CHALK VIP vs Functional Bodybuilding
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CHALK VIP
Access personalized health, fitness, and lifestyle coaching. Receive customized workout and nutrition plans designed to fit your schedule and goals. Track your progress, habits, and measurements with real-time coach support and community motivation.
- 1-1 Health, Fitness, and Lifestyle Coaching
- Customized workout programs
- Flexible nutrition plans
- Workout and nutrition tracking
- Habit tracking
- Real-time coach messaging
- Digital communities
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With the Chalk VIP App, you will have access to 1-1 Health, Fitness and Lifestyle Coaching. Learn how to get maximum results in less time with minimal effort. Customized workout programs are designed specifically to help you reach your fitness and health goals and seamlessly fit inside YOUR schedule! Customized, flexible nutrition plans teach you how to eat the foods you love without sacrificing results and with no restrictive dieting. You can follow & track your workouts, your nutrition, your lifestyle habits, measurements and results–all with the help of your coach. FEATURES: - Access training plans and track workouts - Follow along to exercise and workout videos - Track your meals and make better food choices - Stay on top of your daily habits - Set health and fitness goals and track progress towards your goals - Gain milestone badges for achieving new personal bests and maintaining habit streaks - Message your coach in real-time - Be part of digital communities to meet people with similar health goals and stay motivated - Track body measurements and take progress photos - Get push notification reminders for scheduled workouts and activities - Connect your Apple Watch to track workouts, steps, habits, and more right from your wrist - Connect to other wearable devices and apps like the Apple Health App, Garmin, Fitbit, MyFitnessPal, and Withings devices to track workouts, sleep, nutrition, and body stats and composition Get REAL with your goals and download the app today!
Functional Bodybuilding
Access all your Functional Bodybuilding resources in one place. This app houses everything from PERSIST programs to FBB ebooks, providing a centralized hub for your training materials.
- Access to PERSIST programs
- FBB ebooks library
- All offerings in one app
- Centralized training hub
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This app is the home for all Functional Bodybuilding offerings, from PERSIST to FBB ebooks, you will find it all here!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CHALK VIP at 4.7 against Functional Bodybuilding's 2.9. CHALK VIP also leads on device support (4 vs 1). Functional Bodybuilding's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (26% vs 0%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CHALK VIP holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 40 and 146 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of CHALK VIP's written reviews are positive against 26% of Functional Bodybuilding's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CHALK VIP ships an update every 2 months, Functional Bodybuilding weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CHALK VIP | Functional Bodybuilding |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (40 ratings) — better | 2.9 (146 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 26.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 | 146 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 178 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Gym Ryan LLC | Cliff Kohut |
Customer experience
CHALK VIP
Functional Bodybuilding
Bugs and requests
CHALK VIP
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Functional Bodybuilding
Reported bugs
4 issues- Videos not playing
- Workout data not saving
- Calendar issues
- App crashes after latest update
Requested features
3 requests- Simplify the app interface
- Provide all workout details on one page
- Improve the built-in timer functionality
In-app purchases
CHALK VIP
No in-app purchases
Functional Bodybuilding
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is CHALK VIP free?
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