Comparison

2019 Starter's Guide vs Stretching & Flexibility Plans

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

2019 Starter's Guide

Achieve your fitness goals with a complete six-week program covering training, nutrition, and supplements. This guide provides essential information without unnecessary extras.

Highlights
  • Six-week fitness program
  • Training guidance
  • Nutrition advice
  • Supplement recommendations
  • Comprehensive plan
Features
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Start working toward the body you’ve always wanted with this comprehensive six-week program. Training, nutrition, supplements—everything you need, nothing you don’t.

About

Stretching & Flexibility Plans

This app offers a wide variety of customizable stretching exercises and predefined routines to improve flexibility, relieve pain, and reduce stress. It provides clear instructions, progress tracking, and healthy meal suggestions to support your fitness goals.

Highlights
  • Over 100 customizable stretching exercises
  • Over 50 predefined workout routines
  • Customizable routines and workout creation
  • Clear pictorial and written instructions
  • On-screen instructions and timer
  • Progress tracking with graphs and charts
  • Healthy menu suggestions
Features
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Relax, strengthen and relieve pain & tension! Great for home or office, this app offers stretching sessions with different stretches and positions suited for practitioners of any level! To burn fats, lose weight and get fit? To calm down, get relaxed and relive stress? It all depends on your choice! Stretching is an excellent thing you can do for your health. To discover simple, yet effective moves that can help you limber up for sports, improve your balance and prevent falls, increase your flexibility, and even help relieve arthritis, back, and knee pain, checkout the Stretching Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School. Benefits of a Stretching Program: Improved flexibility, stamina, and muscular strength; Reduced muscle soreness; Improved muscle and joint mobility; More efficient muscular movements and fluidity of motion; Greater ability to exert maximum force through a wider range of motion; Prevention of some lower-back problems; Improved appearance and self-image; Improved body alignment and posture; Better warm-up and cool-down in an exercise session; Improved maintenance of blood glucose; FEATURES Over 100 customizable stretching exercises. Over 50 predefined workout routines. Over 50 healthy menus for breakfast lunch dinner Fully customizable routines. Create custom workouts. Clear pictorial information. Written exercise instructions. Fully customized exercise player. On-screen instructions and timer: you can track everything: total time of workout, performing time etc... Progress tracking. Backup/Restore Routines. Listen to your favorite music during workout. Detail workout progress through various comparisons, graphs and charts. Track the exact number of repetitions or time you made for each exercise. All the data from workouts and exercises are saved. New calendar: access the saved data through an awesome new calendar // navigate through days of the calendar and see when you worked out and what routines you did and how many exercises you did. Awesome no? Workout progress - see the routines you did and the progress you made on each routines. Beautiful graphics so you can see how you progress on each exercise. Exercise progress - see the exercises you did and how many repetitions or time. PERFORMANCE STRETCHING PROGRAMS: It’s for anyone who is interested in improving flexibility, strength, and strength endurance. Customizing Your Stretching Program - Stretching Program to Lower Blood Glucose, Sport-Specific Stretches ( Baseball, Golf, Cycling, Diving, ++++) Dynamic Running Warm Up Stretch Program - Warm up your legs properly to take your run to the next level. Dynamic Sport Warm Up Stretch Program - Warm up every major muscle group so that you can give your best. Lower Back Rehab Program - Stretches and strength training moves to improve your core strength, reduce back pain, and increase your range of motion. Lower Back Static Stretch Program - Work out the stiffness in your lower back and fix your posture. Lower Body Static Stretch Program - You use your legs for everything, keep them at their functional best. Upper Body Static Stretch Program - Keep your upper body loose, relaxed, and properly aligned. - Subscription length: 1 month - Free trial: 3 days - Price for the subscription after free trial: $1.99 - Subscription type: auto-renewable - Subscription length: 6 months - Price for the subscription: $9.99 - Subscription length: 12 months - Price for the subscription: $17.99 - Payment will be charge to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Privacy: https://palmmarstudios.digitallabs.ro/StretchingPrograms/Privacy/ - Terms: https://palmmarstudios.digitallabs.ro/StretchingPrograms/Terms/ - Contact: https://palmmarstudios.digitallabs.ro/StretchingPrograms/Contact/ - Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

2019 Starter's Guide4 screens
Stretching & Flexibility Plans4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stretching & Flexibility Plans at 83% against 2019 Starter's Guide's 0%. Stretching & Flexibility Plans also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.5) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months). 2019 Starter's Guide's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.1). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Stretching & Flexibility Plans sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. 2019 Starter's Guide asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stretching & Flexibility Plans holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stretching & Flexibility Plans has 164 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of 2019 Starter's Guide's written reviews are positive against 83% of Stretching & Flexibility Plans's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

2019 Starter's Guide ships an update every 13 months, Stretching & Flexibility Plans every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
2019 Starter's Guide versus Stretching & Flexibility Plans: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter2019 Starter's GuideStretching & Flexibility Plans
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings)4.4 (164 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2164 — better
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better13.1
Further details — not scored
Size161 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAmerican Media IncGabriel Lupu

Customer experience

2019 Starter's Guide

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Stretching & Flexibility Plans

All ratings164 ratings
Positive82.3%
Neutral8.5%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews78 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral2.6%
Negative14.1%

In-app purchases

None

2019 Starter's Guide

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Stretching & Flexibility Plans

Subscriptions3
  • Subscription for Stretching Programs$4.991 Month
  • Stretching Programs 6 Months$9.996 Months
  • Stretching Programs 12 Months$17.991 Year

Questions

Is 2019 Starter's Guide free?
2019 Starter's Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stretching & Flexibility Plans free?
Stretching & Flexibility Plans is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 2019 Starter's Guide or Stretching & Flexibility Plans?
Stretching & Flexibility Plans is rated higher. 2019 Starter's Guide averages 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Stretching & Flexibility Plans averages 4.4 from 164 ratings.
Do 2019 Starter's Guide or Stretching & Flexibility Plans have ads?
Neither 2019 Starter's Guide nor Stretching & Flexibility Plans shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 2019 Starter's Guide or Stretching & Flexibility Plans?
2019 Starter's Guide ships an update every 13 months, and Stretching & Flexibility Plans every 3 weeks. Most recently, 2019 Starter's Guide was updated on November 2, 2026 and Stretching & Flexibility Plans on November 2, 2026.

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