Gym accountability with friends
Show up.
Together.
A weekly goal, a photo for every workout, a friendly wager. Skip the gym and your squad will know.
Free to download · iPhone & Android
Gym accountability with friends
A weekly goal, a photo for every workout, a friendly wager. Skip the gym and your squad will know.
76%
of their goals reached by people who report to a partner every week
Matthews, Dominican University of California, 2007 — against 43% for goals kept to yourself.
1 photo
is all the proof it takes
Monday
every week starts clean, for both of you
The week
Your week fills up as you go, and so does theirs. Sunday night it closes, the count settles, and Monday hands you both a clean sheet.
A bad week never becomes a bad month, because a bad week ends.
You
0 days
Alex
0 days
How it works
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Send a link or show a QR code. One tap and you're paired. Add up to four more friends whenever you like: no feed, no strangers, just the people who'll notice when you skip.
Squads
Up to five friends on one home screen, each with their own count for the week. When that gets easy, challenge another squad for 7, 14 or 30 days.
Squads are ranked by average workouts per member, so two friends who never skip can beat a group of five.
Fall Shred
Day 12 of 30 · 19 days left
The Lifters
8.67
26 workouts · 3 members
Alex's squadYou
8.50
17 workouts · 2 members
Average workouts per member. Ties go to the most workouts.
The wager
Every Sunday night the week closes and GymPal settles it. No money, ever. Just something you'd rather not owe your friend.
Try a week
Goal: 4 sessions · tap the days
You owe the pizza 🍕
One more session and it was theirs to pay.
Inside the app
Your week, at a glance
The whole squad
Squad vs squad
Every session, kept
Nudges and promises
Badges worth earning
A wager on the line
Everything else
One tap sends a nudge to a buddy who has gone quiet. They can reply or react, straight from the notification.
Your count and theirs, side by side on the home screen. With a squad, everyone's week in one row.
Turn it on and the home screen races your daily steps against your squad's, straight from your phone's health app.
Every session is experience. Thirteen badges for workouts, streaks and weekly goals, only your own line going up.
Every week and every month as a grid of photos. Tap a day and it opens full screen.
A recap at the end of every month, and a Wrapped in December: your sessions, your streak, your buddy, as a story.
Holidays pause the goal while you're away. Streak freezes protect the streak when life gets in the way.
The streak, the week, or your buddy's latest photo, without opening the app.
Arrive at your gym and your phone reminds you to log it. The check runs on the phone, not on our servers.
On your wrist
Whether you've logged today, who already went, the head-to-head and the streak. A glance between sets, and complications for your watch face.
Why it works
Willpower is a bad long-term plan. Someone expecting your photo on a Tuesday night is a good one. GymPal turns your friends into the reason you don't skip.
Reviews
4.7 on the App Store · 13 ratings
Best gym app for couples
Genuinely one of the best apps I’ve downloaded this year. My boyfriend and I, (man), used to always make excuses to skip the gym but ever since we started using GymPal we’ve been LOCKED IN. It’s honestly turned working out into something we look forward to doing together. Such a simple idea but actually so genius. 10/10 recommend!!!
such a smart idea!!!
I’ve been wanting to get back into working out, but I’m someone that could always use a little extra motivation. it’s only been a week but it’s been so fun to do this with my best friend and hold eachother accountable!! way cleaner looking than other similar apps I’ve tried too!! excited to keep using bc it’s been nothing but positive so far!
Actually a game changer
BRO this app is actually insane 😭🔥 My girlfriend and I have been trying to stay consistent in the gym forever and GymPal makes it so much easier. We literally hold each other accountable every day now and it makes working out so much more fun. If you’re in a relationship and both trying to get in shape, YOU NEED THIS APP!!!
Great App
Started using it with my hometown gym friends now that we are away at college and now we can actually stay connected in a fun competitive way.
Love the exeperience
I’m a week into using this app and it’s super motivating to go to the gym. The healthiest form of competition i love it
So easy to use!
The app itself is so clean and user friendly - works just as I wanted it to! Highly recommend
What it isn't
Only your squad sees your photos. No scroll, no likes, no followers.
You join with a link, a QR code or a challenge code. There is nobody to discover.
Wagers are favours between friends. GymPal never moves money between users.
The gym reminder runs on your phone. Your position never reaches us.
FAQ
No. Wagers are favors between friends: pizza, drinks, a game night, a custom one you write yourself. GymPal never handles money between users.
You can log workouts alone, but the point is the pairing. Everything on the home screen is built around your squad: the head-to-head, the nudges, the wager.
A squad holds up to five people, you included. Two is the classic, five is a group chat that actually goes to the gym. Squads can then challenge each other.
Each workout counts on the day it happened for whoever posted it. Your week and theirs both run Monday to Sunday, in your own time zones.
Only to your squad. Photos expire after 90 days; your history keeps the day, not the picture. You can delete a workout, or your whole account, from the app.
Only if you ask it to remind you when you arrive at your gym. The check runs on your phone and your location is never sent to us.
Yes. GymPal is on Google Play, and an iPhone and an Android phone pair like any two others.
Free to download. Takes two minutes to set up, and one friend to make it stick.
