Knee pain

A workout app for knee pain, built by a NASM Master Trainer

VeraForma is a workout app for knee pain. You tell it once where the knee hurts, and every session after that trains around it. The free movement screen films one squat and names the imbalance behind the pain, then the corrective work goes into your plan. Built by NASM Master Trainer Brad Glaser. Coaching, not medicine.

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Free account, no card. Brad’s questions. One squat on camera. Then your results.

How it works

What the app actually does about a sore knee.

It trains the knee you have today.

Tell it once. Impact comes off the list, the movement is offered in the part of the range that does not hurt, and seated and supported options get preferred. You are not asked to decide each morning whether today is a jumping day.

It looks above and below the knee.

A knee that caves in is usually the hip or the ankle giving way. The free movement screen measures the checkpoints a trainer watches and names the pattern, so the corrective work goes where the fault starts — not where it shows. Why knees cave in →

It keeps watching while you train.

A sore knee makes people shift load onto the other leg without noticing. The camera draws the measured angle on your body and names it when that happens. The camera coach →

VeraForma beside four apps people are sent to for knee pain.

Every competitor cell has a numbered source below. Not found = not in the store listings and vendor pages we read. Partly = it does some of it, as the note says. Disputed = the company’s own pages and an independent review do not agree. Not compared = a cell we have not filled for that app. Figures carry the date we read them; spot something out of date and email VeraFormaApp@gmail.com.

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Feature	VeraForma^★	Hinge Health	Sword Health	The Prehab Guys	Fitbod
A movement screen that names your faults	Yes, free	Partly¹	Not found²	Not found³	Not compared⁴
Adapts for pain and injuries	Yes, free	Yes⁵	Yes⁶	Yes⁷	Partly⁸
A corrective program for the muscle imbalance behind it	Yes, with Premium	Partly⁹	Not found¹⁰	Partly¹¹	Not found¹²
A named certified trainer behind it	Yes — Brad Glaser, NASM Master Trainer	Yes¹³	A Doctor of Physical Therapy¹⁴	Yes¹⁵	Not found¹⁶
Meal plan built for you	Yes, free	Not found¹⁷	Not found¹⁸	Not found¹⁹	Not found²⁰
Price (US)	Free plan, free for good; Premium $29.99 a month or $249.99 a year	$0 to eligible members through an employer or health plan; no individual price published²¹	Free to you — but only through an employer or a health plan²²	$49 a month²³	$15.99 a month or $95.99 a year²⁴

Sword Health and Hinge Health are clinical programs with licensed clinicians behind them, and we do not claim to match that. The catch is access: for most people they are not for sale at any price, because they arrive through an employer or a health plan. That is the gap this app fills. Sword Health, row by row →

Questions

Straight answers.

Can an app help with knee pain?

It can coach around it. VeraForma trains the joint inside the range that does not hurt, takes impact off the list, and works the muscles above and below the knee that let it drift. Correcting that pattern can help ease the pain. It is coaching, not medicine, and it does not diagnose anything.

What changes once I tell it my knee hurts?

Impact comes out, the range shortens to the part that does not hurt, seated and supported options get preferred, and the camera keeps watching for the compensation a sore knee causes elsewhere. You tell it once; every session after that is already adjusted.

Why does it look at my hips and ankles for a knee problem?

Because the knee is the joint in the middle: it is where the fault shows, not usually where it starts. A knee that caves in is normally the hip or the ankle giving way, so that is where the corrective work goes.

Do I need a gym, or any equipment?

No. A phone you can prop up where it can see you, and whatever kit you have: a full gym, dumbbells, bands or nothing at all.

What does it cost?

The movement screen and Phase 1 of your program are free for good, on a free account with no card. Premium is $29.99 a month or $249.99 a year and adds the corrective Muscle Balance Program, the later phases and the fix spoken while you move.

Is this medical treatment?

No. VeraForma is coaching, not medicine. It does not diagnose, treat or cure anything and it does not replace your doctor or physio. If your knee hurts and nobody has looked at it, that is the first appointment, not the first workout.

