Progress vs Workout Guy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Progress
This smart fitness app provides personalized training plans and guidance to help users build muscle and lose weight effectively. It offers detailed exercise instructions, progress tracking, and load management based on user feedback.
- Customized training plans
- Personalized guidance
- Progressive overload tracking
- Load management
- Effective workouts and exercises
- Muscle group focus
- Progress tracking with graphs
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Your Personalized and Smart Fitness Training App: Maximize your workout results. Grow muscle mass and achieve optimal weight loss with intelligent, professional, and personalized guidance that will lead you from one workout to the next, all the way to your goal. ●Customized training plan according to the trainee's level. ●Personal trainer to guide you from one workout to another. ●Progressive overload. ●Load management based on your effort level reports. ●The most effective workouts and exercises for every muscle in the gym. ●Focus on specific muscle groups. ●Division of workouts according to target muscles. ●Tracking progress. ●Photos and videos for every exercise. ●Instructions on how to perform the exercises. ●Daily body weight tracking. ●Progress graph. Main trainer: Erez Ben Yaakov, a natural bodybuilder and Mr. Israel 1 specialist in training and nutrition. Owner of the PROGRESS company. @Erez_Ben_Jacob
Workout Guy
This app automatically adjusts your workout reps and weights based on your performance feedback. It supports weight training and bodyweight exercises, allowing you to build custom routines and track your progress seamlessly.
- Automatic rep and weight adjustments
- Per-exercise progression settings
- Weight and bodyweight training support
- Custom routine building
- Apple Watch integration
- Live session updates
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Workout Guy: Progression Stop guessing what to do next. Workout Guy tracks your performance and automatically adjusts your reps and weights based on your feedback. Your next workout is always one step ahead. AUTOMATIC PROGRESSION After every exercise, you get a quick check-in. Crushed it? Your reps or weight go up next time. Struggled? The app holds you there until you're ready. No spreadsheets. No manual updates. Just show up and train. BUILT AROUND YOUR TRAINING • Flexible, per-exercise progression settings tailored to your style • Supports both weight training and bodyweight progressions • Build custom routines with any exercise order • Progression updates apply live to your session and are reflected in your full history ON YOUR WRIST Apple Watch integration lets you train without ever touching your phone. Full session flow with ordered sets, rest timers, and feedback right from your wrist.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Progress at every 6 days against Workout Guy's monthly. Progress also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Progress against 5.0 for Workout Guy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Progress ships an update every 6 days, Workout Guy monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Progress | Workout Guy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Progress Workouts | Guy Barsky |
Customer experience
Progress
Workout Guy
In-app purchases
Progress
No in-app purchases
Workout Guy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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