Comparison

MacroFactor Workouts vs Riven

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

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About

MacroFactor Workouts

This app offers science-based, personalized workout routines and an intuitive tracker for strength training. It automatically adjusts your plan based on progress and allows for custom routines, home gym setups, and detailed progress monitoring.

Highlights
  • Personalized workout routines
  • Intuitive workout tracker
  • Automatic progression adjustments
  • Home gym equipment customization
  • Progress charts and data insights
  • Exercise technique videos
  • Plate and PR calculators
Features
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MacroFactor Workouts combines innovative coaching algorithms with science-based workout routines customized to your goals, fitness level, and gym equipment. Effortlessly track your strength training routines with an intuitive workout planner, and easily monitor your PRs and progress with charts and data insights. MacroFactor Workouts uses progressive overload to automatically adjust your strength training workouts based on your progress, helping you break through plateaus and reach your fitness goals. No gym? No problem. Create routines based on the equipment you have available in your home gym. Download to start your 7-day trial of this premium, ad-free workout tracker app. WORKOUT TRACKER & PLANNER FEATURES - Effortlessly track your workouts with an intuitive interface - Hundreds of strength training exercises with helpful tips and cues, and technique videos by Jeff Nippard - Customizable rest timers - Plate calculator based on available plates and bars - Tracker for supersets, partial reps, and myoreps - RIR tracker - Smart warm-up planner - Track different weights and reps on your right and left sides - Easily swap exercises with smart suggestions - Create new exercises - Notes sections for exercise and workout details - Create gym profiles for each of the places you workout CUSTOMIZED WORKOUT PLANS - Get a personalized workout routine based on your goals, fitness level, the gym equipment you have access to, and more - Built by fitness experts and based on science - Easily import and track popular Jeff Nippard routines - Customize your workouts with smart exercise swaps, custom exercises, and more - Prefer to create your own workouts? Use the workout planner for manual tracking, building, and saving custom routines and workouts SMART AUTO-PROGRESSION FOR STRENGTH TRAINING - Your plan automatically adjusts day-to-day based on your progress - Simply track your strength workouts, and the app will tell you what to do to keep making progress – just like a coach would - Reach your fitness goals efficiently – no wasted time, no guesswork, no pseudoscience REACH YOUR FITNESS GOALS - See your progress over time with beautiful and functional charts, visuals, and graphs - Easily access your workout history - PR tracker - Volume tracker - Progress photos and body metrics tracker - Design your dashboard to feature the insights you value most SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS MacroFactor Workouts is a premium strength training and planner app that offers three auto-renewing subscription options: $11.99 / month $47.99 / half year $71.99 / year (equal to $5.99 a month) MacroFactor Workouts has a free trial, but does not offer a free subscription tier. These prices are for US customers. Pricing in other countries may vary. Payment will be charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription to MacroFactor Workouts will automatically renew, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can cancel or manage your subscription from your Apple account settings. Terms & Conditions: https://terms.macrofactorapp.com/ Privacy Policy: https://privacy.macrofactorapp.com/

About

Riven

This app automatically detects and counts your exercise repetitions and measures how close you are to muscle failure during each set. It provides instant feedback with a score and color-coded tiers, helping you optimize your training for muscle growth. Requires an Apple Watch and iPhone.

Highlights
  • Auto-counts reps without manual input
  • Auto-detects over 30 exercises
  • Scores sets for muscle failure proximity (0-100)
  • Color-coded feedback tiers
  • Weekly per-muscle failure summary
  • Automatic workout logging to Apple Health
Features
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Your dream physique is built on muscle failure, and you won't get it without us. You don't know what muscle failure is, or how it feels. Let us take you through it. Riven turns your Apple Watch into an automatic rep counter. It starts your sets, counts your reps, names the exercise and measures how close each set came to muscle failure. No buttons, no phone, no logging between sets. FULLY AUTOMATIC ◆ Starts sets: Riven sees when a set starts and when it ends. Nothing to start or stop. ◆ Counts reps: every rep is counted from your wrist as you do it. ◆ Names exercises: 60+ common lifts recognized on their own, including bench press, squat, curls, rows, pulldowns and lateral raises. ◆ Measures muscle failure: the moment you rack the weight, your set gets a score from 0 to 100 for how close you came to muscle failure. ◆ Scores every muscle: see which muscle groups reached muscle failure in each workout. ◆ Syncs with Apple Health: sets, reps, exercises and scores are saved on their own. WHAT IS MUSCLE FAILURE? It's the rep you can't finish. Muscle grows when you train close to it, but most lifters stop a few reps short and never know it. Riven tells you after every set, in colors you can read at a glance: Red: stopped short Orange: working Yellow: near muscle failure Green: muscle failure HOW IT MEASURES MUSCLE FAILURE Your Apple Watch reads your wrist's motion 100 times a second. As a muscle tires, your reps slow down. Riven measures that slowdown, called velocity loss, which is the best-studied sign of fatigue in strength training. Heart rate is saved to your log, but it isn't part of the score. NOTHING EXTRA No camera, no barbell clip, no chest strap. Works with barbells, dumbbells, cables and machines, using the watch you already wear. REQUIREMENTS Apple Watch Series 6 or later (watchOS 10+), paired with an iPhone on iOS 17 or later. Detection, counting and scoring run on the watch. The iPhone app handles setup, history and plans. PRIVACY Motion is processed on your devices. No ads. No third-party trackers. Full policy at riven.fit/privacy. PLANS ◆ Free: 1 workout per week, forever. ◆ Unlimited: no weekly limit, monthly or yearly. Prices are shown in the app for your region. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm your purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy: riven.fit/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms: riven.fit/terms

Screenshots

MacroFactor Workouts4 screens
Riven4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Riven at freemium against MacroFactor Workouts's subscription. Riven also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%). MacroFactor Workouts's advantage is ratings volume (4.8K vs 2) and chart position (#114 vs unranked). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. MacroFactor Workouts sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month and Riven sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Riven holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MacroFactor Workouts has 4.8K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of MacroFactor Workouts's written reviews are positive against 100% of Riven's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
MacroFactor Workouts versus Riven: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMacroFactor WorkoutsRiven
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4.8K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.8K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
Best chart rank#114 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size299 MB34 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperStronger By Science Technologies LLCBara Bilal

Customer experience

MacroFactor Workouts

All ratings4,631 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral2.0%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews352 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral9.9%
Negative15.9%

Riven

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

MacroFactor Workouts

Subscriptions7
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Semiannual Subscription7 Days trial$47.996 Months
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  • Semiannual Subscription14 Days trial$47.996 Months
  • Annual Subscription14 Days trial$71.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$71.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription Bundle2 variants$89.991 Year
4 purchases

Riven

Subscriptions4
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Unlimited Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Unlimited Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is MacroFactor Workouts free?
MacroFactor Workouts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Riven free?
Riven is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MacroFactor Workouts or Riven?
Riven is rated higher. MacroFactor Workouts averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4.8K ratings, while Riven averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do MacroFactor Workouts or Riven have ads?
Neither MacroFactor Workouts nor Riven shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MacroFactor Workouts or Riven?
MacroFactor Workouts ships an update every 10 days, and Riven every 10 days. Most recently, MacroFactor Workouts was updated on October 28, 2026 and Riven on October 28, 2026.

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