Dad Unit vs StridePlan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dad Unit
This app is a gamified fitness community designed for fathers, offering functional strength training and personalized nutrition. It fosters accountability through team-based challenges and leaderboards, with an AI coach to guide progress.
- Gamified fitness tracking
- Functional strength training
- Personalized nutrition plans
- AI coaching (Sergeant Gains)
- Team-based challenges (Fire Teams)
- Daily habit tracking
- Progressive leaderboards
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THE DAD UNIT A fitness community built for dads, by dads. Not another workout tracker. A proven system that's transformed thousands of fathers, backed by a brotherhood that holds the line and pushes through competition. We focus on functional strength training that makes you look good and perform even better. Sure, you'll get a six-pack. You'll also be able to run a mile with your six-year-old on your back. Look great. Be useful. Don't settle for one. PICK YOUR TRACK Three tracks built around your goals, your equipment, and your real-world time. Jacked Dad, Hybrid Dad or Foundation. You can cut, bulk or recomp with goal-aware macros tuned to your TDEE, not some generic calculator your wife's coworker swears by. PICK YOUR FIRE TEAM This is a social app at its core. Although you can take the lone wolf route and just grind on your own but life’s better when you do it with friends. Fire Teams are small squads of dads who push each other, compete weekly, and call out the silence when one of you ghosts. Start your own team with your real-life crew or jump into an open team and make new friends. Either way, you've got dads in your corner and dads breathing down your neck. That's the whole point. THE OPERATING SYSTEM The Dad Unit isn't a workout tracker glued to a food log. It's one system where everything talks to everything. Your training, your nutrition, your sleep, your steps, your weight, your HRV, your VO2 max — all flowing into one place. Metrics, graphs, data - it’s all the stuff dads need and love. And then there's Sergeant Gains, your AI coach. He pulls all your data and tells you the truth. You skipped two workouts and your protein is garbage? He notices. No sugar coating. No participation ribbons. TICK THE BOXES TTFB. Five daily habits that accrue points and make you look better. Train, Eat, Sleep, hydrate, and move. The whole program runs on it. Miss them and the leaderboard knows. Hit them and you start watching the rank tick up. RANK UP Dad Bod. Weekend Warrior. Suburban Spartan. All the way to Alpha Dad. You don't buy rank. You earn it. And Alpha Dad requires passing the PT test, so don't get cute. COMPETE OR COAST WED WODs. FYFridays. Weekly Challenges. Fire Teams Ranks. 41+ leaderboards. Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, all-time. Global and team. You can hide from a lot of things in life. You can't hide from the board. BUILT BY A GREEN BERET AND CELEBRITY TRAINER TURNED DAD BOD DESTROYER A former Special Forces medic and celebrity trainer got tired of watching dads dissolve into recliners. So he built this. Used every day by actual fathers. NO BS. JUST SHOW UP. Download. Pick your track. Find your fire team. Stay accountable. The Dad Unit is free to download. Pro subscription required for full access — workouts, leaderboards, nutrition tracking, Fire Teams, and Sergeant Gains. TTFB. Privacy policy: thedadunit.com/privacy-policy Terms of service: thedadunit.com/terms-of-service
StridePlan
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StridePlan turns a race date into a real training plan, then coaches you through the hard sessions by feel. Pick 5K, 10K, half marathon, or full marathon, set your race day, and StridePlan builds the weeks back from it so the plan lands exactly on your date. A REAL PLAN, NOT A GENERIC LIST Every plan is a proper progression: easy runs, intervals, tempo, and long runs, with cutback weeks and a taper into race week. The long run climbs week by week, then eases off so you arrive fresh. Couch to 5K plans start with run and walk intervals and build to continuous running. AN INTERVAL COACH YOU RUN BY FEEL Tap start and StridePlan runs the session for you: warm up, hard, easy jog, cool down. A big phase word, a full screen countdown, and a tone plus a haptic at every change mean you never have to look at the screen. No GPS, no pace targets to chase, just effort. Run the session from your plan, pick one from the workout library, or build your own. A RUN LOG THAT TICKS OFF THE PLAN Log a run in seconds. StridePlan computes your pace and, if you attached it to a planned session, ticks that session off. Your weekly volume chart shows planned versus logged kilometres side by side, so you can see how the block is really going. RACE DAY PLAN, PACE, AND SPLITS Export a printable, shareable Race Day Plan with your goal pace splits and every week to the finish. Enter a goal time for any distance and get your even pace and a full split table, in kilometres or miles. A race countdown keeps the date front of mind. MORE OF YOUR STRIDE See your plan progress at a glance, a Today card for your next session, personal records drawn from your own runs, and quick race day splits from your goal time. Turn on one daily reminder at a time you choose. FREE AND PRO Free includes the first two weeks of any plan, the interval coach on those weeks, the full workout library, the run log with your last 30 days, the pace calculator, and the race countdown. StridePlan Pro opens every week through race day, custom interval builder, your full run history, and export of a printable plan PDF and a run log CSV. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one time lifetime unlock; the price is shown in the App Store before you buy. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. No account, no cloud, no tracking, and the privacy label is simply Data Not Collected. TRAINING TOOL, NOT MEDICAL ADVICE StridePlan gives you general training templates, not personal coaching or medical advice. Build up gradually, listen to your body, and check with a doctor before starting a new program. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Pro subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions; cancellation applies at the end of the current period. The lifetime option is a one time purchase, not a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://ino50-forms.admin-cloudflare-fa0.workers.dev/a/strideplan/privacy Terms: Apple Standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: StridePlan at none against Dad Unit's shown. Dad Unit's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Dad Unit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month and StridePlan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Dad Unit | StridePlan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (44 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MICAH ALLEN MEHAN | InnovaLabWorks |
In-app purchases
Dad Unit
- Dad Unit Pro$24.991 Month
- Yearly Pro$249.991 Year
StridePlan
- StridePlan Pro$5.991 Month
- StridePlan Pro$34.991 Year
- StridePlan Lifetime$59.99









