CapForge Downloads & RevenueCapForge: Football GM 2026 · App Store
Not in any tracked top chart right now.
Updated 4 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperZach Mailloux
CategoryGames
Price2.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.9 (163)
Version1.6.3
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
CapForge: Football GM 2026 update history & changes
Last change · 36 events since 6 Aug 2026Full timeline ↓📦Updated to version 1.6.3📈Dropped out of every chart we track📈Entered the top 100✏️Description updated💰Now free✏️New screenshots📦Updated to version 1.6.1💰Now free⭐Passed 100 ratings⭐Passed 100 ratings
Full timeline · 36 events
- 📦CapForge: Football GM 2026 updated to version 1.6.34th down and kicking improvements, trading realism overhaul
- 📈CapForge: Football GM 2026 dropped out of every chart we trackLast seen 27 Oct
- 📈CapForge: Football GM 2026 entered the top 100Top Grossing · Sports · BR
- ✏️CapForge: Football GM 2026: description updated· DE
- 💰CapForge: Football GM 2026: now freeFree (was 2.99 EUR) · DE
- ✏️CapForge: Football GM 2026: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 9) · DE
- ✏️CapForge: Football GM 2026: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · US, CA
- 📦CapForge: Football GM 2026 updated to version 1.6.1Bug fixes, visual improvements and refreshed tutorial.
- ✏️CapForge: Football GM 2026: description updated· CA, US, FR
- 💰CapForge: Football GM 2026: now freeFree (was 3.99 CAD) · CA
- ✏️CapForge: Football GM 2026: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 9) · CA, US, FR
- 💰CapForge: Football GM 2026: now freeFree (was 2.99 USD) · US
- 💰CapForge: Football GM 2026: now freeFree (was 2.99 EUR) · FR
- 📦CapForge: Football GM 2026 updated to version 1.6.0CapForge is now free.
The whole GM game costs nothing to play: no ads, no timers, no premium currency. CapForge Pro is one optional purchase for players who want to rewrite the league with editors, imports, record books and sandbox tools. If you bought CapForge before today, Pro is already yours. Just open the app.
What else is new in 1.6:
• Weather. Every game is played in its home city's forecast. Rain, snow and wind change how the game plays, and you'll see them on the film.
• Smarter sidelines. Trailing teams go for it on fourth down, try onside kicks and go for two. Defenses call coverages snap by snap.
• Truer drafts. Late-round gems, late bloomers, and positions taken where real drafts take them.
• One more year. Ask a retiring veteran to come back for one more season. Every player's résumé now shows career earnings and records.
And so much more. Full notes: capforge.app/1.6… more - ✏️CapForge: Football GM 2026: description updated· GB
- ✏️CapForge: Football GM 2026: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · GB
- 📦CapForge: Football GM 2026 updated to version 1.5.3• Plays now start from the left, middle or right hash, and play-callers use the wide side of the field.
• More ways to score: end-zone throws, long breakaway touchdowns, Hail Marys and contested catches decided by receiver against defender.
• Third downs play out closer to the NFL, and yards after the catch now depend on who has the ball.
• Short-yardage and goal-line offenses can bring in a sixth offensive lineman in jumbo sets, with plays built for it.
• Training camp: your practice squad opens at CUTS, and the ROOKIES board fills with undrafted camp bodies at the league minimum.
• The draft's WHERE THE CLASS IS DEEP shows each position as tiers, and draft stars now say Ceiling.
• Dynasty staff: ownership now sets your staff budget from your recent performance, so a struggling club works lean and a winner earns more, and coaches who win with you ask for more to stay.
• Running backs' receiving targets now show in their stats.
• Awards need a minimum number of games played, and defenders have a real shot at championship MVP.
• Contract offers now open at the player's real price, and cutting his bonus or guaranteed years shows how much more salary he wants.
• A clearer negotiation read, from WILL SIGN to LONG SHOT, plus a new CONTRACT READS setting: ARCADE shows exact odds and dollar gaps, REALISTIC (the Dynasty default) reads the player in words.
• Contract screens show the player's portrait and rating, and what drives his ask: greed, loyalty, ambition, time with your club.
