# Forward • Growth OS — Your life improvement copilot.

> Life improvement OS for habits, nutrition logging, and strength training. (iPhone/iPad app by Pablo Cordoba.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/forward-growth-os/id6790607052 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Pablo Cordoba](https://appshunter.io/developer/6790607054)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 36 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, European Portuguese, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-07-28
- Data updated: 2026-09-18
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/forward-growth-os/id6790607052/reviews.md

## What is Forward?

Forward is your life improvement Operating System: a habit tracker, an AI nutrition log, and a strength training copilot in one. 

Track your personal growth across habits, nutrition, and workouts, with one streakless philosophy: progress comes from showing up, not from guilt.

HABITS THAT FORGIVE Build routines with flexible frequencies and reminders. Miss a day? Your momentum is weekly, so one bad Tuesday never erases your work. Celebrate milestones, earn Sparks, and climb a permanent Life Rank that never resets.

NUTRITION WITHOUT THE SPREADSHEET Snap a photo of your plate and Forward reads it: foods, portions, calories, and macros, matched against the USDA food database. Type it, say it, or photograph it, up to 5 photos per meal. Save your go-to meals and log them in two taps. Your calorie ring adapts to your goal, whether you are cutting, maintaining, or building.

TRAINING THAT PLANS ITSELF Set up your training week in two minutes with a ready-made split or your own. Forward remembers every set and suggests your next weights with a progressive overload engine, so you always know what to lift today. Rest timer, Dynamic Island live activity, PR celebrations, and Apple Watch workouts merged automatically.

NORTH, YOUR AI COACH (PRO) North sees your real data: your week, your lifts, your meals, your habits, and answers with specifics, not generic advice. Ask what to eat tonight, why your weight stalled, or what to train tomorrow.

BETTER TOGETHER Add friends, keep shared streaks alive, and build weekly group goals. Accountability without leaderboards or shame.

ALSO IN FORWARD

- Apple Health connected: workouts and meals sync both ways
- Home screen and lock screen widgets, including interactive habit check-off
- Stats that give verdicts, not squiggles
- 7 visual themes and an earn-only cosmetics shop
- Full support for English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and German

Forward is free to download and use - every feature, including the North AI coach, is available to everyone at no cost.

## Key features

- Streakless habit tracking with flexible frequencies
- AI-powered nutrition logging via photo recognition
- Progressive overload strength training copilot
- Personalized AI coaching for specific advice
- Social features for shared goals and accountability
- Apple Health integration for seamless data sync


## Frequently asked questions about Forward

### Does Forward have ads?

No, Forward is free to download and use and does not contain advertisements.

### What devices does Forward support?

Forward currently supports iPhone devices.

### How does Forward handle missed habits?

Forward uses a streakless philosophy where momentum is weekly, meaning missing a day does not erase your progress. You can still celebrate milestones and earn rewards.

### Can I log my meals easily with Forward?

Yes, you can snap a photo of your meal, and Forward will read the foods, portions, calories, and macros. You can also type or say your food entries and save go-to meals for quick logging.

### What kind of training guidance does Forward offer?

Forward acts as a strength training copilot, remembering your sets and suggesting weights with a progressive overload engine. It also includes features like rest timers and Apple Watch workout integration.

### Is the North AI coach available for free?

Yes, the North AI coach is available to all users at no cost. It analyzes your data to provide specific advice on nutrition, training, and habits.

### How often is Forward updated?

The latest version of Forward is 1.1.1, and it was last updated on August 24, 2026. Updates are frequent, ensuring ongoing improvements and new features.

### What languages does Forward support?

Forward offers full support for English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and German, making it accessible to a global user base.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.3.1 — 2026-09-15

- Fixes a crash on launch for iPhones running iOS 17 and iOS 18
- Sleep now counts the hours before midnight toward the same night, matching Apple Health
- When you pick both Calories and Protein, a short note explains they read the same meal log
- The first-run tip stays fully on screen

### 1.3.0 — 2026-09-14

The biggest Forward update yet: chat with friends, a Home you shape, and a Stats page that finally has your sleep and cardio fitness.

- Chat with friends, one to one, straight from a story or a profile. Reply to stories, react with an emoji and repost the ones you love
- Friend streaks now light up on their own when you both log three days in a row, plus weekly Friend Quests and group streaks with the people you train with
- Hold any bubble on Home to swap what it tracks: habits, calories, protein, workouts, steps, sleep or fasting. Today and This Week follow the same picks
- Protein-first nutrition: choose protein as your hero and every meal screen leads with it
- New Sleep section with a sleep-debt view, bedtime and wake-up reminders, and a Fasting timer with zone alerts
- Workouts: log with swipeable slides, live cardio with GPS and heart rate, supersets side by side, a smarter routine builder, and identify an exercise from a photo
- Stats: Activity, Sleep and cardio fitness pages from Apple Health, a big VO2 max ring on your own age scale, recovery and body composition trends, and a Body Age that compares your signals with Apple Watch wearers your age and shows the years behind every signal
- Smarter reminders: at most three a day, at the times you actually log, in the voice you pick
- Fourteen new widgets, including Daily Spark Skies, Friend Streaks and a Today's Pillars widget that draws the rings you chose on Home
- Six new Hardwire colorways with a rounded typeface, wishlist stars and published odds for the Spark Box, and every list in the Shop now shows what you own first
- Stories rail ordered by who logged most recently, a green dot when a friend is in the app (turn it off in Settings > Privacy), and the Friends badge stays on until you have seen every request and message
- Fixes in every language, including a crash on French-language phones

### 1.1.1 — 2026-08-24

Your quick log just got smarter. Plus a new Body Age tab.

- Type anything in Quick Log: "2 eggs and toast" logs the meal, "done reading" checks the habit, "ran 30 min" logs the workout, and questions go straight to North
- New Body Age tab: your body age and your engine age as rings, computed from your wearable signals, with a clear explanation of how they are calculated
- Pick your activity on the new wheel selector
- Little celebrations on every successful log
- My Meals: search your saved meals and filter them by meal type
- Pillar Formats in the Shop: new looks for your Home dock
- Your lightning streak ring now shows to friends too
- A kinder note the first time a day goes over your calorie goal, and the ring turns gold when you land in your zone
- The nav bar tucks away while you scroll
- Award progress bars, sharper labels in every language, and plenty of polish

### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-21

A big update. Everything new in Forward 1.1:

• A new Home: your three pillars are now glass bubbles, one tap to log
• Consistency heat map: swipe through months of progress across all three pillars, right on Home
• Stories: share a moment with your friends, gone in 24 hours
• New awards for friend and group streak milestones, and Sparks every time you rank up
• Life Streak: a daily streak with a weekly freeze, so one busy day never resets your progress
• Edit Home: choose and reorder the cards on your Home dashboard
• Medications: schedules, reminders, one tap dose logging, and an adherence calendar
• Timers: pomodoro, intervals, and stopwatch, right in Quick Log
• Quick Log redesigned: check off habits, see your calories, and start today's workout from one sheet
• Smarter nutrition: more accurate portions, plus micronutrients like caffeine, sodium, sugar, and cholesterol from USDA data and label scans
• New records: heaviest lift PRs, and running bests for 2.5K, 5K, 10K, half, and full marathon
• 69 new exercises with hand-drawn icons, including Smith machine and resistance bands
• Tap any profile to visit it, and meet new people in the Explore rail
• Spark Box: mystery boxes in the shop with published odds
• Groups: creators can now add and remove members
• North refreshes its briefing in the morning, afternoon, and evening

### 1.0.0 — 2026-07-28

No release notes.

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