Rayl vs FreeCals

Rayl is your strength-training logbook - local on your iPhone, no account, no ads, no tracking. Open the app, start a workout, log it set by set. That's the whole idea. LOG YOUR WORKOUTS • Strength sets with weight and reps, cardio with distance and duration • Working sets and warm-up sets kept apart - warm-ups never count toward your volume • Drop sets as their own set type • Optional RPE per set • Values from your last session are suggested and adopted with one tap • Rest timers per exercise, separate for working and warm-up sets - they keep running in the background and notify you when the rest is over • Live Activity: current exercise, sets and rest timer on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • A second, free-standing timer for everything else • Notes per exercise, bodyweight per workout • If the app crashes or you restart your iPhone, your running workout is still there TRAINING PLANS • Plans with exercises, sets, target values, RPE and rest durations • Start an empty workout without a plan whenever you like STATISTICS WORTH READING • Estimated 1RM using Epley, O'Conner, Brzycki or Mayhew - optionally RPE-adjusted • Max weight, volume, repetitions, sets and average RPE • Cardio: pace, speed, distance, duration • Interactive charts with a moving average, an improvements-only filter and full screen in landscape • Periods: 1W, 30D, 3M, 6M, 1Y, YTD, Max or a custom range • Radar chart of your training focus across muscle groups • Previous-load filter: compare only the sessions where the same exercises came before HISTORY • Month calendar with your training days marked • Every finished workout stays fully editable afterwards • Exclude individual workouts from statistics without deleting them • Personal records for weight, volume, 1RM, distance and pace EXERCISES • 120 built-in exercises • Create your own exercises - no limit, even on the free tier • Effective load: pull-ups, push-ups and friends factor in a share of your bodyweight YOUR DATA IS YOURS • CSV export of your complete history • Export and re-import exercises and plans as JSON • No account, no sign-up, no analytics, nothing shared WEEKLY GOAL Set a target number of workouts per week and keep an eye on your streak. RAYL PRO Logging workouts is unlimited and free - no cap, no expiry. Pro opens up the analysis: • Analyze your full history: One year, year to date, all time, and custom ranges • Unlimited training plans • Plate calculator • Create supersets, trisets and giant sets • Compare 1RM formulas and set your default • Moving average, improvements only, filter by previous exercise • Choose and group muscles on the radar • Automatic iCloud backup and restore • Workout import via CSV • Alternate app icons • All future Pro features Pro is available monthly or yearly, both with a free trial. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period in your App Store settings. Local workout tracking without an account. Rayl Terms of Use - https://www.ldm-software.de/rayl/terms

FreeCals is a calorie tracker. There is no account to create, and your diary is stored on your phone. LOGGING A MEAL Scan a barcode and the packaged product comes back from Open Food Facts. Search by name and two databases answer: Open Food Facts for packaged products, USDA FoodData Central for generic foods like chicken breast or rolled oats. When neither has what you ate, describe it. Type or dictate "a bowl of porridge with 200 ml milk, a banana and a flat white" and FreeCals reads it into separate items with portions. Photograph the plate instead if that is quicker, or photograph a printed nutrition label and the numbers are read off it on your device. Paste a recipe URL or photograph a recipe and it becomes an ingredient list you can log a portion of, with a shopping list if you want one. WEIGHT AND TARGETS Log your weight and FreeCals follows the trend rather than the daily noise. From what you logged and how your weight actually moved it works out what you burn, and adjusts your target to match. Body measurements too. THE DAY AND THE WEEK 23 nutrients, not only the three macros. Water. A fasting timer. Supplements. Meals planned a day ahead. A score for the day and for the week, built from your own figures alone and able to show you exactly what it is made of. Ask a question about your own numbers in plain language and get an answer with your last four weeks in front of it. WATCH, WIDGETS, LIVE ACTIVITIES An Apple Watch app for calories left, water, quick add, weight and fasting, with complications. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. A Live Activity for a running fast and for the calories you have left today. APPLE HEALTH Two-way, each direction with its own switch, off until you turn it on. YOUR DATA The diary lives on the device. Export all of it as JSON and the diary as CSV whenever you want, and import it back. Deleting the app deletes the data. Barcode lookups, searches, descriptions, photos and questions go to the FreeCals backend and on to Open Food Facts, USDA FoodData Central or OpenAI to be answered. They carry no account, no device identifier and no cookies. What comes back is the answer. AI answers are estimates, and the app labels them as estimates. FreeCals is a tracking tool, not a medical device, and gives no medical advice. Product data from Open Food Facts, licensed under the Open Database License. Generic foods from USDA FoodData Central, published by the US Department of Agriculture and in the public domain. English and German.