• Long careers stay quick: big saves load, save and open lists faster.
• Fixes and polish.… more - 📦CapForge: Football GM 2026 updated to version 1.5.2* Improved clock management by AI play callers.
* Reworked the impact of coaches skills and stats, and enhanced contract options.
* Defensive coordinators now matter just as much as your offensive ones.
* Now enforces all actual professional rules/logic
* Improved historical data backfill accuracy.… more - ✏️CapForge: Football GM 2026: description updated· US, CA, AU
- ✏️CapForge: Football GM 2026: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · US, CA, AU
- 📦CapForge: Football GM 2026 updated to version 1.5.1Arcade and Dynasty — the biggest CapForge update yet.
• Pick your mode: ARCADE for true ratings and kinder money, or DYNASTY for the full GM grind.
• In Dynasty, OVR is your staff's read, not the truth. It sharpens the more a player plays for you. Check OUR READ on any player's SKILLS tab, and set how fast reads come in with READ PACE.
• New pre-season: sign undrafted rookies and play preseason games before Week 1.
• Training camp: run drills, hold tryouts, settle position battles, then make your cuts.
• Deeper draft: scouting reads, scout deep dives, FITS and NEEDS on every prospect, a national scout's DRAFT PROFILE, and mock drafts leading up to draft night.
• Smarter AI drafting: clubs work from a consensus board, trade up for fallers, and stop doubling up on one position in round 1.
• Beat writers cover your league: draft-day write-ups, pre-game previews, game recaps and season columns.
• Simpler staff hiring: compare candidates side by side, see why a seat is open, and manage coaches and schemes in one place.
• Clearer contract talks: every offer shows how far short it is and why, with MEET to match the ask.
• Defense plays truer: elite corners and ball-hawking safeties matter, and zone 3-4 and hybrid schemes play big nickel.
• Running backs gain more per carry, and goal-line runs get tougher.
• Most career-ending injuries become year-long injuries instead.
• Pro Bowl, record books by position group, games started and QB records, award counts by season, and decked-out championship rings and trophies.
• New and fixed season goals, including LB tackles for loss, QB rushing and sacks allowed by linemen.
• AI clubs hold on to their fresh draft picks, and you can keep your practice squad through re-signing.
• Multi-select position filters, an Athletic draft sort, and SCHEDULE now lives under STATS > OVERVIEW with a club picker.
• On iPhone, the app tells you when a new version is on the App Store.
• Plus plenty of fixes and polish.… more - 📦CapForge: Football GM 2026: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 💰CapForge: Football GM 2026: price rise2.99 AUD → 4.99 AUD · AU
- 📈CapForge: Football GM 2026 entered the top 10Top Paid · Sports · AU
- 📈CapForge: Football GM 2026 entered the top 10Top Paid · Sports · CA
- 📈CapForge: Football GM 2026 entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · All Apps · CA · Top Paid · Games · CA
- 💰CapForge: Football GM 2026: price rise1.99 USD → 2.99 USD · US
- 💰CapForge: Football GM 2026: price rise1.99 GBP → 2.99 GBP · GB
- 💰CapForge: Football GM 2026: price rise2.99 CAD → 3.99 CAD · CA
- 📦CapForge: Football GM 2026 updated to version 1.4.1Faster, with smarter trades
- New leagues build much faster. Simming a week, the end of a season and the draft's AUTO TO MY PICK / SIM REST no longer freeze the screen.
- AI trade offers make more sense: a club offers you only one player per position and keeps its young franchise QB.
- The locker room shows full player rows, and text on the player card no longer scrolls under its header.
- Player portraits and family skin tones are more varied and better matched.
- Draft-day starts are fixed: every club sets aside its rookie money and opens without practice squads.
- The free agent board shows backup kickers and punters only on the K/P tab.
- Fixes: several crashes, other clubs' CHARTS tab, the hub strength bar and calendar line, and NEW GAME ▸ VIEW TEAM is now view-only.… more - 📦CapForge: Football GM 2026 updated to version 1.4.0Bug fixes and improvements
- Injured players can return in the same game, and standings mark eliminated clubs.
- New CHAMPS tab under League Records & Awards, plus a rewritten in-game guide.
