Comparison

Strivee vs Optimal Trainer

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

Head to head
About

Strivee

Track your fitness performance with detailed insights into your strengths and weaknesses. Compare your progress globally, monitor workouts, and challenge friends. Optimize your training and understand your evolution with advanced graphs.

Highlights
  • Rate fitness performance
  • Discover fitness level globally
  • Highlight strengths and weaknesses
  • Track WODs, PRs, and Benchmarks
  • Compare with worldwide community
  • Daily WOD updates
  • Challenge friends on Leaderboard
Features
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Strivee is the only application to rate its performance as simply. - Discover instantly your level of fitness, globally and by areas. - Highlight your strengths and weaknesses. - Compare yourself to the worldwide community. - Better understand your progress, by keeping track of your WODS, PRs and Benchmarks with stunning graphs. - If your Box is on Strivee, the WOD is updated every day. Challenge your friends with the Leaderboard. Comment and give them some fist bumps to support them. Save time and train intelligently with Strivee. https://strivee.app/terms

About

Optimal Trainer

Features
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Imagine a world where your week doesn’t start with uncertainty, it starts with clarity. It’s Sunday night. You open your app. And in seconds, your entire week is professionally planned and customised for you based on workouts from your favourite Trainers, Athletes and Fitness Profiles: Your training, your nutrition, your meals, your targets, your habits, guided by the best and all intelligently aligned to help you become your Optimal, high-performing self. Welcome to a system built for people who want to live intentionally. A system grounded in science, powered by AI, and tailored uniquely to you. Your Optimal week is designed in minutes. Set your availability, equipment, and goals, and the app builds a personalised training plan that evolves with you. Strength, conditioning, progression, and recovery are mapped with precision so you can focus on showing up, not guessing. Train with clarity, consistency, and purpose. Your workouts are structured by experts and adjusted by AI in real time. Every session has intention. Every rep moves you forward. Progression becomes automatic. Improvement becomes inevitable. Your nutrition is integrated directly into your performance plan. Receive macro targets, daily nutrition goals, and adaptive food recommendations aligned to your training load and your body’s needs. Meal planning becomes effortless. Your week is fuelled by balanced, performance-focused meals tailored to your preferences, schedule, and lifestyle. The app helps you know what to eat, when to eat, and how to stay on track without decision fatigue. Every recommendation — from reps to rest to recipes — is based on proven training and nutrition science. But the real power is personalisation: your goals, your habits, your pace, your plan. This is your blueprint for your Optimal self. One place to organise your life. One system to elevate your performance. One weekly ritual that changes everything. Set your plan on Sunday. Execute with confidence. Live Optimal every day. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Strivee4 screens
Optimal Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

Strivee and Optimal Trainer are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Strivee sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and Optimal Trainer sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Strivee ships an update every 3 days, Optimal Trainer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Strivee versus Optimal Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStriveeOptimal Trainer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (454 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings454 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size107 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevin BoirelAppFriend Pty Ltd

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Strivee

Subscriptions1
  • Strivee ASCEND14 Days trial$4.991 Month
4 purchases

Optimal Trainer

Subscriptions4
  • Base Weekly Plan7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Platinum Weekly Plan7 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Optimal Trainer Base Monthly7 Days trial$12.991 Month
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  • Platinum 1_1 Coaching$49.991 Month

Questions

Is Strivee free?
Strivee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Optimal Trainer free?
Optimal Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Strivee or Optimal Trainer have ads?
Neither Strivee nor Optimal Trainer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Strivee or Optimal Trainer?
Strivee ships an update every 3 days, and Optimal Trainer every 4 days. Most recently, Strivee was updated on October 18, 2026 and Optimal Trainer on October 14, 2026.

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