Comparison

Strive vs True Balance

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

Head to head
About

Strive

Compete in fitness challenges with friends using various metrics like weight loss, steps, and body fat. Track your progress with integrated health data and visualize your journey with insightful charts and graphs.

Highlights
  • Interactive leaderboards
  • 7 competition types
  • Health App integration
  • Smart Scale integration
  • Charts and graphs
  • Weight loss challenges
  • Step tracking
Features
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Strive has built an interactive Leaderboard so you can compete in step challenges, chat, and encourage each other to Strive! Strive Individual plans: * Monthly Premium: $5.99 * Yearly Premium: $24.99 Strive Group plans: * 5 Users Yearly Premium: $99.99 * 10 Users Yearly Premium: $199.99 * 25 Users Yearly Premium: $499.99 * 50 Users Yearly Premium: $999.99 More information on how to host an Employee Step Challenge: https://www.strivecompetitions.com/employee-step-challenge Payments and Renewal: * Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. * Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. * You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your Account settings at any time after purchase * No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active period. Terms of use: https://www.strivecompetitions.com/terms
Privacy policy: https://www.strivecompetitions.com/privacypolicy

About

True Balance

Features
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True Balance is a strength training app that answers the only question that matters when you walk into the gym: what should I do today? You never pick a muscle group, never build a routine, never wonder if you've skipped legs again. Tap once and the session is there — chosen, ordered, and loaded. HOW IT DECIDES Most apps hand you a template and hope you stick to it. True Balance keeps a rolling seven-day picture of your training across ten muscle groups, each with its own weekly set target. Every set you log credits the muscles it actually worked. Then it builds each session from whatever is furthest behind. The guarantee is weekly, not daily. One workout may lean push or legs — but nothing is allowed to quietly fall behind. When everything reaches target, the week resets and it starts again. It also knows what you did yesterday. Muscles trained recently are damped until they've recovered; the opposing pattern gets a nudge; a movement you just did is unlikely to reappear. Compounds come before isolation, big movers before small, core last — so the heaviest work always happens while you're fresh. WEIGHTS THAT PROGRESS THEMSELVES Hit the top of your rep range on every working set and the load goes up next time — 2.5 kg on compounds, 1 kg on isolation. Miss it and the weight holds. No spreadsheet, no guessing, no arguing with yourself at the rack. BUILT AROUND YOUR ACTUAL LIFE • Tell it what equipment you have — 113 exercises filtered to what you can genuinely do • Save the places you train. Switch to "Away" for a hotel week and the barbell sessions stop • Set your session length. It budgets against the clock and tells you when it had to trim • Choose full body, upper/lower, or push/pull/legs — or let it decide • Swap any exercise you don't fancy. It learns from what you keep swapping away PRIVATE, AND FREE No account to create. No email address. No advertising. No subscription, and no paid tier — every feature described here is simply in the app. Your training data lives on your device and in your private iCloud, and goes nowhere else. It is never sold and never shared. Train the whole body. Stop planning it.

Screenshots

Strive4 screens
True Balance4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: True Balance at none against Strive's 14. True Balance also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days). Strive's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Strive sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. True Balance asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Strive ships an update every 8 days, True Balance every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Strive versus True Balance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStriveTrue Balance
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB16 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperStrive Competitions LLCTeja Nandamuri

Bugs and requests

Strive

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when trying to read chat
  • Frustrating loss of steps
  • Waste of Money

Requested features

2 requests
  • Relative goals for challenges like apple fitness
  • Weekend challenges

True Balance

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

14 purchases

Strive

Subscriptions13
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Strive Monthly$1.491 Month
  • Strive Monthly$2.991 Month
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  • 6 Months$3.996 Months
  • Strive Yearly$4.991 Year
  • Annual$5.991 Year
  • Monthly with FREE 7-Day Trial7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Strive Yearly$9.991 Year
  • Yearly with FREE 7-Day Trial7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • 10 Users7 Days trial$39.991 Month
  • 10 Users$50.001 Year
  • 25 Users$100.001 Year
  • 100 Users$300.001 Year
One-time1
  • Public Challenges$5.00
None

True Balance

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Strive free?
Strive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is True Balance free?
True Balance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Strive or True Balance have ads?
Neither Strive nor True Balance shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Strive or True Balance?
Strive ships an update every 8 days, and True Balance every 2 days. Most recently, Strive was updated on October 29, 2026 and True Balance on October 29, 2026.

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