- Smarter late-game decisions and more realistic game film.
- Bug fixes: a draft-day trade crash, an Android draft board freeze, and general stability.… more - 🆕CapForge: Football GM 2026 first spotted by AppInsider#9 in Top Paid · Sports · United States
- 📦CapForge: Football GM 2026 version 1.3.8No release notes
- 🆕CapForge: Football GM 2026 released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.9 ★
163 ratings
Measured
New ratings a week
10
▲ +142% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
CapForge: Football GM 2026 at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-17. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
CapForge: Football GM 2026 is a paid iOS simulation game for fantasy football enthusiasts who want to manage NFL teams as general managers, focusing on roster construction, contract negotiations, and salary cap strategy rather than gameplay. The app has secured top-5 positions in both the US and Canadian Sports Paid charts, indicating strong niche demand for realistic management simulations over traditional sports games.
Similar apps: Football Manager Mobile, Madden NFL Mobile (Franchise Mode), Out of the Park Baseball
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CapForge: Football GM 2026 on the App Store
App details
App ID
6791601497
Publisher
Zach Mailloux
On the store since
Aug 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 16.0+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Game Center
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
98 MB
Also listed in
Simulation, Sports
App privacy Measured
CapForge: Football GM 2026’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 3 collected anonymously.
Used to track you
0
Linked to you
0
Not linked to you
3
Not linked to you
IIdentifiers+2 more
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
CapForge: Football GM 2026 downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not charting right now. | ||
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.9 ★
163 ratings
Measured
Ratings
163
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
10
▲ +142% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
US App Store
Recent ratings
4.9★
vs 4.8★ lifetime
Review momentum
85/100
faster than 76% of Games apps
Growing fastest in United States ▲ +160%
New ratings by country (2)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8.5 | 88% | ▲ +160% |
 Canada | 1.2 | 12% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about CapForge: Football GM 2026
From the 41 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise the game for its depth, realism, and lack of microtransactions compared to competitors like Pocket GM. While most reviews are highly positive, some users request specific features like play-calling and report minor bugs regarding draft data or save functionality.
Mostly positive (98% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and regular updates.
What people like
- Fun: “It’s free(for now) , it’s addictive and it’s ad free”
- Updates: “Would like to see a dedicated team stats page in a future update”
- Crashes & bugs: “No bugs I came across five hours in”
- Price & subscription: “I wouldn’t even mind paying for it”
About CapForge: Football GM 2026
If you play fantasy football, you already know the best day of the year. Draft day. Arguing for a guy nobody else rates, then being right about him in November.
CapForge is the most realistic football simulator on iOS, and it's built around the part fantasy leaves out: he's actually yours. You don't rent him for a season. You draft him, pay him, extend him or let him walk, and ten years later he's either going into the Hall of Fame with your name on the pick or he's the dead money still on your cap three years after you cut him.
You're the general manager. Not the coach, not a player. One of 32 clubs, and you build the roster, sign the deals, hire the staff, then live with all of it.
And now you can watch it. Tap a play in the drive log and the film runs it from the snap: routes drawn before the ball moves, the pocket closing, a corner one step late on the break, the back finding the cutback. None of it is canned. Every man moves on his own ratings and his own assignment, so the guy you paid for looks like the guy you paid for.
Check the forecast before kickoff. Every game is played in the home city's weather, and it counts. Rain and snow make the ball hard to hold and harder to throw deep, wind pushes kicks around, and an offense built for a dome finds out what December outdoors is like. You'll see it on the film, too.
The other sideline is coached. Coordinators call coverages snap by snap, and a good one reads your offense and calls against it. Teams that trail go for it on fourth down and try the onside kick when the math says to; teams that lead bleed the clock. It's all built on the 2026 NFL rulebook, down to which hash the ball is spotted on.
The front offices are no easier. Rival GMs price the contract, not the rating, so an overpaid star is as much their problem as yours, and a deal that doesn't fit under their cap doesn't happen. They'll poach your coordinators too.
Pick how much of the job you want. Arcade shows true ratings and keeps the money simple. Dynasty is the whole front office: every rating is your staff's read and sharpens the longer a player is with you, guarantees and no-trade clauses are on the table, and a star who outplays his deal will sit out over it.
