Trained by Em vs TroponinIq
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trained by Em
Access personalized workout programs and track your fitness journey. Monitor nutrition, habits, and progress with real-time coaching and community support. Achieve your health goals with guided exercises and milestone rewards.
- Personalized workout programs
- Workout and exercise video tracking
- Nutrition and habit tracking
- Progress and results monitoring
- Real-time coach messaging
- Digital community support
- Wearable device integration
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With the Trained by Em App, you will have access to workout programs designed specifically to help you reach your fitness and health goals! You can follow & track your workouts, your nutrition, lifestyle habits, progress and results–all with the help of coach Em! FEATURES: - Access training plans and track workouts - Follow along to exercise and workout videos - Track your meals and make better food choices - Stay on top of your daily habits - Set health and fitness goals and track progress towards your goals - Gain milestone badges for achieving new personal bests and maintaining habit streaks - Message your coach in real-time - Be part of digital communities to meet people with similar health goals and stay motivated - Track body measurements and take progress photos - Get push notification reminders for scheduled workouts and activities - Connect your Apple Watch to track workouts, steps, habits, and more right from your wrist - Connect to other wearable devices and apps like the Apple Health App, Garmin, Fitbit, MyFitnessPal within your devices to track workouts, sleep, nutrition, and body stats and composition Download the app today!
TroponinIq
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Most fitness apps hand you a calculator and walk away. TroponinIQ coaches. It's built on 25 years of real coaching — the same answers I give the athletes I work with, now in an app you can open at 2am when the question actually hits. Ask it anything. What to eat today. Why the scale stalled. How to bring up a body part that won't grow. How to peak for a show. It answers at full depth, in plain language, and it explains the why. Not a hedge. Not a "go ask someone else." An actual answer. THE COACH THAT REMEMBERS YOU Tell it where you weighed in and keep training. It watches your trend over time — the signal, not the daily water-weight noise — and it brings it up on its own. "You were stuck at 212. You're 209 now. Hold the line one more week." The more you use it, the better it knows you. IT ANSWERS LIKE ME Grounded in 240+ examples from a quarter-century of coaching, so it sounds like a coach who's been paying attention. Direct. Mechanism first. No fluff. IT'S ALREADY LOADED Your subscription isn't just the chat. Inside, free with your membership: • The Ultimate Offseason Mass Protocol — a full 14-lecture video course • Power Bodybuilding training programs — written, ready to run • More dropping all the time WHO IT'S FOR Serious lifters. Competitors. Anyone done with generic advice who wants the real answer and the reason behind it. Download it. Tell it your latest weigh-in. See what it says. Membership unlocks full coaching, the course library, and the training programs. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled; manage in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://www.troponiniq.com/terms Privacy: https://www.troponiniq.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trained by Em at none against TroponinIq's 8. TroponinIq's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). 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. TroponinIq sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per 7 days. Trained by Em asks for nothing beyond the download.
Trained by Em ships an update every 2 months, TroponinIq every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trained by Em | TroponinIq |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 202 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Emily Hammond Fitness Inc. | JJH Enterprises LLC |
In-app purchases
Trained by Em
No in-app purchases
TroponinIq
- TroponinIQ Weekly$10.997 Days
- SuperTrop Weekly$12.997 Days
- SuperVault Base$12.991 Month
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- SuperVault Mid$25.991 Month
- TroponinIQ Monthly$38.991 Month
- SuperTrop Monthly$64.991 Month
- SuperVault Premium$64.991 Month
- HyperTrop Monthly$259.991 Month
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