Comparison

Electrum Performance vs Heavy Meta Training

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

Head to head
About

Electrum Performance

This app offers advanced training programs designed for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athletes to enhance strength, athleticism, and reduce injury risk. Track your progress, log workouts, and view upcoming schedules to maximize your training effectiveness.

Highlights
  • Cutting-edge BJJ workouts
  • Strength and athleticism improvement
  • Injury risk reduction
  • Workout logging
  • Progress tracking
  • Scheduled workouts
Features
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Electrum Performance provides cutting-edge workouts to BJJ athletes at any skill or experience level, worldwide. Our competition-tested training is a highly efficient way to improve strength and athleticism, decrease risk of injury, and spend more time on the podium! Log your Electrum Performance workouts from anywhere with the Electrum Performance workout logging app. View your completed and upcoming scheduled workouts, track your progress and get the most out of your Electrum Performance workouts! If you enjoy the Electrum Performance app, we’d really appreciate if you took a second to leave a nice review because it helps us improve and also helps get the word out. Thank you!

About

Heavy Meta Training

This fitness subscription program offers over 1,900 creative training sessions designed to make workouts enjoyable and engaging. It provides step-by-step guidance for progressive training, with new sessions added weekly to improve mobility, strength, and endurance. Train anywhere with extensive resources and a supportive community.

Highlights
  • 1,900+ creative training sessions
  • Progressive training guidance
  • Seven new sessions weekly
  • Improve mobility, strength, endurance
  • Learn from world-renowned coaches
  • Thriving fitness community
  • Train anywhere, anytime
Features
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Heavy Meta — Become Your Own Coach Most fitness apps hand you a program and expect obedience. Heavy Meta teaches you to train yourself with compelling ideas and creative training — so you’re not starting over every January for the rest of your life. Heavy Meta is led by Michael Blevins, the coach behind Zack Snyder’s Superman, and the Spartans of 300ROE. He’s spent two decades preparing bodies that couldn’t afford to fail — actors, professional athletes, special operators — and building the system that turns that experience into a lifetime practice for everyone else. Behind him is a network of experienced, world-class coaches contributing sessions across disciplines, so you’re never learning from one perspective alone. WHAT’S INSIDE • A new training session every single day of the week, written by a coach tested by real athletes — not generated by an algorithm or AI • 2,500+ sessions in the archive, searchable by equipment, energy system, and training focus • 8 progressive programs that teach you the “why” behind the work, step by step, until you can program for yourself • Full development: strength, endurance, mobility, and work capacity — not one at the expense of the others • Thousands of photo and video demonstrations for every movement • An active community forum to compare notes, log progress, and stay accountable COMMON QUESTIONS Do I need a full gym? No. Sessions are searchable by equipment, and every week includes options for home, hotel, and minimal-equipment training. Is this for beginners or advanced athletes? Both. The programs meet you where you are and scale with you. The goal isn’t to survive the workout — it’s to understand it and modify it so it best fits your needs. How is this different from other training apps? Most fitness apps need you to stay dependent — they feed you a random list of exercises, add weight each week, and never teach you how to think about training. That’s the business model. Heavy Meta teaches you to program for yourself. We’re openly trying to make ourselves unnecessary. The less you need the program, the more effective it is. The irony: members who learn to coach themselves stay far longer than the industry average. Independence, it turns out, is worth staying for. What if I already follow a program? Use Heavy Meta as your daily training, or mine it for ideas. The archive alone is a career’s worth of sessions. There is already a lifetime worth of training ideas and it is growing every day. Move first. Feel everything. Know.

Screenshots

Electrum Performance3 screens
Heavy Meta Training4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Electrum Performance at free against Heavy Meta Training's subscription. Electrum Performance also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Heavy Meta Training's advantage is ratings volume (232 vs 13) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Heavy Meta Training holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Heavy Meta Training has 232 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Electrum Performance's written reviews are positive against 92% of Heavy Meta Training's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Electrum Performance ships an update every 9 months, Heavy Meta Training every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Electrum Performance versus Heavy Meta Training: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElectrum PerformanceHeavy Meta Training
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (13 ratings)4.9 (232 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews92.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13232 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElectrum Performance, LLCWulfdenn LLC

Customer experience

Electrum Performance

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Heavy Meta Training

All ratings232 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive92.3%
Neutral3.8%
Negative3.8%

Bugs and requests

Electrum Performance

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Heavy Meta Training

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Cannot return to workout after viewing exercise video demo
  • App restarts from main menu after video demo
  • Filters do not always work (e.g., 'odd objects' filter)

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to save workouts
  • Improvements to filter functionality

In-app purchases

None

Electrum Performance

No in-app purchases

None

Heavy Meta Training

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Electrum Performance free?
Electrum Performance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Heavy Meta Training free?
Heavy Meta Training is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Electrum Performance or Heavy Meta Training?
Heavy Meta Training is rated higher. Electrum Performance averages 4.7 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Heavy Meta Training averages 4.9 from 232 ratings.
Do Electrum Performance or Heavy Meta Training have ads?
Neither Electrum Performance nor Heavy Meta Training shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Electrum Performance or Heavy Meta Training?
Electrum Performance ships an update every 9 months, and Heavy Meta Training every 5 months. Most recently, Electrum Performance was updated on September 27, 2026 and Heavy Meta Training on October 5, 2026.

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