Island vs Gym+ Training Log
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Island
This app helps you build self-discipline by managing your screen time without outright blocking apps. You nurture a virtual island by sticking to your limits, with friends providing accountability. Exceeding limits can cause virtual storms, impacting your island's progress.
- Set daily app limits
- Receive usage warnings
- Monitor friends' app usage
- Gamified island progression
- Virtual farm and crop growth
- Island decoration
- Accountability through social features
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Island is a different kind of screen time app. Most screen time apps are a variation on the same theme: a wall that shows up when you open an app that either makes you wait or locks you out. Island aims to help you build self-discipline within yourself. It’ll never block your apps or nanny you. Instead, you are given charge of your own island that you take care of by sticking to your limits and staying off the apps you don’t enjoy spending time on. Add friends, visit each other’s islands and keep each other accountable. As you stay on track, you build a credit score which increases the production level of your farm and makes unlocking new crops, animals and content faster. But beware, going over your limit causes storms that can wreak havoc on your island. Screen Time Features: - Set a daily limit for the apps you want to block - Get warnings before you cross the line - See your friends’ usage and keep each other in check Island: - How on track you are determines the weather on your island, beware of storms - Grow cucumbers, strawberries, bananas and more! - Build and decorate your island EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Gym+ Training Log
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Gym+ builds you a training programme, then logs the work. Answer three questions — your goal, your experience, how many days a week you can train — and Gym+ produces an eight-week block you can actually run. Sets, reps and rest are tuned to the goal: heavy fives with three minutes' rest for strength, higher reps and short rests for fat loss. Every session comes from a library of 180 exercises, each tagged by muscle, equipment and difficulty. Then it gets out of the way and lets you train. TRAIN • Start a session from your programme or from nothing • Log weight and reps per set, with a rest timer that starts when you finish one • The timer counts to a real deadline, so it stays right while the phone is in your pocket, and tells you when rest is up • Personal records are spotted as you log them KNOW WHAT TO LIFT NEXT • Every exercise shows what you did last time and what to try now • Suggestions follow double progression: build reps at a weight, then add load once every set has landed — not just your best one • Weights round to a jump your gym can actually make • Stall on a lift for three sessions and it tells you to back off instead of grinding WORK OUT WHAT GOES ON THE BAR • Built-in plate calculator, per side, from your bar weight • Tells you when a weight simply cannot be loaded, and the closest that can SEE THE PROGRESS • Estimated one-rep max, session volume and sets over time • Volume broken down by muscle group across four weeks • An anatomical body map that shades what a lift trains — or what you have actually been training, so the gaps show • A calendar of everything you have done YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • No account, no sign-up, no sync • No analytics and no tracking • Everything is stored on your phone • Export the lot to a file whenever you like, and import it back • Uninstalling deletes it, because there is no copy anywhere else Kilograms or pounds, throughout.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gym+ Training Log at none against Island's 3. Gym+ Training Log also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.4). Island's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Island sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Gym+ Training Log asks for nothing beyond the download.
Island ships an update every 4 days, Gym+ Training Log every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Island | Gym+ Training Log |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (19 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SideKit | Veeti Nurmikoski |
In-app purchases
Island
- Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
- Pro Yearly (Launch Sale)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Gym+ Training Log
No in-app purchases









