Comparison

Forge Trainer vs Forge Strength Trainer

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

Head to head
About

Forge Trainer

This app creates personalized strength training and workout plans tailored to your goals, schedule, equipment, and physical limitations. It offers proactive coaching and accountability, adapting as you progress, for a fraction of the cost of a personal trainer.

Highlights
  • Customized workout plans
  • AI-powered progression tracking
  • Adaptable to injuries and limitations
  • Proactive coaching and accountability
  • Choice of coaching styles
  • Time-efficient workouts
Features
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Build muscle and get stronger with a customized workout plan. Forge is a personal trainer that builds every strength training session around you: your fitness goals, your schedule, your experience, your equipment, your injuries. Home workouts or gym days, the plan fits the equipment in front of you and adapts every week as you progress. Ask your coach anything, any time. Form checks mid-set. The 7am question about training on five hours of sleep. Answers come back in seconds, from a coach that remembers everything you tell it. Other apps ignore questions or email back a day later. A human trainer charges $75-150 an hour. A year of Forge costs less than that. Every rep gets logged, every PR recorded. Whether you train to build muscle or lose weight, watch your progress climb with strength trends for every lift and a body weight chart, all on a dashboard you can customize. Every exercise comes with step-by-step instructions and a visual demo. Download Forge today and start your free 7-day trial. FORGE FEATURES Personalized Workout Plans ◆ Custom workout plan built from your goals, schedule, equipment, and injuries ◆ Sessions sized to the time you have, even 20 minutes ◆ Separate home and gym profiles, with targets set to the weights you actually have access to ◆ Programs around injuries and remembers them for good A Coach You Can Talk To ◆ Answers questions in seconds, mid-set if that's when you ask ◆ Remembers everything you tell it, from bad sleep to old injuries ◆ Checks in when you skip a few workouts ◆ Choose your coach's personality: drill sergeant, patient encourager, gym buddy, technique nerd Built for the Gym Floor ◆ Gym missing a machine? Mark it and your coach swaps in a lift you can do there ◆ Rest timer on your lock screen and a plate loader that shows what goes on each side of the bar Exercise Library ◆ Step-by-step exercise instructions with visual demos for every movement ◆ New lifts feel safe from the first rep Progress Tracking ◆ Every rep logged, with your best lifts on one PR board ◆ Watch any lift climb over time, or track your squat, bench, and deadlift as one total ◆ Log weigh-ins and watch your body weight trend ◆ Customize your dashboard with the stats you care about ASK YOUR COACH ANYTHING 7:04am, before work: You: "Rough night. Slept 5 hours. Should I still lift today?" Your coach: "Yes, lighter though. I cut today's volume by a third and moved the heavy squats to Saturday." PICK YOUR COACH The same advice lands differently depending on who says it. Choose yours: • Stone: ex-military. Tough love, zero excuses. • Maya: patient and supportive. Celebrates every win, especially the small ones. • Mike: your gym buddy. Keeps training fun so you keep showing up. • Reese: data-driven, technique-obsessed. All business, all progress. WHAT LIFTERS SAY "Before I was lost in the gym, wandering around picking up weights and working on machines that I thought were correct. Now I have a real plan that adapts to my goals and my time." "Does a great job at giving me new workouts and reminding me of last weeks progress. Letting me know how my progression is going." "I used to waste so much time wandering around the gym wondering what to do next, but this app completely eliminates that decision fatigue." Forge offers auto-renewing weekly, monthly, and yearly subscriptions, starting with a free 7-day trial. Payment is charged to your store account after the trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your account settings. Questions? support@forgetrainer.ai Terms of Use: https://forgetrainer.ai/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://forgetrainer.ai/privacy-policy

About

Forge Strength Trainer

Track your strength training, nutrition, and body composition privately. Log workouts, calculate personalized calorie and macro targets, and monitor key body metrics without an account or subscription. All your data stays on your device.

Highlights
  • Local data storage, no cloud sync
  • Customizable workout splits and exercises
  • Personalized calorie and macro targets
  • Barcode scanner for food logging
  • Body composition and circumference tracking
  • One-tap CSV data export
  • Optional Apple Health read-only integration
Features
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Forge is a strength training, nutrition, and body composition tracker built for people who want to log their training without paying a monthly fee, signing up for an account, or handing their data to a server. Everything you log lives in a local database on your phone. There is no cloud. There is no sync. There are no ads, no analytics, and nothing to subscribe to. One purchase. That's it. TRAINING Build custom splits with any number of training days. Log sets with automatic rest timers (1, 3, 5, or custom minutes). Tap any set to see exactly which plates go on the bar, per side — 45, 35, 25, and 15 lb bars, with a warning when a weight isn't loadable with standard plates. Every working set is scored against your previous best with an estimated 1RM, and PRs are flagged on the spot. Warmup ramps fill in with one tap and stay out of your working-set volume. Also includes drop sets, supersets, bodyweight tracking, a catch-up queue for missed sessions, and a session timer that starts on your first completed set — not when you open the app. WEEKLY VOLUME A live count of working sets per muscle group, each with an evidence-based target range. Bars show under-, in-, and over-range at a glance, so you can spot the under-trained area before the week is over. NUTRITION Derives daily calorie and macro targets from body composition using Katch-McArdle BMR or Mifflin-St Jeor formulas. Includes barcode scanner via Open Food Facts, macro calculator, daily macro rings, and 14-day trend charts. BODY Tracks weight, body fat %, lean mass, circumferences (shoulders, waist, arms, chest, quads), week-over-week deltas, and 8-week trend charts with goal progress bars. REST DAYS Rest days aren't blank. Forge offers guided stretch and mobility holds, scoped to the muscle groups you trained in the last few days. APPLE HEALTH (OPTIONAL, READ-ONLY) Pulls duration, average heart rate, and active calories from Apple Watch workouts. ONE-TAP CSV EXPORT Exports measurements, food log, and set history as plain CSV files. WHAT FORGE WILL NEVER DO • Ask you to create an account • Collect your email • Send your data to a server • Show you ads • Charge you a subscription • Track you across apps

Screenshots

Forge Trainer4 screens
Forge Strength Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Forge Trainer at Free against Forge Strength Trainer's $9.99. Forge Trainer also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 3). Forge Strength Trainer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Forge Trainer is free to download; Forge Strength Trainer costs $9.99 up front. Forge Trainer sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Forge Strength Trainer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Forge Trainer against 5.0 for Forge Strength Trainer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Forge Trainer ships an update every 2 weeks, Forge Strength Trainer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Forge Trainer versus Forge Strength Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForge TrainerForge Strength Trainer
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (13 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB46 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer10D Labs Limited Liability CompanyKevin Gillespie

Customer experience

Forge Trainer

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Forge Strength Trainer

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Forge Trainer

Subscriptions5
  • Weekly7 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Monthly7 Days trial$19.991 Month
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  • Yearly$44.991 Year
  • Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
None

Forge Strength Trainer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Forge Trainer free?
Forge Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forge Strength Trainer free?
Forge Strength Trainer costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Forge Trainer or Forge Strength Trainer?
Forge Trainer and Forge Strength Trainer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 13 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Forge Trainer or Forge Strength Trainer have ads?
Forge Trainer shows ads; Forge Strength Trainer does not.
Which is updated more often, Forge Trainer or Forge Strength Trainer?
Forge Trainer ships an update every 2 weeks, and Forge Strength Trainer fortnightly. Most recently, Forge Trainer was updated on October 31, 2026 and Forge Strength Trainer on November 5, 2026.

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