Comparison

Progress vs Pumpr

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

Head to head
About

Progress

This app automates workout progression and provides AI-driven training and nutrition plans. It offers detailed exercise tracking, personalized program generation, and progress visualization. Seamlessly syncs with Apple Watch and Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Automated progressive overload
  • AI program and workout builder
  • Personalized AI nutrition plans
  • Detailed workout logging
  • Strength progress charts
  • AI coach for advice
  • Apple Watch integration
Features
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Progress your way. Progress tracks your workouts, automates your progression, and takes the guesswork out of your training — so you can focus on lifting. WORKOUT TRACKING Log every set, rep, and weight with a clean, distraction-free interface. Built-in rest timers keep you on pace. Exercise notes keep your cues close. ADVANCED TRAINING Automatic progressive overload — set a weight increment per exercise and the app adds it after every successful session. No spreadsheets. No manual tracking. Pyramid sets — assign each set its own weight and rep target. The app sequences through automatically and the plate calculator updates for each set. Supersets — group exercises back-to-back with a live display of what's next so you never lose your place. Plate calculator — built into every exercise. Shows exactly which plates to load, updated for every set. Full exercise customisation — control weight type, sets, reps, rest time, and progression settings per exercise. AI PROGRAM BUILDER Answer a few questions about your goals, experience, available equipment, and any injuries or constraints. The AI builds a complete multi-week training program tailored to you. Not a template. Ask the AI to adjust it if anything isn't right. AI WORKOUT BUILDER Need a single session? Generate a workout built around your goals and equipment in minutes. AI NUTRITION PLANS Tell the AI your goals and dietary preferences — it generates a personalised nutrition plan with calorie targets, macros, and meal guidance. Export it as a PDF to keep on hand. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Every lift you log builds your history. Per-exercise charts show your strength trends over time — weight moved, estimated 1RMs, and personal records in one view. AI COACH Ask the built-in AI coach anything — form tips, program adjustments, recovery advice. It knows your history and gives answers based on your actual data, not generic advice. APPLE WATCH Leave your phone in your bag. Track full workouts from your wrist with heart rate monitoring and a live rest timer. LIVE ACTIVITY & DYNAMIC ISLAND Your rest timer lives in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen — always know when it's time for the next set. iCLOUD SYNC Your workouts, programs, and history sync automatically across your iPhone and Apple Watch. APPLE HEALTH Progress writes your completed workouts to Apple Health, keeping all your fitness data in one place. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from four themes — Forest, Ocean, Bloom, and High Contrast — and set your preferred weight units. Download Progress and start training your way.

About

Pumpr

This AI-powered fitness app acts as your personal gym coach, creating custom workouts based on your lifting history and performance. Log sets and exercises hands-free via voice commands and track your progress with automatic PR detection and strength trend analysis.

Highlights
  • AI-generated workout plans
  • Voice-controlled logging
  • Automatic PR detection
  • Progress tracking and trends
  • Apple Watch companion app
  • Workout customization
  • Training buddy features
Features
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Ask "what should I do today?" Pumpr is the AI coach that knows every set you have logged, picks your weights from your real numbers, and builds the session. Not a generic chatbot bolted onto a tracker. Pumpr's coach reasons over YOUR training history — every lift, every PR — while a precise strength engine owns the numbers. So the advice is computed from what you actually lift, never made up. YOUR AI COACH - Ask it anything: "What should I do today?" "How's my bench going?" "Why am I stalling?" It answers from your real history, not generic advice. - It picks your weights from your real numbers — progressive targets based on your estimated 1-rep-max, so it never tells you to step backward. - In-workout help that acts: ask between sets and tap "+ Add" to drop the coach's pick straight into your session, weight and reps pre-filled. - It builds AND starts your workout: chat to shape it ("make it a shoulder day", "swap bench for incline"), then start with one tap. - One continuous coach that remembers your conversation, your goal, and your experience level. LOG BY VOICE, HANDS-FREE - Just say "135 for 8" — logged. Mid-set, mid-rest, no tapping. - An on-device parser handles most commands instantly; AI covers the rest. - Weight + reps, reps-only, warmups, supersets, corrections, RPE — all by voice. APPLE WATCH COMPANION - Start, log, and rest-time from your wrist. Your phone stays in your pocket. - Sets sync automatically between watch and phone, hands-free mid-workout. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS - Every PR detected automatically, per exercise and per variation. - Strength trends, volume, and muscle balance — read at a glance. - Streaks and milestones to keep you coming back. TRAIN WITH FRIENDS - Add training buddies, share workouts, and nudge each other. - Share links are private by default — nothing public unless you choose it. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT - Your data is yours. We never sell it and never use it to train AI models. - AI features are opt-in: a one-time consent screen explains exactly what's sent (workout content only — exercise names, weights, reps, voice transcripts) and what's never sent (your name, email, or account IDs). Decline and the app works fully in local mode. - Delete your account and all your data anytime, right from Settings. Free. No ads. No data selling. Built by lifters, for lifters.

Screenshots

Progress4 screens
Pumpr4 screens

Verdict

The call

Progress and Pumpr are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Progress against 5.0 for Pumpr. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Progress versus Pumpr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgressPumpr
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIan FarrPumpr Labs LLC

Customer experience

Progress

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pumpr

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Progress

No in-app purchases

None

Pumpr

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Progress free?
Progress is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pumpr free?
Pumpr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Progress or Pumpr?
Progress and Pumpr are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Progress or Pumpr have ads?
Neither Progress nor Pumpr shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Progress or Pumpr?
Progress ships an update every 4 days, and Pumpr every 4 days. Most recently, Progress was updated on October 7, 2026 and Pumpr on October 7, 2026.

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