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• Your personal trainer, injury coach, and nutrition coach, in one app.Your personal trainer, injury coach and nutrition coach in one app, by NASM Master Trainer Brad Glaser. Lose fat, buil…
• Everything it does for you.Everything VeraForma does for you: your evaluation, training, camera coach, food, mobility, progress and real coaching…
• Start free. Go Premium for $29.99 a month.A trainer once a week runs about $238 a month. Premium is $29.99, and it's with you every workout. Start free: your mo…
• A trainer plus 19 apps: $1,092.74 a month. VeraForma: $29.99.A personal trainer, the priciest popular app in each of 18 categories, and MyFitnessPal: $1,092.74 a month. VeraForma:…
• Eight things no other app we could find does.Eight things no other app we could find does, each with the apps we checked and what the closest rival does instead. E…
• See the app. Then hear the trainer behind it.See what the app does in a minute, then watch Brad Glaser, NASM Master Trainer, teach the muscle-balance method the wh…

What the app does

• See the faults a trainer would name. Free.See the faults a trainer would name, free. Free account, Brad's questions, one squat on camera, then your results. On …
• Stop guessing. See your form.Stop guessing your form. Prop your phone up and the camera draws the line on your body and names what it sees, with th…
• Bad night. Short on time. Machine taken. Handled.Your week, your kit, your programme: 2 to 7 days, sessions of 20, 30 or 45 minutes or no limit, at your level. Free to…
• Your posture, read. Your corrective plan, written.See where your body drifts off line, which muscles are behind it, and get a corrective programme written from your own…
• Most joint pain starts with a muscle imbalance.Muscle imbalances are where most joint pain starts. Your injury coach finds yours free, trains around the pain, and co…
• Meals sized for today's training.Meals sized for today's training. A free meal plan built from your numbers, a free barcode scanner, and targets built …
• Cardio that works with your lifting, not against it.A full cardio plan built around your lifting, coached through every interval, plus a walking coach that watches how yo…
• Loosen up. Then see it working.Stretch, roll and breathe along with guided routines timed and counted out loud, then see your range come back on the …
• See it working. Keep showing up.Proof your training is working: strength, movement and habits tracked for you, with friends and family beside you. Fre…
• Train for the game you actually play.Training shaped around the sport you play and your own body: see what your sport does to you, earn your jumps, test yo…

Your goal

• Lose fat without a crash diet.Lose fat without a crash diet. A free nutrition programme sized to your body, cardio built around your lifting, and pr…
• Build muscle. Know exactly what to lift next.A strength programme built around your week, your next weight after every set, and a camera that draws your form on yo…
• Hurts to train? Train around it.Mention an old injury once and every workout trains around it. Tap where it hurts, see what's behind it, and get the m…

Health and life stages

• Your health shapes every session.Heart, blood pressure, joints, pregnancy, periods changing, after cancer or on a GLP-1: tell it once and your plan tra…
• The scale says you're lighter. Are you still strong?Up to 40% of the weight lost in the big GLP-1 trials was lean mass. Get a strength programme, a camera that checks you…
• Strength training that knows you're over 60.Strength training that knows your age. It adjusts by itself, kinder on your joints. Free to start.
• A new desk set-up didn't lower the odds of neck pain. Exercise did.Sit all day? A new desk set-up didn't lower the odds of neck pain. Exercise did. VeraForma builds the corrective kind,…
• It puts your heart at risk. Train like you know it.Training built around high blood pressure: the moves that spike it come out, a cardio plan that builds and a free meal…
• Standing up is already a workout. Your training starts under a ceiling.Training built around POTS: cardio under a heart-rate ceiling worked out for you, and strength work paced for your hea…
• Strength training makes your muscles better at using insulin.Strength training makes your muscles better at using insulin. VeraForma builds it, dosed for diabetes, with a free mea…

