Basic Gym vs GymReps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Basic Gym
This app simplifies workout tracking for strength training. Easily log exercises, sets, reps, and weight. It features a customizable interval timer and provides detailed insights into your progress over time. Designed for a hassle-free gym experience.
- Customizable muscle groups
- Exercise assignment
- Effortless stat entry (weight, reps, sets)
- Customizable interval timer
- Workout progress insights
- Past session stats
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Introducing Basic Gym: Your ultimate workout tracker with interval timer. Take your fitness to the next level with Basic Gym, the simplest and most effective workout companion app. Easily track your progress, organize your exercises, and achieve your goals. Workout tracking made easy - Create customized muscle groups that fit your unique routine - Assign exercises to your selected muscle groups for a tailored approach - Get started in seconds - no hassle! Effortless Stat Entry: Track Your Progress with Ease 1. Choose Your Target: select the muscle group you're focusing on 2. Pick Your Exercise: choose the specific exercise within that muscle group 3. Record Your Achievements: input the weight, reps and sets effortlessly Interval Timer: Set custom intervals between exercise sets, allowing you to stay focused and maintain momentum throughout your entire workout Unlock Comprehensive Workout Insights - Get a clear overview of your current workout and past sessions at a glance - Dive deeper into your progress with detailed stats from previous workouts - Make data-driven decisions to optimize your fitness journey What Sets Basic Gym Apart: - A hassle-free gym experience, tailored for strength training enthusiasts - Focus on tracking what matters most: your progress! Building muscles and getting bigger and stronger.
GymReps
This app helps you plan, log, and track your gym workouts to improve your fitness. It offers a simple interface for creating custom exercises, building routines, and monitoring progress with features like rest timers and one-rep max calculations.
- Custom exercise creation
- Log weightlifting, cardio, bodyweight
- Build custom workouts
- Workout planning and goal setting
- Rest timer
- Estimated one rep max calculation
- Data backup
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Keeping a training log is essential to making progress in the gym and improving your fitness. GymReps is the perfect tool for planning, logging, and tracking your workouts. With a simple user interface, GymReps lets you get right to your workout and is not overloaded with unnecessary features. It is completely customizable to your type of routine and preferences. Features: - Create custom exercises - Track weightlifting, cardio, or bodyweight exercises by reps or duration - Build your own workouts - Break your workouts into days - Plan your workout and set goals for each exercise - Create categories to organize exercises any way you prefer - Add weight to bodyweight exercises - Rest timer for between sets - Estimated one rep max calculated for each set - 100+ exercises built in to the app - Backup your data and save it anywhere you prefer Log your workouts. Improve a little bit each workout. Track your progress and watch your fitness improve over time! Tab bar and button icons by icons8.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Basic Gym at weekly against GymReps's every 5 months. Basic Gym also leads on review sentiment (95% vs 80%) and ratings volume (103 vs 10). GymReps's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 — 4.7 for Basic Gym against 4.8 for GymReps. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Basic Gym has 103 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Basic Gym's written reviews are positive against 80% of GymReps's.
Basic Gym ships an update weekly, GymReps every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and August 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Basic Gym | GymReps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (103 ratings) | 4.8 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.5% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stefan Collette | 2V Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Basic Gym
GymReps
In-app purchases
Basic Gym
No in-app purchases
GymReps
No in-app purchases
