Comparison

CoachJournal vs Forkboard

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

Head to head
About

CoachJournal

Features
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Track session packages, monthly passes, or both — CoachJournal handles the subscription complexity that spreadsheets can't. Whether you coach swimmers, train athletes, or tutor students, manage your entire roster and never lose track of payments, attendance, or progress again. YOUR PROFESSION, YOUR LANGUAGE The app adapts to how you work: - Coaches see "Athletes" and "Training Sessions" - Tutors see "Students" and "Lessons" Available in English, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, German, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Indonesian, and Uzbek. --- WHAT YOU CAN DO ▸ Manage Your Roster Add trainees with contact info, birthday, and notes. Everyone's details in one place — no more scattered spreadsheets. ▸ Separate Clients with Workspaces Teach privately and work at a gym? Keep them separate. Create workspaces for different roles, businesses, or client groups — switch between them instantly. ▸ Track Every Session Record attendance with timestamps and notes. Know exactly who showed up, when, and what you covered. ▸ Flexible Subscription Tracking Date-based, lesson-based, or both — set it up in seconds: - Monthly or quarterly passes - 10-session packages - Hybrid limits (time + sessions together) Pause subscriptions, apply discounts, and see expiration status at a glance. ▸ Track Payments in Your Currency Record payments in your local currency. No conversions, no confusion. ▸ See Your Week at a Glance Compact weekly calendar shows your schedule with clear day labels. Mark attendance with one tap. Review any date instantly. ▸ Monitor Your Business Overview dashboard with day, week, and month views. Compare trends to last period and see which clients need attention — expiring passes, low sessions, missed visits. --- PREMIUM FEATURES ▸ Unlimited Trainees Grow your roster without limits. ▸ Unlimited Workspaces Manage as many client groups, businesses, or roles as you need. ▸ Training Insights 12-month heatmap calendar shows activity patterns at a glance. Track streaks, weekly averages, and consistency over time. ▸ Professional Reports Export to PDF or CSV — for your records, sharing with parents, or tax documentation. ▸ Ad-Free Clean, focused interface. --- BUILT FOR - Swimming coaches & fitness trainers - Tennis, martial arts, dance instructors - Music teachers & language tutors - Anyone managing recurring sessions --- START FREE Download and add your first trainees at no cost. Upgrade to Premium when your roster grows. Questions? Use the in-app feedback tool — we build features based on what you need. Terms of Use: https://coachjournal.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://coachjournal.app/privacy

About

Forkboard

This app helps you plan your entire week's dinners on a single board, adapting to your tastes, schedule, and existing ingredients. It learns your preferences, suggests meals based on what you have, and generates a smart grocery list.

Highlights
  • Weekly dinner planning board
  • Personalized meal suggestions
  • Ingredient-based meal creation
  • Leftover meal integration
  • Household taste blending
  • Automated grocery list generation
Features
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Your whole week of dinners, planned on one board. Forkboard answers "what's for dinner?" for the entire week at once — a calm planning board instead of an endless recipe feed. Tell it a little about how you eat, and it plans seven nights around your tastes, your schedule, and what's already in your kitchen. The more you rate, the sharper it gets. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Plan the whole week, not one meal. Seven dinners land on one board, decided together — every night chosen knowing the other six, so cuisines vary from one night to the next. • Change one night, not the whole week. Swap a dinner you're not feeling and a new one takes its place. Pin the ones you love and replan the rest around them. • Effort that fits the night. Set your weeknight and weekend time budgets once — a 15-minute Tuesday, up to a two-hour Sunday — and Forkboard plans to them. Pin a night and tag it quick, standard or a proper project, and its next swap comes back in kind. • It learns your taste. Thumbs up the wins, thumbs down the misses. No long quiz to begin; it just gets better as you go. • Every dinner opens to a real recipe. Ingredients in the right quantities, numbered steps, and — where we have them — estimated per-serving calories, protein, carbs and fat. • Cook what you already have. Snap a photo of your fridge, a pantry shelf or a single label, or scan a barcode, and Forkboard leans the week toward what's already in it. Put an expiry date on the perishables and it tries to land each one on a night before it turns. • Leftover intelligence. Monday's roast chicken can become Thursday's tacos — the board sees the whole week. • One board for the whole household. On Family, everyone's tastes blend into a single week — and on every plan, every allergen you set is a hard rule, respected on every plate. • A grocery list that writes itself. Grouped by aisle, quantities merged into one line, and whatever's already in your pantry checked off. Share it out from your phone in a tap. • Sized for your table. Say how many you're cooking for — two on Solo, up to six on Family — and the recipes, and the grocery list, scale to match. • Marks for the cook. Kitchen stamps stack up as the weeks do: First Service, To Market, A Season of Sundays. ON EVERY SCREEN, IN SYNC Plan on your iPhone, spread out on iPad, or bring up the big board on the web — it's the same plan everywhere, always up to date. Start a week, lock your phone and come back: it keeps building without you. BUILT FOR REAL WEEKNIGHTS Set your cuisines, dietary needs, allergens, skill and time budgets once, then let Forkboard do the deciding. Allergens are a hard rule, never a suggestion: an allergen you've set simply never reaches the board. Sign in with a six-digit code sent to your email, or with Apple or Google — no password to invent. MEMBERSHIP Forkboard is free to start — four plans a month, one seat, no card required. Every new account also starts with 7 free days on Solo — the same full-quality planning, with 15 plans to get a feel for it. That trial is not a subscription and never turns into one: when it ends you simply drop to the free plan, and your boards stay put. A membership opens up the full board: • Solo — 30 plans a month for one cook. • Family — one board, up to six taste profiles, 60 plans a month pooled across the house. Add kids and partners as taste profiles without them needing an account of their own. Monthly and yearly memberships are available for both; the price for your country is shown in the app before you buy. Forkboard memberships are auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription renews automatically at the price shown unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://forkboard.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://forkboard.app/terms

Screenshots

CoachJournal4 screens
Forkboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: CoachJournal at every 10 days against Forkboard's every 4 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. CoachJournal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Forkboard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CoachJournal ships an update every 10 days, Forkboard every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
CoachJournal versus Forkboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoachJournalForkboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSardorbek RakhimovForkboard LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

CoachJournal

Subscriptions2
  • Menter Folio Pro$9.991 Month
  • Mentor Folio Pro7 Days trial$66.901 Year
4 purchases

Forkboard

Subscriptions4
  • Solo Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Family Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Solo Yearly$59.991 Year
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  • Family Yearly$99.991 Year

Questions

Is CoachJournal free?
CoachJournal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forkboard free?
Forkboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CoachJournal or Forkboard have ads?
Neither CoachJournal nor Forkboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CoachJournal or Forkboard?
CoachJournal ships an update every 10 days, and Forkboard every 4 weeks. Most recently, CoachJournal was updated on September 30, 2026 and Forkboard on September 18, 2026.

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