Shrib VS RepDB

Shrib's answer

Shrib.com is fully hand-crafted for maximum speed, independence, and privacy. Its shrib.com PRO offering uses zero third party services, honoring your best possible privacy. If you use client-side encryption, your contents will even be hidden from our servers. The service is based and completely hosted and maintained in Switzerland with its best possible privacy legal framework.

It is the original online notepad app that started it all. Most others had started as mere copy cats.

RepDB's answer:

RepDB is sold as a one-time download, not a metered API — you own the JSON/SQLite data and WebP images outright, with no rate limits, no per-request billing, and no risk of the vendor cutting off access. It's also the only dataset in this space with EN/DE/ES translations, transparent (alpha-channel) images with no watermark, muscle-group highlighting, safety/goal tags, and looping animations on the higher tier.

Shrib's answer

If you value speed, privacy, and unique features and personality in your everyday work tool, choose shrib.com!

RepDB's answer:

Most alternatives are subscription APIs — you pay monthly, you're capped on requests, and ExerciseDB's terms of use explicitly forbid caching or storing the data at all, so every image render is a live paid API call. RepDB is the opposite: pay once, download the files, self-host with zero ongoing dependency. It's also the only option offering true DE/ES localization and transparent images instead of a white box behind every exercise.

Shrib's answer

People who like productivity and efficiency and don't like being spied on and taken advantage of.

Many users are writers, journalists, computer scientists, devlopers, academics, students.

RepDB's answer:

Solo developers and small teams building fitness or workout-tracking apps (iOS, Android, web) who need licensed exercise images and structured exercise data, but don't want to build their own media pipeline or depend on a rate-limited third-party API.

Shrib's answer

Luzi's job almost 20 years ago involved working across several and constantly changing PCs and devices. He wanted to be able to quickly reuse commands, scripts, and notes across all and any device without singing in. The app had to be as simple as possible so it would run on any (old) device. He has used it intensely as a consultant, project manager, general manager, CEO, board member, scientist, lecturer ever since - and it grew with him and millions of users across the globe.

RepDB's answer:

RepDB grew out of a consumer workout app its creator was building solo. Sourcing exercise images and data meant either paying for a subscription API with usage caps and no caching rights, or producing everything from scratch. The illustrated, multi-language dataset was built for us first, then split out as its own product once it became clear other indie developers had the same problem and preferred to buy the data outright rather than rent it through an API.

Shrib's answer

Standard LAMP Stack. Carefully hand crafted with great attention to detail.

Shrib's answer

• productivity lovers
• freelancers
• entrepreneurial employees
• knowledge workers
• consultants
• project managers
• writers
• students at all levels
• teachers and lecturers