Shiver vs AdaptForge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shiver
This app helps you track and improve your cold plunging routine. Log your sessions, visualize your progress with a unique chart, and review detailed analytics to stay motivated and consistent with your cold exposure goals.
- Session timer with configurable sounds
- Habit tracking session chart
- Session feed for past details
- Detailed session analytics
- Offline functionality
- On-device data storage
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Plunge smarter with Shiver. Shiver is the world's simplest, most intuitive cold plunge log & cold plunge tracker. Start supercharging your cold plunge habit now for free, no signup or credit card required! Features include: SESSION TIMER Time your sessions with a minimalistic session timer that makes it dead simple to know how long you've been plunging and how much is left before you reach your goal. Configurable session sounds let you know when you've met your duration goal. SESSION CHART Track your habit over time with a session chart inspired by the GitHub contribution graph. Each day is represented with either a blank or colored square making it easy to see your consistency at a glance. Keep filling in those squares to keep yourself accountable! SESSION FEED Scroll through a feed of all of your sessions if you want to view the specific details of past sessions. SESSION ANALYTICS Detailed statistics and graphs of how frequent, how cold, and how long your sessions have historically been across a variety of time horizons. Use this data stay motivated by your past progress. If you love data, Shiver has got you covered! PRIVACY App is fully functional offline and your session data is only stored on your device--session data is ever sent to us!
AdaptForge
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AdaptForge helps you track personal protocols and observe how your health metrics change over time. Use it to log defined intervention periods such as supplements, sleep routines, cold exposure, sauna use, training blocks, recovery strategies, travel recovery, or other personal experiments. AdaptForge places those periods on a timeline and lets you view them alongside selected Apple Health metrics. Compare baseline and intervention periods, review metric changes, and keep a clear history of what you tried and when. AdaptForge is built for observation, not advice. It does not diagnose conditions, recommend treatments, or claim that a protocol or intervention caused a result. Free features include: • 1 active intervention • Apple Health integration • Timeline tracking • Trends and history • Notifications • Completed intervention records AdaptForge IQ unlocks: • Unlimited active interventions • AI observational summaries • Longitudinal category reviews • PDF report exports AdaptForge is for people who want a clearer record of their protocols, health trends, and context over time. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shiver at none against AdaptForge's 2. Shiver also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 26.5). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. AdaptForge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Shiver asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Shiver | AdaptForge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (64 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Skipping Rock Solutions LLC | Tim Doyle |
In-app purchases
Shiver
No in-app purchases
AdaptForge
- AdaptForge IQ$2.991 Month
- AdaptForge IQ7 Days trial$39.991 Year








