GymForge vs Stackd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GymForge
This app helps serious lifters track workouts with a clean, native interface. It offers personalized insights, custom routine building, and smart progression guidance. Focus on your training and gains without complex features.
- Personalized progress insights
- Customizable workout routines
- Smart progression guidance
- Pause and resume workouts
- Integrated form instruction
- Rest timer between sets
- Apple Health integration
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GymForge: Serious Lifting - Zero Distractions - Proper Form Mastery Stop wrestling with complicated workout apps. GymForge offers dedicated lifters an incredibly simple yet powerful way to build, track, and master workouts with integrated form instruction and personalized insights. Designed to feel like a true extension of your iPhone, its clean, native interface lets you focus purely on your training and gains – not on figuring out the app. Key Features: - TRACK PROGRESS WITH PERSONALIZED INSIGHTS: Your Dashboard provides Quick Start access to recent workouts and insights. View training consistency on a calendar heatmap, track volume moved, monitor training time, and visualize personal records over time – all with customizable time periods from weekly to yearly views. - 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); and configure optional RPE targets – 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. - PAUSE & RESUME ANYTIME: Life happens. Pause your workout mid-session and pick up exactly where you left off – your paused workout appears right on your dashboard for instant resumption. - DEFINE EXERCISES YOUR WAY: Tailor exercise names, descriptions, body part tags, and link YouTube videos (with custom timestamps) for technique reference. Track history and personal records for every exercise. - EXERCISE VARIANTS: Add alternatives to any exercise, even mid-workout, and swap on the fly. Picker hides duplicates and remembers your last pick. - REST TIMER BETWEEN SETS: Stay on pace with a floating rest timer that starts after each set. Watch a color-coded countdown so you know exactly when to lift again. Set a global default or customize per exercise. - APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION: Every workout automatically saves to Apple Health with duration and calories burned. Your training data flows seamlessly into your overall health picture. - CELEBRATE PERSONAL RECORDS: Automatically detects new personal bests for weight and volume. Finish your workout and instantly see which PRs you crushed, with previous bests for comparison. - TRACK WORKOUTS WITH ZERO FRICTION: Log weights, sets, reps, and RPE effortlessly with a built-in workout timer and rest countdown. Access form videos mid-workout when you need them most. - FIND EXERCISES INSTANTLY: Smart search by name or body part gets you to the exercise you need, fast. - REVIEW & REFINE YOUR JOURNEY: Easily monitor progress by looking back at past workout sessions. Edit completed workouts to correct any mistakes with full data integrity. - EXPORT YOUR DATA: Export completed workouts to CSV for detailed analysis in any spreadsheet app. Choose a date range or export everything at once. Whether you're focused on progressive overload, RPE-based training, AMRAP sets, or perfecting your technique, GymForge adapts to your method. Built to feel natural on your iPhone, it's your dedicated partner for measurable results. Free Features Include: Complete workout tracking, automatic personal record detection, Apple Health integration, exercise video integration with trim controls, consistency heatmap, pause/resume workouts, up to 3 workout plans, iCloud sync, 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, Rest Timer (global default and per-exercise override), Exercise Variants, CSV workout export, Volume, Training Time & Personal Records charts, and Family Sharing support. GymForge uses the standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Stackd
This app allows you to import AI-generated workout and meal plans directly into a tracking interface. Log your sessions, monitor progress with strength charts, and track nutrition macros all in one place without manual template entry.
- Import AI workouts via JSON
- Log sets, reps, and weight
- Automatic weight recommendations
- Estimated 1-rep max charts
- Full session history
- Nutrition and macro tracking
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Training phases change. Work gets busy. Goals shift. Most fitness apps lock you into their programs. Stackd works with whatever plan you built this week — because your AI agent writes it, and Stackd just keeps score. IMPORT AI WORKOUTS IN SECONDS Design your program in any AI agent. Copy the JSON. Paste it into Stackd. Your full workout plan appears instantly — exercises, sets, rep targets, everything. No manual entry. No templates. No friction. TRACK EVERY SESSION Log sets, reps, and weight as you train. Stackd auto-fills your last session's weight so you always have a starting point. Hit your rep targets and the weight recommendation updates automatically — progressive overload built in. SEE YOUR STRENGTH GROW Estimated 1-rep max charts for every exercise. Watch your squat, bench, and deadlift climb week over week. Full session history so you never lose a workout. NUTRITION TRACKING INCLUDED Log meals and hit your macro targets without switching apps. Build daily meal plans, track protein, carbs, and fat. Everything in one place. BUILT FOR LIFTERS WHO PLAN WITH AI Most fitness apps want to sell you their programs. Stackd assumes you already know how to use AI Agents to build a better one. We just give those programs a home. No ads. No upsells inside the app. Cancel anytime.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stackd at none against GymForge's 2. Stackd also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. GymForge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Stackd asks for nothing beyond the download.
GymForge ships an update weekly, Stackd daily. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and July 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GymForge | Stackd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sascha Derungs | Jovan Petrovic |
Customer experience
GymForge
Stackd
In-app purchases
GymForge
- GymForge Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- GymForge Pro Yearly14 Days trial$24.991 Year
Stackd
No in-app purchases