Form guides

• Good form, move by move.Free exercise form guides from a NASM Master Trainer: what good looks like, the common faults and the cues that fix th…
• The bent-over row: elbows back, back still.How to do a bent-over row with good form: hinge with a flat back, pull your elbows back, pinch the blades, and stop th…
• The bicep curl: no swing, no shortcut.How to do a bicep curl with good form: elbows by your sides, no swinging, hips still and shoulders back, and how to ma…
• The calf raise: slow up, slower down.How to do a calf raise with good form: up through the big toe, a pause at the top, a slow lower, and the easy fixes fo…
• The deadlift: lift it with your hips, not your back.How to deadlift with good form: the setup, keeping your back flat, the bar close and your hips and chest rising togeth…
• The glute bridge: hips up, back quiet.How to do a glute bridge with good form: lift with your glutes, not your lower back, keep the knees in line, and the e…
• The goblet squat: the squat that teaches itself.How to do a goblet squat: holding the weight, staying upright, keeping your knees on track, and the easy fixes for the…
• The lat pulldown: pull with your back, not your lean.How to do a lat pulldown with good form: sit tall, pull the bar to your upper chest, drop your shoulders, and stop the…
• The lateral raise: light, slow, to shoulder height.How to do a lateral raise with good form: lift to shoulder height, not above, keep your shoulders down and stop swingi…
• The lunge: tall, steady, one leg at a time.How to do a lunge with good form: stay tall, keep your front knee on track, control the back knee down, and fix the fa…
• The overhead press: up, without the arch.How to do an overhead press with good form: brace so your lower back does not arch, keep your head back and your shoul…
• The overhead squat: the squat that tells on you.The overhead squat as a movement check: how to do it, and what knees moving inward, feet turning out and the lower bac…
• The plank: hold the line.How to hold a plank with good form: a straight line from head to heels, a tucked lower back, shoulders over elbows, an…
• The push-up: a moving plank.How to do a push-up with good form: a straight line from head to heels, hips that do not sag, full range, and the easi…
• The hip hinge: hips back, back flat.How to do a Romanian deadlift and learn the hip hinge: push your hips back, keep your back flat and your knees soft, a…
• The split squat: a lunge that stays put.How to do a split squat with good form: the stance, a tall torso, the front knee on track and the back foot set, with …
• The squat, done right.How to do a squat with good form: what good looks like, the faults a trainer sees most (knees in, low back arching, ch…
• The step-up: own the way down, too.How to do a step-up with good form: drive through the top leg, keep the knee on track on the way up and on the way dow…
• The wall sit: a squat that holds still.How to do a wall sit with good form: back flat on the wall, knees over the ankles and in line with the feet, and how t…

Free tools

• Free tools from a Master Trainer.Free tools from a NASM Master Trainer: a GLP-1 protein calculator, a strength plan for over-60s, a desk break timer an…
• Sitting all day? Get up on time.A free movement-break timer for desk workers: pick 20, 30, 45 or 60 minutes and get a quick desk stretch on screen whe…
• What your team's free perk is worth.Enter your headcount and see what a free 3-month VeraForma Premium perk for each employee and a spouse or partner is w…
• Your daily protein on a GLP-1, worked out.How much protein do you need on a GLP-1? Enter your weight and get the daily range from the 2025 GLP-1 nutrition advis…
• Strong after 60: your week, planned.Pick your days and your equipment and get a free weekly strength and balance plan for over-60s, built on CDC and WHO g…
• What are you paying for all of it?Tick the fitness apps you pay for and see the monthly total beside VeraForma. Every price is sourced on our comparison…

Compared with other apps

• A trainer plus 19 apps: $1,092.74 a month. VeraForma: $29.99.A personal trainer, the priciest popular app in each of 18 categories, and MyFitnessPal: $1,092.74 a month. VeraForma:…
• A BodBot alternative with a real trainer's method inside.A BodBot alternative: VeraForma names the exercise you start, shows a photo of the rep where your form slipped, and bu…
• A Caliber alternative where the camera comes free.Caliber gives you a human coach once you pay for one. VeraForma gives you a camera coach free, and a Master Trainer wh…
• A Centr alternative built by a trainer you can message.Centr is beautifully made, and its own App Store description never uses the word camera. VeraForma is one NASM Master …
• A Fitbod alternative that watches your form.A Fitbod alternative: VeraForma builds your programme from a squat you film, watches your form on your phone camera, a…
• A Freeletics alternative whose AI can actually see you.Freeletics' coach adapts from what you tell it afterwards. VeraForma's adapts from what its camera saw during the set,…
• A Future alternative that starts at $0.Looking for an alternative to Future personal training? VeraForma builds your programme from a squat you film, checks …
• A Hevy alternative that checks the form, not just the volume.Hevy shows friends what you lifted. VeraForma shows you what your knees did while you lifted it. Hevy's exercise video…
• A JEFIT alternative that watches the exercise, not just lists it.JEFIT's 1,400 exercise videos show you the movement. None checks yours. VeraForma films the set and draws the measured…
• A Nike Training Club alternative that watches you back.Nike Training Club is a free library of classes to follow. VeraForma watches you back: a camera form check on your pho…
• A Ray alternative that runs on Android, too.An alternative to Ray AI Personal Trainer: VeraForma runs on Android, iPhone and the web, starts free, and builds your…
• Check our work, app by app.The working behind every cell of the VeraForma comparison: each app, each row, and the page we read it on, with the da…
• A Strong alternative that sees the rep, not just the number.Strong records the numbers you type in. VeraForma records what your body did, in degrees, from your phone camera. Free…
• A Sword Health alternative you can actually buy.Sword Health is good and you cannot buy it: it comes through an employer or health plan. VeraForma covers the training…
• A Tonal alternative with nothing to mount on the wall.A Tonal alternative: VeraForma coaches your strength training on the kit you already own, with your phone camera watch…
• A Trainwell alternative that costs less than a fifth as much.Trainwell is a human trainer at about $149 a month, with live feedback from a watch. VeraForma is $29.99, starts free,…

