Comparison

iFORMA vs FORMA

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

Head to head
About

iFORMA

This AI-powered fitness coach creates personalized training plans for over 88 sports. It offers sport-specific workouts with illustrated exercises, smart nutrition guidance, and progress tracking. Your data is kept private by design.

Highlights
  • Personalized AI workout plans for 88+ sports
  • Sport-specific exercises with illustrations
  • AI-generated meal ideas with calorie/macro tracking
  • Progress tracking (PRs, strength, body metrics)
  • Apple Health integration
  • Adaptive training plans with deloads and recovery
Features
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iFORMA builds your training program the way a strength and conditioning coach would — periodized, sport-specific, structured around your goals. Not a rep counter. Not a workout-of-the-day. A real program. WHAT MAKES iFORMA DIFFERENT Most fitness apps give you the same workouts whether you do Brazilian jiu-jitsu, archery or powerlifting. iFORMA doesn't. Choose from 98 sports and iFORMA builds a program for your discipline — day types, training phases and session lengths calibrated to what your sport actually demands. PERIODIZED TRAINING THAT PROGRESSES Six-week cycles, built on ACSM and NSCA periodization guidelines: • Foundation — build your base • Volume — increase training capacity • Hypertrophy — muscle development • Variation — prevent plateaus • Strength — peak performance • Deload — structured recovery Each cycle flows into the next. Your training advances instead of repeating. TRAIN WITH GUIDANCE, NOT GUESSWORK • Audio coaching through your headphones, hands-free • Start and end positions with full written form guidance • Instructions, form tips and target muscles for every exercise ASK DJINN Djinn is your in-app coach. Ask it to adjust today's workout, reshape your meal plan around what you actually eat, or explain why a session is built the way it is — answered in the chat, in your language. ON YOUR WRIST Pair iFORMA with Apple Watch and train hands-free. Your day's workout, exercise images, form guidance and audio coaching — on your wrist. Heart rate and Apple Health are built in, and everything syncs back to your phone. NUTRITION THAT MATCHES YOUR TRAINING Tell iFORMA how you eat and it never suggests otherwise: • 12 dietary preferences — Halal, Kosher, Vegan, Vegetarian, Pescatarian, Paleo, Keto, low-carb, low-fat, low-sodium, diabetic-friendly and FODMAP-free • 12 allergies — gluten, dairy, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy, sesame, sulfites, fructose and more. Tick it once and it is never suggested again • 9 fasting protocols — 16:8, 18:6, 20:4, 14:10, evening windows, Ramadan and custom • Daily calorie and macro targets aligned to your training phase • Water tracking, eating windows and meal history TRAINS AROUND YOUR BODY Lower back pain. Knee, shoulder, neck or wrist injury. Hip replacement. Heart condition. High blood pressure. Pregnancy. Epilepsy. Diabetes. Osteoporosis. Asthma. Tell iFORMA and your program is built around it. WEARABLES — FREE TO CONNECT iFORMA reads your data through Apple Health — nothing extra to buy. Connect Garmin, Whoop, Oura, Fitbit, Polar, Withings, Coros, Amazfit, Ultrahuman, Wahoo or Suunto and your sleep, heart rate and recovery feed into your training. Optional — iFORMA works fully without one. BUILT FOR EVERY ATHLETE, IN YOUR LANGUAGE iFORMA speaks 44 languages, switchable any time in your profile. The App Store lists pages in a limited set, so this page appears in 34 — the other ten are fully supported in the app: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Right-to-left supported. EVERYBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO EXERCISE iFORMA runs a scholarship program for athletes who need support. If cost is the only thing between you and training, reach out — no promotion required, no strings. FEATURES • Equipment-aware — filters exercises to what you actually have • Rest timer, personal records, and habit tracking • Morning check-ins — sleep, energy and readiness before you train • Family plans — everyone gets their own program. Pick 2 plans: each member trains two sports SUBSCRIPTION iFORMA PRO unlocks the full training engine: • Monthly: $9.99/mo • Annual: $109.99/yr Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or turn off auto-renewal in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://formaapp.co/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://formaapp.co/terms

About

FORMA

This app offers AI-powered fitness coaching, including real-time form correction using your phone's camera and personalized workout plans. It also features meal logging by photo and tracks your recovery and readiness to train.

