Comparison

GroupEx PRO vs Brogression

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

GroupEx PRO

Manage your teaching schedule, request substitute instructors, and pick up open classes directly from your iOS device. Easily report attendance numbers and connect with colleagues. This app streamlines your instructor responsibilities by aggregating data from your accounts.

Highlights
  • View personal teaching schedule
  • Request substitute instructors
  • Pick up open classes
  • Report attendance numbers
  • Contact other instructors
  • Aggregate GXP account data
Features
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The GroupEx PRO Instructor App offers GXP users the most commonly used features of the desktop application on your iOS application. Features include a complete view of your personal teaching schedule, the ability to request subs, pick up classes, report your attendance numbers and contact other instructors quickly and easily. The app aggregates data from all of your GXP accounts making managing your teaching responsibilities a breeze. This app is specifically for instructors associated with clubs that have a paid subscription (that includes the GXP Schedule) to GroupEx PRO. This is not intended for club member use.

About

Brogression

This app guides you through proven strength training programs, automatically adjusting your lifts based on your performance. It also includes a HIIT timer, a deck of cards workout generator, and tools for logging cardio and bodyweight metrics.

Highlights
  • Automated strength program progression
  • Multiple popular lifting program templates
  • Customizable workout builder
  • Integrated HIIT and Tabata timer
  • Cardio and bodyweight logging
  • Progress tracking and PR history
Features
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Proven lifting programs, run for you. Plus a HIIT timer, a Deck of Cards and the gym tools you used to need three more apps for. Brogression runs your strength program. Pick one, put in your numbers, and it tells you what to lift today. Log each set with a tap. When the cycle ends, your numbers move. The run, ruck or HIIT rounds afterward go in the same session. PROGRAMS - 5/3/1, Original 4-day and Beginners: training max at 85 or 90%, FSL, BBB or SSL, and assistance templates - 5/3/1 Forever: leaders, anchors and the 7th Week, the way Wendler wrote them - 8/6/3: one main lift a day in 8s, 6s and 3s, on the 5/3/1 training max - nSuns 5/3/1 LP: two lifts a day, 17 sets, training maxes that climb off your 1+ sets - GZCLP: three tiers a day; miss, and the reps change before the weight does - Novice 3×5 (based on Starting Strength) and Classic 5×5 (in the style of StrongLifts 5x5): linear progression, 10% reset after three misses - Build your own: your days, your lifts, each one auto-progressed or log-only, plus custom exercises and calisthenics or mobility days - Double progression on Build your own, Novice and Classic lifts: work a rep range, and the weight goes up when every set hits the top Switch programs, change jumps, deloads, warm-ups and rest times whenever. TODAY'S SESSION - AMRAP sets show the reps you need for a PR - Joker sets for the days it's moving well - Add, swap or reorder exercises, for today or for good, from a library filtered by muscle - A rest timer that starts itself, beeps when time's up and keeps the screen awake - Warm-up and working sets loaded to the bar and plates you own - Log a session you forgot, dated the day you did it - No signal in the basement gym? Log anyway. It syncs when you walk out. - A summary with your PRs, your streak and what each lift does next time - Find your max: work up to a 1, 3 or 5-rep max and set your training max from it CARDIO COUNTS - Tap Conditioning, go, tap Stop. The ruck, run, row, bike or sled work is in the session next to your sets, with distance in miles, km, meters or yards, effort and the weight you carried - Timer: Tabata, Intervals, EMOM, AMRAP or For time, with beeps. It logs itself. - Deck of Cards: one exercise per suit, the card's value is your reps BROGRESS - A streak built for shift work: weeks, not days, and one off week in eight is forgiven - Clubs from 600 to 1,500 lb: your heaviest squat, bench and deadlift, added up - Your whole career on one screen: how long you've been at it, your best lifts, your longest run, and 37 things to earn along the way - Each lift on its own page: estimated 1RM and training max over time, rep maxes, PRs - Share a session card for a post or a story, weights hidden if you'd rather - An optional, private bodyweight and body-fat log BRING YOUR CREW, OR DON'T Crews are invite-only, by code. No public profiles, no search. - A feed of your crew's sessions: top sets, estimated maxes, PRs, clubs, streaks and the cardio after. Tap one to see every set - Respect: one tap to tell someone you saw the work - A board per lift: who's gained the most in 90 days, and who's strongest. Hide yourself any time. - Challenges: set the rules, log attempts, a board keeps the best Solo works too. TOOLS Plate loader, 1RM estimator, RPE chart, Wilks and DOTS, Navy tape body fat, a write-up of every program the app runs, and a glossary for the new guy. Offline too. YOUR DATA Every session can show up in the Fitness app next to your Watch workouts. The app never reads your health data. Bring your history in from Lift4Fit or a CSV file. Export to CSV or JSON any time. Delete your account from inside the app. Free. No ads. No tracking. We don't sell your data. 5/3/1 is by Jim Wendler, 8/6/3 by Brad Kaczmarski, nSuns 5/3/1 LP by Reddit's u/n-Suns and GZCLP by Cody LeFever. Starting Strength is a trademark of The Aasgaard Company, and StrongLifts is a trademark of Mehdi Hadim. Brogression is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

Screenshots

GroupEx PRO3 screens
Brogression4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Brogression at 5.0 against GroupEx PRO's 2.2. Brogression also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 months). GroupEx PRO's advantage is ratings volume (39 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Brogression holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GroupEx PRO has 39 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GroupEx PRO ships an update every 4 months, Brogression daily. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
GroupEx PRO versus Brogression: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGroupEx PROBrogression
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (39 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews18.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings39 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB12 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDaxko LLCTyler Talaga

Customer experience

GroupEx PRO

All ratings39 ratings
Positive23.1%
Neutral15.4%
Negative61.5%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive18.5%
Neutral7.4%
Negative74.1%

Brogression

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

GroupEx PRO

No in-app purchases

None

Brogression

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GroupEx PRO free?
GroupEx PRO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brogression free?
Brogression is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GroupEx PRO or Brogression?
Brogression is rated higher. GroupEx PRO averages 2.2 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while Brogression averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do GroupEx PRO or Brogression have ads?
Neither GroupEx PRO nor Brogression shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GroupEx PRO or Brogression?
GroupEx PRO ships an update every 4 months, and Brogression daily. Most recently, GroupEx PRO was updated on November 2, 2026 and Brogression on October 31, 2026.

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