with no account needed • Download all your data as a file, free for everyone • Deleted something? Recently deleted keeps it for 30 days YOUR DATA No ads and no tracking, and your training is never sold. The AI Plan Builder and the AI coach ask before they send your answers or your plan to an AI company, and name the company first. You can turn that off in Settings. Questions or ideas? Visit gymtrack.pro/support

About

PL8

Features
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Progress you can see, not just remember. In the gym it holds your last numbers, your presets and the rest timer, so logging a set is quick and stays out of your way. Afterwards it turns all of it into figures that show whether you are actually getting stronger. Visits and sets — Log a visit, add exercises, record every set with weight and reps — or duration and level for cardio. Last time's numbers are already in the fields, and shown above them, so you know what to beat before you start the set. Workout presets — Save a session as a preset and start the next visit from it, instead of rebuilding the same list every time. Exercise catalog — A curated catalog with equipment and muscle data, searchable in every language the app supports. Anything missing you add yourself, with its own equipment and muscles, and it sits in the catalog like the rest. Statistics — Top-set weight, session volume and estimated 1RM per exercise, plotted over time, so the graph shows plainly whether you are growing or have hit a plateau. Muscle map — A body map of your muscle groups, plus a heat mode that paints the week's heavy sets onto it — a neglected zone is visible before it becomes a problem. Rest timer — A countdown that keeps running whatever you do next, in the app or out of it, and alerts you when the rest is over. Workout summary — Finish a workout and a summary appears with records, first-evers and changes against last time — and the muscle groups it hit. You can open the summary for any past workout at any time. It lives on your phone, and it leaves in plain text. No account needed. Sync is opt-in, anonymous, and deliberately dull. Free · EN + RU · Light + dark · Works offline

Screenshots

GymTracker Pro4 screens
PL84 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: GymTracker Pro at weekly against PL8's every 3 weeks. GymTracker Pro also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GymTracker Pro against 5.0 for PL8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GymTracker Pro ships an update weekly, PL8 every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
GymTracker Pro versus PL8: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGymTracker ProPL8
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB60 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMohammad AlhusainiDenis Zamataev

Customer experience

GymTracker Pro

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PL8

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

GymTracker Pro

No in-app purchases

None

PL8

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GymTracker Pro free?
GymTracker Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PL8 free?
PL8 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GymTracker Pro or PL8?
GymTracker Pro and PL8 are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do GymTracker Pro or PL8 have ads?
Neither GymTracker Pro nor PL8 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GymTracker Pro or PL8?
GymTracker Pro ships an update weekly, and PL8 every 3 weeks. Most recently, GymTracker Pro was updated on October 24, 2026 and PL8 on October 24, 2026.

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