openGym vs Ping Identity
openGym and Ping Identity are both identity and access software. OpenGym is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 18k GitHub stars. Ping Identity is a commercial product from Ping Identity.
Which to pick
- Pick openGym when
- You want a free workout log you can self-host or keep on your phone, without a subscription app.
- Pick Ping Identity when
- A large enterprise or bank has complex hybrid identity needs, including on-premise federation.
Side by side
A gym and body-weight tracker for planning routines, logging workouts and seeing which muscles were trained, with imports from Strong, Hevy and FitNotes.
Enterprise identity platform for workforce and customer SSO, MFA, federation and access management, deployable in cloud or on premise.
Only a few months old despite its star count, and AGPL licensed.
Merged with ForgeRock under Thoma Bravo, so product lines are being consolidated.
Experimental
Production-ready
Mobile app and self-hosted server
Cloud service and self-hosted server
JavaScript, React, Node.js and Swift
Java
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Ping Identity
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
18k GitHub stars
498 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
New: started 3 months ago, latest release v1.4.3.
Not known
Other comparisons
More identity providers and single sign-on servers
Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.