UP Transform vs Coach Icarus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UP Transform
This app creates personalized diet plans with daily calorie and macronutrient targets based on your goals and lifestyle. It provides weekly meal plans, shopping lists, and tools to track your progress, including diet, sleep, and body weight, to help you achieve life-changing health and fitness results.
- Personalized diet plans
- Daily calorie and macronutrient targets
- 7-day meal plans with recipes
- Automated shopping lists
- Food diary and calorie counter
- Progress tracking (weight, photos, etc.)
- Integration with GoogleFit/Apple Health
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If you want to lose weight and improve your health but don’t know where to start with your diet, you need UP Transform. The app is created with proven methods behind 25,000+ jaw-dropping transformations from the world’s leading personal trainers – Ultimate Performance. Getting your diet right and sticking to a weight loss plan long-term is what 99.9% of people struggle with most. UP Transform creates the perfect diet plan for your body and goals. Plus, it gives you the accountability tools that are the ‘secret ingredient’ to life-changing results. You simply put in your goal, and UP Transform tells you what you need to eat to hit that goal. The app designs a personalised diet for you, complete with daily calorie and macronutrient targets. Then it creates your seven-day meal plan each week with your favourite foods from hundreds of delicious recipes. Your weekly check-in system keeps you on track and allows you to adapt your plan and improve your results. Your progress tracker lets you record your diet, meals, sleep, step count, body weight, progress photos and more – giving you the data and motivation to smash your goals. Whatever fitness coaching or workout plan you follow, you will hit your goal if you commit and stick to the expert guidance on UP Transform. See what UP Transform can do: STEP ONE: START YOUR TRANSFORMATION · Set your Goal – Select the specific weight loss or health improvement goal you want to achieve · Visualise your End Result – Using our visual body fat tool with real Ultimate Performance clients, select your body composition goals · Integrate your Lifestyle - Include your activity levels, workout regime, sleep cycle, and step count to shape your personal diet plan · Tailor your Diet – The app calculates your goal weight, body fat percentage objective, expected timeframe and daily calorie and macronutrient targets in your personal plan · 7-Day Meal Plan – Tell the app how many meals you eat and any allergies or dislikes you have. Your weekly meal plan is automatically created with delicious new recipes daily that fit your nutrition targets. Choose from hundreds of vegetarian, pescatarian or omnivorous diets and recipes. Vegan options are coming soon STEP TWO: MASTER YOUR DIET · Shopping List – The app creates a weekly shopping list of all the meal ingredients you need. You can easily scale up depending on how many people you are shopping for · Food Database – Search or barcode scan over 1 million food items from our verified database of ingredients and products · Food Diary – Record your meals and food intake in your daily log · Calorie Counter – The app automatically calculates the calories and macronutrients in your ingredients and meals · Daily Goals – Tick off your daily goals, including nutrition targets, step count, water intake and sleep quality. Or save time by connecting your app to GoogleFit or Apple Health STEP THREE: ADAPT YOUR PLAN · Personalise Meals – Create, swap and save your favourite meals and mouth-watering recipes designed by professional chefs · Weekly Check-ins – Submit progress photos, see your weekly results, and make any tweaks to your plan with the Flexible Goal-Setter tool to keep progressing · Newsfeed – Learn the secrets of nutrition and lifestyle in articles from our world-leading experts to fuel your progress STEP FOUR: SEE YOUR RESULTS · Progress Photos – Our progress tracker tool allows you to visually monitor your body change week-by-week · Tracker – Track every progress metric you need to stay accountable and get results Download the app and transform your diet today. Terms of Use: https://ultimateperformance.com/app/terms-conditions Privacy Policy: https://ultimateperformance.com/privacy-policy
Coach Icarus
This app analyzes your Garmin data to provide personalized running coaching, including daily readiness scores and adaptive training plans for various race distances. It offers clear feedback on your performance and helps you understand your body's recovery and training load.
- Personalized coaching and feedback
- Daily readiness score
- Adaptive training plans
- Race goal setting
- Detailed run analysis
- Body metrics tracking
- Garmin data integration
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Coach Icarus is your personal running coach — turning your Garmin data into real coaching, clear feedback, and a training plan built around you. GET COACHED ON EVERY RUN Every run earns a 0–100 coach score with plain-English feedback: what went well, what to watch, and exactly what to do on your next workout. KNOW IF YOU'RE READY TO TRAIN A daily readiness score built from your HRV, sleep, and resting heart rate answers the only question that matters each morning: push hard today, or recover? TRAIN FOR YOUR RACE Set a goal — 5K, 10K, half marathon, or marathon — and get a personalized training plan that automatically adjusts when life happens. Missed runs, big weeks, and taper are all handled for you. SEE EVERY RUN COME ALIVE Route maps, heart rate zones, pace, cadence, elevation, and lap splits bring every workout to life. UNDERSTAND YOUR BODY Track HRV, sleep stages, VO2 Max, training load, and recovery — explained in plain language, so you understand your body instead of staring at numbers. BUILT FOR GARMIN RUNNERS Connect your Garmin watch once and your runs, sleep, and health data sync automatically after every workout. Coach Icarus is made for beginner and intermediate runners who want real guidance — not jargon, not raw data dumps. Whether you're training for your first 5K or chasing a marathon PR, your coach is ready. Download Coach Icarus and start training smarter today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Coach Icarus at 5.0 against UP Transform's 3.5. Coach Icarus also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). UP Transform's advantage is ratings volume (47 vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. UP Transform sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Coach Icarus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Coach Icarus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UP Transform has 47 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | UP Transform | Coach Icarus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (47 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | UP Fitness Limited | Kessy Similien |
Bugs and requests
UP Transform
Reported bugs
19 issues- App won't open or launch
- Meal plan generation fails
- Calorie calculations incorrect and don't sum properly
- Macro calculations show over limit when exactly met
- Progress graphs display errors
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- Training data not loading from previous sessions
- Photo upload functionality broken
- Blank/bugged progress photos breaking comparison feature
- Syncing issues with no manual sync option
- Apple Health integration overwrites user data incorrectly
- Weight data overwritten with incorrect time points
- Sleep data converted to time in bed instead of time asleep
- Unit conversion errors (lb/kg mismatch)
- Food database lookup poor hit ratio
- Recipe creation functionality broken
- Date display glitch (showing wrong date like Jan 2, 2023)
- Feed and essentials tab not updating
- iOS 26 compatibility issues
- Doesn't work on iPhone 12 Pro
Requested features
12 requests- Ability to upload progress pictures, girths, and fat tissue measurements
- Copy meals from previous day functionality
- Water intake tracking in cups (not just liters)
- More than 3 meals per day option
- Manual sync option for data
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- Dark mode
- In-app FAQs and help documentation
- Direct customer support messaging within app
- Ability to remove items from meal plans
- Flexible sleep tracking (start/end time vs. hours/minutes entry)
- Custom liquid increment options
- Accurate weight rounding preferences
Coach Icarus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
UP Transform
- Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Yearly14 Days trial$80.991 Year
Coach Icarus
No in-app purchases
Questions
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