Comparison

Progress vs Ollim

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

Ollim

Features
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An AI coach, not another tracker. Ollim builds your program, adapts it every week, and designs your next block from what you actually lifted — free to start. Most workout apps make you do the thinking: pick a program, guess your weights, decide when to add volume. Ollim is different. Tell it your goal, experience, schedule, and equipment, and it programs everything — exercises, sets, reps, and target weights — then re-evaluates your week every week based on what you actually did. YOUR PROGRAM, BUILT FOR YOU • Answer five questions, get a complete weekly lifting program in seconds • Targets in kg or lb, matched to your equipment — barbell, dumbbell, machines, or bodyweight • Miss a day? Your week redistributes automatically instead of falling apart TRAIN WITH ZERO FRICTION • Log every set in seconds with a keypad built for mid-workout hands • Rest timer that starts itself, and a pull-down demo video for every exercise • Works offline — your sets sync when you're back APPLE WATCH, BUILT IN • Live heart rate while you train and between-set recovery (HRR) • Log sets from your wrist without touching your phone SEE YOUR STRENGTH GROW • Estimated 1RM trends and weekly volume for every lift • Session summaries with what changed and why • Body weight trend from Apple Health, alongside your training FUEL THE TRAINING • Log a meal with one photo — Ollim estimates calories and macros in seconds • Daily calorie and protein targets from your goal, right on your Today feed • Weekly nutrition reviews, and honest body-change verdicts: how much was fat, how much was muscle ONE COACH, YOUR WHOLE DAY • Your day opens with the coach's one-line read — workout and fuel in one sentence • Momentum, not streaks: a flame that cools when you miss and burns back when you show up • On an empty evening, the coach steps in: a 15-minute express session still counts • At most one notification a day — and silence on the days you already showed up OLLIM PREMIUM • Adaptive progression — when you finish a program, Ollim designs your next block from your logs and completion feedback • Multiple programs — run a strength block and a hypertrophy block side by side, and switch anytime • Ad-free Free to use with a non-intrusive ad after your workout — never during one. Premium is a monthly or yearly subscription, cancel anytime in Settings. Ollim never uses your health data for ads. Heart rate and body metrics stay between you and your training. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Privacy policy: https://ollim.app/privacy Terms of use: https://ollim.app/terms

Screenshots

Progress4 screens
Ollim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Progress at none against Ollim's 2. Progress also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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. Ollim sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Progress asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Progress ships an update every 4 days, Ollim every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Progress versus Ollim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgressOllim
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIan FarrJeamin Shin

In-app purchases

None

Progress

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Ollim

Subscriptions2
  • Maxxd Premium$12.991 Month
  • Maxxd Premium$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Progress free?
Progress is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ollim free?
Ollim is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Progress or Ollim have ads?
Ollim shows ads; Progress does not.
Which is updated more often, Progress or Ollim?
Progress ships an update every 4 days, and Ollim every 5 days. Most recently, Progress was updated on October 7, 2026 and Ollim on October 5, 2026.

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