Comparison

btwb vs FORGE Elite Coaching

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

Head to head
About

btwb

Log your workouts, discover new ones, and connect with your fitness community. Track progress, analyze performance, and manage nutrition with a comprehensive fitness tracking tool.

Highlights
  • Daily workout programming
  • Discover millions of WODs
  • Track workout results
  • Macro and nutrition tracking
  • Community and social features
  • Performance analysis and badges
  • Gym virtual programming
Features
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btwb, the world's premier workout tracker, brings fitness communities together, in person & remotely. We are the world's largest workout Log with 100+ million results and counting. WORKOUTS - Get daily programming at your fingertips with btwb's Varied Not Random workouts. 4 versions available daily: Performance, Fitness, Dumbbell Only, and No Equipment. - Post results for every workout and/or create your own. - Discover the perfect workout among 12+ Million Unique WODs. - Perfectly capture and share your workout experience with attached images and location tagging. - See how you stack up against the world with World-Wide Leaderboards. GYMS - Keep your community connected by taking your gym virtual. Deliver custom programming to groups and individuals, include personalized movement demos and WOD briefs, view member activity and results via gym feeds and leaderboards, and encourage members with emojis & comments through private Squads. MACROS - Track your Macros. Get the best features of other macro tracking apps combined with our best-in-class workout tracking. With over 700k grocery items, 160k restaurant items, and 13k common foods, find exactly the food you’re looking for by searching our library or by scanning the barcode of your favorite packaged item! You can even create your own custom entries! Set your own macronutrient targets, or have coaches set them for you. - Set your own macronutrient targets, or have coaches set them for you. SOCIAL - Create private Squads and build Follow lists to keep up with your friends' results. - Use direct messaging to converse about fitness with individuals and groups. ANALYSIS - Earn badges for various workouts, gymnastics maxes, 1RM lifts, and running & rowing intervals. - Discover potential major and minor strength, mobility, and technique issues in specific categories with Imbalances. - How fit are you? (1-100) Work to unlock your Fitness Level. Track body fat, benchmarks and more!

About

FORGE Elite Coaching

This personalized fitness platform creates custom training programs based on your goals, equipment, and schedule. It tracks your progress with detailed charts and automatic PR detection, and offers simplified nutrition guidance. Stay accountable with friends on a private leaderboard.

Highlights
  • Personalized training programs
  • Progress tracking and charts
  • Automatic PR detection
  • Daily macro tracking
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Private leaderboard
  • Structured 17-week cycles
Features
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FORGE ELITE COACHING — Real coaching. Real discipline. Real results. FORGE is a personalized fitness coaching platform built for people who train with purpose. Every program is built around you — your goals, your equipment, your schedule — and evolves week by week as you progress through a structured 17-week periodized cycle. PERSONALIZED PROGRAMMING Your training program is built specifically for your discipline — whether that's bodybuilding, powerlifting, CrossFit, functional fitness, or running — and adjusted to your equipment, injuries, and available time. No generic templates. TRACK WHAT MATTERS - Log every set, every rep, every session - Automatic PR detection so you always know when you've leveled up - Strength progression charts that show your real trajectory - Weekly check-ins that keep your coach in the loop NUTRITION, SIMPLIFIED Daily macro tracking built around your goals, with meal timing that actually fits your training schedule. APPLE WATCH INTEGRATION Sync your workouts directly from Apple Watch — calories, heart rate, and duration, pulled in automatically. STAY ACCOUNTABLE A private leaderboard with friends and training partners keeps you honest. See your progress, celebrate your streaks, and never train alone. BUILT FOR THE SERIOUS FORGE offers three tiers — Basic, Specific, and Premium — each unlocking more direct access to your coach, real-time adjustments, and deeper tracking as you need it. Discipline beats motivation. FORGE is built to prove it, week after week. Terms of Use (EULA): https://app.getfitnessforge.com/terms.html

Screenshots

btwb4 screens
FORGE Elite Coaching4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: btwb at none against FORGE Elite Coaching's 3. btwb also leads on ratings volume (1.5K vs 1). FORGE Elite Coaching's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, ads, monetization model 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. FORGE Elite Coaching sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $49.99 per month. btwb asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FORGE Elite Coaching holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: btwb has 1.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
btwb versus FORGE Elite Coaching: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterbtwbFORGE Elite Coaching
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.5K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.5K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size265 MB10 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBTWB, LLCluis arraiz

Customer experience

btwb

All ratings1,529 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews203 reviews
Positive53.2%
Neutral9.4%
Negative37.4%

FORGE Elite Coaching

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

btwb

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Subscription cancellation and billing problems
  • Frequent crashes and white screens
  • Inability to log certain workout types
  • Barcode scanner and movement tracking issues
  • Problems with data syncing and history display

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add dark mode or black background option
  • Integrate with Apple Health and other fitness apps
  • Improve custom workout creation and logging
  • Provide better social/community features
  • Fix issues with loading and saving workout data

FORGE Elite Coaching

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

btwb

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

FORGE Elite Coaching

Subscriptions3
  • FORGE Basic$49.991 Month
  • FORGE Specific$99.991 Month
  • FORGE Premium$199.991 Month

Questions

Is btwb free?
btwb is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FORGE Elite Coaching free?
FORGE Elite Coaching is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, btwb or FORGE Elite Coaching?
FORGE Elite Coaching is rated higher. btwb averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while FORGE Elite Coaching averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do btwb or FORGE Elite Coaching have ads?
Neither btwb nor FORGE Elite Coaching shows ads.

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