Comparison

StayActive vs PRGRS

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

Head to head
About

StayActive

This AI-powered fitness app creates personalized workout plans based on your available equipment, goals, and schedule. It offers smart tracking, an AI coach, performance reports, and recovery insights to help you progress effectively. Train with friends and sync data from Apple Health.

Highlights
  • AI-generated personalized workout plans
  • Smart workout tracking with rest timers
  • AI coach for guidance and adjustments
  • Monthly performance and recovery reports
  • Exercise video demonstrations and form guidance
  • Train together with friends
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Tell us what equipment you have. We build the exact workout to match it. StayActive is an AI fitness app made for beginners: the people who walk into a gym, or look at their home setup, with no idea where to start. Check off the equipment you own (dumbbells, a barbell, a bench, a pull-up bar, resistance bands, machines, or nothing at all), tell us your goal and how much time you have, and StayActive builds a real workout around exactly what you've got. Need one session for today? Train now has it ready in seconds. Want a full program? The AI builds a structured, multi-week plan in about a minute. Not a generic template recycled from a library. Training built for you. WHAT STAYACTIVE DOES Train Now: One Workout, Ready in Seconds Answer four quick questions (where you're training, how long you've got, what to focus on, and any injuries) and get a complete session for today, warm-up included. Try another in one tap, save the ones you love, and turn your favourite sessions into a full program when you're ready. AI Workout Planning Tell the app your goals, your equipment, and your schedule, and the AI workout generator builds a structured, progressive plan designed specifically for you. Prefer to plan it yourself? Build your own week, day by day. Your plan adapts as you get stronger. Smart Workout Tracking Log every set, rep and weight with a clean tracker built for the gym floor. Rest timers, RIR tracking, previous-performance display, and personal-record detection, all built in. Meet Vita, Your AI Coach Vita guides you through each session, answers your questions, and adjusts your training over time so you keep progressing instead of plateauing. Monthly Performance Report Every 30 days, Vita analyses your training data and delivers a personal debrief: your grade, your progress vs last month, recovery analysis, a muscle-activation map, and clear coaching recommendations for the month ahead. Recovery Intelligence Track your sleep, resting heart rate, and training load in one place, so you know when to push and when to back off, based on your data, not guesswork. 500+ Exercises Full video demonstrations, muscle targeting, progressive-overload tracking, and form guidance for every exercise in the library. The League and Training Groups Compete on one global weekly leaderboard where everyone starts level every Monday, earn season medals, and cheer on other athletes. Or start a private group with friends and keep each other consistent. Works with Apple Health Connect Apple Health to automatically sync your steps, sleep, and heart-rate data into your recovery dashboard. WHAT YOU'LL NEVER SEE IN STAYACTIVE - Ads - Generic plans built for the "average" person - Your data sold to third parties FREE TO TRAIN Building your plan, tracking your workouts, and training with StayActive is completely free. No trial, no credit card, and no paywall between you and a real workout. The essentials will always be free, whatever your budget. Download StayActive and get your first workout in seconds.

About

PRGRS

Features
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PRGRS is a minimalist workout tracker with a single job: show your progress and get out of the way. No social feed, no leaderboards, just today's workout, a fast log, and numbers that climb week after week. It's built around three things: start faster, log with less friction, and review your progress. START IN SECONDS Open the app and today's session is already on screen — your active program, the right weekday, and every movement on one compact card. Nothing to dig for. LOG WITHOUT FRICTION Tap a weight, set your sets and reps, and move on. Numbers use tabular figures so they never jitter. Swap in an alternative movement with a single tap. It all works offline and syncs the moment you're back online. A LITTLE MORE EACH WEEK PRGRS is built for progressive overload. Mark each movement to go lighter, hold, or push heavier next week and last week's numbers carry forward, so you always know your target. KEEP YOUR STREAK ALIVE Finish a workout and your streak grows. Complete every session in a week and earn a perfect-week bonus. A quiet nudge to keep showing up no badges to farm, no guilt trips. SEE YOUR PROGRESS Total workouts, average days per week, and total weight lifted, plus tappable charts of your volume and top weights over time. Activity heatmap shows your consistency at a glance. YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS Your data syncs to the cloud, so it's safe if you switch phones or reinstall. Sign in with email, Apple, or Google. Delete your account and everything in it anytime, right from the app. Set up your program and start today.

Screenshots

StayActive4 screens
PRGRS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: StayActive at every 3 days against PRGRS's every 3 weeks. StayActive also leads on device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StayActive ships an update every 3 days, PRGRS every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
StayActive versus PRGRS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStayActivePRGRS
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaser Al ZierBerat Safran

In-app purchases

None

StayActive

No in-app purchases

None

PRGRS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StayActive free?
StayActive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PRGRS free?
PRGRS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do StayActive or PRGRS have ads?
Neither StayActive nor PRGRS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StayActive or PRGRS?
StayActive ships an update every 3 days, and PRGRS every 3 weeks. Most recently, StayActive was updated on October 31, 2026 and PRGRS on October 24, 2026.

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