Ultra+ vs RP Hypertrophy App: Price and Method

RP Hypertrophy is opinionated on purpose. You build a mesocycle in the Meso Builder, or pick one of 100 plus templates, and each week the app sets your targets from the feedback you give after each session: how much pump you got, how sore you were, how hard the workload felt. That feedback loop is the product, and it is a well-tested one. If you have read RP's material and want to run their method faithfully, nothing else here does it as well.

Ultra+ does not have a method. It has your history. Every set shows your previous set and your all-time best set, the session summary shows the volume change against the last run of that workout, and Blaze reads all of it before it answers a question or proposes a change. Where RP tells you what next week looks like, Ultra+ shows you what last week was and lets you ask what to do about it.

Which is better depends on whether you want a system or a record. A lifter who wants to be told exactly what to do, by a named methodology, should look hard at RP. A lifter who already has a plan and wants their numbers and their food in one place should not pay RP prices for it.

RP Hypertrophy is $34.99 a month or $299.99 a year, which works out at $24.99 a month on the yearly plan. There is no free trial; RP offers a 30-day money-back guarantee instead. Ultra+ is $12.99 a month or $74.99 a year after a 7-day trial, so the yearly plan is about a quarter of RP's.

That gap buys RP's programming logic and 250 plus technique videos, and it buys them from a company whose coaches wrote the textbook a lot of this training is based on. Whether that is worth $225 a year more than Ultra+ is a real question and the answer is not automatically no. It is a coaching price for a coaching product.

RP's product page does not list a rest timer, a plate calculator, 1RM tracking or data export, so we do not claim them either way. Nutrition is a separate RP product with its own price. And the app is locked to the RP method: it is the wrong tool for a 5/3/1 cycle or a powerlifting block, and it does not pretend otherwise.

Ultra+ has no web app, no Apple Watch app, no export, no free tier and around 500 exercises against RP's 250 plus technique videos. It also does not have a mesocycle engine. What it has instead is the food log, the barcode scanner, the previous and best set on screen, and something you can ask a question.