GymForge vs CoDolife
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
GymForge
This app helps dedicated lifters build, track, and master workouts with a clean interface. It offers personalized insights, smart progression guidance, and the ability to define exercises and routines your way. Integrates with Apple Health and allows data export.
- Personalized progress tracking and insights
- Customizable workout routine builder
- Smart progression guidance for weight increases
- Voice-activated workout start with Siri
- Pause and resume workouts anytime
- Define exercises with custom details and videos
- Muscle map visualization
- Timed holds for exercises
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GymForge: Serious Lifting - Zero Distractions - Proper Form Mastery Stop wrestling with complicated workout apps. GymForge gives dedicated lifters a simple yet powerful way to build, track, and master workouts โ with a clean, native interface on iPhone and iPad that keeps your focus on training. Key Features: - TRACK PROGRESS WITH PERSONALIZED INSIGHTS: Your Dashboard provides Quick Start access to recent workouts and insights. View consistency on a calendar heatmap, track volume, training time, and personal records over time โ weekly to yearly. - CREATE YOUR PERFECT PLAN: Intuitively build truly custom routines. Add, remove, and sort exercises; set target sets with flexible rep modes (fixed reps, rep ranges, or AMRAP) or a hold time; and configure optional RPE targets as a single value, a range, or per set โ your way, with fewer taps. - SMART PROGRESSION GUIDANCE: NextLoad indicators analyze your performance and suggest whether to increase, maintain, or decrease weight for your next session. Combined with automatic weight increments, progressive overload has never been easier. - START WITH SIRI: Say "Start Push Day in GymForge" to jump straight into your workout โ or use Spotlight, Shortcuts or the Action Button. - PAUSE & RESUME ANYTIME: Life happens. Pause mid-session and pick up exactly where you left off, right from your dashboard. - DEFINE EXERCISES YOUR WAY: Tailor exercise names, descriptions, and muscles, and link YouTube videos (with custom timestamps) for technique reference. Track history and personal records for every exercise. - MUSCLE MAP: See exactly what every exercise trains. Tag primary and secondary muscles โ or accept a smart suggestion โ and view them on a front and back body map, male or female. Muscles Trained shades it by sets per muscle, so you spot what you've skipped. - TIMED HOLDS: Measure Plank, Dead Hang or any exercise by time. Plan a fixed time, a range, or max hold; the Set Timer counts, even on your Lock Screen. Beat your Longest Hold. - EXERCISE VARIANTS: Add alternatives to any exercise, even mid-workout, and swap on the fly. The picker remembers your last pick. - REST TIMER BETWEEN SETS: Stay on pace with a floating rest timer that starts after each set. Use a fixed rest time or a range โ the color-coded bar shows when you're ready to lift and when you've rested too long. Set a global default or customize per exercise. - APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION: Every workout automatically saves to Apple Health with duration and calories burned. - CELEBRATE PERSONAL RECORDS: Automatically detects new bests for weight, volume, and longest hold. Finish and see which PRs you crushed, next to your previous bests. - TRACK WORKOUTS WITH ZERO FRICTION: Log weights, reps, hold times, and RPE in a few taps, with form videos at hand mid-workout. - REVIEW & REFINE YOUR JOURNEY: Look back at past sessions and fix mistakes in them. - EXPORT YOUR DATA: Export completed workouts to CSV for analysis in any spreadsheet app. Choose a date range or export everything at once. Whether you train with progressive overload, RPE, AMRAP, timed holds, or a focus on technique, GymForge adapts. Free Features Include: Complete workout tracking, timed holds with Set Timer, automatic PR detection, Apple Health integration, exercise videos with trim controls, muscle map, Siri & Shortcuts, consistency heatmap, pause/resume workouts, up to 3 workout plans, iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad, and more. GymForge Pro Unlocks: Unlimited workout plans, Visual Plate Calculator (with 5 barbell types and color-coded plates), automatic weight increments (global and per-exercise), RPE targeting (incl. per-set targets), Rest Timer with rest ranges (global and per-exercise), Exercise Variants, CSV workout export, Volume, Training Time, Personal Records & Muscles Trained insights, and Family Sharing support. GymForge uses the standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
CoDolife
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Welcome to the CoDolife members app! Download our app to plan and book your fitness classes. At the click of a button, you can view class schedules, sign up for classes and even invite a friend to join you! With the app, youโll keep in touch with CoDolife staff and coaches, receive notifications, news and reminders.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CoDolife at none against GymForge's 2. CoDolife also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). GymForge's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. GymForge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. CoDolife asks for nothing beyond the download.
GymForge ships an update weekly, CoDolife every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GymForge | CoDolife |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Weekly โ better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Monetization | Freemium | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sascha Derungs | Arbox LTD |
In-app purchases
GymForge
- GymForge Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- GymForge Pro Yearly14 Days trial$24.991 Year
CoDolife
No in-app purchases









