Comparison

Forge vs SETS

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

Head to head
About

Forge

This app offers structured self-improvement through guided practices inspired by Benjamin Franklin's methods. It provides multi-week guides focused on essential skills, decision-making, boundary setting, and more, helping users track their growth over time.

Highlights
  • Structured multi-week self-improvement guides
  • Virtue cultivation based on Benjamin Franklin's method
  • Track progress and celebrate growth
  • Guides for essential skills, decision-making, and boundaries
  • Local data storage for privacy
  • Optional biometric authentication
Features
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Continuous self-improvement through structured practice. The method of Forge Guides comes from Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, inventor, writer, and statesman who spent years faithfully working on his own character. He identified virtues he wanted to cultivate and worked through them in rotation, focusing on one at a time, week by week, and marking his failures rather than just his successes. Forge Guides is built around that same idea, updated for modern life and expanded into six structured multi-week guides you can work through at your own pace: - Essential Skills: Core foundations for personal growth, self-management, and meaningful relationships - Decision-Making Lens: A systematic way to work through a difficult decision - Boundary Setting: Learning to protect your time and energy with clarity and confidence - Recovery Fundamentals: Rebuilding your foundation step by step after setbacks, burnout, or difficult periods - Franklin's Original: Benjamin Franklin's personal 13 virtues in original 18th-century language - Practical Life Skills: Habits that build self-esteem and a more purposeful life CELEBRATE YOUR GROWTH OVER TIME Celebrate over time marking less and less while you progress in virtue, skill, and self-mastery. "I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it." — Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography ** SECURITY & PRIVACY ** - Your data is stored locally and stays on your device. - Biometric authentication can be enabled to protect access to your app. ** SUBSCRIPTION & DONATION ** Subscribe to access Widget Studio or to support the app. Most features of the app are free, no subscription required. Widget Studio ~ Design your own personalized widget and track the virtue or skill of the week on your home screen. - Color palettes in light and dark mode - Selection of fonts, including modern, retro, handwritten, chalkboard, casual and formal styles - In-app live previews - Change your widget designs anytime Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage plans and turn off auto-renewal in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Privacy: https://startinjune-apps.github.io/forge-guides/privacy/ Terms: https://startinjune-apps.github.io/forge-guides/terms/

About

SETS

Features
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SETS is a smart workout tracker that handles the thinking, so you can focus on lifting. Open the app, tap start. Your next workout is already queued. Weight and reps are prefilled from your last session. Log a set, lock your phone — the rest timer runs on your lock screen. Everything you need to train seriously — Quickstart: the app remembers where you left off and queues your next workout automatically — Smart prefills: last session's weight and reps, ready to confirm or adjust — Lock-screen rest timer — no unlocking to check — Interchangeable lifts: swap exercises on the fly without breaking your flow — Progress charts with estimated 1-rep max tracked over time — Workout variants: heavy/light days, A/B splits — set once, alternates automatically — Body weight tracking with optional weekly reminders Powerful enough for any program. Smart enough to stay out of your way.

Screenshots

Forge4 screens
SETS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SETS at none against Forge's 2. Forge's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Forge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. SETS asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Forge ships an update weekly, SETS every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Forge versus SETS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForgeSETS
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStart in June LLCJONATHAN MARIA LEBER

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Forge

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Plan$39.991 Year
None

SETS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Forge free?
Forge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SETS free?
SETS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Forge or SETS have ads?
Neither Forge nor SETS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Forge or SETS?
Forge ships an update weekly, and SETS every 2 weeks. Most recently, Forge was updated on September 12, 2026 and SETS on September 23, 2026.

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