Primus vs SOFReady
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Primus
This app provides a 26-week Special Forces training program designed to prepare users for military selection. It combines daily running, swimming, and strength workouts with adaptable progressions and endurance programming.
- 26-week Special Forces training program
- Daily running, swimming, and strength workouts
- Endurance programming
- Bodyweight strength exercises
- Flexible lifting blocks
- Scalable progressions
Read full descriptionHide full description
Most fitness apps are built so you never fail. Primus is built so you don't fail when it matters. This is a 26-week Special Forces training program modeled on the real demands of BUD/S, SWCC, and military selection — two sessions a day, six days a week, combining running, swimming, and strength work into one uncompromising progression. WHAT'S INSIDE Two daily workouts blending running, swimming, and strength Endurance programming that drops your mile times and builds real pool confidence Bodyweight strength: push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, and core work at selection volume Flexible lifting blocks that adapt to whatever equipment you have Scalable progressions — adjust to your level without ever losing intensity WHO IT'S FOR Future candidates for Navy SEAL, SWCC, and other special warfare pipelines Athletes who want military-style training with a real structure behind it Anyone done with casual fitness and ready to build discipline, grit, and peak output A WARNING This is not a casual fitness app. Primus demands serious commitment, time, and effort. If you're not ready for an intensive program, start smaller and come back when you are. MINIMUM STANDARDS TO BEGIN Run 2 miles Swim 500 yards 3 pull-ups, 10 push-ups, 15 sit-ups Below that? Prepare first. The program will still be here. 26 weeks from now, you'll either be selection-ready or you'll know exactly why not. Start Week 1 today. LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
SOFReady
This app provides comprehensive hybrid athlete training programs, including strength, power, and endurance. It offers personalized plans based on your goals, schedule, and available equipment, with nutrition guidance and progress tracking.
- Hybrid, strength, power, and tactical training tracks
- Customizable programs based on goals and equipment
- Progressive, week-by-week programming
- Performance tracking for key metrics
- Nutrition guidance and meal planning
- On-ramp for returning to training
Read full descriptionHide full description
Complete hybrid athlete programming - hybrid, strength, power, engine, tactical, police, and fire. For the weight room, the trail, the start line or selection. 7-day free trial. Built for people with obligations and no spare time who stay hard anyway. A job. Kids. A business. Forty-five minutes in a garage before anyone else is up. Written by a strength coach and laid out week by week. Not a list of workouts — a plan that goes somewhere, progressing off what you actually logged. THE TRACKS Hybrid — strength and conditioning together, in the order that lets both improve. Barbell work, kettlebells, calories on the bike, running that stays real running. Strength — heavy push, pull and legs. Every muscle group twice a week, loads climbing on percentages, tested at the end. Power — learning to produce force fast. Olympic lifts and derivatives, sprint work, jumps and throws. Engine — running as the point and everything in support of it. Threshold pace, running economy, and the ability to hold pace when it stops being fun. Tactical — built around a report date. Rucking, running, strength and the durability work that keeps you in it. Or build your own and the app writes a program around your goal, your schedule and the equipment you actually have. STARTING FROM BEHIND Coming back after time off, the four-week on-ramp gets you training properly before your real program starts. Submaximal, RPE-based, no max lifts required. When it's done you go straight into day one of the track you picked. STANDARDS AND TESTS Track the numbers that matter and watch them move — squat, bench, deadlift, the mile, the ruck, work capacity. Military standards are in here too: ACFT, PFT, SFAS and RASP preparation for anyone pointed that way. WHAT YOU GET Every session logged — sets, reps, load, time, distance, calories — carried forward into the next one. A weekly debrief that reads your training and tells you what to adjust. Nutrition guidance and recipes built around the training load. Fitness and meal record book. NUTRITION THAT FOLLOWS YOUR TRAINING Your calories and macros adjust to your program: more on training days, less on rest days. Build your meals or let SOFReady build them, log what you eat with search or barcode scan, and get a weekly grocery list. Connect Apple Health to save your logged meals to Health and pre-fill your weekly check-in with your weight. Nutrition guidance is general information, not medical advice. Subscription required after the trial. Monthly, quarterly, or annual. Consult a physician before beginning any training program. SOFReady is training preparation and does not represent undisclosed selection standards. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.sofready.fit/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.sofready.fit/terms
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Primus at 5.0 against SOFReady's 4.1. Primus also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). SOFReady's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price and ads 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. SOFReady sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. Primus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Primus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SOFReady has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Primus's written reviews are positive against 67% of SOFReady's.
Primus ships an update every 3 weeks, SOFReady every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Primus | SOFReady |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.1 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flywheel Limited | Ready Apps, LLC TN |
Customer experience
Primus
SOFReady
In-app purchases
Primus
No in-app purchases
SOFReady
- SOFReady Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Month
- SOFReady Quarterly7 Days trial$69.993 Months
- SOFReady Premium7 Days trial$169.991 Year









