Comparison

Macro Mate vs Forge Trainer

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

Head to head
About

Macro Mate

Discover healthy recipes, easily log your meals, and connect with others pursuing similar health goals. Share your food journals and find inspiration from a supportive community.

Highlights
  • Discover healthy recipes
  • Record and share meals
  • Log nutritional intake
  • Connect with like-minded users
  • Observe others' meal plans
  • Track progress with community
Features
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Welcome to Macro Mate, the ultimate app for embracing a healthy lifestyle! With Macro Mate, you can explore a world of new and exciting healthy recipes, effortlessly record your meals, and connect with like-minded individuals who share similar health goals! Discover New Healthy Recipes: Explore user recipes, and embark on a flavorful journey that will keep your taste buds satisfied and your body nourished. Record and Share Your Meals with Ease: Easily log your breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, and gain valuable insights into your nutritional intake. Save journals to show off to your followers and see what others around you are eating. Build a Supportive Network: No matter your health goals, find like minded individuals with similar fitness goals as your own. Observe their meal plans, recipes and stay connected as each of you progress on your journey.

About

Forge Trainer

This app creates personalized strength training and workout plans tailored to your goals, schedule, equipment, and physical limitations. It offers proactive coaching and accountability, adapting as you progress, for a fraction of the cost of a personal trainer.

Highlights
  • Customized workout plans
  • AI-powered progression tracking
  • Adaptable to injuries and limitations
  • Proactive coaching and accountability
  • Choice of coaching styles
  • Time-efficient workouts
Features
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Build muscle and get stronger with a customized workout plan. Forge is a personal trainer that builds every strength training session around you: your fitness goals, your schedule, your experience, your equipment, your injuries. Home workouts or gym days, the plan fits the equipment in front of you and adapts every week as you progress. Ask your coach anything, any time. Form checks mid-set. The 7am question about training on five hours of sleep. Answers come back in seconds, from a coach that remembers everything you tell it. Other apps ignore questions or email back a day later. A human trainer charges $75-150 an hour. A year of Forge costs less than that. Every rep gets logged, every PR recorded. Whether you train to build muscle or lose weight, watch your progress climb with strength trends for every lift and a body weight chart, all on a dashboard you can customize. Every exercise comes with step-by-step instructions and a visual demo. Download Forge today and start your free 7-day trial. FORGE FEATURES Personalized Workout Plans ◆ Custom workout plan built from your goals, schedule, equipment, and injuries ◆ Sessions sized to the time you have, even 20 minutes ◆ Separate home and gym profiles, with targets set to the weights you actually have access to ◆ Programs around injuries and remembers them for good A Coach You Can Talk To ◆ Answers questions in seconds, mid-set if that's when you ask ◆ Remembers everything you tell it, from bad sleep to old injuries ◆ Checks in when you skip a few workouts ◆ Choose your coach's personality: drill sergeant, patient encourager, gym buddy, technique nerd Built for the Gym Floor ◆ Gym missing a machine? Mark it and your coach swaps in a lift you can do there ◆ Rest timer on your lock screen and a plate loader that shows what goes on each side of the bar Exercise Library ◆ Step-by-step exercise instructions with visual demos for every movement ◆ New lifts feel safe from the first rep Progress Tracking ◆ Every rep logged, with your best lifts on one PR board ◆ Watch any lift climb over time, or track your squat, bench, and deadlift as one total ◆ Log weigh-ins and watch your body weight trend ◆ Customize your dashboard with the stats you care about ASK YOUR COACH ANYTHING 7:04am, before work: You: "Rough night. Slept 5 hours. Should I still lift today?" Your coach: "Yes, lighter though. I cut today's volume by a third and moved the heavy squats to Saturday." PICK YOUR COACH The same advice lands differently depending on who says it. Choose yours: • Stone: ex-military. Tough love, zero excuses. • Maya: patient and supportive. Celebrates every win, especially the small ones. • Mike: your gym buddy. Keeps training fun so you keep showing up. • Reese: data-driven, technique-obsessed. All business, all progress. WHAT LIFTERS SAY "Before I was lost in the gym, wandering around picking up weights and working on machines that I thought were correct. Now I have a real plan that adapts to my goals and my time." "Does a great job at giving me new workouts and reminding me of last weeks progress. Letting me know how my progression is going." "I used to waste so much time wandering around the gym wondering what to do next, but this app completely eliminates that decision fatigue." Forge offers auto-renewing weekly, monthly, and yearly subscriptions, starting with a free 7-day trial. Payment is charged to your store account after the trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your account settings. Questions? support@forgetrainer.ai Terms of Use: https://forgetrainer.ai/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://forgetrainer.ai/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Macro Mate4 screens
Forge Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Macro Mate at none against Forge Trainer's 5. Macro Mate also leads on ads (none vs shown). Forge Trainer's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Forge Trainer sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Macro Mate asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Macro Mate against 5.0 for Forge Trainer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Forge Trainer has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Macro Mate versus Forge Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMacro MateForge Trainer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings113 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.2 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB109 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJames Ciaston10D Labs Limited Liability Company

Customer experience

Macro Mate

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

Forge Trainer

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Macro Mate

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Forge Trainer

Subscriptions5
  • Weekly7 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Monthly7 Days trial$19.991 Month
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  • Yearly$44.991 Year
  • Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Macro Mate free?
Macro Mate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Forge Trainer free?
Forge Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Macro Mate or Forge Trainer?
Macro Mate and Forge Trainer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 13 ratings respectively.
Do Macro Mate or Forge Trainer have ads?
Forge Trainer shows ads; Macro Mate does not.

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