YMCA Pulse vs FORGE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
YMCA Pulse
This app allows YMCA members to manage their accounts, find and reserve events, and check in quickly. It provides a member dashboard for personal and family information, and details about branch facilities and programs.
- Discover and reserve events
- Fast barcode check-in
- Add membership to digital wallet
- Manage member information
- View membership forms
- Explore branch details
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A new way to manage all things YMCA with SGA Pulse. Easily find and reserve events, stay updated on member details, and effortlessly check in at your favorite locations. Discover and Reserve Events Easily view upcoming events in a clear calendar view. Learn more about your favorite events and reserve your spot with our quick reservation process. Fast Check-In Scan your barcode for quick and easy entry. Conveniently add your membership card to Google or Apple Wallet for effortless access. Member Dashboard Manage your member information for you and your family. View and sign membership forms. Branch Details Explore branch details, including hours of operation, available facilities, and offered programs.
FORGE
This app focuses on identity transformation rather than habit tracking. It guides users through foundational exercises and tracks development across four life quadrants: Mind, Body, Spirit, and Vocation. Personalized prompts and AI-driven insights help users identify and pursue their growth path.
- Identity transformation system
- Foundational vision exercises
- Four life quadrants tracking (Mind, Body, Spirit, Vocation)
- Personalized journal prompts
- AI Journey Architect for guidance
- Local data storage, no account required
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FORGE is not a habit tracker. It is an identity transformation system. The idea is simple but demanding: you don't change your life by building new habits. You change it by becoming a different person. Behavior follows identity. FORGE is where you do the identity work. Before the dashboard ever opens, you complete two foundational exercises. Your Anti-Vision — the vivid, specific life you refuse to accept if nothing changes. Your Vision — the person you are becoming and the life they live. These are not goals. They are anchors. One drives you away. The other pulls you forward. From there, FORGE tracks your development across four quadrants of life: MIND — How you think, learn, and update your beliefs. Are you expanding your model of reality, or defending the one you already have? BODY — Your physical state as infrastructure. Sleep, nutrition, training. The body is not separate from the mind. It is the hardware. SPIRIT — Relationships, meaning, and connection. The most neglected quadrant. The one that quietly limits everything else. VOCATION — The work you are building. Not just a job. The thing that, when you do it, makes you feel like you are using yourself correctly. Each quadrant has a starting level (1.0 to 5.0), a daily lever — one action you know matters — and a library of prescribed level-up tasks that move you forward. Not generic advice. Moves calibrated to exactly where you are. The journal is not a diary. Every prompt is selected based on your current level, your lowest quadrant, and the time of day. The wisdom system surfaces the right thought at the right moment — Marcus Aurelius, Naval Ravikant, Viktor Frankl, and others — not as a quote of the day, but as a curator who knows where you are. The AI Journey Architect reads your data — your levers, your patterns, your journal entries, your weekly reviews — and tells you the one thing you already know but haven't named. Then it gives you the path. FORGE stores your personal development data locally on your device. No account required to start. No data shared with third parties. The art is Gustave Dore-style engraving — lone figures against vast forces, anatomical precision, cosmic scale. It is not decoration. It is the emotional layer of the app. The first screen you see is a figure climbing a narrow staircase toward a single point of light. That is the thesis. Subscription: FORGE Monthly — 7-day free trial, then $6.99/month. Payment charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in App Store Settings. Privacy Policy: https://forgeapp.me/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FORGE at 5.0 against YMCA Pulse's 1.3. YMCA Pulse's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (99 vs 1). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. FORGE sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. YMCA Pulse asks for nothing beyond the download.
FORGE holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: YMCA Pulse has 99 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | YMCA Pulse | FORGE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (99 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SGA Software | Sentient Solutions Group LLC |
Bugs and requests
YMCA Pulse
Reported bugs
23 issues- App does not work
- App refuses to come up
- App will not open
- App is not working
- App is non-functional
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- App is unusable
- App has glitches
- App logs you out
- App forgets credentials
- App takes too long to load
- App doesn't keep Apple Wallet sign-in
- App doesn't remember Face ID or preferences
- App doesn't save settings when logged out
- App wipes out filters
- Category function on calendar does not work
- App says there was a loading error
- App is very slow with multiple branches selected
- Cannot scroll through calendar
- App displays a white screen when opened
- App does not load
- App flashes white
- App goes blank
- App is not compatible with iOS 18
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to send class reservation to phone's calendar
- Location-aware membership card in Apple Wallet
- Allow use of membership card in Apple Wallet on iPhone
- Keep old functionality (e.g., workout logs, rankings)
FORGE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
YMCA Pulse
No in-app purchases
FORGE
- FORGE: Human 3.07 Days trial$6.991 Month









