Comparison

Fortera vs Ferana

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

Head to head
About

Fortera

Features
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Fortera is a strength-training journal that records what actually happened in your session — not a rough guess. Most trackers give you one number: total time. This one builds a real timeline. When each set started. How long you were under load. How long you truly rested between sets. What your heart rate was doing. Every number on your progress charts comes from that timeline, so it reflects the workout you did. APPLE WATCH COMPANION Run the whole session from your wrist: pick the next exercise, log a set, start the rest timer with a haptic countdown, and watch live heart rate. The watch counts reps from your wrist movement and asks you to confirm. It keeps working while your phone is in the locker — everything syncs back the moment they meet again. SMART PROGRAMMING Ready-made programs, a calendar planner, and a generator that builds a session around the muscle groups you have actually recovered. Weight suggestions follow your own history and the equipment you are using — barbell, dumbbells, machines or cables. • Periodization: training runs in blocks — the app keeps the mesocycle, works out your weights and tells you when to deload • Guided workout: one exercise per screen, with a warm-up ladder built from your working weight AI COACH Optional and built in: • Program generation from your goal, your equipment and your history • A second opinion on your working weight — with the reasoning • Form check: record a set, get feedback on your technique It runs only when you ask for it. Nothing is sent otherwise. CARDIO TOO Treadmill, bike, rower, elliptical, stepper and walking — inside your workout, from the phone or from the watch. Distance, steps and calories come from Apple Health automatically; you type nothing. FOR WOMEN Optional cycle tracking suggests a target effort and volume for your phase — and asks before adjusting a workout. The decision stays yours. Turn it on in your profile. SEE REAL PROGRESS • Personal records and estimated 1RM for every exercise • Volume, tonnage and time-under-load charts • Body measurements by zone, left and right apart, and progress photos with a chosen pose • Recovery map: which muscles are still fatigued • Food diary with calories and macros • Streaks, lifetime totals and badges • Full workout history, exportable to CSV BUILT FOR THE GYM FLOOR • Plate calculator — exactly what to load on each side of the bar • Automatic warm-up sets before your working weight • Rest timer with notifications • Exercise library with 160+ movements, photos, step-by-step instructions, and room for your own custom exercises TRAIN WITH A COACH Invite your coach by link: they assign programs, add their own exercises and get a video report for any exercise — you decide what to send. COMMUNITY Share a finished workout as a card, follow friends in the feed and cheer them on. Report and block are one tap away, and a verified badge shows an account is real. APPLE HEALTH Fortera reads your steps, active energy, sleep and body weight from Apple Health, and writes every finished workout back with heart rate and calories — so it counts in whatever else you use. OFFLINE FIRST Everything works with no connection at all. Create an account and your data syncs across iPhone and Apple Watch when you are back online — optional, never required. PRIVACY Health data read from Apple Health is used only inside the app. No ads, no third-party analytics, nothing sold to anyone. AI features send data to the model provider only at the moment you use them — see our privacy policy.

About

Ferana

Log your daily activity and gym sessions in one place. Track steps, distance, and calories, and build custom workouts with detailed exercise tracking. Review your training history and sync data with Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Daily activity tracking
  • Custom workout creation
  • Exercise set tracking
  • Workout history review
  • Apple Health integration
  • Calorie burn tracking
Features
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Ferana helps you track your daily activity and workouts in one app. See your daily steps, distance covered, and calories burned using data from Apple Health. Create custom workouts, add exercises, track sets, and review your workout history. Your activity data is used within the app. With your permission, completed workouts can also be saved to Apple Health.

Screenshots

Fortera4 screens
Ferana4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ferana at every 3 days against Fortera's every 6 weeks. Fortera's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

Fortera ships an update every 6 weeks, Ferana every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Fortera versus Ferana: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForteraFerana
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexandr DegteariDaniil Bormotov

In-app purchases

None

Fortera

No in-app purchases

None

Ferana

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fortera free?
Fortera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ferana free?
Ferana is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fortera or Ferana have ads?
Neither Fortera nor Ferana shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fortera or Ferana?
Fortera ships an update every 6 weeks, and Ferana every 3 days. Most recently, Fortera was updated on October 19, 2026 and Ferana on October 18, 2026.

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