18A Fitness vs SOFReady
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
18A Fitness
Track your workouts, meals, and progress towards fitness goals with personalized guidance from your coach. Schedule sessions, monitor body measurements, and receive real-time support and reminders to stay motivated.
- Track workouts and meals
- Access training plans
- Schedule workouts
- Manage nutrition intake
- Message coach in real-time
- Track body measurements
- Connect to wearable devices
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With the 18A Fitness App, you can start tracking your workouts and meals, measuring results, and achieving your fitness goals, all with the help of your personal trainer. - Access training plans and track workouts - Schedule workouts and stay committed by beating your personal bests - Track progress towards your goals - Manage your nutrition intake as prescribed by your coach - Set health and fitness goals - Message your coach in real-time - Track body measurements and take progress photos - Get push notification reminders for scheduled workouts and activities - Connect to wearable devices like Apple Watch (synced to Health app), Fitbit and Withings to sync body stats instantly Download the app today!
SOFReady
This AI-powered app creates personalized strength training programs based on your goals, equipment, and schedule. It adapts as you progress and includes features like workout tracking and nutrition guidance. Designed for high performers, it helps you train like the best.
- AI-generated personalized strength programs
- SOF-standard readiness benchmarks
- Workout tracking and progress logging
- Performance debrief system
- Nutrition guidance
- Workout reminders
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Complete hybrid athlete programming — hybrid, strength, power, engine, tactical. For the weight room, the trail, the start line or selection. 7-day free trial. Built for people with real 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. Progress photos, PRs and a record book that stays yours. A community in Discord and a founder who answers. Subscription required after the trial. Monthly or annual. Consult a physician before beginning any training program. SOFReady is training preparation and does not represent undisclosed selection standards.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 18A Fitness at 5.0 against SOFReady's 4.4. 18A Fitness also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). SOFReady's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks). 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. SOFReady sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. 18A Fitness asks for nothing beyond the download.
18A Fitness holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 18A Fitness has 158 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of 18A Fitness's written reviews are positive against 75% of SOFReady's.
18A Fitness ships an update every 6 weeks, SOFReady every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 18A Fitness | SOFReady |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (158 ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 158 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 18A Fitness LLC | Ready Apps, LLC TN |
Customer experience
18A Fitness
SOFReady
In-app purchases
18A Fitness
No in-app purchases
SOFReady
- SOFReady Premium3 Days trial$17.991 Month
- SOFReady Premium3 Days trial$129.991 Year







