Max Effort Performance vs The Program
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Max Effort Performance
This app serves as a digital hub for a gym and training facility, offering a space for users to connect with their fitness journey. It aims to be a supportive environment for members to achieve their personal best.
- Fitness goal tracking
- Training facility hub
- Member community
- Location information
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Your gym and training facility designed to meet your goals and expectations! This is your home away from home where we all go to be the best version of ourselves. Located just out of Grand Rapids Michigan with two locations, Caledonia and Middleville.
The Program
This app provides personalized AI-driven workout and meal plans tailored to your goals, equipment, and schedule. It tracks your progress, logs your meals, and syncs with wearables for real-time data. Get instant macro and calorie calculations, and access an AI coach for adjustments.
- Personalized AI workout programs
- Adaptive nutrition and macro tracking
- Wearable device integration
- AI meal logging with barcode scanning
- Progress tracking and journaling
- Customizable meal plans
- AI coach for adjustments
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Your personalized training coach, nutritionist, and accountability partner — in one app. The Program builds a complete training and nutrition system around YOU — your goals, your equipment, your schedule, your body — and continuously adjusts as you progress. COMPLETELY FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME! Get a multi-week, fully personalized workout program in seconds. Or create your own program/workout to follow. Fully integrated into your dashboard with daily progression and easy logging. Tell us what you want and how you want to train; we handle the rest. Train at the gym, at home, or anywhere in between — programs adapt to whatever equipment you have. Log every set with weight, reps, and notes — PRs and progress tracked automatically Quick-log on busy days, full-detail on training days The Program calculates your daily calories and macros based on your goals, body, and activity — then keeps adjusting in real time. Build meal plans that actually fit your life, not generic templates. AI meal logging — type what you ate, get instant macros and micronutrients Custom meal plans that respect your food allergies and dietary preferences Smart food search and barcode scanning across thousands of items Optional adaptive caloric intake with higher calories on workout days, lower on rest days — automatically Track macros, micros, hydration, and supplements SYNC YOUR WEARABLES Connect Fitbit, Whoop, or Oura Ring to get real time caloric burn and take the guesswork out of body recomp. Real data, real results. Active calorie burn drives your daily macro recalculation — set up once and forget it. Stuck on form? Need to swap an exercise? Want to deload this week? Need a meal plan adjustment? Your Coach is one tap away — context-aware, trained on your program and your data, ready to answer and plug the edits into your dashboard. Daily Log to track progress Photos, weight, body measurements, lifting PRs, daily streaks — every win captured. Look back at any week, any workout, any meal. Progress photo timeline, daily disciplines, and habit tracking. Drill into past workouts: weeks → days → exercises → exact reps and weights. Community programs to share, discover, and remix. Build custom programs from scratch when you want full control. The Program is a system. The longer you use it, the smarter it gets — and the more progress you'll see. Download today and start your first program in minutes!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: The Program at every 5 days against Max Effort Performance's every 7 months. The Program also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Max Effort Performance against 5.0 for The Program. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 6 respectively.
Max Effort Performance ships an update every 7 months, The Program every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Max Effort Performance | The Program |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sutra Fitness, Inc. | Garrett Hubbell |
Customer experience
Max Effort Performance
The Program
In-app purchases
Max Effort Performance
No in-app purchases
The Program
No in-app purchases
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