Comparison

FORMAT Fitness vs EffortPath

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

Head to head
About

FORMAT Fitness

Book your next Barre, HIIT, or Strength class with ease. View schedules, purchase credits, and manage your bookings from anywhere. Achieve your fitness goals and improve your mental well-being with diverse workout options.

Highlights
  • View class schedules
  • Purchase class credits
  • Book upcoming classes
  • Barre workouts
  • HIIT workouts
  • Strength training
Features
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View the schedule, buy credits, and book your next sweat with the FORMAT App. Wherever you are your next Barre, HIIT, or Strength Class is just a few taps away. FORMAT is about changing from the inside out, whether it's an athletically based barre class, a sweaty HIIT class, or a challenging Strength workout we're here to help you level up physically and feel better mentally.

About

EffortPath

This app uses an AI companion to help you create and follow personalized workout and daily goals. It offers a vast exercise library, customizable routines, and progress tracking. Connect with friends for challenges and integrate with health data for a holistic wellness experience.

Highlights
  • AI-generated workout and goal plans
  • Customizable routines and timers
  • Extensive exercise library
  • Daily and weekly goal tracking
  • Social challenges and friend connections
  • Apple Health integration
  • Outdoor run tracking
Features
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Meet Yokey, your AI companion for making a plan and following through. Describe a workout or everyday goal, answer a few useful questions, and review an editable suggestion inside EffortPath. Then turn that idea into something you can actually do. ASK YOKEY Build a workout around your focus, available equipment and preferences. Set up a count, streak or interval routine. Choose which suggestions to keep, adjust the details, and start, save or schedule your workout. Yokey draws on a reviewed exercise library and relevant training references; you can expand references when they appear. YOUR DAY. YOUR WEEK. Keep daily actions, accomplishments and weekly goals in view. Count pages, push-ups, practice or anything that matters to you. Build daily streaks, choose specific days, or aim for successful days each week. Separate workouts throughout the day combine toward your daily workout target. FIND YOUR NEXT WORKOUT Explore Weights, Cardio, Pilates, Yoga, Boxing, HYROX, CrossFit and Sports Specific. Pick a quick session, start an editable routine or build your own. Log sets, reps, weights, minutes and distance. Boxing Legends adds original practice sessions inspired by reviewed material about different fighters' approaches. STAY IN THE WORKOUT An immersive player keeps your current exercise, active or rest phase, countdown, targets and notes in view. Customize active and rest times by exercise, with separate sounds and colors. Pause, skip, restart or go back when you need to. Finish and keep your workout in history. PLAN NOW. CHOOSE LATER. Schedule a workout for today or a future date without choosing the routine yet. Pick it when you're ready, or log the class you attended. Optional weekly repeats help you make time for training. MAKE PROGRESS TOGETHER Connect with friends by full username and accepted requests. Share a workout, invite people to work out together or assign a plan as a trainer. Choose individual friends or joined groups. Turn count, workout or daily check-off goals into private challenges and follow the agreed progress without duplicating the same goal on Home. CONNECT HEALTH AND WATCH With permission, bring steps, sleep and completed workouts from Apple Health into personal progress, and save eligible EffortPath workouts to Health. On Apple Watch, follow supported phone workouts and timers, log sets and counts, check off goals or start supported saved activities. Original imported Health records stay on your device; sharing Health-derived challenge progress requires a separate choice. TAKE YOUR RUN OUTSIDE Track outdoor running distance, active time and pace with your iPhone. Pause when needed, choose miles or kilometers, and save the result to your workout history and goals. PHYSICAL THERAPY, CLEARLY MARKED BETA Organize a routine selected with your clinician, including prescribed reps, holds, sides and instructions. Connected clinicians and patients can share plans with acceptance. EffortPath does not diagnose conditions or generate a treatment plan. Core personal logging works without an account. AI chat and sharing require Sign in with Apple; chat also requires internet and explicit opt-in. Yokey is in beta: up to 3 chat attempts per account per day, including follow-ups. Chat may pause when shared beta capacity is used. Review AI suggestions before saving or starting. Other companions are coming soon. Health and location features depend on device support and permissions. Outdoor GPS recording requires your iPhone. HYROX and CrossFit identify workout categories; EffortPath is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by these organizations.

Screenshots

FORMAT Fitness4 screens
EffortPath4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: EffortPath at free against FORMAT Fitness's free with in-app purchases. EffortPath also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and device support (3 vs 1). FORMAT Fitness's advantage is ratings volume (177 vs 4) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FORMAT Fitness against 5.0 for EffortPath. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FORMAT Fitness has 177 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FORMAT Fitness ships an update monthly, EffortPath weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
FORMAT Fitness versus EffortPath: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFORMAT FitnessEffortPath
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (177 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings177 — better4
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB62 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFormat Fitness CorpAndrew Imhoff

Customer experience

FORMAT Fitness

All ratings175 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

EffortPath

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

FORMAT Fitness

No in-app purchases

None

EffortPath

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FORMAT Fitness free?
FORMAT Fitness is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EffortPath free?
EffortPath is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, FORMAT Fitness or EffortPath?
FORMAT Fitness and EffortPath are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 177 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do FORMAT Fitness or EffortPath have ads?
Neither FORMAT Fitness nor EffortPath shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FORMAT Fitness or EffortPath?
FORMAT Fitness ships an update monthly, and EffortPath weekly. Most recently, FORMAT Fitness was updated on November 3, 2026 and EffortPath on November 1, 2026.

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