Comparison

FORMA vs BurnClock

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

BurnClock

Features
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Most fitness apps fail you in the same way. You log your food, you hit the gym, you wait. And for three or four weeks, nothing tells you it's working. The scale jumps around from water and salt. The mirror moves too slowly to notice. Your brain fills the silence with one conclusion: this isn't working. So you quit. Not because you lacked discipline — because nothing showed you the progress you were actually making. BurnClock fixes that. WATCH YOUR BODY RESPOND BurnClock gives you a visual body model that changes based on what you actually log. Eat well and train consistently, and you see it. Drift off track, and you see that too. It's not a points system or a badge. It's your body, updated daily, so the work you're doing stops being invisible. The model is driven by a real physiology engine — energy balance, fat and lean mass partitioning, activity burn, and afterburn from training. Not a generic animation on a timer. LOG A MEAL IN SECONDS Point your camera at your plate. BurnClock identifies what's on it and estimates calories and macros — no database searching, no scrolling through endless food lists. - Photo — snap your meal, get a full breakdown - Barcode — scan packaged food instantly - Nutrition label — point at the label, get exact printed values - Write it — type "two rotis and dal" and let it do the rest Built for Indian food. Biryani, dal tadka, khichdi, thali, idli, dosa — recognized as real dishes with real portions, including the cooking fat most trackers ignore. Every result is editable before you save it, so you're always in control. TRAIN AND TRACK A full workout logger built for people who actually lift. - Build and reorder your own templates - Log sets, reps and weight fast with a custom keypad - Rest timers and superset linking - Automatic PR detection - Intensity calculated from your own history, not a generic scale Steps are tracked automatically from your phone. No extra wearable needed. SEE WHAT'S ACTUALLY WORKING BurnClock breaks down where your fat loss is coming from — food, training, steps — so you know which lever to pull instead of guessing. Your weekly status adapts to both your trend and your consistency, and tells you the truth either way. HONEST BY DESIGN Body fat percentages are shown as projections based on your logged data, not clinical measurements. Weight is shown as change over time, because daily scale numbers are noise. BurnClock will not tell you what you want to hear. PLANS Start with a 7-day Pro trial — no card required. Basic — 3 AI meal scans and 5 manual logs per day Pro — 10 AI meal scans and 20 manual logs per day Both include the full body model, workout tracker, and step tracking. Two apps worth of tools for less than the price of one. — BurnClock provides estimates for general fitness tracking and is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, or measure any health condition. Consult a healthcare professional before starting any diet or exercise program. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy & Terms: https://burnclock.github.io/burnclock-legal/terms

Screenshots

FORMA4 screens
BurnClock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FORMA at none against BurnClock's 4. FORMA also leads on device support (4 vs 2). BurnClock's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, ads 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. BurnClock sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. FORMA asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FORMA ships an update weekly, BurnClock every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FORMA versus BurnClock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFORMABurnClock
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB22 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRAB NAWAZAman Kumar

In-app purchases

None

FORMA

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

BurnClock

Subscriptions4
  • BurnClock Basic$4.991 Month
  • BurnClock Pro$7.991 Month
  • BurnClock Basic (Annual)$39.991 Year
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  • BurnClock Pro (Annual)$59.991 Year

Questions

Is FORMA free?
FORMA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BurnClock free?
BurnClock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FORMA or BurnClock have ads?
Neither FORMA nor BurnClock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FORMA or BurnClock?
FORMA ships an update weekly, and BurnClock every 2 days. Most recently, FORMA was updated on October 19, 2026 and BurnClock on October 12, 2026.

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