Glacial Community YMCA vs Strength Evolution
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glacial Community YMCA
This app helps you elevate your fitness routine by tracking workouts, monitoring progress, and achieving goals. It offers personalized training plans, fun challenges, and class scheduling to keep you motivated and engaged.
- Workout Tracking
- Personalized Training Plans
- Activity Level Milestones
- Fun Challenges with Rewards
- Class Scheduling and Booking
- HealthKit Integration
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Elevate your fitness routine with the app! It's your all-in-one solution to easily monitor your workouts, track progress, and achieve your fitness goals with engaging insights and motivation. The app offers an array of features, including: Workout Tracking Seamlessly capture all your workout data from gym equipment or manually enter it for a complete record. Training Plans Optimize your workouts with personalized plans provided by your fitness facility or trainer. Activity Levels Stay motivated with encouraging milestones as you progress to higher levels. Fun Challenges Challenge yourself with time-based activities that reward you with kudos, activity points, and prizes. Schedules Manage and book classes with ease to keep yourself on track. And much more! The app integrates with HealthKit to help you save your workouts and contribute to your fitness goals and challenges. Have a comment or question about the app? Email our team directly at digitalsupport@egym.com.
Strength Evolution
Manage your fitness account, book classes and events, and access on-demand content. Stay connected with the fitness community through messaging and a public feed for announcements and promotions.
- Account management
- Class and event booking
- On-demand content access
- Direct messaging
- Public feed for announcements
- Promotional content viewing
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The Strength Evolution app makes it very easy for you to manage your Strength Evolution account, book into our classes and events, watch our on-demand content, and keep in touch with us. You can easily message us if you have a question or want to share something with them. You can also follow our public feed to see any announcements we make, promos we run, or content we share.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Glacial Community YMCA at 426 against Strength Evolution's 24. 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 — 4.9 for Glacial Community YMCA against 4.9 for Strength Evolution. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Glacial Community YMCA has 426 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Glacial Community YMCA ships an update every 4 months, Strength Evolution every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Glacial Community YMCA | Strength Evolution |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (426 ratings) | 4.9 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 98.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 426 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 147 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Young Men's Christian Association At Pabst Farms, Inc. | Momence, Inc. |
Customer experience
Glacial Community YMCA
Strength Evolution
Bugs and requests
Glacial Community YMCA
Reported bugs
3 issues- Classes sometimes not listed for workout recording
- Points system slow to update
- Occasional app glitches requiring fixes
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to add favorite classes to a list
- Expand app functionality to include full enrollment capabilities
- More challenges available
- Faster bug fix implementation
Strength Evolution
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Glacial Community YMCA
No in-app purchases
Strength Evolution
No in-app purchases
Questions
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