Highlights
  • AI form check with live skeleton overlay
  • Photo-based meal logging with calorie/macro tracking
  • Personalized workout plans
  • Interactive muscle map
  • Daily readiness assessment (Life-Load)
  • Progress tracking and recaps
Features
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Your camera is your coach. Film a set and FORMA scores your form rep by rep — depth, bar path, knee tracking, tempo — with 47 movements supported. It all runs on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, and it works with no signal. Point it at a meal instead and you get calories, macros and a score out of 10, graded against the goal you actually set. WHAT YOU GET FREE • AI Form Check on 47 lifts, on-device • A 3D muscle map — tap any muscle to see how to train it • 106 exercise guides with technique, common mistakes and demos • Lock In: a plan built around your days, equipment and experience • Stride: GPS run and walk tracking with shareable route cards • Life-Load: a daily readiness score from your sleep, stress and schedule • Recovery map showing which muscles are ready today • 13 calculators — one-rep max, TDEE, macros, body fat and more • Food Scan, three photos a day • Workout logging with plate maths and next-weight suggestions NEW: TRAIN WITH PEOPLE Message the people you train with. Text, photos, voice notes and calls that ring like a phone call. Post to a feed only your friends can see. A run carries its distance and pace. A meal carries the macros FORMA scanned. Watch short clips of your friends' lifts in Reels. There is no public feed, no follower count and no way for a stranger to reach you. Someone has to be connected to you first. Report and block sit on every message, post and comment. NEW: WATER THAT KNOWS YOUR DAY Your target is not a flat two litres. It comes from your bodyweight and then moves with what you actually did — a logged session and a run both raise it. Reminders stop the moment you hit the goal. PREMIUM Everything above is free. Premium removes ads and raises Food Scan from 3 to 50 photos a day. £3.99 a month with a week free, or a one-time lifetime purchase. No feature is locked behind it. Fourteen languages. Your data is yours — delete your account and everything goes with it. FORMA Premium FORMA is free to use. Premium is optional — it removes ads, raises the daily Food Scan limit, and supports a solo builder. FORMA Premium — $3.99 per month, with a 7-day free trial FORMA Premium Lifetime — $69.99, a single payment with no renewal Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A monthly subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://formabuild.net/privacy

Screenshots

iFORMA4 screens
FORMA4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FORMA at none against iFORMA's 10. FORMA also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. iFORMA sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. FORMA 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 iFORMA against 5.0 for FORMA. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FORMA has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iFORMA ships an update every 4 days, FORMA weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
iFORMA versus FORMA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriFORMAFORMA
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB5 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperFORMA LABS LLCRAB NAWAZ

Customer experience

iFORMA

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FORMA

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

iFORMA

Subscriptions9
  • Family (2 Members)7 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Family (3 Members)7 Days trial$25.991 Month
  • Family (4 Members)7 Days trial$32.991 Month
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  • Elite Bodybuilder7 Days trial$39.991 Month
  • Family (2 Members) (Annual)7 Days trial$214.991 Year
  • Postnatal Recovery (Annual)7 Days trial$249.001 Year
  • Family (3 Members) (Annual)7 Days trial$309.991 Year
  • Family (4 Members) (Annual)7 Days trial$394.991 Year
  • Elite Bodybuilder Annual7 Days trial$399.991 Year
One-time1
  • FORMA Access$9.99
None

FORMA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iFORMA free?
iFORMA is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FORMA free?
FORMA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iFORMA or FORMA?
iFORMA and FORMA are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do iFORMA or FORMA have ads?
Neither iFORMA nor FORMA shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iFORMA or FORMA?
iFORMA ships an update every 4 days, and FORMA weekly. Most recently, iFORMA was updated on October 12, 2026 and FORMA on October 19, 2026.

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