Gym Coach vs WorkIt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Gym Coach
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You know roughly what to do in a gym. What you don't know is what to do now โ after two years away, with three days a week and a shoulder you don't quite trust. Gym Coach builds your program in two minutes, then does the thing no plan ever did: it watches what actually happens and adjusts. IT ADAPTS TO YOUR REAL LIFE Missed a week? The plan absorbs it and ramps you back โ no red warnings, no broken streaks. Rack taken? Three ranked alternatives, instantly. Joined a real gym or bought a barbell? Tell the coach; your plan rebuilds around it. IT SHOWS ITS WORK Every exercise, weight, and change comes with the reason. Why this lift is in your plan. Why this week is lighter. Why your bench swapped after stalling twice. You're learning how coaching works, not obeying an app. PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE Every set builds the picture: strength trends per lift, your body-weight trend (the line, not the daily noise), PR moments, and an eight-week report that puts the scale and the barbell side by side โ proof the plan worked. A LOGGER THAT RESPECTS THE GYM FLOOR Pre-filled targets. One tap logs a set. Rest timer starts itself. Warm-up ramps computed for you. Plate math done โ it shows what to load on each side of the bar. AI YOU CAN TRUST A deterministic engine sets every number from your logged sets. The AI coach explains, converses, and proposes changes you approve โ it cannot hallucinate your program. In 2026, that's a feature. FREE FOREVER: the full workout logger and a personalized program. COACH ($11.99/mo or $89.99/yr, 7-day free trial): the adaptive layer โ progression targets that learn from every set, mid-workout swaps, weekly check-ins, the AI coach, and a new cycle every eight weeks. No diet tracking. No social feed. No shame mechanics. Just a coach in your pocket who noticed you skipped last week โ and absorbed it. Getting back into it? That's exactly who this was built for. Your first workout is two minutes away. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
WorkIt
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WorkIt reads like a piece of calibrated gym equipment, not a wellness app. Every number is exact โ nothing is rounded or softened to feel friendlier. REST TIMER, ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN Start a set, and the rest timer keeps counting on your Dynamic Island and Lock Screen โ no need to keep the app open or the screen on between sets. FORM CHECKER Grades your lifting form live, on-device, while you lift. Nothing is recorded, saved, or uploaded โ the analysis happens and disappears, same as a mirror. TRAINING LOAD & MUSCLE TRENDS See which muscles you've actually trained this week versus last, and whether your working weight is trending up โ read at a glance, never a raw number alone. NUTRITION, GRADED Photograph a meal or just describe it and the calories, protein, carbs, and fat come back filled in, yours to check before anything saves. Every meal comes back graded โ healthy, average, or poor โ with the reasoning behind the score. FIT HEALTH One reading out of 100 built from how you train and what you eat. It only scores the half it has data for and says which, so the number stays honest even if you only use half the app. DISCIPLINE MODE Schedule your training days. When it's time, WorkIt opens to a lock screen โ start that day's workout, or give a real reason to skip it. Optional Screen Time integration can hold distracting apps back until you do. GYM GROUPS Create a group for your gym crew, invite them with a code, and share workouts and form checks straight into the feed. Own the group and you get a dashboard of every member's training load, muscle trends, and your own notes on each of them. APPLE HEALTH SYNC Finished sessions write a workout entry to Apple Health, and your heart rate can show up alongside a finished workout โ both opt-in. IMPORT Already logging elsewhere? Bring your history over from a CSV export in a few taps. DISCOVER Browse routines other lifters have published, copy one into your own plan, and โ if you opt in โ see how your lifting form compares on a public leaderboard. Your workout and nutrition data lives on your device. The only things that ever reach a server are what you explicitly choose to share: a published routine, a group, or a leaderboard entry. Terms of Use (EULA): https://supremolabs.com/workit/terms
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Verdict
Gym Coach and WorkIt are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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Both are free to download. Gym Coach sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month and WorkIt sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Gym Coach ships an update every 4 days, WorkIt every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gym Coach | WorkIt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod โ better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Carva Tech Solutions LLC | Joshua Alanis |
In-app purchases
Gym Coach
- Gym Coach: Monthly Coach7 Days trial$11.991 Month
- Gym Coach: Yearly Coach7 Days trial$89.991 Year
WorkIt
- Weekly Premium$4.997 Days