The cap is the real opponent. Cut a guy and what you still owe him follows you, and every guarantee, restructure and tag is still there in year three when the plan has changed.
The year runs in order: re-signings, cuts, the tag, three waves of free agency, the draft, the undrafted scramble. In Dynasty, training camp comes next: position battles, preseason games and cuts you actually have to make. Then the season, the playoffs, the awards and the retirements, and you roll it over with last year's bill still on the books.
Draft classes run 480 deep and seven rounds take 224. Your scouts give you a read, not the truth, and some of those kids are somebody's son or little brother.
81 stats are tracked for every player, including the ones nobody puts on a highlight re
CapForge is the most realistic football simulator on iOS, and it's built around the part fantasy leaves out: he's actually yours. You don't rent him for a season. You draft him, pay him, extend him or let him walk, and ten years later he's either going into the Hall of Fame with your name on the pick or he's the dead money still on your cap three years after you cut him.
You're the general manager. Not the coach, not a player. One of 32 clubs, and you build the roster, sign the deals, hire the staff, then live with all of it.
And now you can watch it. Tap a play in the drive log and the film runs it from the snap: routes drawn before the ball moves, the pocket closing, a corner one step late on the break, the back finding the cutback. None of it is canned. Every man moves on his own ratings and his own assignment, so the guy you paid for looks like the guy you paid for.
Check the forecast before kickoff. Every game is played in the home city's weather, and it counts. Rain and snow make the ball hard to hold and harder to throw deep, wind pushes kicks around, and an offense built for a dome finds out what December outdoors is like. You'll see it on the film, too.
The other sideline is coached. Coordinators call coverages snap by snap, and a good one reads your offense and calls against it. Teams that trail go for it on fourth down and try the onside kick when the math says to; teams that lead bleed the clock. It's all built on the 2026 NFL rulebook, down to which hash the ball is spotted on.
The front offices are no easier. Rival GMs price the contract, not the rating, so an overpaid star is as much their problem as yours, and a deal that doesn't fit under their cap doesn't happen. They'll poach your coordinators too.
Pick how much of the job you want. Arcade shows true ratings and keeps the money simple. Dynasty is the whole front office: every rating is your staff's read and sharpens the longer a player is with you, guarantees and no-trade clauses are on the table, and a star who outplays his deal will sit out over it.
The cap is the real opponent. Cut a guy and what you still owe him follows you, and every guarantee, restructure and tag is still there in year three when the plan has changed.
The year runs in order: re-signings, cuts, the tag, three waves of free agency, the draft, the undrafted scramble. In Dynasty, training camp comes next: position battles, preseason games and cuts you actually have to make. Then the season, the playoffs, the awards and the retirements, and you roll it over with last year's bill still on the books.
Draft classes run 480 deep and seven rounds take 224. Your scouts give you a read, not the truth, and some of those kids are somebody's son or little brother.
81 stats are tracked for every player, including the ones nobody puts on a highlight re
Latest updates
1.6.3
4th down and kicking improvements, trading realism overhaul
1.6.1
Bug fixes, visual improvements and refreshed tutorial.
1.6.0
CapForge is now free.
The whole GM game costs nothing to play: no ads, no timers, no premium currency. CapForge Pro is one optional purchase for players who want to rewrite the league with editors, imports, record books and sandbox tools. If you bought CapForge before today, Pro is already yours. Just open the app.
What else is new in 1.6:
• Weather. Every game is played in its home city's forecast. Rain, snow and wind change how the game plays, and you'll see them on the film.
• Smarter sidelines. Trailing teams go for it on fourth down, try onside kicks and go for two. Defenses call coverages snap by snap.
• Truer drafts. Late-round gems, late bloomers, and positions taken where real drafts take them.
• One more year. Ask a retiring veteran to come back for one more season. Every player's résumé now shows career earnings and records.
And so much more. Full notes: capforge.app/1.6
Store changes
What CapForge: Football GM 2026 changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated 
Now free
Free (was 2.99 EUR)
New screenshots
10 screenshots (was 9)
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