Kpal vs openGym
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kpal
This app helps you track your daily food intake, including calories, nutrients, and associated costs. Log meals by taking photos, scanning barcodes, or manual entry, and monitor your progress towards calorie and spending goals.
- Calorie and nutrient tracking
- Food cost monitoring
- Photo-based food logging
- Barcode scanning
- Customizable meal entry
- Pantry organization
- Receipt scanning for prices
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Track what you eat and what it costs. Kpal is a food diary for calories, nutrients, and food spending. Take a photo, scan a barcode, or enter a meal yourself. Check the details, adjust your portion, and add it to your day. Save foods you eat regularly so you don’t have to enter them again. Cooking at home? Build a dish from its ingredients, set how many servings it makes, and log the amount you ate. Keep your pantry organized and scan receipts to reuse the prices you actually paid. Your daily log and weekly trends show your calories, nutrients, and food costs. You can set calorie and spending targets, and optionally connect Apple Health to bring in your Active Energy. Photo-based nutrition and prices are estimates. Review them before saving—you can change the numbers whenever you need to.
openGym
This app helps you plan, track, and analyze your gym workouts. It offers a vast exercise library with demos, customizable routines, and detailed progress tracking. Everything is stored locally on your device, with optional sync capabilities.
- Extensive exercise library with animated demos
- Customizable workout plans and routines
- Detailed set logging and rest timers
- Plate math and progression tracking
- Volume and recovery analysis
- Local data storage with optional sync
- Apple Watch integration and Live Activity
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openGym is a workout tracker made by people who lift, for people who lift. Plan your week, log every set, and see what you actually did. No account, no ads, no subscription, no tracking. PLAN • Over 5,600 exercises with animated demos, in 19 languages • Four starter plans (Push/Pull/Legs, Upper/Lower, Full Body, 5×5), or build your own • A routine per weekday, or a rotation (A, B, C, A …) if your week doesn't run on a schedule • Supersets, warm-ups, drop sets, rest-pause, timed holds, per-side reps TRAIN • Today's workout starts itself, with weights filled in from last time • Rest timer that still rings with the screen locked • Plate math for the plates you actually own • Progression rules: linear, Greyskull, double progression and more • Check in at your gym by showing your membership code from the app TRACK • Estimated 1RM curves, volume per muscle, a recovery map • Body weight against your goal, progress photos side by side • Edit any past workout, or log one you did on paper YOURS • Everything stays on your phone. Want sync? Connect your own openGym server. • Import from Strong, Hevy and FitNotes; export everything any time • Optional AI coach that drafts your week, with your own API key, and only after it asked you • Free and open source (AGPL), built in the open with the community IPHONE AND APPLE WATCH • Apple Watch app: the current set, the rest timer and your heart rate on your wrist; tick sets off from there • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, plus widgets for your Home Screen • Apple Health if you want it: finished workouts and weigh-ins land there too Exercise animations © Gym visual (gymvisual.com), licensed for openGym.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: openGym at 30 against Kpal's 2. On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Kpal against 4.9 for openGym. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: openGym has 30 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Kpal ships an update weekly, openGym every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kpal | openGym |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 92.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 388 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mustafa Gharaibeh | Duarte Lavouras Reis Santos |
Customer experience
Kpal
openGym
In-app purchases
Kpal
No in-app purchases
openGym
No in-app purchases





