Comparison

Activity Plus vs Forrest

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

Head to head
About

Activity Plus

This app helps you maintain your activity streaks and recover lost ones by closing your rings. It offers global challenges, customizable widgets, and detailed progress insights to keep you motivated and informed about your fitness journey.

Highlights
  • Streak recovery for activity rings
  • Global fitness challenges
  • Customizable home screen widgets
  • Monthly challenges and awards
  • Graphical progress insights
  • Comprehensive activity tracking
  • Audio and video-guided workouts
Features
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Activity Plus helps you track your activity rings, protect your Move streak, review workouts, compare progress, and stay motivated every day. Follow your Move, Exercise, and Stand goals, recover missed ring days, customize widgets, unlock awards, and see your activity history across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Main Features: - Siri: Ask Siri to check your activity rings, daily metrics, and nutrition, compare weeks, or open your latest workout. - Energy & Nutrition: Compare calories consumed and burned, and view protein, fat, and carbs from Apple Health. - Protect Your Move Streak: Missed a day? Use Close Rings to recover a previous day and keep your Longest Move Streak on track. - Activity Rings: Track your Move, Exercise, and Stand progress throughout the day. - Home Screen Widgets: Keep rings, steps, distance, workouts, energy, and nutrition in view on your Home Screen. - Awards & Monthly Challenges: Stay motivated with goals, badges, and achievements. - Activity Stats: View steps, distance, and floors together, track progress toward your goals, and review active energy and daily metrics. - Workout Insights: Search your workouts and review routes, pace, distance, energy, and monthly results. - Global Challenges: Compete with friends and users around the world. - Global Leaderboard: Compare Move, Steps, Distance, and Exercise results. - Goal Notifications: Get notified when you reach your daily goals. - Share Your Progress: Share activity rings and workout stats with photos or videos. - Custom Goals: Set personal goals for Move, Exercise, Stand, Distance, Steps, and Floors. - Light & Dark Mode: Choose the look that works best for you. - Custom App Icons: Personalize Activity Plus with your favorite icon. Apple Watch Features: - Use Activity Plus directly on Apple Watch. - Review activity from previous days. - Add activity details to your watch face with complications. - Join the global leaderboard without adding contacts. Privacy: Activity Plus requests access to your Health data, including Activity, Steps, Distance, and Workouts, to show your stats, progress, widgets, goals, and workout history. Nutrition and energy data from Apple Health are also used to display your nutrition and calorie summaries. Terms of Use: https://gaivoronskii.com/activity/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://gaivoronskii.com/activity/privacy-policy/

About

Forrest

Turn your runs and cycling into exciting races against virtual opponents, your personal bests, or friends worldwide. Get real-time race insights and audio prompts to stay motivated. Review your performance with maps and graphs, and share your achievements.

Highlights
  • Race against virtual opponents (ghost racers)
  • Compete against personal bests or previous races
  • Challenge friends globally
  • Real-time race position insights
  • Audio prompts for race progress
  • Export data to Strava or Apple Health
  • Apple Watch compatibility
Features
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Forrest is an innovative fitness tracking app designed for iOS users who want to add a fun and challenging twist to their running and cycling workouts. Forrest gives your usual workouts a new competitive dimension. Your runs and rides are no longer solitary endeavours, but exhilarating races against virtual opponents (ghost racers) or your personal bests and previous races. In the latest Version 2.0, we’ve amplified the excitement by enabling you to challenge your friends wherever they are in the world, infusing social connectivity into every stride. The purpose built race screen provides real-time insights into your position during the race, while audio prompts keep you focused on your goal even when your iPhone is locked, empowering you to fully embrace the race, whether you’re on foot or two wheels. It turns your runs and rides into races by giving you someone to compete against. Here's how it works: 1. Choose from a variety of preloaded race options or craft your own custom race event according to your preferences. 2. Add virtual opponents in the form of ghost-racers that'll run or ride at a speed you choose. 3. Add your personal best times or previous race results to race against yourself. 4. Add your friends. Take the challenge to the next level by racing against your friends wherever they are in the world. 5. Race! 6. Hear audio prompts on your race progress while you run or ride: • "You've overtaken your personal best to take 1st place." • "That's 30 minutes. You've completed 5.3km." • "Your target ghost racer is 12 seconds ahead of you in 2nd place." 7. Win! Get faster and fitter. 8. Review your race with maps, graphs, and export to Strava or Apple Health. 9. Share your achievements on social media with integrated social sharing. Forrest for Apple Watch gives you the freedom to race without your phone. Enjoy the same fun race experience from your wrist with live stats, race progress, and opponent times; hear the same audio prompts you’re used to hearing on iPhone; and listen to and control your favourite workout music. Unlock a host of exclusive features designed to amplify your workouts and enhance your overall experience with Forrest Pro: • Race against your friends — Embrace healthy competition by challenging your friends to races. Elevate your motivation and achieve more together. • Expand your competition — Engage in races with up to 10 opponents, allowing you to set higher goals and experience more exhilarating races. • Exclusive Pro profile badge — Stand out from the crowd with the exclusive Forrest Pro profile badge. Showcase your commitment to fitness and achievement. • Ad-Free racing — Enjoy an uninterrupted workout session with an advert-free experience throughout the Forrest app. Immerse yourself in your fitness goals without distractions. • Fresh app icons — Customise your app experience to match your personal preference with a collection of new and eye-catching home-screen app icons. Adding a touch of visual flair to your fitness journey. Forrest Pro is more than just a subscription; it’s a gateway to a more dynamic, engaging, and personalised fitness journey. Elevate your runs and rides, compete with friends, and reap the rewards of your hard work with Forrest Pro. Privacy Policy: https://forrest.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://forrest.app/terms

