Barley vs Speed & Form
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Barley
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Barley is no-frills workout tracking app for serious lifters. **Features** - Exercise library - Create custom exercises - Barbell plate convenience calculator - 4 different 1 rep max calculators to choose from - Personal Record (PR) tracking for weight, reps, and volume - RPE tracking - Timed exercises - Workout statistics - Workout history - Customer rest timers (including the ability to have RPE-specific rest timers)
Speed & Form
This app provides structured training programs for both strength and running. It focuses on efficient exercise flow and clear daily execution without distractions. Designed for focused workouts.
- Structured strength sessions
- Pre-structured running workouts
- Frictionless exercise flow
- Workout logging
- Focused daily execution
- No social feeds or noise
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FORM is a coach's training system. Every week is authored: easy, threshold, speed, long run, placed in the order that builds you. You open the app, see the work, do it, and file it. That's the job. No feed. No badges. No notifications trying to pull you back in. The programming does the thinking so you can do the running. Trust the process. Stay organized. Get out of the way of the work. FORM runs the same programming Brice writes for the athletes he coaches at Speed and Form in Miami. FORM is for athletes coached by Speed and Form and runners on a FORM plan. Plans and coaching at speedandform.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Speed & Form at every 4 days against Barley's fortnightly. Speed & Form also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 Barley against 5.0 for Speed & Form. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speed & Form has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Barley ships an update fortnightly, Speed & Form every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Barley | Speed & Form |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | No Translation Layer LLC | Brice Ikouebe |
Customer experience
Barley
Speed & Form
In-app purchases
Barley
No in-app purchases
Speed & Form
No in-app purchases