For business

• Give your people a trainer. It costs you nothing.Three months of Premium free for your employees, a coach for your gym members, a reporting app for trainers, and a one…
• A free wellness perk your team will actually use.3 months of VeraForma Premium, free, for each employee plus one spouse or partner (18+). No cost to the company, no co…
• One in three members will leave this year. Most of them just stop showing up.About one in three members leaves every year, and most just stop showing up. Give every member a coach for the days th…
• You get one hour a week. VeraForma has the other 167.You get one hour a week with a client. VeraForma watches the other 167 - and reports to you. Your roster, your verdict…

About

• A real trainer, one message away.Premium + members message Brad directly. It goes to him, not a bot. Premium + also adds a 15-minute call with Brad eve…
• Personal training in Irvine, with Brad Glaser.Train in person with Brad Glaser, NASM Master Trainer, at his private studio in Irvine, and take his method home in th…
• VeraForma, for the press.Press kit for VeraForma: the boilerplate, Brad Glaser's bio, key facts and prices, story angles, logos and app screens…
• Your data. Your call.Your data stays yours: no ads, no trackers, nothing sold. Bring your history in, take it out free, and get real help f…

Also on the site

• Sore joints do not mean stop moving.Sore joints do not mean stop moving. Pain-free range only, less load, no impact, and never an actively flaring joint.
• Out of breath is the point. Wheezing is a stop.Out of breath is the point; a wheeze is a stop. Interval cardio with long recoveries, a build that grows the work not …
• Everything we ship, with the date on it.Every change to the VeraForma app and this site, newest first, with the date on it. An app that stops changing is an a
• Your codes are on the way.Your VeraForma codes are being set up now and arrive by email within a few minutes. One code per person, plus one each
• Daily protein on a GLP-1A free VeraForma tool, embedded. Nothing entered here is stored or sent anywhere.
• Strength after 60: your weekA free VeraForma tool, embedded. Nothing entered here is stored or sent anywhere.
• Your lower back arches under load. Do not let anyone tell you to arch harder.A lower back that arches under load is not the same fault as one that rounds, and the cue that fixes one makes the oth
• Your knees cave in. The problem is rarely the knee.Knees caving in during a squat or a landing is where the fault shows, not where it starts. What it usually comes from,
• Rounded shoulders. Not a posture problem you can stand your way out of.Shoulders sitting forward of your hips, what tends to be tight and what tends to be weak, and why pulling them back on
• They leave your room. Then what?Your patient leaves and nobody watches the other six days. A one-page report, your instructions followed in the app, a
• The words we use, and what they actually mean.What a movement screen, a hip hinge, the eccentric, muscle balance and the OPT model actually mean, in one sentence ea
• Menopause does not take anything off your programme.Perimenopause and post-menopause take nothing off your programme. Standing weight-bearing work goes first, and the sym…
• Low bone density needs the opposite of the usual advice.Low bone density needs the opposite of the usual advice: weight-bearing work stays in, spinal flexion and loaded rotat
• Nothing in your plan asks you to lie flat on your back.Nothing asks you to lie flat on your back. Limits on position, never on effort, switched on from your own numbers so y…
• Week nine and week thirty are not the same problem.Week nine and week thirty are not the same problem. Stage-aware training through pregnancy, tummy-gap checks after the
• Everything on this site, on one page.A readable index of every page on this site: what the app does, who it is built for, the form guides, the free tools,
• Your teenager wants to lift weights. That is good news.Lifting is good for teenagers. Maxing out and early specialisation are not, so those come out. Plus a read-only parent…
• If you train sitting down, you get a different programme — not a smaller one.A seated week built from the seated movements, not the standing one with holes in it. Same sets, reps and tempo. And t…
• Who this is not for.Seven honest reasons not to use VeraForma: pain you have not had looked at, no way to prop a phone up, a meet to peak