Virya Coach vs Kaptain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Virya Coach
This intelligent nutrition app acts as your personal coach, adapting to your daily activity and goals for weight loss, muscle gain, or healthier eating. It analyzes meals, tracks calories and macros, and provides personalized recommendations and recipes, simplifying your journey to better nutrition.
- AI meal analysis
- Smart calorie and macro tracker
- Personalized nutrition coaching
- Custom recipe generation
- Barcode scanner
- Apple Health integration
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Virya – Smart nutrition app, always available In short, your nutrition coach in your pocket. Virya is a nutrition app and intelligent food coach that adapts to your day, your activity, and your goals. Whether your goal is weight loss, muscle gain, sports nutrition, fitness, or healthier eating, Virya guides you at every meal, before and after you eat. More than just a calorie counter, Virya is a nutrition assistant that helps you make better decisions, not just track numbers. Virya understands your habits, automatically analyzes your meals, and tracks calories and macros (protein, carbs, fat) effortlessly. It adjusts its recommendations based on your activity, your training, and your daily routine. Most diets fail because they are too restrictive. Virya offers a flexible, personalized nutrition plan designed for real life. Virya is your coach that helps guide your food choices. When food is already on your plate, it is often too late. Your coach helps you choose beforehand. At a restaurant? - Take a photo of the menu. Virya analyzes the dishes and recommends the best option based on your goal, your diet, and your remaining macros for the day. At home? - Take a photo of your fridge. Virya creates a personalized recipe based on your remaining calories and your nutrition plan. No complex calculations. No strict diets. Just smarter choices. Need a snack? – Barcode scan Virya includes: - Real-time personalized nutrition coaching - Smart calorie counter and macro tracker - AI meal analysis - Meal planning - Unlimited personalized recipes - Complete nutrition tracking - Fitness and sports nutrition support - Apple Health integration - Weight tracking - Barcode scanner for fast food tracking and nutrition analysis Ideal for: - Weight loss apps - Fitness apps - Personalized sports nutrition - Diet tracking - Personalized meal planning Virya simplifies nutrition to help you reach your goals sustainably. Less calculations. Less frustration. More results. --- Terms and Conditions: https://www.virya.coach/terms-en.html Privacy Policy: https://virya.coach/privacy-en.html
Kaptain
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Kaptain organizes your training around your real life: your workouts automatically find their place in your calendar, without ever clashing with an appointment. Tell Kaptain your sports, how many workouts you want each week and your daily schedule, and it builds your week: each workout lands in your free time, around your work, your rest days and your sleep. WHAT KAPTAIN DOES • Schedules your workouts automatically, around your real calendar • Brings your day together on one screen: workouts, appointments, work, sleep • Spots workouts that clash with an appointment and replans your week in one tap • Recognizes the workouts recorded in Apple Health and checks off your sessions for you • Breaks down every workout: heart rate, zones, power, cadence, route and weather • Shows the weather for your outdoor workouts • Reminds you of your workouts at the right time and sends a recap every morning • Apple Watch: your day on your wrist, complete or shift a workout, and your next workout as a complication • "Next workout" Home Screen widget KAPTAIN PRO • Koach, your AI coach — tell it "move my workout to tomorrow" or "I'm wiped out this week": it knows your calendar, your sleep and how you're feeling today, and reorganizes your workouts. You always have the final say. • Alternate app icons Subscription • 7-day free trial, then a yearly or monthly subscription The free trial is offered once, on the annual plan, to eligible accounts. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage it in your App Store account settings. Koach — credits The Pro subscription includes a set number of Koach messages per day. Beyond that, additional credits (in-app purchase, 1 credit = 1 message) let you keep the conversation going. Kaptain uses your location only to show the weather for your workouts. Your Apple Health data is used only to organize your workouts, never for advertising. If you use Koach, part of your context (calendar, workouts, sleep, resting heart rate, weather) is sent to our AI provider, with your consent and only to generate its reply. Terms of Use (EULA): use of Kaptain is governed by Apple's standard End User License Agreement, available at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Kaptain at every 4 days against Virya Coach's every 3 months. Virya Coach's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Virya Coach sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Kaptain sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Virya Coach ships an update every 3 months, Kaptain every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Virya Coach | Kaptain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VIRYA | Frederic Dinand |
In-app purchases
Virya Coach
- Virya Premium - Monthly14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Virya Premium - Monthly Discount1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- Virya Premium - Yearly14 Days trial$49.991 Year
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- Virya Premium - Yearly Discount1 Year trial$49.991 Year
- Virya Premium - Lifetime Discount$49.99
- Virya Premium - Lifetime$99.99
Kaptain
- Kaptain Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Kaptain Pro Yearly$34.991 Year
- 100 crédits Coach$2.99
- 500 crédits Coach$8.99
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