Start with the screen. It is free.

Start free

Free: your movement screen, Phase 1 of your program and all of nutrition. See what Premium adds →

Sources

Every product named here is a trademark of its owner, named only to compare. VeraForma is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

VeraForma’s own cells, checked in the app on 5 October 2026. The full version of this table, with 32 apps: the comparison and its sources, app by app.
Hinge Health: an AI-powered movement assessment, per the company’s own announcement and its App Store listing. finance.yahoo.com apps.apple.com read 5–7 Oct 2026
Sword Health: nothing in its own US App Store listing names a movement screen that reports your faults back to you. apps.apple.com read 13 Oct 2026
The Prehab Guys: no movement screen that names your faults in its membership pages or its App Store listing. theprehabguys.com/membership apps.apple.com read 5–7 Oct 2026
Fitbod: a cell we did not fill, from its App Store listing. apps.apple.com read 5–7 Oct 2026
Hinge Health: exercise therapy built around the painful joint. hingehealth.com/user-manual millennialhawk.com read 5–7 Oct 2026
Sword Health: a pain program with a Doctor of Physical Therapy designing the plan, per its own listing. apps.apple.com read 13 Oct 2026
The Prehab Guys: programs for specific painful joints, with a level-up and level-down control. theprehabguys.com support.theprehabguys.com read 5–7 Oct 2026
Fitbod: you can swap any exercise, as a one-time substitution. fitbod.me/faqs sensai.fit read 5–7 Oct 2026
Hinge Health: a plan built around the painful joint; no corrective program for imbalances named as such. hingehealth.com/for-individuals finance.yahoo.com hingehealth.com/user-manual read 5–7 Oct 2026
Sword Health: no corrective program for muscle imbalances in its own App Store listing. apps.apple.com read 13 Oct 2026
The Prehab Guys: a posture program, not a corrective plan written from your own screen. theprehabguys.com/program-posture apps.apple.com read 5–7 Oct 2026
Fitbod: it balances work across muscle groups; no program for imbalances found. apps.apple.com play.google.com read 5–7 Oct 2026
Hinge Health: a care team including a physical therapist and a health coach. hingehealth.com/for-individuals millennialhawk.com read 5–7 Oct 2026
Sword Health: a Doctor of Physical Therapy designs the plan, per its own App Store listing. apps.apple.com read 13 Oct 2026
The Prehab Guys: named physical therapists, on its own about page. theprehabguys.com/about apps.apple.com read 5–7 Oct 2026
Fitbod: plans come from the algorithm; no named trainer behind it in its own pages. apps.apple.com fitbod.me/faqs read 5–7 Oct 2026
Hinge Health: no meal plan in its App Store listing or its user manual. apps.apple.com hingehealth.com/user-manual read 5–7 Oct 2026
Sword Health: no meal plan in its own App Store listing. apps.apple.com read 13 Oct 2026
The Prehab Guys: no meal plan in its store listings. apps.apple.com play.google.com read 5–7 Oct 2026
Fitbod: no meal plans or food logging; its trainers refer diet plans to a dietitian. apps.apple.com help.fitbod.me read 5–7 Oct 2026
Hinge Health price. apps.apple.com hingehealth.com/for-individuals prices checked 15 Oct 2026
Sword Health price, from its own App Store listing. apps.apple.com read 13 Oct 2026
The Prehab Guys price, from its own pages. theprehabguys.com apps.apple.com prices checked 15 Oct 2026
Fitbod price. apps.apple.com fitbod.me/faqs prices checked 15 Oct 2026

VeraForma is coaching, not medicine. It does not diagnose, treat or cure anything, and it does not replace your doctor or physio.

Built by Brad Glaser · NASM Master Trainer · NASM-CPT, CES, PES · training clients since 2005 · has certified 100+ personal trainers.

He owns OC Personal Training, his 1-on-1 studio in Irvine. The same method he uses standing next to a client, built into the app.

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