Comparison

ShayFit vs Forge Strength Trainer

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

Head to head
About

ShayFit

This app offers expert-designed fitness programs for healing, strengthening, and rebuilding confidence. It provides tailored workouts for various life stages, including core recovery, pelvic floor healing, and strength training, with guided instruction and community support.

Highlights
  • Customizable fitness plans
  • Pregnancy/Postpartum safe exercises
  • Expert guided core and pelvic floor support
  • Community motivation
  • Progress tracking
  • Macro plans and seasonal challenges
Features
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ShayFit isn’t just another workout app. It’s where you can come to heal, strengthen, and rebuild confidence through expert-designed programs tailored to your body. Whether it’s core recovery, pelvic floor healing, strength training, mobility, and functional fitness no matter what season of life you’re in there is something for you. No guessing. No wondering what’s safe. Just press play and follow along. Whether you’re healing postpartum, rebuilding strength, preparing for pregnancy, chasing your kids, chasing a goal or simply showing up for yourself, ShayFit meets you exactly where you are and helps you get where you want to go. Inside the ShayFit App: Key Features: *Customizable Plans: Strength training, ab challenges, daily workouts, or Pregnancy/Postpartum core healing, Shayfit offers a program for everyone no matter what stage you are in. *Pregnancy/Postpartum Safe Exercises & Plans: Expert guided programs to help you adapt and stay safe and strong during all trimesters of pregnancy and postpartum. *Exclusive Shayfit Content: Communicate with Shay one on one and get all the updates *Core and Pelvic Floor Support: Certified expert programming to help you feel strong, supported, and confident. *Motivation & Community: You’re not doing this alone, Join a community of women who get it. *Macro Plans & Seasonal challenges to keep you consistent *Progress tracking & accountability built in These workouts aren’t built to just make you sweat. They’re built to make you strong. Supported. Mobile. Confident. From the inside out. Because your body changes. Your energy changes. Your life changes. Your fitness should too. Your strongest season starts here. Are you ready?

About

Forge Strength Trainer

Track your strength training, nutrition, and body composition privately. Log workouts, calculate personalized calorie and macro targets, and monitor key body metrics without an account or subscription. All your data stays on your device.

Highlights
  • Local data storage, no cloud sync
  • Customizable workout splits and exercises
  • Personalized calorie and macro targets
  • Barcode scanner for food logging
  • Body composition and circumference tracking
  • One-tap CSV data export
  • Optional Apple Health read-only integration
Features
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Forge is a strength training, nutrition, and body composition tracker built for people who want to log their training without paying a monthly fee, signing up for an account, or handing their data to a server. Everything you log lives in a local database on your phone. There is no cloud. There is no sync. There are no ads, no analytics, and nothing to subscribe to. One purchase. That's it. TRAINING Build custom splits with any number of training days. Log sets with automatic rest timers (1, 3, 5, or custom minutes). Tap any set to see exactly which plates go on the bar, per side — 45, 35, 25, and 15 lb bars, with a warning when a weight isn't loadable with standard plates. Every working set is scored against your previous best with an estimated 1RM, and PRs are flagged on the spot. Warmup ramps fill in with one tap and stay out of your working-set volume. Also includes drop sets, supersets, bodyweight tracking, a catch-up queue for missed sessions, and a session timer that starts on your first completed set — not when you open the app. WEEKLY VOLUME A live count of working sets per muscle group, each with an evidence-based target range. Bars show under-, in-, and over-range at a glance, so you can spot the under-trained area before the week is over. NUTRITION Derives daily calorie and macro targets from body composition using Katch-McArdle BMR or Mifflin-St Jeor formulas. Includes barcode scanner via Open Food Facts, macro calculator, daily macro rings, and 14-day trend charts. BODY Tracks weight, body fat %, lean mass, circumferences (shoulders, waist, arms, chest, quads), week-over-week deltas, and 8-week trend charts with goal progress bars. REST DAYS Rest days aren't blank. Forge offers guided stretch and mobility holds, scoped to the muscle groups you trained in the last few days. APPLE HEALTH (OPTIONAL, READ-ONLY) Pulls duration, average heart rate, and active calories from Apple Watch workouts. ONE-TAP CSV EXPORT Exports measurements, food log, and set history as plain CSV files. WHAT FORGE WILL NEVER DO • Ask you to create an account • Collect your email • Send your data to a server • Show you ads • Charge you a subscription • Track you across apps

Screenshots

ShayFit4 screens
Forge Strength Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ShayFit at Free against Forge Strength Trainer's $9.99. ShayFit also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 3). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

ShayFit is free to download; Forge Strength Trainer costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ShayFit against 5.0 for Forge Strength Trainer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShayFit has 15 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShayFit ships an update monthly, Forge Strength Trainer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ShayFit versus Forge Strength Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShayFitForge Strength Trainer
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (15 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better3
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size166 MB46 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBronson HollandKevin Gillespie

Customer experience

ShayFit

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Forge Strength Trainer

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ShayFit

No in-app purchases

None

Forge Strength Trainer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShayFit free?
ShayFit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Forge Strength Trainer free?
Forge Strength Trainer costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ShayFit or Forge Strength Trainer?
ShayFit and Forge Strength Trainer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 15 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do ShayFit or Forge Strength Trainer have ads?
Neither ShayFit nor Forge Strength Trainer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShayFit or Forge Strength Trainer?
ShayFit ships an update monthly, and Forge Strength Trainer fortnightly. Most recently, ShayFit was updated on October 18, 2026 and Forge Strength Trainer on October 7, 2026.

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