Comparison

Activated Athletes vs Aldo Coach

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

Head to head
About

Activated Athletes

Track your macronutrients and food intake with a comprehensive database and built-in recipes. Access instructional videos for health education and use a weekly tracker to stay on course with your goals.

Highlights
  • Macronutrient tracking
  • Food tracking
  • Built-in recipes
  • Instructional health videos
  • Extensive food database
  • Weekly progress tracker
Features
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Your one stop shop for macronutrient tracking and food tracking. Built in recipes, instructional videos for learning and educating yourself on hot topics in health, huge food database and a weekly tracker to keep you on point when life happens. It all here for you!

About

Aldo Coach

This AI-powered fitness app dynamically adjusts your workout plan based on your performance and feedback. It offers personalized periodized programs, tracks progress, and remembers your history to optimize future training sessions.

Highlights
  • Dynamic AI workout plan adjustments
  • Personalized periodized program building
  • Real-time set coaching and feedback
  • Pain and injury tracking
  • Comprehensive training history logging
  • Calendar integration for scheduling
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Most training apps hand you a program and never touch it again. Other workout apps with an AI will talk to you all day while the workout on screen doesn't move. Aldo does the thing neither does: it changes the actual program, in front of you, because of something you said or something you logged. COACHES EVERY SET Your session is written before you walk in — the lifts, the loads, the reps. Log a set and Aldo answers underneath it: what that rep speed meant, and what it's doing about it. Not a chat you have to go and open. A line under the set you just finished. Hit a top set written at RPE 8 and finish it at 6, and the back-off sets below are already written back up, waiting on one tap: Use all or Keep all. BUILDS YOUR PLAN Tell Aldo your goal, your equipment, and how you train. It writes a full periodized program, week by week — not a template with your name on it. Setup is a short chat with Aldo, and you can skip any question. Then it plans around the weeks you actually have: sync your calendar and a work trip or a late shift becomes part of the plan instead of the reason you fell off it. PROGRAM TAB See your week on the Plan section. On the Progress section, Aldo makes a call on every main lift and muscle group after each workout. Disagree? Tap it and make it your call. ANY GOAL Powerlifting, CrossFit, bodybuilding, or just staying in the game for another thirty years. Conditioning is first-class, not bolted onto a lifting app — an EMOM, an AMRAP, a circuit or a complex is written with real numbers, runs on its own timer, and gets scored when you're done. YOU SET THE CEILING Coming back from something? Give Aldo a pain score with each set and it tracks the trend across the load, not just the last reading. Quiet at 185, still quiet at 225, and the session keeps going. Cross the ceiling you set and Aldo flags it and proposes a lighter set, even when the lift itself felt easy. Proposed, not imposed. You tap Apply. REMEMBERS EVERYTHING Mention a sore shoulder once and Aldo files it: what aggravates it, what doesn't, and a ceiling on the lift that caused it until it's been quiet for a couple of sessions. It programs around it without being asked again. The same memory holds your working loads, your equipment, and the fact that you'd rather be out of the gym in an hour on a weekday. All of it is yours to read and edit. YEARS OF HISTORY Every lift has its own page — estimated 1RM over time, your best single, triple, five and eight, and every session you've ever done it. It's not just a chart to look at: it's the same history Aldo reads before it writes your next session. Already training? Upload a spreadsheet or a PDF of your log and Aldo will read it in. COACH CODES Got a code from a coach or creator? Enter it at sign-up or in Settings and their training rules shape your coaching. Some codes come with the coach's own program, ready to start with one tap. Aldo fills in your weights and dates. WORKS OFFLINE Your program, your history, and today's session live on your device and don't disappear without a signal. Sending a message to your coach needs a connection, like any AI feature does — the app itself doesn't. YOUR DATA Your training data is yours. It's used to run your coaching, never sold and never used for advertising. WHAT ALDO IS NOT Not a doctor, a physio, or a medical device. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything and it can't clear you to return from an injury. It's not a replacement for a coach who can watch you lift, and it isn't infallible — it's an AI model and it can be wrong. Read the Health & Safety Notice before you train with it. Aldo is built and run by River Lentil LLC, a single-member California LLC with no staff — one person writes the code and answers the support mail. Questions, problems, or a deletion request: support@aldo-coach.app. We reply within 3 business days. Terms of Use: https://aldo-coach.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://aldo-coach.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Activated Athletes3 screens
Aldo Coach4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Activated Athletes at none against Aldo Coach's 10. Activated Athletes also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Aldo Coach's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Aldo Coach sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Activated Athletes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Activated Athletes against 5.0 for Aldo Coach. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 15 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Activated Athletes ships an update every 2 weeks, Aldo Coach every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Activated Athletes versus Aldo Coach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActivated AthletesAldo Coach
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings715 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB37 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperErika DaleRiver Lentil LLC

Customer experience

Activated Athletes

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Aldo Coach

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Activated Athletes

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Aldo Coach

Subscriptions10
  • Aldo Basic Founder7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Aldo Middle Founder7 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Aldo Top Founder7 Days trial$23.991 Month
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  • Aldo Basic Founder7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Aldo Top7 Days trial$39.991 Month
  • Aldo Basic7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Aldo Middle Founder7 Days trial$119.991 Year
  • Aldo Middle7 Days trial$149.991 Year
  • Aldo Top Founder7 Days trial$239.991 Year
  • Aldo Top7 Days trial$299.991 Year

Questions

Is Activated Athletes free?
Activated Athletes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aldo Coach free?
Aldo Coach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Activated Athletes or Aldo Coach?
Activated Athletes and Aldo Coach are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 15 ratings respectively.
Do Activated Athletes or Aldo Coach have ads?
Neither Activated Athletes nor Aldo Coach shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Activated Athletes or Aldo Coach?
Activated Athletes ships an update every 2 weeks, and Aldo Coach every 2 days. Most recently, Activated Athletes was updated on November 2, 2026 and Aldo Coach on November 10, 2026.

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