Screenshots

Activity Plus4 screens
Forrest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Activity Plus at none against Forrest's shown. Activity Plus also leads on ratings volume (2K vs 230) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). Forrest's advantage is review sentiment (74% vs 51%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, 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. Activity Plus sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Forrest sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Activity Plus against 4.6 for Forrest. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Activity Plus has 2K ratings behind it against 230, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 51% of Activity Plus's written reviews are positive against 74% of Forrest's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Activity Plus ships an update fortnightly, Forrest monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Activity Plus versus Forrest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActivity PlusForrest
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (2K ratings)4.6 (230 ratings) — better
Positive reviews51.4% of reviews74.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2K — better230
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGaivoronski Andrei Vyacheslavovich, IPForrest & Sons Ltd

Customer experience

Activity Plus

All ratings2,002 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews175 reviews
Positive51.4%
Neutral14.9%
Negative33.7%

Forrest

All ratings160 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral3.1%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral7.4%
Negative18.5%

User reviews

Activity Plus

From 2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great app
  • 🤩 Excellent app
  • 🔥 Top Hottest #1
  • 👌 Impressive
  • 👍 Keeps me accountable

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Doesn't sync/update well
  • 🐛 Challenges not being recorded
  • 🐛 Stair count not working
  • 🐛 Doesn't track workouts accurately
  • 🐛 Unreliable data

Forrest

From 230 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🤩 Highly motivating and encouraging
  • 🏃‍♀️ Great for racing against yourself
  • 🤝 Enables competition with friends
  • 👍 Simple and easy to use interface
  • ✨ Visually appealing design

Room to improve

  • ❌ Account creation fails
  • 🐛 App crashes frequently
  • 💾 Runs cannot be saved
  • ❓ Password recovery issues
  • 🤥 Misleading 'free lifetime pro' claims

Bugs and requests

Activity Plus

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes frequently
  • Syncing issues
  • Inaccurate data tracking
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to manually log exercises
  • Add water intake tracking
  • Improve widget customization
  • Sync data across devices
  • Add more workout options

Forrest

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Account creation error
  • Frequent crashes
  • Inability to save runs
  • Password recovery email not sent
  • Pro lifetime not unlockable

Requested features

5 requests
  • Translate to French
  • Add heart rate on Watch
  • Larger numbers on the first screen
  • Support for other sports (inline skating, walking)
  • Add more sports

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Activity Plus

Subscriptions3
  • Activity+$2.997 Days
  • Activity+$6.991 Month
  • Activity+$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Close Rings$1.99
7 purchases

Forrest

Subscriptions6
  • Forrest Pro — Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Forrest Pro — Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Forrest Pro — Annual14 Days trial$19.991 Year
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  • Forrest Pro Family — Annual14 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Forrest Pro — Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Forrest Pro Family — Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Forrest Pro Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Activity Plus free?
Activity Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forrest free?
Forrest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Activity Plus or Forrest?
Forrest is rated higher. Activity Plus averages 4.6 out of 5 from 2K ratings, while Forrest averages 4.6 from 230 ratings.
Do Activity Plus or Forrest have ads?
Forrest shows ads; Activity Plus does not.
Which is updated more often, Activity Plus or Forrest?
Activity Plus ships an update fortnightly, and Forrest monthly. Most recently, Activity Plus was updated on October 29, 2026 and Forrest on October 24, 2026.

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