MOVE! Coach vs iFORA Smart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MOVE! Coach
This 16-week program guides users to successful weight loss or management through education and tools. Monitor, track, and receive feedback on progress with weight, diet, and exercise goals. It offers self-management modules, tracking tools, and support resources.
- 16-week guided weight loss program
- Self-management modules with videos and games
- Daily weight tracking and progress reports
- Goal setting and SMART goal features
- Stress management tools
- Identification of support resources
- HealthKit integration for data syncing
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MOVE! Coach Mobile is a weight loss app for Veterans, service members, their families, and others who want to lose weight. This 16-week program guides users to successful weight loss or weight management through education, and use of tools, in an easy and convenient way. Users can monitor, track, and receive feedback regarding their progress with weight, diet, and exercise goals. Some Key Features: Self-Management Modules – Educate users on a variety of weight-management success strategies using videos, worksheets, games, and other tools. Modules are made available weekly based on your progression through the 16-week program. Tracker – Assists users to track weight daily, set weight loss and SMART goals, and see progress reports and summaries Tools – Provides users with calculation tools and tools to manage stress Support – Helps users identify supports and resources for successful weight loss This app can be used by itself, but additional benefit may be achieved if used in combination with treatment with your healthcare provider and by tracking health & fitness activity with third-party HealthKit compatible apps. If you’re just starting out, MOVE! Coach can access your existing HealthKit height and weight data, and synchronize your progress recording weight entries with Apple’s Health app. MOVE! Coach Mobile was created by the National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (NCP), under VHA’s Office of Patient Care Services.
iFORA Smart
This app helps manage chronic diseases by tracking vital signs like blood glucose, blood pressure, and temperature. It pairs with smart meters, allows manual data input for nutrition and exercise, and visualizes measurements in charts and graphs for easy sharing.
- Pairs with FORA® bluetooth smart meters
- Tracks blood glucose, blood pressure, temperature, weight, SpO2, and blood tests
- Input nutrition, exercise, and medication data
- View measurements in charts and graphs
- Share data with family or caregivers
- Customizable user interface and settings
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The new iFORA Smart app is designed to make busy lives easier using advanced mobile technology, sleek interface design and detailed data management tools to assist in better chronic disease management. For Blood Glucose, Blood Pressure, Temperature, Weight, SpO2 and Blood Test (Ketone) Key Features: • Easily pairs with FORA® bluetooth smart meters • Customizable: choose the parameters you are measuring • Ability to input additional data such as nutrition, exercise, medication and insulin • View measurements individually or in charts and graphs • Flexible user interface • Customized settings for the user • Easily share data with family or caregivers This App is only for health management reference and couldn’t be used for diagnosis, please seek a doctor’s advice in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MOVE! Coach at 4.2 against iFORA Smart's 1.3. MOVE! Coach also leads on ratings volume (497 vs 6) and review sentiment (21% vs 0%). iFORA Smart's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MOVE! Coach holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MOVE! Coach has 497 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of MOVE! Coach's written reviews are positive against 0% of iFORA Smart's.
MOVE! Coach ships an update every 3 months, iFORA Smart every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MOVE! Coach | iFORA Smart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (497 ratings) — better | 1.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 497 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 148 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | ForaCare, Inc. |
Customer experience
MOVE! Coach
iFORA Smart
Bugs and requests
MOVE! Coach
Reported bugs
46 issues- Half screen taken by crisis support
- Scrolling one line at a time
- Food entry errors (e.g., 190 calories showing as 1400)
- Cannot enter smaller increments of time for activities
- Difficulty editing recipes
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- No back button to change or edit entries
- Cannot see entire option when entering food
- Cannot delete added food entries
- No way to back up, requires closing and reopening app
- Squished interface on iPhone
- Screens with no way to exit or submit answers (e.g., goal weight)
- Cannot report problems
- Apple Watch Health data not loading directly
- Weight data reset after 6 months
- Graph not working properly (only shows two days)
- App does not function on iPhone 15 Pro Max
- App breaks at week 12 chapter 2, repeatedly shuts down
- No diet or exercise tracker found
- Cannot get past EULA prompt
- Crashes during modules, data lost upon restart
- Cannot unlock Module 16
- Cannot add height/weight to proceed
- Dark selections, barely readable
- Difficult to navigate
- Cannot see information when setting up (height, age)
- App crashes during Week 2, Chapter 2
- Cannot go back to add foods from previous day
- App crashes when trying to enter food info
- App crashes regularly on iPhone 6s Plus
- App closes when clicking on Self Assessment Guide Week 2
- Cannot see custom item entry screen (number entry in the way)
- App not updated for nearly a year
- Weekly diet report annoying
- App charges double calories for almond milk
- Entering recipes assumes whole recipe is one serving
- Favorites function is useless
- Cannot manually enter calories
- Food categories don't match package labels
- Difficult to find specific foods
- App crashes too much
- Diet and activity logs removed in updates
- Module 16 cannot be unlocked
- Cannot see information on screen
- Week 2 crashes the whole app
- Cannot change date for dietary entries
- Exercise calorie count is generic and inaccurate
Requested features
16 requests- Barcode scanner for food
- Integration with other health apps (Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Fitbit)
- Ability to edit previous entries/dates
- More conversational serving sizes
- Allow smaller increments of time for activities
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- Sync data from other health apps
- Update app for newer iPhones
- Improve search function for food tracker
- QR scanner for food
- Link to MyFitnessPal
- Customizable exercise calorie counts (incline, speed)
- Ability to edit recipe entries
- Add missing foods
- Sync with My Healthy Vet
- Dark mode option
- Ability to report bugs directly
iFORA Smart
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MOVE! Coach
No in-app purchases
iFORA Smart
No in-app purchases
