Comparison

FORMA vs GymPal

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

Head to head
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

About

GymPal

Features
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GymPal is a one-handed workout log for the gym floor — and a coach that actually reads your data. FREE LOG • Programs, days, sets: weight × reps, time, progressions, springs — every measurement type • Rest timer on the lock screen and Apple Watch, +15 s a tap away • Supersets, drop sets, RPE, plate calculator, warm-up ladder • Session summary: tonnage, completion rate, personal records, muscle heat map BRING A PROGRAM FROM YOUR OWN AI — FREE Copy the ready-made prompt, paste it into ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini, import what comes back. Same path for meal plans. No subscription needed. THE ENGINE PICKS THE WEIGHT A progressive overload engine sets a target for every set: hit the reps and it climbs, miss twice and it suggests a deload. Progress is tracked by estimated 1RM — strength, not just weight. MIKE — A COACH WHO READS YOUR DATA Mike sees your program, recent sessions, where you're stalling and how closely you follow your meal plan. Talk to him and he writes training and meal plans, reviews your current program, and saves to the app once you approve. He isn't a doctor: pain and injury go to a physician, never a diagnosis. NUTRITION IN THE SAME PLACE Plan, meals, calories and macros sit next to your training. The only place that can say "your bench stalled the week you missed your protein target." APPLE WATCH Log sets from the wrist, rest haptics, heart-rate zones, live calories. The phone stays in your pocket. YOUR DATA IS YOURS Works without an account; sign in and your sessions and measurements back up to a server in Europe. No ads, no data sales. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

FORMA4 screens
GymPal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: FORMA at 4 against GymPal's 2. FORMA also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
FORMA versus GymPal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFORMAGymPal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB52 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRAB NAWAZRA. SOFT LTD

In-app purchases

None

FORMA

No in-app purchases

None

GymPal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FORMA free?
FORMA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GymPal free?
GymPal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FORMA or GymPal have ads?
Neither FORMA nor GymPal shows ads.

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