Comparison

Impact protocol vs FORGE Elite Coaching

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

Head to head
About

Impact protocol

Receive personalized fitness and nutrition plans designed by coaches. Track your progress with guided workouts, meal logging, and real-time performance updates. Connect with your trainer via messaging and video calls for motivation and support.

Highlights
  • Personalized Training Plans
  • Nutrition, Hydration & Habits Tracking
  • Instant Messaging & Video Calling with Coach
  • Workout and Performance Logs
  • Weekly Progress Analytics
  • Wearable Integration (Apple Health)
Features
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Achieve and maintain your physical results with Dili & Gabriel on our new personal training and nutrition platform, where you can get a completely personalized plan for you individually and receive the experience of having your own personal trainer at the gym and nutritional advisor for your diet. With the Impactcouple App, you can start working on your goals right away! Fill out the questionnaire so we can design a plan that is specific to the results you want! You will be able to easily track your progress by scheduling your guided workouts, your planned meals, updating your results weekly, and your performance in real time! Everything related to your goals in one place! And if that's not all, you will be in one-on-one contact with your coach, you will be able to have access to weekly calls that will help you stay motivated! Getting results shouldn't be so hard! That's why we created this app so you can learn how to achieve and maintain your results! Start today! Features that will help you achieve your fitness goals include: - Personalized Training Plan: Get a fully customized fitness plan tailored to your goals, whether you want to gain weight, lose weight, build muscle or just want to improve your overall fitness. - Nutrition, Hydration & Habits: Access meal plans assigned by your coach and log your meals to keep close track of your calorie and macro intake. You can also track your hydration, steps and calories burned in the app. - Instant Messaging & Video Calling: Message your trainer in real-time and schedule video sessions directly from the app. Stay connected with your trainer to improve compliance and achieve better results. - Logs: Get a complete view of your overall performance with easy logs and real-time updates. - Progress: Stay on top of your progress with weekly analytics. - Wearable Integration: Get a broader view of your progress by connecting your fitness band and health kit, allowing for real-time updates. Note regarding Apple Health: The app integrates with Apple Health to show your daily activity - distance, steps, active energy, and flights to help you better achieve your goals. App also uses Apple Health to track energy burned and heart rate during a workout session, if an Apple Watch is used. Workout metrics are shared with the coach to better design your workout schedule. DISCLAIMER: Users should seek a doctor’s advice before using this app and making any medical decisions.

About

FORGE Elite Coaching

This personalized fitness platform creates custom training programs based on your goals, equipment, and schedule. It tracks your progress with detailed charts and automatic PR detection, and offers simplified nutrition guidance. Stay accountable with friends on a private leaderboard.

Highlights
  • Personalized training programs
  • Progress tracking and charts
  • Automatic PR detection
  • Daily macro tracking
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Private leaderboard
  • Structured 17-week cycles
Features
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FORGE ELITE COACHING — Real coaching. Real discipline. Real results. FORGE is a personalized fitness coaching platform built for people who train with purpose. Every program is built around you — your goals, your equipment, your schedule — and evolves week by week as you progress through a structured 17-week periodized cycle. PERSONALIZED PROGRAMMING Your training program is built specifically for your discipline — whether that's bodybuilding, powerlifting, CrossFit, functional fitness, or running — and adjusted to your equipment, injuries, and available time. No generic templates. TRACK WHAT MATTERS - Log every set, every rep, every session - Automatic PR detection so you always know when you've leveled up - Strength progression charts that show your real trajectory - Weekly check-ins that keep your coach in the loop NUTRITION, SIMPLIFIED Daily macro tracking built around your goals, with meal timing that actually fits your training schedule. APPLE WATCH INTEGRATION Sync your workouts directly from Apple Watch — calories, heart rate, and duration, pulled in automatically. STAY ACCOUNTABLE A private leaderboard with friends and training partners keeps you honest. See your progress, celebrate your streaks, and never train alone. BUILT FOR THE SERIOUS FORGE offers three tiers — Basic, Specific, and Premium — each unlocking more direct access to your coach, real-time adjustments, and deeper tracking as you need it. Discipline beats motivation. FORGE is built to prove it, week after week. Terms of Use (EULA): https://app.getfitnessforge.com/terms.html

Screenshots

Impact protocol4 screens
FORGE Elite Coaching4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Impact protocol at 28 against FORGE Elite Coaching's 1. FORGE Elite Coaching's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Impact protocol sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $149.00 per month and FORGE Elite Coaching sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $49.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FORGE Elite Coaching holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Impact protocol has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Impact protocol versus FORGE Elite Coaching: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImpact protocolFORGE Elite Coaching
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (28 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings28 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB10 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperGabriel Fernandezluis arraiz

Customer experience

Impact protocol

All ratings28 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral3.6%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FORGE Elite Coaching

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Impact protocol

Subscriptions7
  • Basic Program Women$149.001 Month
  • Basic Program Men$149.001 Month
  • Workout Program for Men$199.001 Month
Show 4 more
  • Workout Program for Women$199.001 Month
  • Personalized Women's Program$250.001 Month
  • Personalized Men's Program$300.001 Month
  • Premium 1:1 Program$500.001 Month
3 purchases

FORGE Elite Coaching

Subscriptions3
  • FORGE Basic$49.991 Month
  • FORGE Specific$99.991 Month
  • FORGE Premium$199.991 Month

Questions

Is Impact protocol free?
Impact protocol is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FORGE Elite Coaching free?
FORGE Elite Coaching is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Impact protocol or FORGE Elite Coaching?
FORGE Elite Coaching is rated higher. Impact protocol averages 4.8 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while FORGE Elite Coaching averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Impact protocol or FORGE Elite Coaching have ads?
Neither Impact protocol nor FORGE Elite Coaching shows ads.

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