Comparison

Dojo vs FORGE

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

Head to head
About

Dojo

This app personalizes meditation sessions based on your mood and available time, adapting to your progress and preferences. It integrates with wearables to track recovery and offers various sound frequencies for different states like sleep, focus, or unwinding. Users can also build custom sessions and share them.

Highlights
  • Personalized session generation
  • Wearable heart rate tracking
  • Customizable sound frequencies
  • Build and share custom sessions
  • Progress tracking and streaks
  • Adaptive learning based on recovery
Features
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TRAIN YOUR MIND LIKE A MARTIAL ARTIST Master the martial art of your mind. Like any martial art, it is built through practice, and the dojo is where you train. Tell Dojo how you feel and how much time you have. Sensei, your teacher in the app, puts together a session for right now: the practices, the narrator, the sounds and the length. Want it shorter or with less talking? Just say so, and the session changes right there. A TEACHER WHO ALREADY KNOWS YOU Sensei remembers your level, what you like and what helps, from your first session to your hundredth. Awake at 3 a.m., a big call in ten minutes, a slow start to the morning: each moment gets its own practice. SEE YOUR BODY SLIP INTO RECOVERY Meditate with Apple Watch, AirPods Pro 3, WHOOP or Fitbit and Dojo shows your heart rate live. After the session you see how far your body settled, measured against your own resting heart rate: Recovery, Deep recovery or Elite recovery. Sensei uses what settled you to shape your next sessions. No wearable? Dojo works fine without one. A FREQUENCY FOR EVERY SESSION Each session layers a guiding voice with music, nature sounds and a binaural beat: 2 Hz for sleep, 10 Hz to unwind, 14 Hz for focus. Best with headphones. MAKE IT YOURS, THEN SHARE IT Build your own session step by step from breathwork, body scans, mantras and quiet time, then choose the music and sounds. Send any session to someone you love with a link. SMALL SESSIONS ADD UP Progress keeps your streaks, practice minutes and heart-rate records in one place, so you can watch the habit build. FOR BEGINNERS AND EXPERIENCED PRACTITIONERS Never meditated? Start with two minutes. Years of practice? Ask for thirty minutes, mostly silence. Heart-rate information is for your own reference. It is not medical advice and does not diagnose or treat any condition. SUBSCRIPTIONS The yearly plan may begin with a 7-day free trial for eligible users. The monthly plan starts as a paid subscription. Available offers and eligibility are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.medidojo.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://www.medidojo.com/privacy-policy/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Dojo4 screens
FORGE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Dojo at freemium against FORGE's subscription. Dojo also leads on ratings volume (44 vs 1). FORGE's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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. Dojo sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and FORGE sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FORGE holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dojo has 44 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Dojo versus FORGE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDojoFORGE
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (44 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings44 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMedidojo Inc.Sentient Solutions Group LLC

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Dojo

Subscriptions7
  • Dojo Premium Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Monthly$14.991 Month
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  • Dojo Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
  • Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
1 purchases

FORGE

Subscriptions1
  • FORGE: Human 3.07 Days trial$6.991 Month

Questions

Is Dojo free?
Dojo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FORGE free?
FORGE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dojo or FORGE?
FORGE is rated higher. Dojo averages 4.6 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while FORGE averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Dojo or FORGE have ads?
Neither Dojo nor FORGE shows ads.

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